1. Teachers these days are being asked to ______ instruction for various levels of students. a) punctilious  b) confirm  c) quell  d) hierarchy  e) differentiate
2. Your paper's _______ will be very difficult to prove.  a) decorum  b) ultimate  c) advocate  d) breach  e) thesis
3. Dally's robbery of the gas station, which led to his death, was a ________ act.  a) punctilious  b) phenomenon  c) sardonic  d) rash  e) prohibit
4. discreet : rash :: oblivious : _________  a) simulate  b) contrary  c) sardonic  d) rash  e) vigilant
5. She wasn't sure of the social ________ at her new school.   a) punctilious  b) confirm  c) quell  d) hierarchy  e) differentiate
6. For 13 years, alcohol was illegal in the US. This period is known as ________(ion).  a) Quell  b) Confirm  c) Innovate  d) Vigilant  e) Prohibit

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7. I wanted to go trick-or-treating, I was too old. a) Fragment  b) Run-On  c) Complete Sentence
8. Choose your path carefully.  (subject/verb)  a) path/carefully  b) your/choose  c) choose/carefully  d) path/choose  e) (you)/choose
9. Here comes a rockslide!  (subject/verb)  a) here/comes  b) rockslide/here  c) rockslide/comes  d (you)/comes  e) none of the above
10. we: a) first person b) second person c) third person

1. Hunting elephants for their ivory began in the 1970's. a) True  b) False
2. Why are people today worried that we will again see great numbers of elephants killed?  a) The demand for ivory has greatly increased.   b) There was a recent loosening of the law banning ivory.   c) Poor people are eating more of them. d) The number of elephants has greatly increased, and now there are almost too many. e) None of the above.
3. The ban on ivory trade didn't really help the elephants like people thought it would. a) True  b) False
4. What was the effect (box 1) for the cause: "Numbers of African elephants were very low"?  a) The demand for ivory went up.  b) The hunters killed the biggest elephants.  c) The elephant population was nearly cut in half.  d) They were put on the endangered species list.  e) None of the above.
5. What was the cause (box 2) for the effect of the increase in numbers of African elephants (box 3)?  a) Putting them on the endangered species list.  b) A law banning the international ivory trade.  c) Tusks were only half the size they used to be.  d) Some African countries objected to the law.  e) None of the above.
6. Why was the ban on ivory trade recently loosened?  a) The number of elephants has increased greatly.  b) Tusks were only half the size they used to be. c) They were put on the endangered species list. d) The demand for ivory went down.  e) Some African countries objected.
7. Which one of these is not used as a signal word/phrase in the passage?  a) as a result  b) led to  c) consequently  d) their objections  e) because
8. "...hunters wanted the biggest tusks they could find"  a) cause  b) effect
9. "...tusks are half the size they were a hundred years ago."  a) cause  b) effect
10. "...the demand for ivory greatly increased."  a) cause  b) effect

Alyce. In-class essay, Part I.
Use a separate sheet with the date (2/4). Counts for 600 words. 
Follow this model. (Unless you have a better idea!)

I think one of the themes so far of The Midwife's Apprentice is... (State what you think the book is really about so far.)

It is the story of... (Brief - 3-4 sentences - summary that generally shows the theme.)

The scene where...shows how... (Show a particular scene that proves your point.)

As you can see... (Conclusion that very briefly restates your thesis and example.)

For your title, come up with a snappy version of your theme.