Test #7. Name:                                                                             Date:                                    Period:
Apost.: ___/8  ___/8  ___/10    KBAR: ___/40
Vocabulary Homework: ____/20   Vocab Practices:  ____/12     ____/13      ___/11
Other Extra Credit:  Bonus for Sentences: + ___

Mental Floss.


Vocabulary.  a) adversary  b) aplomb  c) banish  d) grueling  e) perceive  f) disdain  g) dispel   h) engross   i) diminish  j) exhilarate

1. She has a great _____ for companies that mistreat their workers and boycotts their products.
   
2. The root origins of this word meant “curse and proclamation.” ________
   
3. The root origin of this word meant “cheerful.” __________
   
4. One of the themes of The Outsiders is that what you ______ is not necessarily what the reality is.
   
5. The amount of crime _____(ed) when police started patrolling the neighborhood more often.
6. The root origin of this word meant “turned against.”  ________
   
7. The root origin of this word meant”balanced and straight and true.” ______
   

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   AW's. a) sufficient  b) design  c) feature  d) valid  e) transfer
   
8. My mom said my reasoning was not ____(ly)...
9. ..._____, so I lost the argument.
10. The prefix of this word means across or through: _____.

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    Apostrophe's
11. _____ llama was selected for the fair.  a) Charles'  b) Charles's  c) Charle's   d) NOTA
12. I got all ____ on my report card.  a) A's  b) As  c) 'A's   d) 'As   e) NOTA
    
13. The _____ lounge is usually off-limits to students. (More than one.)  a) teacher's  b) teachers  c) teachers's  d) teachers'  e) NOTA
14. _____ llama is that?  a) whose  b) who'se  c) who's  d) NOTA
    
15. I think that llama is _____.   a) they're  b) theres  c) their's  d) theirs  e) NOTA
16. The _____ was the best decade for music.   a) 70's  b) '70's  c) 70s  d) '70s  e) NOTA
    
17. Is the title of this section of the test spelled correctly?  a) Yes  b) No
    

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    Husker Du?
18. All llamas aren’t like that you have to believe me.  a) Fragment  b) Run On  c) Correct Sentence
19. That embarrassing moment when you realize that your llama just wrote a run on sentence.  a) Fragment  b) Run On  c) Correct Sentence
    
20. Up, up, and away flew my beautiful llama balloon.    a) Fragment  b) Run On  c) Correct Sentence

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    Outsiders
21. As Dally drives to the hospital he says, "...you get tough like me and you don't get hurt. You look out for yourself and nothin' can touch you..."  (p147/p128) This is ironic because...  a) Dally isn't that tough.  b) Dally tried to harden himself, but something touched him anyway.  c) Johnny was tough, but got hurt anyway.  d) Dally is a greaser.  e) It isn't ironic at all.
22. When Johnny smiles before he dies, it's because...  a) he's dying a hero.  b) the greasers won the rumble.  c) he wanted to die anyway.  d) Dally was proud of him.  e) he remembered a joke Pony made in the church.  f) He knew it was worth dying for those kids.  g) NOTA
    
23. What is Pony's main motivation for wanting to be in the rumble?  a) Revenge for Johnny.  b) He likes to fight. c) To prove himeself to Darry.  d) Loyalty to the gang.  e) All of the above.  f) NOTA
24. Cherry tells Pony why she liked Bob (p129/p113), and he realizes that Bob was a lot like...a) Darry  b) Johnny  c) Pony  d) Soda  e) Dally   f) Steve
    
25. Pony goes off on Cherry (p129/p113) because he thinks that she is _______(ing) him by trying to help the greasers before the rumble.  a) savvy  b) illicit  c) discreet  d) hysterical  e) patronize  f) exploit
    

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26. Unscramble into one smooth sentence. Do not add or subtract any words. Punctuate!
    * her creamed corn  * yelling  * at the baby sitter  * onto the floor  *  Jennifer flipped

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