Thursday, 1/12/12
Tomorrow's Test: Academic Words (study the warm ups), vocabulary (study the pretest), Giver (read and ask questions), possible Husker Du.
{Third Period: Finish/Correct Vocabulary Pretest and The Giver quiz.)
Warm Up. Lightning Round Review. Here are 10 of the questions from tomorrow's test.
  1. Freedom of speech is part of the First _______(ment) to the Constitution.   a) Orient  b) Amend  c) Sustain  d) Enforce  e) Enable
  2. As fewer people buy cd's, record companies have to figure out new ways to ______  _____. a) sustain entity  b) generate orientation  c) amend enforcement  d) generate revenue  e) facilitate capacity
  3. Don't ______ your problem by lying.  a) conflict  b) revenue  c) compound  d) sustain  e) enforce
  4. ________ sentences have two or more main _______(s).  a) compound/clause  b) amended/entity  c) compound/notion  d) logic/clause  e) entity/notion
  5. Some say low taxes ____ the growth of businesses. a) consult  b) revenue  c) enforce  d) facilitate  e) orient
  6. S. E. Hinton says that the writer part of her is a separate _______ from the mother part.  a) capacity  b) entity  c) notion  d) logic  e) clause
  7. His education ______(ed) him to go far in life.   a) orient  b) amend  c) sustain  d) facilitate  e) enable
  8. Grandparents like to _________ their grandkids, spoling them with candy and suchlike.   a) escalate  b) indulge  c) suppress  d) manifest  e) anguish
  9. After the second offense, the punishment ________(s) from a chastisement to use of the discipline wand. a) escalate  b) indulge  c) suppress  d) manifest  e) anguish
  10. straight : sinuous :: organized : _______  a) exuberant  b) luminous  c) magnitude  d) haphazard  e) manifest

 
 

{The Giver, ch 9. For classes that didn't finish.}

  1. Jonas does not feel separate and different yet because the training has not started. a) True   b) False
  2. Jonas's parents are proud of his selection as Receiver.  a) True  b) False.
  3. When a name is never used again, it means the last person to have that name was so great, the name is not used any more out of honor for that person.  a) True  b) False
  4. What stuns Jonas so much about the instructions he is given?   a) There is only a single printed sheet.   b) There is no time for recreation.   c) He can lie.   d) He can ask personal questions.   e) All of the above.
  5. Since Jonas's training involves pain, he has special access to pain medication.  a) True  b) False
  6. Why does the final rule (#8) unnerve Jonas so much?   a) Because it’s different.   b) Because it promises pain.   c) Because he doesn’t understand it.   d) Because he hates lying.   e) NOTA

 

The Giver, 10-11.

  1. Why are The Receiver’s doors locked?  a) To insure privacy.   b)  To protect him.  c)  To make sure no one breaks in and steals his things.  d)  Because he does "inappropriate" things.  e)  NOTA
  2. What is the most conspicuous difference between The Receiver’s dwelling and Jonas’s own dwelling?  a)  The bed.  b)  The thick, luxurious fabrics.  c)  The curved table legs.  d)  The ceiling.  e)  The books.
  3. The Receiver looks so old because he is.  a) True  b) False
  4. Why does Jonas not understand the Receiver's comparison involving a sled?  a) He's too dumb.  b) He has not yet achieved wisdom.  c) It turns out, he doesn't really have the ability to "see beyond."  d) He doesn't know what a sled is.  e) NOTA
  5. Why was Jonas so shocked at the end of chapter 10?  a) He couldn't believe how old the Receiver was.  b) The Receiver told him to to keep their meetings a secret.  c) The Receiver told him to remove his tunic.  d) The Receiver turned off the speaker.  e) NOTA
  6. Why was it so exhausting for The Receiver to give Jonas the memory of snow?   a) Because it was his favorite one.  b) Because he is frightened by snow.   c) Because he had to tug it forward from many generations back.   d) Because he's old and tired.   e)  NOTA
  7. When The Receiver gives Jonas a memory he doesn't have it any more.  a) True  b) False
  8. The Receiver says he has _____, but not _____.   a) power, honor   b) honor, knowledge   c) money, power   d) honor, fun   e) honor, power
  9. When Jonas asks what happened to things like snow and hills, the Receiver calls it...  a) the Warming  b) the Uniting  c) the Institution  d) the Beginning  e) NOTA
  10. The Receiver says he started Jonas off with memories of pleasure because that's what worked last time he trained a new receiver.  a) True  b) False
  11. What memory is Jonas given as a small taste of the pain he will feel later?  a) broken leg  b) frostbite  c) cut finger  d) headache  e) NOTA
  12. The reason the book is called  The Giver is because that is what Jonas is now called.  a) True  b) False
  13. The Giver is written in... a) first person  b) second person  c) third person  d) fourth person

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