1. The poem's language was so _______ that everyone interpreted it differently. a) amiss  b) crucial  c) deviate  d) fluctuate  e) ambiguous  f) displace  g) implicit
2. The word _________ literally means "one shape."  a) exploit  b) uniform  c) contemporary  d) bias  e) earnest  f) ambiguous  g) sinuous
3. Many people think that the big farm owners _________ the people who pick their crops.  a) induce  b) accumulate  c) exploit  d) displace  e) amiss  f) proscribe  g) abitrary
4. The man's blood pressure _________(ed) wildly right before his heart attack.  a) exploit  b) diverge  c) clarify  d) fluctuate  e) minimize  f) proscribe  g) denote
5. Even in ______ slang, the word cool still means good.  a) contemporary  b) arbitrary  c) ambiguous  d) forlorn  e) implicit  f) deviate  g) uniform
6. Our _________ choice for where to stay turned out to be a good one...this time.  a) omniscient  b) arbitrary  c) deviate  d) apathetic  e) ambiguous  f) fluctuate  g) thereby

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7. In The Outsiders, Ponyboy was a ____ -person, limited narrator. He could tell us only what he saw and heard. In Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain is a ____-person, ___ narrator, who knows everything about everybody.  a) 1st, 2nd, clarify  b) 1st, 3rd, apathetic  c) 3rd, 1st, omniscient  d) 1st, 3rd, omniscient  e) 3rd, 1st, earnest
8. "Two roads __________(ed) in a yellow wood..." I went left. (Bonus: What poem/poet is this from?)   a) converge  b) diverge  c) sinuous  d) arbitrary  e) fluctuate
9. (2) Write a sentence using the word ambiguous (ambiguity, ambiguously). Write one using arbitrary (arbitrarily).

AMUOUS
 
 

Tom Sawyer Moodle/Wiki.
A pretty good start, especially the forum.
Issues/Reminders:

• Review the Suggested Topics.
• PROOFREAD!
• Give credit for your information.
• Be sure to date, count, and print!

Tom Sawyer, Chapter 14

1. Which of these things is not described by MT as something the boys did on the island?  a) sitting around and talking  b) swimming naked  c) finding an old empty treasure chest  d) catching and eating fish  e) They did all these things.
2. What does Tom think will happen, since the inchworm crawled across him? a) He'll find a treasure chest  b) He'll find a real, wrecked, pirate ship  c) He'll have bad luck.  d) He will die soon.  e) He will soon have a new set of pirate clothes.
3. What was the "boom" the "pirates" kept hearing? a) The villagers searching for them.  b) Explosions from a fire in the village.  c)  A passing steamboat with engine trouble.  d) Hunters with guns.  e) NOTA
4. Why are the boys consciences bothering them near the end of Chapter 14? a) Because they stole so much food.  b) Because they're thinking of their families.  c) Because they are cold and hungry.  d) Because they realized that pirates are actually bad guys.  e) NOTA
5. "Tom withered him with derision." (p100)  What does this mean?  a) Tom cried that he was homesick too.  b) Tom was telling him to just have fun.  c) Tom said they would leave as soon as he got around to it.  d) Tom made fun of him for being a wimp.  e) NOTA
6. What did Tom do before he left camp? a) Took some food.  b) Left a note.  c) Nothing, he just left.  d) Told the other boys about a plan he had.  e) NOTA

120 Seconds continues.
 

Time? TS ca. 1938.