Test 2. Name:                                                                         Date:                           Period:
KBAR total for the week: KBAR: ___/30
Warm Ups -- Wednesday (9/3): ___/11  Thursday (9/4): ___/7
Vocabulary Homework: ____/20


Mental Floss:






Spelling. Choose the incorrectly spelled word or choose all correct if they are.
  1. a) maturity  b) seperate  c) narrative  d) all correct
  2. a) insurance  b) creative  c) revison  d) all correct
  3. a) believeable  b) refusal  c) cooperation  d) all correct
  4. a) storage  b) security  c) moveable  d) all correct
  5. a) requirment  b) ignorance  c) hopeful  d) all correct
  6. 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.
  7. The reason we don't drop the last e from a word like positive before we add an ending like -ly, is that...  a) Positive ends with a consonant sound.  b) The ending -ly ends with an y.  c) The ending -ly  begins with a consonant  d) The ending -ly  makes it an adjective.  e) NOTA
  8. rewrite : revision :: story : _________  a) beleivable  b) narrative  c) requirement  d) seperately  e) television
  9. sage : wise :: artist : _________ a) creative  b) literature  c) revision  d) conform  e) movable
  10. refusal : cooperation :: childishness : ______   a) useage  b) beleivable  c) ignorance  d) maturity  e) creative
  11. _____ is bliss.  a) ignorance  b) refusal  c) literature d) sincerly  e) maturity
    Vocabulary. Skip this section if you earned 12/12 on the pretest.
  12. 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
  13. 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) connotation
  14. The landscape of the moon is lifeless and very_____. a) sage  b) rueful  c) infer  d) conform  e) bleak
  15. 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
  16. "I shouldn't have done that," he said with a ____ sigh.  a) savvy  b) rueful  c) infer  d) conform  e) fathom
  17. "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
  18. pain : pleasure :: confusion : ______  a) sage  b) savvy  c) infer  d) rueful  e) conform
  19. For Esteban, the word dropout had the _____... a) connotation  b) denotation  c) infer  d) sage  e) fathom
  20. ...of a ________ who breaks windows and graffitis and such. a) sage  b) denotation  c) infer  d) delinquent  e) fathom
  21. 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
  22. cool : good :: dig : _______   a) sage  b) rueful  c) conform  d) fathom  e) bleak
    Adjectives
  23. She speaks so softly that I can hardly hear her.  a) softly - adjective,  hardly - not  b) softly - not,  hardly - adjective  c) both adjectives  d) both not
  24. I'm a good bowler; my ball has pretty flowers on it.  a) good - adjective,  pretty - not  b) good - not,  pretty - adjective  c) both adjectives  d) both not
  25. We have a pretty apple tree in our yard.  a) pretty - adjective, apple - not  b) pretty - not, apple - adjective  c) both adjectives  d) both not
  26. In the following sentence, the word savvy is used as an adjective: A savvy Kal-El  knew just what to do.  a) True  b) False
    Husker Du?
  27. you:  a) first person b) second person c) third person  d) fourth person
  28. she: a) first person b) second person c) third person  d) fourth person
  29. Book titles should be...  a) in quotes  b) in italics  c) in boldface  d) underlined  e) b or d
    The Outsiders.  Open book.
  30. "I liked him real well because he kept us laughing at ourselves."  Who is "him"?   a) Soda  b) Darry  c) Pony  d) Steve  e) Two-Bit
  31. "The shade of difference that separates a greaser from a hood wasn't present in _____."  a) Darry  b) Johnny  c) Two-Bit  d) Steve  e) Dally
  32. "If it weren't for the gang, _______ would never have known what love and affection are."  a) Steve  b) Dally  c) Johnny  d) Darry  e) Two-Bit
  33. Dally : the world :: Johnny : ___   a) Dally  b) his parents  c) the world  d) Steve  e) All of these.
  34. The main conflict of The Outsiders so far seems to be... a) our narrator vs. his parents  b) our narrator vs. the Socs  c) Soc vs. greaser  d) greasers vs.  school  e) NOTA
  35. Explain, using an example from the book, why you picked that conflict.