1. * pliers : tool :: warmth : ______
2. * foolish : sensible :: stiff : ______
3. * Mr. Coward : instructor :: house : _____
4. Pluralize: a) family  b) tomato  c) mother-in-law  d) video  e) Jones  f) monkey
5. Make them possessive:  a) family  b) James c) it  d) child  e) wish
6. Make them plural AND possessive:  a) hero  b) man  c) fish

1. The sub guest teacher was slow to realize when something was ____; he thought everything was fine. a) forlorn  b) amiss  c) apathetic  d) vogue  e) succumb
2. A person cannot be convicted on ________; there must be evidence to back up the accusation.  a) precarious  b) canvass  c) conjecture  d) proscribe  e) omniscient
3. The NFL head coach's position is rather ______. If the team doesn't do well this season, he might lose his job.  a) vogue  b) omniscient  c) apathetic  d) haggard  e) precarious
4. Many countries ________ television and music. They claim those things are against the laws of Islam.  a) proscribe  b) amiss  c) precarious  d) conjecture  e) vogue
5. The man's face was ______, and his eyes showed the ordeal he had been through.  a) haggard  b) canvass  c) diverge  d) converge  e) succumb
6. Mark Twain is a ____ person, _________ narrator who knows everything about the characters and their world.  (Fill both blanks. Use the five choices for the second blank. You should know what to fill the first blank with.)  a) apathetic  b) amiss  c) vogue  d) canvassed   e) omniscient
7. The searchers _____(ed) the cave, looking for the lost kids. a) succumb  b) proscribe  c) converge  d) canvass  e) omniscient
8. There were many _______(ent)  opinions about what should be done. No one could agree. a) diverge  b) converge  c) conjecture  d) omniscient  e) vogue
9. For two roads form a diamond shape, they must first ____, then ___.  a) converge, diverge  b) diverge, converge
10. Yoyos seem to be in _________ every few years with everyone all at once sporting a new yoyo. Then the fad dies just as quickly. a) diverge  b) converge  c) canvass  d) omniscient  e) vogue
11. The class discussion was not very lively; the students were rather _______ about the topic. a) conjecture  b) apathetic  c) vogue  d) canvass  e) omniscient
12. The boys _____(ed) matter inwardly, thinking about all the possibilities.  a) apathetic  b) haggard  c) canvass  d) proscribe  e) omniscient
13. After much nagging, he finally _______(ed) and let his wife get rid of his tattered old easy chair. a) proscribe  b) succumb  c) converge  d) conjecture  e) canvass

Tom Sawyer (2 points each = 6 points.)

1. Who was the "intruder" who kept them from falling asleep at the end of chapter 13?
2. Why does Mark Twain call the boys "curiously inconsistent pirates" at the end of chapter 13? 
3. Why are the boys consciences bothering them near the end of Chapter 14?

Read aloud.