Test #1.  Name:                                                         Date:                Period:
KBAR total for the week: Chart: ____/20 Response:_____/40 Vocabulary h/w: ___/20
Warm Ups: Tuesday: _____/5  Wednesday: ___/6  Thursday: ___/6  Spelling: ___/10
Non-Clicker Extra Credit:
 

Mental Floss
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Spelling.  For 1-8, choose the incorrectly spelled word.

  1. a) useage  b) creative  c) continuous  d) all correct
  2. a) insurance  b) survival c) radiculous  d) all correct
  3. a) pleasure  b) maturity  c) television  d) all correct
  4. a) confusion  b) storage  c) narrative  d) beleivable  e) all correct
  5. a) ignorance  b) refusal  c) literature  d) all correct
  6. a) security  b)   c) completion  d) revision  e) all correct
  7. a) unforgivable  b) seperately  c) requirement  d) all correct
  8. a) valuable  b) movable  c) sinserely  d) all correct
  9. The reason we drop the last e from a word like narrate  before we add an ending like ive,  is that... a) Narrate ends with a consonant sound.  b) The ending ive  also ends with an e.  c) The ending ive  begins with a consonant  d) The ending ive  makes it an adjective.  e) The ending ive  begins with a vowel.
  10. rewrite : revision :: story : _________  a) beleivable  b) narrative  c) requirement  d) seperately  e) television
  11. sage : wise :: artist : _________ a) creative  b) literature  c) revision  d) conform  e) movable
  12. refusal : cooperation :: childishness : ______   a) useage  b) beleivable  c) ignorance  d) maturity  e) creative
  13. __________ is bliss.  a) ignorance  b) refusal  c) literature d) sincerly  e) maturity
    Vocabulary. Skip if exempt.
  14. Even though he may not be "book-smart" he has a lot of _______ about the world.  a) gingerly  b) savvy  c) infer  d) nonchalant  e) fathom
  15. Some people might have called him weird, but he preferred to be called a (non-)__________(ist).  a) sage  b) rueful  c) infer  d) conform  e) fathom
  16. The landscape of the moon is lifeless and very_____. a) sage  b) rueful  c) infer  d) conform  e) bleak
  17. The old man was considered the ________ of the village because of all his experience and wisdom.  a) sage  b) rueful  c) infer  d) bleak  e) fathom
  18. "I shouldn't have done that," he said with a ____ sigh.  a) savvy  b) rueful  c) infer  d) conform  e) fathom
  19. "It's just because you're the baby--I mean he loves you a lot.  (Do you) ______?"  a) sage  b) savvy  c) infer  d) conform  e) connotation
  20. pain : pleasure :: confusion : _________  a) sage  b) savvy  c) infer  d) rueful  e) conform
  21. For Esteban, the word dropout had the ___________ of a hoodlum who breaks windows and such. a) connotation  b) denotation  c) infer  d) sage  e) fathom
  22. I was able to ________ the meaning of the word from the way it was used in the sentence. a) bleak  b) savvy  c) rueful  d) gingerly  e) infer
  23. "Okay," I said ________, "might as well." (I was trying to act cool with the girls.) a) gingerly  b) ruefully  c) inferly  d) nonchalantly e) fathomly
  24. hopeful : bleak :: proud : ________  a)  savvy  b) denotation  c) sage  d) rueful  e) fathomable
  25. casual : nonchalant :: sage : __________    a) fathom  b) savvy  c) infer  d) denotation  e) connotation
  26. cool : good :: dig : _________   a) sage  b) rueful  c) conform  d) fathom  e) bleak
    Adjectives.
  27. An adjective is a word that...  a) describes how you do something.  b) shows action.  c) describes another word.  d) describes a noun.  e) describes a relationship between words.
  28. A noun is...  a) an action word.  b) a thing.  c) describing word.  d) a person, place or thing.  e) the subject of the sentence.
  29. The word stupidly is an example of an adjective.  a) True   b) False
    Outsiders  and  Husker Du. Open Book.
  30. As used in The Outsiders, the word hood is short for _____.  a) hoodie  b) neighborhood  c) hoodlum  d) livelihood  e) NOTA
  31. lb. : pound :: Soc : _______ a) society  b) sock  c) greaser  d) social  e) punch
  32. you: a) first person b) second person c) third person  d) fourth person
  33. Sodapop is  a) scared of his own shadow  b) happy-go-lucky  c) cold and hard  d) anxious and worried  e) a loner
  34. Our narrator is... a) scared of his own shadow  b) happy-go-lucky  c) cold and hard  d) mean  e) a loner
  35. Darry (according to our narrator) is...a) scared of his own shadow  b) happy-go-lucky  c) cold and hard  d) mean  e) a loner
  36. Harry Potter : third person :: The Outsiders :  ________  a) first person b) second person c) third person  d) fourth person
  37. An advantage of a 3rd person narrator is that s/he can show us what everyone is thinking and feeling. a) True  b) False
  38. A disadvantage of a first person narrator is that he/she can't tell us what's going on when she/he's not there.  a) True  b) False
  39. 90% of 50 = _____  a) 5  b) 40  c) 45  d) 46  e) 49
  40. In the poem "Delinquent," when he compares Julie to a tiger, a lion and an owl, he's trying to say that...  a) Julie likes animals.  b) Julie is like an animal.  c) Julie kills people.  d) Julie is selfish and cunning.  e) NOTA