Test #7. Name:                                                                  Date:                       Period:
Warm Ups: 10/09: ____/6  10/10: ____/8   Spelling Crossword: ___/10
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Spelling. Do the ones you missed Tuesday.
  1. The ____ seems to be the most difficult form of dance.  a) ballay  b) balley  c) ballet  d) baillet  e) balay
  2. Will you teach me your painting ____?  a) tecnique  b) technique  c) teqnique  d) technic  e) techniche
  3. The long hike left us weak with _____.  a) fatigue  b) fateege  c) fateage  d) fateegue  e) fategue
  4. The young actor was nervous about his _______.  a) dabue  b) debue  c) debut  d) debute  e) debuy
  5. She is too tall to be called _______.  a) pettite  b) petite  c) petitte d) pitite  e) pitete
  6. An ________ boxer does not compete for money.  a) amature  b) amatuer  c) ameture  d) amateur  e) ameteur
  7. The bride carried a beautiful ________ of  flowers.  a) boukay  b) bouquet  c) booquet  d) bouket  e) bouquay
  8. A ________ will relax those tight muscles.   a) message  b) masage  c) mesage  d) massage  e) massaj
  9. His _______ chair is hundreds of years old. a) antique  b) anteek  c) anteeque  d) anteque  e) anteak
  10. The opposite of specific is _______ a) vaige  b) vauge  c) vaugue  d) vaigue  e) NOTA
  11. Please sit still while I finish your _____ .  a) potrate  b) portait  c) portrait  d) portraite  e) pourtrait
  12. The bus crawled along the crowded ____.  a) boulevard  b) boulavard  c) boulavarde  d) boulevarde  e) bolevard.
  13. Heavy rains filled the ____(s), like Lake Nacimiento.  a) reservoire  b) reserver  c) researvoir  d) resevoir  e) reservoir
  14. The storm blew ___ all over the yard.  a) debrit  b) debrise  c) debrite  d) debris  e) NOTA
  15. The dress ___ is having a sale. a) boutike  b) bootique  c) bouteke  d) boutique  e) NOTA
  16. The view from the ___ is splendid.  a) plato  b) plateau  c) platteau  d) plattoe  e) platoe
  17. I have a ___ for a $1.99 pizza. a) qupon  b)  quepon  c) coupon  d) quopon  e) NOTA
  18. The train leaves the ___ at noon.  a) depoe  b) depote  c) deepot  d) deepoe  e) depot
  19. Our names were engraved on the _____ by the door.  a) plack  b) plaque  c) placque  d) placke  e) NOTA
  20. Ponyboy had experienced too much to be called innocent or __.  a) naive  b) niave  c) neive  d) nieve  e) NOTA
  21. The criminal's actions were caught by the store ____ camera.  a) surveilance  b) surveillence  c) surviellance  d) surveillance  e) NOTA
  22. It was just a ______ day; nothing special happened.  a) rutine  b) routine  c) routien  d) rutiene  e) routiene
  23. The singing _____ made beautiful music.  a) onsomble  b) enemble  c) ensamble  d) enseamble  e) NOTA
  24. The road construction created a _____.  a) detoure  b) deatour  c)  deature  d) detour  e) deatoure
    Vocabulary. Skip if exempt.
  25. Many rappers "sing" the praises of "bling" and _____ consumption.  a) conspicuous  b)  intricate   c) obsolescence  d) indolent  e) benign
  26. Much to her relief, the doctor said the tumor was ___.  a)  benign  b) indolent  c) sullen  d) obsolete  e) intricate
  27. Ponyboy dreamed of a(n) _____ life in the country, away from the furious pace of the city.  a) sullen  b) inconspicuous  c) intricate  d) indolent  e) unnerve
  28. Sending letters via “snail mail” is becoming more and more ____ as e-mail becomes more and more popular.  a) composure  b) unnerve  c) benign  d) obsolete e) sullen
  29. I tried to be as _______ as possible as I passed the note in class, but Mr. Coward still caught me.   a) sullen  b) inconspicuous  c) intricate  d) indolent  e) unnerve
  30. After his mom grounded him, he sat in ________ silence, sneering at everyone who walked by.   a) composure  b) sullen  c) benign  d) conspicuous  e) unnerve
  31. Being pulled over for speeding can be a very _____(ing) experience.   a) obsolete  b) tentative  c) indolent  d) unnerve   e) intricate
  32. A sloth leads a very _____ life; sleeping and eating.    a) intricate  b) indolent  c) excruciating  d) conspicuous  e) obsolete
  33. The tourist tried to blend in, but he was pretty _____ with all his maps and cameras and such.  a) sullen  b) conspicuous  c) excruciating  d) indolent e) unnerve
  34. Since he had practiced, when Joe read in front of the class, he had great ____. He was confident and it showed.    a) excruciating  b) composure  c) tentative  d) sullen   e) benign
    Commas. Skip if exempt.
  35. The town of El Queso Grande, I believe, has a 48 foot wheel of cheese.  a) correctly punctuated  b) incorrectly punctuated
  36. I was late to class so, I got detention.  a) correctly punctuated  b) incorrectly punctuated
  37. Elizabeth Kenny devised new more effective methods of treating infantile paralysis.  Which comma rule should this sentence follow?  a) 2 adjectives in a row.  b) 3 or more items in a row.  c) before the but clause. d) After the intro.  e) Appositives.
  38. A lot of cake was served, during Cindy's wedding.  a) correctly punctuated  b) incorrectly punctuated
  39. Captain Queso, the chief of police directed traffic during the president's visit.  a) correctly punctuated  b) incorrectly punctuated
  40. Training was based on apprenticeship and students learned from older students.   a) apprenticeship, b) apprenticeship, and, c) and, d) Ok as is.
  41. Kenny an Australian nurse aroused controversy due to her treatment methods.   a) Kenny,  nurse,   b) Kenny, c) nurse, d) nurse, controversy,
  42. Florence Nightingale was a nurse hospital reformer and humanitarian.  a) Nightingale,  b) nurse, hospital, reformer,  c) reformer,  d) hospital,  e) NOTA
  43. Early nursing education however had little or no classroom preparation.  This sentence contains an appositive. a) True  b) False
  44. Florence Nightingale received her nursing training in Egypt and Germany.  a) correctly punctuated  b) incorrectly punctuated
    Husker Du?
  45. advise : ____ :: committee : ____  a) councel/council  b) counsel/council  c) council/counsel  d) counsil/council
  46. Months may pass between rainfalls, but when storms do occur, they may be violent.  a) Fragment  b) Run-On  c) Complete Sentence
  47. The coaches watched each potential player, looking for any natural ______(s) he might have.  a) empathy  b) disposition  c) adherance  d) aptitude  e) hoard
  48. Holly wasn't exactly scared by the incident the other night, just a little ________.  a) chortled  b) empathied  c) distraught  d) disquieted  e) chastised
  49. The characters in The Outsiders are so realistic, that we ______(ize) with them and their problems. a) disquiet  b) distraught  c) chastise  d) empathy  e) nurture
  50. The part of The Outsiders we are in now would be called the... a) exposition  b) inciting incident  c) rising action  d) foreshadowing  e) NOTA
  51. throw : bouquet :: cruise : ______    a) #7  b) #12  c) #18  d) #16  e) NOTA
  52. Lightning flashed and stuck a nearby tree and house.    a) CS  b) CV  c) both  d) neither
  53. The boyish-looking lumberjack ate a glazed doughnut and eggs for breakfast. a) CS  b) CV  c) both  d) neither