1. With your nose plugged, your taste buds can't _____________ between an onion and an apple.  a) aggregate  b) explicit  c) scope  d) discriminate  e) enhance  f) transform  g) cite
2. The police officer ______(ed) her for running a stop sign. a) scope  b) discriminate  c) inhibit  d) migrate  e) cite  f) aggregate  g) acknowledge
3. During WWII, a person with a car was only ____________(ed) 3 gallons of gas per week.  a) subsidy  b) allocate  c) aggregate  d) transform  e) cite  f) abstract  g) inhibit
4. Rocket science is outside the _________ of this class.  a) cite  b) furthermore  c) abstract  d) incidence  e) scope  f) aggregate  g) transform
5. Computers are getting cheaper all the time; __________, their quality is improving.  a) cite  b) furthermore  c) abstract  d) incidence  e) scope  f) aggregate  g) transform
6. Mr. Coward was very ___________ about how he wanted us to head the paper. a) aggregate  b) inhibit  c) explicit  d) discriminate  e) enhance  f) transform  g) cite

1. It's hard for Pony to understand the _________(ing) that Socs have for greasers. a) blather  b) ecstatic  c) furtive  d) odious  e) loathe
2. discreet : savvy :: patronizing : ________ a) condescending  b) adamant  c) guile  d) odious  e) impudent
3. Jimmy was a ___ on the team after he blew the game.  a) condescending  b) pariah  c) odious  d) loathe  e) blather
4. Tom ______(ed) his opponent in the "sword" fight.  a) condescending  b) pariah  c) odious  d) loathe  e) vanquish
5. Aunt Polly was ______ that Tom be punished for his misbehavior; she had to do her job as a parent. a) condescending  b) adamant  c) guile  d) odious  e) impudent
6. History is just ________ to me; all those names and dates run together in my mind and I tune it out. a) condescending  b) pariah  c) odious  d) loathe  e) blather
7. If there's one thing teachers ___________, it's __________ behavior. a) guile/ecstatic  b) odious/blather  c) condescending/loathe  d) loathe/impudent  e) vanquish/ecstatic
8. The players mobbed each other ___________(ally) after they won the World Series.  a) blather  b) ecstatic  c) furtive  d) odious  e) loathe
9. She _________(ly) passed the note during class so the teacher wouldn't see. a) condescending  b) adamant  c) guile  d) odious  e) furtive
10. It was Dally's quick thinking and _______ that sent the fuzz to Texas looking for the boys. a) condescending  b) adamant  c) guile  d) odious  e) furtive
11. Pony got angry at Cherry in chapter 8 because he thought she was just being ___________, trying to help out the poor little greasers.  a) ecstatic  b) adamant  c) guile  d) odious  e) condescending
12. We will soon see that Huck Finn, being the son of the town drunk, is a _________ in Tom's village, and all the mothers try to keep their kids away from him.  a) blather  b) pariah  c) odious  d) loathe  e) vanquish

Tom Sawyer.

1. The Outsiders : Tulsa :: Tom Sawyer : _____  a) St. Louis  b) Mississippi  c) St. Petersburg  d) Hannibal  e) None of the above.
2. This is an original illustration from the first edition of Tom Sawyer. It depicts the beginning of the whitewashing scene in Chapter 2. What's wrong with this picture? a) Tom is barefoot.  b) The other kid is wearing pointy shoes.  c) Tom's touching the fence.  d) The fence is too short.  e) The kid is eating the apple instead of giving it to Tom.
3. What was Ben Rogers pretending to be when he saw Tom whitewashing?  a) A battle in progress.  b) A giant Ferris wheel.  c) A pirate at sea.  d) A steamboat and its captain.  e) A general giving orders.
4. Who is the "great and wise philosopher" that Mark Twain refers to in the second-to-last paragraph of Chapter 2?  a) Tom Sawyer  b) Aunt Polly  c) Some Greek philosopher  d) Sam Clemens e) None of the above.
5. According to Mark Twain in Chapter 2... work : ____ :: play : ____ a) don't want to do  b) have to do  c) don't have to do  d) are good at  e) hate to do
6. According to Mark Twain in Chapter 2... work : ____ :: play : ____ a) like to do  b) want to do  c) have to do  d) don't have to do  e) are good at
7. Slang: "...it's a bully taw."  a) mean  b) cool  c) lame  d) fun  e) huge
8. Slang: "That's a mighty gay marvel."  a) mean  b) cool  c) lame  d) fun  e) huge
9. Slang: "Ben, I'd like to, honest Injun, but..."  a) nevertheless  b) my friend  c) not really  d) really  e) None of the above.
10. Slang: "I'll lam you for that..."   a) hit  b) get even with  c) laugh at  d) tattle on  e) None of the above.