Wednesday, 2/13/08 - Early Release Schedule
Collect MTP/Check 600 Words
Warm Up. Copy and Click.
  1. Grandparents often spoil their grandkids, letting them ______ in candy and everything else.  a) nigh  b) genial  c) mirth  d) rapt  e) indulge
  2. mirth : melancholy :: temperance  :: __________  a) vindictiveness  b) geniality  c) regalia d) yearning  e) indulgence
  3. ______ = near, close at hand    a) nigh  b) genial  c) mirth  d) rapt  e) melancholy
  4. ______ = moody and sad   a) exacting  b) genial  c) melancholy  d) rapt  e) yearning
  5. Tom ________(ed)  for the glory of winning the Bible prize, not the Bible itself. a) yearn  b) exact  c) indulge  d) rapt  e) mirth
  6. A humorist  is a man who is paid to be funny.  a) True  b) False
Correct Adverb Sheet.
Which One is the Adverb? Adverb Pretest One.
  1. A really beautiful sunset can inspire one to write poetry. a) really  b) beautiful  c) inspire  d) one  e) no adverbs
  2. She chattered on all evening and bored everyone.  a) on  b) evening  c) bored  d) everyone  e) no adverbs
  3. Come here and tell me about your recent trip to your cousin’s llama ranch.  a) here  b) about  c) recent  d) your  e) no adverbs
  4. Call Alyce and tell her that it is too cold and icy to go out today. a) and  b) too  c) cold  d) icy  e) no adverbs
  5. The scarred dwarf was breathing rather heavily as he ran from the drooling dragon. a) scarred, rather, heavily, drooling  b) scarred, heavily, drooling  c) rather, heavily, drooling  d) rather, heavily  e) heavily
  6. "Easily" is an example of an adverb that would be called an intensifier.  a) True  b) False
  7. Adverbs can modify each other.  a) True  b) False
  8. Adverbs can sometimes modify pronouns.  a) True  b) False
  9. Pick correct pair of adverb/word it modifies: Mick finally finished repairing the broken toilet.   a) finished/repairing  b) finally/finished  c) finally/repairing  d) repairing/toilet  e) repairing/broken
  10. Pick correct pair of adverb/word it modifies:  The beaver gnawed quite busily on the fallen log.  a) busily/beaver  b) quite/gnawed  c) quite/beaver  d) busily/gnawed  e) fallen/log
Tom Sawyer Quiz. (ch. 23)
  1. Which of these quotes comes from the scene depicted at left?  a) "Why, Tom Sawyer, we wouldn't be alive two days that got found out."  b) "Thomas Sawyer, where were you on the seventeenth of June, about the hour of midnight?"  c) "I reckon he's a goner."  d) You've been mighty good to me boys..."  e) NOTA
  2. "Little hands, and weak--but they've helped Muff Potter a power, and they'd help him more if they could." (p151) Why is this ironic?  a) The boys can't help him anyway.  b) The boys' oath is stupid.  c) They are the only ones who can help him.  d) Muff thinks he did it.  e) NOTA
  3. Which of these did the prosecution NOT use as evidence that Muff did it?  a) The fact that the knife was Muff's.  b) Muff's guilty behavior at the scene.  c) Muff washing up in the creek.  d) Injun Joe's eyewitness account.  e) They used them all.
  4. At the beginning of the trial, what was Muff's lawyer's strategy for defending him?  a) To admit he did it and ask for mercy.  b) To prove that Muff couldn't have done it because he got whacked in the head.  c) To show that there wasn't enough proof that Muff did it.  d) To plead guilty by reason of drunkenness.  e) All of the above.
  5. "Tom was out late that night and came to bed through the window." (p151)  Where did he go?  a) To the jail to see Muff one more time.  b) To see Huck and try to talk him into telling.  c) To see Muff's lawyer.  d) To follow Injun Joe around, trying to get evidence that he did it.  e) There is no way to know.
  6. Who is the man with the club?  a) Injun Joe  b) Muff Potter  c) Injun Joe's accomplice  d) Doc Robinson  e) NOTA
120 Seconds (if any).
Tom Sawyer aloud.