1. Which of these is NOT something this lesson will try to teach?  a) What an impulse is.  b) The difference between the central and peripheral nervous systems.  c) How the brain works.  d) How neurons do their job.  e) All of these will be taught.
2. Which of these is a term NOT covered in this lesson?  a) impulse  b) receptors  c) signal word d) sensory neuron  e) All are covered
3. Taste buds are examples of receptors. a) True  b) False
4. The nerves that connect the arms and legs with the spinal cord are part of the _______ nervous system.  a) peripheral   b) branch  c) lower  d) central  e) NOTA
5. The science article on p363 compares the nervous system to a ______. a) car  b) brain  c) television  d) computer  e) NOTA
6. When you remember what a verb is, you are using your peripheral nervous system.  a) True.  b) False.
7. Which blue-boxed letter is next to the reference to figure 17-1?  a) A  b) B  c) C  d) D  e) E
8. Which blue-boxed letter is next to a sub-heading on the page?     a) A  b) B  c) C  d) D  e) E
9. At the end of this lesson, there will be a lab.  a) True.  b) False.
10. A neuron is a type of...  a) cell  b) organ  c) receptor  d) cytoplasm  e) NOTA
11. This is a diagram of a neuron. Identify #1.  a) cytoplasm  b) dendrites  c) peripheral cells  d) receptors  e) NOTA

Go over vocabulary homework. There were two issues: a) No 10A: subliminal  b) No sentence for expendable. Everybody gets a +1 on Friday
Vocabulary Pretest.

1. The gardener ______(ed) a new limb onto the ailing tree.  a) resilient  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) graft
2. When we moved, we got rid of everything that we considered _________.  a) infinitesimal  b) paradox  c) expendable  d) resilient  e) undulated
3. The smells ________(ing) from the kitchen were very tempting.   a) infinitesimal  b) paradox  c) poised  d) graft  e) emanate
4. He tried to be very ________ and calm when he met his girlfriend's parents.  a) finicky  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) graft
5. "Crushing certain plants could add up ___________(ly). A little, tiny error here would multiply in sixty million years, all out of proportion."  a) finicky  b) poised  c) emanate  d) infinitesimal  e) undulate
6. "The government doesn’t like us here. We have to pay big ____ to keep our business."  a) graft  b) paradox  c) resilience  d) infinitesimal  e) undulate
7. The green carpet of grass and moss was ______ and soft.   a) finicky  b) poised  c) resilient  d) resilience  e) undulate
8. "It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too _____ and balanced for its ten tons."   a) expendable  b) poised  c) infinitesimal  d) graft  e) undulate
9. "In the slime, tiny insects wriggled, so that the entire body seemed to twitch and _______..."  a) emanate  b) poised  c) resilient  d) paradox  e) undulate
10. "That'd be a _____. Time doesn't permit that sort of a mess--a man meeting himself."   a) graft  b) infinitesimal  c) resilient  d) paradox  e) emanation
11. Mrs. Delmartini is very _______ about grammar. You had better proofread every paper closely in 8th grade.   a) emanate  b) poised  c) finicky  d) paradox  e) undulate
12. "And the caveman, please note, is not just any _________ man...He is an entire future nation."  a) finicky  b) poised  c) emanate  d) expendable  e) graft
13. In some Third World countries, the police are paid so little that they have to resort to ________ to survive.   a) infinitesimal  b) poised  c) graft  d) resilient  e) expendable

"A Sound of Thunder"