Test #17. Name:                                                                    Date:                                 Period:
Warm Ups: ___/5  ___/5  Pink Sheet: ___/10   Notebook Check: ___/15
Non-Clicker Extra Credit:


 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Spelling and Warm Ups. If you earned 14/16 or better on the spelling pretests, skip the first 5.

  1. a) fasinate  b) discipline  c) conscious  d) all correct
  2. a) conscience  b) mischeivous  c) delicious  d) all correct
  3. a) appreciate  b) jealous  c) humerous  d) all correct
  4. a) possess  b) sucess  c) apologize  d) all correct
  5. a) peculiar  b) aquaintance  c) occurrence  d) all correct
  6. snack : meal :: _____ : friend    a) 1a  b) 2c  c) 5b  d) 5c  e) NOTA
  7. looks : appearance :: incidence : ______  a) 1b  b) 2b  c) 3c  d) 5c  e) NOTA
  8. red : embarrassed :: green : ______  a) 1c  b) 2a  c) 3c  d) 5a  e) NOTA
    Vocabulary. Skip if exempt.
  9. In the Christmas memory, Jonas could feel the love ______(ing) the room, but he didn't know the feeling was called love.  a) reprieve  b) relinquish  c) pervade  d) alibi  e) augment
  10. After the painful memories of war and the like, Jonas always felt ______ for a long time.  a) grovel  b) augment  c) reprieve  d) relinquish  e) wretched
  11. The shortstop _____(ly) fielded the difficult grounder, and threw to first for the out.  a) wretched  b) lethargic  c) grovel  d) alibi  e) deft
  12. forced : voluntary :: energetic : _____     a) relinquish  b) lethargic  c) deft  d) augmented  e) pervading
  13. In the 1930's drought became so severe and the farmland so ____, that the winds created huge dust storms.  a) parched  b) deft  c) pervading  d) relinquished  e) augmented
  14. After holding the white clicker for three weeks, Dorothy finally had to ____ it to Harrison. a) reprieve  b) relinquish  c) pervade  d) alibi  e) augment
  15. He tried to ____ his income by selling steak knives door to door. a) grovel  b) relinquish  c) augment  d) alibi  e) parched
  16. The condemned man waited hopefully for a last-minute ______ from the governor.  a) grovel  b) wretch  c) alibi  d) relinquish  e) reprieve
  17. Some teachers keep their classrooms very cold because they think it keeps the students from being too ______.  a) wretched  b) lethargic  c) parched  d) deft  e) alibied
  18. He tried to ____________ his income by selling steak knives door to door.  a) reprieve  b) relinquish  c) pervade  d) alibi  e) augment
    Compound Sentences. Skip if exempt.
  19. Tom and Gail quickly cut and stacked the cheeselogs.  a) Simple Sentence  b) Compound Sentence  c) Neither
  20. Several people watched, but nobody ate cheese.  a) Simple Sentence  b) Compound Sentence  c) Neither
  21. Mr. McCheese may be in court, or he may be in his office.  a) Simple Sentence  b) Compound Sentence  c) Neither
  22. The party ran out of cheese and fizzled.  a) Simple Sentence  b) Compound Sentence  c) Neither
  23. I went to the store because I needed some cheese.  a) Simple Sentence  b) Compound Sentence  c) Neither
  24. The Poppel Mafia wants your money but it's all for a good cause.  a) correctly combined  b) incorrectly combined
  25. Blessed are the Cheesemakers: for they shall inherit the earth.  a) correctly combined  b) incorrectly combined
    Giver 20-22
  26. What does The Giver say is the worst part of  holding the memories? a) the loneliness  b) the pain  c) the emptiness  d) the sorrow  e) all of the above
  27. The Giver gives Jonas memories of people escaping to help him with the plan.  a) True  b) False
  28. As Jonas pedals away, he regrets leaving the Community, but he knows he has to do it.  a) True  b) False
  29. Jonas transmitted the memory of Christmas to calm Gabriel before their escape.  a) True  b) False
  30. What causes a change in their big plan?  a) His family suspects something.   b) He just can't live that way any more.  c) He can't handle any more memories.  d) The Giver has no more memories to give.  e) NOTA
  31. What rule did Jonas break?  a) Leaving the dwelling at night.   b) Taking food from the Community. c) Taking his father's bicycle.  d) All of the above.  e) None of them; he's the Receiver-in-Training, and he can do what he wants.
  32. Over all, Gabriel is not handling the journey very well so far.  a) True  b) False
  33. Jonas transmits memories of _____ to keep the planes from "seeing" Gabe and him. a) blindness  b) camouflage  c) snow  d) sunshine  e) NOTA
  34. As Jonas gets farther and farther away from the Community, he retains fewer and fewer of the memories he had been given.  a) True  b) False
  35. Which of the following was not one of the signals Jonas encountered that showed he was really outside the Community?  a) hills  b) rain  c) wildlife  d) untended roads  e) All were things he saw that showed he had really left the Community.
  36. What causes Jonas to have serious doubts about this whole thing? a) It starts raining.  b) He encounters hills he can't pedal up.  c) They are attacked by a bear.  d) Hunger.  e) NOTA
    Husker Du?
  37. Even huge oil companies get ____(s) from the government.  a) abstract  b) rational  c) inhibit  d) allocate  e) subsidy
  38. Since the era of vaccination, the ____ of some childhood diseases is zero. a) incidence  b) abstract c) incentive  d) cite  e)  migrate
  39. With your nose plugged, your taste buds can't ____ between an onion and an apple.  a) aggregate  b) explicit  c) scope  d) discriminate  e) enhance
  40. While that seems cool to you, honestly, I was shocked.  a) I + D  b) D + I  c) I  d) D