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

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    Vocabulary. Skip if exempt.
13. 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
14. 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
15. The landscape of the moon is lifeless and very_____. a) sage  b) rueful  c) infer  d) conform  e) bleak
16. 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
17. "I shouldn't have done that," he said with a ____ sigh.  a) savvy  b) rueful  c) infer  d) conform  e) fathom
18. "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
19. pain : pleasure :: confusion : _________  a) sage  b) savvy  c) infer  d) rueful  e) conform
20. 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
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. "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
23. hopeful : bleak :: proud : ________  a)  savvy  b) denotation  c) sage  d) rueful  e) fathomable
24. casual : nonchalant :: sage : __________     a) fathom  b) savvy  c) infer  d) denotation  e) connotation
25. cool : good :: dig : _________   a) sage  b) rueful  c) conform  d) fathom  e) bleak

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    Adjectives.
26. 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.
27. 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.
28. The word stupidly is an example of an adjective.  a) True   b) False

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    Outsiders Etc. Open Book.
29. As used in The Outsiders, the word hood is short for _____.  a) hoodie  b) neighborhood  c) hoodlum  d) livelihood  e) NOTA
30. lb. : pound :: Soc : _______ a) society  b) sock  c) greaser  d) social  e) punch
31. "He gets drunk on plain living..."  a) Soda  b) Darry  c) Pony  d) Steve  e) Two-Bit
32. What is it about our narrator that drives his brother Darry crazy?  a) He's always getting in trouble.  b) His absent-mindedness.  c) His grades are poor.  d) All of the above.  e) NOTA
33. you: a) first person b) second person c) third person  d) fourth person
34. Sodapop is  a) scared of his own shadow  b) happy-go-lucky  c) cold and hard  d) anxious and worried  e) a loner
35. Ponyboy is... a) scared of his own shadow  b) happy-go-lucky  c) cold and hard  d) mean  e) a loner
36. Darry (according to Ponyboy) is...a) scared of his own shadow  b) happy-go-lucky  c) cold and hard  d) mean  e) a loner
37. Harry Potter : third person :: The Outsiders :  ________  a) first person b) second person c) third person  d) fourth person
38. An advantage of a 3rd person narrator is that s/he can show us what everyone is thinking and feeling. a) True  b) False
39. In the poem "Delinquent," who's (the) delinquent?  a) Julie's parents  b) Julie  c) society  d) All of the above.  e) NOTA
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

Trackwords! Spell words by connecting adjoining letters. Words must be at least 3 letters long. Each letter must touch the one before it. No proper nouns, abbreviations, or foreign words. You can only use a letter once in the same word. 10 words = +1, 20 words = +2, etc. Use the Trackwords section of your test sheet for your word list. Be sure to number your list.

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