Language Arts
Blue Grass Academic Conference
Written Assessment
2015
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Language Arts Round 1 Page 1
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Capitalization
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Spin
The name of which game should be capitalized?
A. poker
B. chess
C. bridge
D. cribbage
E. monopoly
Which headline best illustrates propaganda?
A. Suicide bombing claims fifteen
B. Illegal aliens displacing U.S. citizens
C. British press critical of prime minister
D. Drought continues in American Southwest
E. Officials certify contenders for primary
ballot
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Affixes
Literary Settings
Which word includes a prefix meaning "self"?
A. paramedic
B. companion
C. automobile
D. antecedent
E. metamorphosis
Which story is not set somewhere in Europe?
A. Dracula
B. Born Free
C. The Invisible Man
D. The Diary of Anne Frank
E. The Pied Piper of Hamelin
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Literary Characters
British Fantasies
Who looked like "some scarecrow eloped from a corn
field"?
A. Jim Hawkins
B. Oliver Twist
C. Bilbo Baggins
D. Ichabod Crane
E. Johnny Tremain
One of the titles of J.R.R. Tolkien's multipart fantasy
is "The Return of the ..."
A. Ming
B. King
C. Ring
D. Thing
E. Spring
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Fictional Females
Spectacular Spiders
Who are not fictional characters?
A. Dolley Madison and Anne Frank
B. Wendy Darling and Mary Poppins
C. Mary Lennox and Hermione Granger
D. Pollyanna Whittier and Rebecca Randall
E. Pippi Longstocking and Katrina van Tassel
A fictional spider named Charlotte spun the word
"TERRIFIC" into her web in an attempt to save her
friend from the slaughterhouse. Name her friend.
A. Babe
B. Porky
C. Wilbur
D. Horace
E. Napoleon
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Proverbs
Which is the only correctly stated proverb?
A. A penny saved is not much.
B. Don't bite the hand that looks dirty.
C. It's always darkest before the dawn.
D. You can't teach an old dog new math.
E. Where there's smoke there's pollution.
Disobedience
Who gave his wife the master key to all his rooms and
said, "Open them all, except for that little closet, for if
you go in there, you may expect my just anger and
resentment"?
A. Bluebeard
B. Brom Bones
C. Bilbo Baggins
D. Boris Badenof
E. Bartholomew Cubbins
Language Arts Round 1 Page 2
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Poetic Quotes
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Accents
What is next in this quote by Edgar Allan Poe?
While I nodded nearly napping, suddenly ...
A. I heard a flapping
B. I started clapping
C. there came a tapping
D. there was a snapping
E. my lips were chapping
Which word is not accented on the same syllable as the
others?
A. ricochet
B. fortified
C. suffocate
D. preferable
E. superimpose
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Valley Guys
Literary Works
Who spent his last forty years in the Ohio Valley?
A. Roy Bean
B. Buffalo Bill
C. John Chapman
D. Francis Marion
E. John Luther Jones
Which is a sequel?
A. White Fang
B. Animal Farm
C. The Time Machine
D. The Black Stallion
E. The Swiss Family Robinson
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Legendary Lads
Verbs
Who was not one of Robin Hood's merry men?
A. Friar Tuck
B. Little John
C. Will Scarlet
D. Alan-a-Dale
E. Tom Thumb
Which sentence illustrates intransitive verbs?
A. Jim laid a wreath.
B. Jamie climbs well.
C. Joe dropped the tarantula.
D. June threw the watermelon.
E. Jan reads the Wall Street Journal.
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Science Fiction
Proverbs
Arthur Clarke's story, "Rendezvous with Rama," is
about a(n) ...
A. comet
B. alien prophet
C. killer meteorite
D. incarnation of Vishnu
E. enormous spacecraft
According to the proverb, you can ...
A. judge a book by its cover
B. teach an old dog new tricks
C. make a silk purse out of a sow's ear
D. make an omelet without breaking eggs
E. catch more flies with honey than with
vinegar
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Proverbs
Which proverb means opposite of "God helps those
who help themselves"?
A. Waste not - want not
B. A miss is as good as a mile.
C. All things come to him who waits.
D. Idle hands are the devil's playground.
E. Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
Plurals
The plural form of which word is not the same as its
singular form?
A. pants
B. species
C. scissors
D. analyses
E. headquarters
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Plurals
26.
Numerology
Which compound word has an irregular plural?
A. cupful
B. seafarer
C. doorknob
D. grandchild
E. stronghold
At Hogwarts, what is said to be the most powerful
magical number?
A. 1
B. 3
C. 5
D. 7
E. 9
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Spelling
Advertising Techniques
Which word does not contain an extra vowel?
A. grievious
B. atheletics
C. participial
D. disasterous
E. mischievious
Products such as WD-40, the Honda XR 600, and
Heinz 57 Sauce have what kind of names?
A. pen
B. code
C. place
D. function
E. alphanumeric
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Phonics
Phrase Substitutes
Which is not a tip of the tongue sound?
A. z as in zoo
B. k as in kid
C. n as in nine
D. d as in dark
E. s as in seed
Calling armies peace-keeping forces and garbage
collectors sanitation engineers illustrates ...
A. criticisms
B. witticisms
C. syllogisms
D. barbarisms
E. euphemisms
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Rhyming Words
Plurals
Bear in mind that words may have different
pronunciations and select the pair of words that
cannot rhyme.
A. knead - behead
B. candle - scandal
C. blazer - phaser
D. divisor - geyser
E. excuse - introduce
The singular of which word does not end in the letter
"m"?
A. data
B. media
C. strata
D. bacteria
E. phenomena
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Onomatopoeia
Which words do not illustrate onomatopoeia?
A. zip, whir
B. fizz, plop
C. shoot, fly
D. thump, bang
E. clank, clatter
Science Fiction Solids
What enormous geometric solid is central in Arthur
Clarke's story, "Rendezvous with Rama"?
A. cube
B. cone
C. sphere
D. pyramid
E. cylinder
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Modifiers
Which is not a superlative adjective?
A. vividest
B. swiftest
C. toughest
D. youngest
E. wouldest
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Tree Houses
A youth from New York City ends up living in a
hollow hemlock tree in the Catskills in ...
A. Born Free
B. A Wrinkle in Time
C. My Side of the Mountain
D. Where the Red Fern Grows
E. I Heard the Owl Call My Name
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Messages
These are what kind of statements?
I'm lovin' it.
A diamond is forever.
You're in good hands.
So easy a caveman can do it.
A. morals
B. slogans
C. decrees
D. parables
E. anecdotes
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Fantasies
Which is not one of the four books in the fantasy
created by J.R.R. Tolkien?
A. The Hobbit
B. The Two Towers
C. The Return of the King
D. The Wind in the Willows
E. The Fellowship of the Ring
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Assertions
A statement accepted without proof that seems
unquestionably true is a(n) ...
A. postulate
B. allegation
C. generality
D. testimonial
E. hypothesis
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Language Arts Round 2 Page 1
1.
Alphabetizing
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Composition
Which is first in an encyclopedia?
A. Earl of Montrose
B. Montezuma Castle
C. Claudio Monteverdi
D. Bernard Montgomery
E. Montreux Convention
Which is illustrated in this line?
I think that nature often shows her chief
strangeness in her sameness.
A. paradox
B. sarcasm
C. pomposity
D. repetition
E. colloquialism
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Poems
Capitalization
What fell in the poem that includes this line?
It fell to earth I know not where.
A. an arrow
B. a sparrow
C. a sombrero
D. some yarrow
E. a wheelbarrow
In addition to the first word, in which line is there
another word that should be capitalized?
A. The senator always voted for pork.
B. Laverne told a tale about five rabbits.
C. We have relatives throughout the south.
D. Bart committed a federal offense last fall.
E. Drive straight till you see a fork in the road.
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Poems
Syllabication
What is the last line of this verse?
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today.
A. I wonder if he'd like to play.
B. I want him gone without delay.
C. I wish that man would go away.
D. I hope he does not want to stay.
E. I'd like to hear what he has to say.
How many syllables are in this remark?
The trouble with being punctual is that
nobody's there to appreciate it.
A. 17
B. 18
C. 19
D. 20
E. 21
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Villains
The Jungle Book
Which villainous character is biologically least related
to the others?
A. Shere Khan
B. Count Rugen
C. Captain Hook
D. Lord Voldemort
E. Long John Silver
Which character from Kipling's "The Jungle Book" is
human?
A. Kaa
B. Baloo
C. Mowgli
D. Bagheera
E. Shere Khan
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Poetic Rhythm
Which line has a rhythm different from that of the
other choices?
A. Piped a tiny voice hard by
B. Do not fear to put thy feet
C. How do robins build their nests
D. Loping along on the day's patrol
E. Where the pools are bright and deep
Figurative Phrases
Which is part of a metaphor for abundance?
A. fish and chips
B. milk and honey
C. pork and beans
D. bread and water
E. mustard and relish
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Fantasies
16.
Synonyms
Who wrote an account of the ending of the third age
of Middle Earth and the destruction of the one ring of
power?
A. Jules Verne
B. Arthur Clarke
C. Carl Sandburg
D. J.R.R. Tolkien
E. Edgar Rice Burroughs
Which word belongs in this group?
modest, simple, unassuming
A. bashful
B. moronic
C. threadbare
D. unpretentious
E. malfunctioning
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Little Guys
Reorganization
In "Gulliver's Travels," the residents of ---- are
diminutive.
A. Lilliput
B. Laputa
C. Balnibari
D. Luggnagg
E. Brobdingnag
Anagrams are not illustrated in which line?
A. angered - enraged
B. nice love - violence
C. tea time - estimate
D. mad policy - diplomacy
E. love to ruin - revolution
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Opinion
Echoic Words
Which is an opinion?
A. The sheriff will be reelected.
B. The president vetoed the bill.
C. Some Senators are Republicans.
D. The jury made a crucial decision.
E. Congress will not convene Monday.
Which word does not suggest the actual sound it
describes?
A. yell
B. hum
C. gurgle
D. rustle
E. cackle
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Stanza Bonanzas
Proverbs
You would never find stanzas in ...
A. odes
B. epics
C. ballads
D. essays
E. elegies
The proverb, "Don't put the cart before the horse"
means ...
A. never give up
B. begin at the beginning
C. take care before you act
D. great things have humble starts
E. let prior offenses stay in the past
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Spelling
How many words are misspelled?
Prehaps her only athaletic activity was going
to the laundery to worsh her umberella with
her mischievous partener.
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. 7
Sentence Analysis
What is not in this line by Mark Twain?
You can't depend on your eyes when your
imagination is out of focus.
A. contraction
B. indirect object
C. personal pronoun
D. subordinate clause
E. prepositional phrase
Language Arts Round 2 Page 3
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Heroines
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Forms of Literature
This is an allusion to which literary heroine?
Ever since I was a little girl, I knew some day
my prince would come.
A. Heidi
B. Gretel
C. Pollyanna
D. Snow White
E. Mary Poppins
Which is not the title of an anthology?
A. 20 One-Act Plays
B. 10 California Day Hikes
C. The Best 50 Poems of All Time
D. The Top 100 Science Fiction Stories
E. The 18 Best Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
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Fragments
Subject-Verb Agreement
Which is not a sentence fragment?
A. An unusual tree on the ranch.
B. Into the dank cavern she crept.
C. Medusa, who had snakes for hair.
D. Studying the reflection on the pond.
E. Two old codgers and a dog from Covington.
Incorrect subject-verb agreement is illustrated in
which sentence?
A. Preferences in fruit differ.
B. Every sister had a medallion.
C. Physics is a required subject.
D. A knife and a basket was lost.
E. Africa includes Egypt and Sudan.
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Lyrical Grammar
Losses
Which song lyric contains an adjective in the
comparative degree?
A. You're a grand old flag
B. Follow the drinking gourd
C. Younger than springtime are you
D. The fundamental things apply as time
goes by
E. The corn is as high as an elephant's eye
In the poem, a kingdom was lost because a battle was
lost because a rider was lost because a horse was lost
because a horseshoe was lost because a ---- was lost.
A. bet
B. map
C. nail
D. lady
E. knight
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Debate
Sly Carnivores
In a debate, a refutation is called a ...
A. recital
B. referral
C. rebuttal
D. reversal
E. rehearsal
In medieval European tales, the fox is called ...
A. Orca
B. Reynard
C. Bagheera
D. Ferdinand
E. Chanticleer
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Wordplay
Complete this holiday palindrome.
A Santa spit taboo bat tips at ...
A. NASA
B. Lhasa
C. a kielbasa
D. Mombassa
E. Lake Nyasa
Poetic Settings
Which poem is set in the region around Lake
Superior?
A. Casey at the Bat
B. Barbara Frietchie
C. The Song of Hiawatha
D. The Song of Marion's Men
E. The Courtship of Miles Standish
Language Arts Round 2 Page 4
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Valley Literature
This refers to what valley?
Into this valley there came an itinerant
schoolmaster from Connecticut by the name
of Ichabod Crane.
A. the Dell
B. Shangri-la
C. Sleepy Hollow
D. Imperial Valley
E. Cumberland Gap
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Book Anatomy
Material that is not part of the main text appears in a
section at the end of the book called the ...
A. kidney
B. trachea
C. stomach
D. appendix
E. cerebrum
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Fragments
Which is not a sentence fragment?
A. To find fragments in the field.
B. Fragmented, furry, and forlorn.
C. Financing Farrah to flag the fish.
D. Fragments flung on the forest floor.
E. Fine ferrous fragments were feared.
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Capitalization
You need not capitalize the names of ...
A. parks and mountains
B. minerals and elements
C. nationalities and religions
D. historical periods and events
E. organizations and business firms
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Fictional Families
The Witting Family is central to ...
A. The Black Stallion
B. Sarah Plain and Tall
C. Cheaper by the Dozen
D. My Side of the Mountain
E. Little House on the Prairie
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Language Arts Round 3 Page 1
1.
Crooked Characters
6.
Dinosaurs
Express as a Roman numeral the number of thieves
confronted by Ali Baba in the "Arabian Nights."
A. C
B. XL
C. LV
D. XXII
E. LXXIX
The name, oviraptor, is based on a prefix meaning ...
A. egg
B. claw
C. beak
D. scale
E. feather
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Big Guys
Mideast Literature
The main character of the story in which the Emperor
of Lilliput rules that the Man-Mountain shall only
walk on main roads and not enter town without two
hours warning is ...
A. Milo
B. Fezzik
C. Smaug
D. Nanook
E. Gulliver
Who is the central character in the tale from which this
was taken?
As the Captain came out, he closed the door,
saying "Shut Sesame."
A. Sinbad
B. Aladdin
C. Ali Baba
D. Gunga Din
E. Omar Khayyam
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Riddles
Vampire Romances
According to the riddle of the Sphinx, at what time of
day do humans walk on four legs?
A. night
B. midday
C. sunset
D. evening
E. morning
Which is not one of the novels by Stephanie Meyer
about the protagonist, Bella Swan?
A. Eclipse
B. Twilight
C. New Moon
D. Breaking Dawn
E. Goodnight Moon
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Saga Sites
Prefixes
In "The Bagthorpe Saga," where does the family live?
A. Vogon Place
B. Hobbit Harbor
C. Unicorn House
D. Cyclops Estate
E. Whangdoodle Manor
Which pair of words illustrate a prefix that means
"excessive"?
A. duplicate, duplex
B. support, supplant
C. protoplasm, protozoa
D. omnivorous, omniscient
E. hypersensitive, hyperthyroid
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Speech Sounds
Which word contains no diphthong?
A. lair
B. tibia
C. noisy
D. onion
E. mouse
Poetic Characters
Who is the central character in the poem beginning
with this?
The outlook wasn't brilliant for the Mudville
nine that day ...
A. Casey
B. Wilbur
C. Horton
D. Sam McGee
E. Bartholomew Cubbins
Language Arts Round 3 Page 2
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Foreign Phrases
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Book Parts
Which phrase is not French?
A. bon voyage
B. coup d'etat
C. laissez faire
D. quid pro quo
E. esprit de corps
You would be certain to find a bibliography in which
book?
A. The Polar Express
B. Through the Looking Glass
C. A Child's History of England
D. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
E. Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates
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Bad Writing
Sentence Analysis
What is not in this line?
Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair
after a sneeze.
A. simile
B. intransitive verb
C. possessive pronoun
D. correlative conjunction
E. adjective in the positive degree
What is not in this passage?
I do not mean to pry, but you don't by any
chance have six fingers on your right hand?
A. prefix
B. modifier
C. predicate
D. contraction
E. direct object
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Poetic Rhythm
Concepts
How many syllables are in the fourth line of this
Robert Burns quatrain?
O, my luve's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June:
O, my luve's like the melodie ...
A. 3
B. 4
C. 5
D. 6
E. 7
Which is not an abstraction?
A. love
B. truth
C. house
D. beauty
E. justice
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Legendary Monarchs
Virtues
King Arthur was the son of Uther ...
A. Aragon
B. Tetragon
C. Pendragon
D. Snapdragon
E. Komododragon
What was Benjamin Franklin speaking about when he
said, "Let all things have their places and each part of
your business have its time"?
A. order
B. chastity
C. frugality
D. tranquility
E. temperance
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Writing Errors
What is wrong with this sentence?
We sell many hammers for professional
carpenters with unbreakable heads.
A. shift in tense
B. dangling participle
C. misplaced modifier
D. sentence fragment
E. incorrect pronoun form
References
Which reference is most similar to a lexicon?
A. atlas
B. index
C. glossary
D. thesaurus
E. rhyming dictionary
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Redundancy
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Furry Characters
Which expression is not redundant?
A. final end
B. return early
C. join together
D. loquacious talker
E. call up on the phone
Which character has the furriest feet?
A. Tarzan
B. Quasimodo
C. Uncle Remus
D. Fuzzy Wuzzy
E. Bilbo Baggins
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Heteronyms
Far Out Characters
Which word could not have the two meanings with
which it is paired?
A. close - near, to shut
B. lead - a metal, to conduct
C. wound - an injury, twisted
D. weight - heaviness, to remain
E. sow - to scatter seeds, a female pig
In "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," who had
been repeatedly voted the Worst Dressed Sentient
Being in the Known Universe?
A. Veet Voojagig
B. Effrafax of Wug
C. Max Quordlepleen
D. Zaphod Beeblebrox
E. Lajestic Vantrashell of Lob
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Participles
Propaganda
Forming the present participle of which verbs does not
require doubling the final consonant before adding
"ing"?
A. run, knit
B. split, spin
C. begin, put
D. forbid, stop
E. think, shoot
An ad saying that building nuclear plants will lead to
80-pound roaches and bus-sized vultures illustrates
what propaganda technique?
A. bandwagon
B. testimonial
C. scare tactics
D. generalization
E. personal attack
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Poetry
Einsteinian Limericks
This is the opening to what type of poem?
Ho, for the Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee!
He was as wicked as wicked could be,
But oh, he was perfectly gorgeous to see!
The Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee.
A. haiku
B. ballad
C. couplet
D. limerick
E. free verse
What phrase completes this poem?
There was a young lady named Bright, / Who
traveled much faster than light. / She started
one day / In a relative way / And returned ...
A. in a horrible fright
B. on the previous night
C. from clear out of sight
D. from her perilous plight
E. with her left on her right
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Perspectives
Which line is not written from the third person point
of view?
A. Browning returned to England.
B. They never knew what hit them.
C. She was small in frame and stature.
D. The gothic romance is a type of novel.
E. Never mistake endurance for hospitality.
Verb Alternatives
Which are not words that could be substituted for
"traveled"?
A. roved, roamed
B. rambled, ambled
C. sojourned, abided
D. moseyed, traipsed
E. strolled, sauntered
Language Arts Round 3 Page 4
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Writing
Which line from the same paragraph is the topic
sentence?
A. Deer consume anything green.
B. Little green worms love broccoli leaves.
C. Corn is a favorite of backyard raccoons.
D. Weeds sprout up everywhere in summer.
E. Gardening can be an agonizing experience.
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Punny Compliments
Complete this quote by Winston Churchill about a
character created by C.S. Forester.
I find Hornblower ...
A. admirable
B. marshaled
C. judgmental
D. generalized
E. constabulary
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Oriental Poetry
Japanese haikus contain a specific number of ...
A. words
B. verbs
C. accents
D. stanzas
E. syllables
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Here and There
Improper subject-verb agreement occurs in which
line?
A. Here's your ride.
B. There's the bees.
C. Here's my toupee.
D. There's Walt's dog.
E. Here's the entire fleet.
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Verbs
Which is not an irregular verb?
A. hold
B. keep
C. build
D. creep
E. solve
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Language Arts Round 4 Page 1
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Reasoning
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Syllabication
Complete this silly syllogism.
If some pobbles are boojums and some
boojums are not jumblies, then ...
A. All pobbles are jumblies.
B. No pobbles are jumblies.
C. All boojums are pobbles.
D. Some pobbles are not jumblies.
E. Some jumblies are not boojums.
Which word can be divided into syllables?
A. eels
B. eons
C. males
D. ghouls
E. cloaks
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7.
Spelling
Poetic Beats
Which line contains no misspelling?
A. an urgent bullitin
B. with solemn reverence
C. with sincere graditude
D. the courtious cabdriver
E. some unecessary tradition
How many accents are in the first line of "Casey at the
Bat"?
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
E. 8
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8.
Parts of Speech
Limericks
Which word cannot be a conjunction?
A. in
B. but
C. when
D. except
E. although
What is the fourth line of the limerick that includes
these lines?
A. Replied, "At eleven
B. At three, five, and seven
C. An exceedingly fat friend of mine
D. And eight and a quarter past nine
E. When asked at what hour he'd dine
4.
9.
Adjectives
Poetic Rhythm
Adjectives tell what kind, which one, how much, or
how many. Which line illustrates an adjective telling
what kind?
A. tall tales
B. that fiend
C. no bananas
D. few marbles
E. last Mohican
Which choice has the same rhythm as this line?
Be kind and tender to the frog
A. The Pobble who has no toes
B. They don't frighten me at all
C. Lavender water tinged with pink
D. How skillfully she builds her cell
E. The shame or mocking or laughter
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10.
Poetic Definitions
What did Lord Byron call "The beautifier of the dead,
adorner of the ruin, comforter, and the only healer
when the heart hath bled"?
A. pity
B. luck
C. time
D. truth
E. regret
Footnotes
Which abbreviation means "approximately"?
A. ca.
B. pp.
C. abr.
D. ibid.
E. loc. cit.
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Literary Characters
16.
Orthography
Who are characters in the story from which these lines
were taken?
We ought to have more rules. Where the conch
is, that's a meeting.
A. Ralph and Piggy
B. Michael and Wendy
C. Jacob and Ebenezer
D. Freddie and Flossie
E. Aragorn and Boromir
A misspelled word is in which line?
A. The cautious seldom err.
B. There is grief in indecision.
C. Genius is an affair of energy.
D. We often applaude an imitation.
E. True nobility is exempt from fear.
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17.
Spelling
Redundancy
Which words are not misspelled?
A. oppertune, incontestible
B. salimander, testamonial
C. valadictorian, unicelluler
D. incorrigible, unwholesome
E. superintendant, extrordinary
Which is not a wordy expression?
A. separate out
B. exciting talent
C. combine together
D. important essentials
E. completely unanimous
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18.
Fictional Characters
Composition
The seafaring story about Ned Land, Pierre Aronnax,
and Conseil also features Captain ...
A. Flint
B. Ahab
C. Bligh
D. Nemo
E. Queeg
Which line illustrates alliteration?
A. I eat my peas with honey.
B. Moonlight is like a white cat.
C. The black clouds are elephants.
D. Windshield wipers wipe the water.
E. The light tugs me through the dark.
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19.
Figurative Writing
Poe's Poems
What figure of speech is used here?
The trees are undressing and fling in many
places their radiant robes and ribbons and
yellow laces.
A. simile
B. dialect
C. metaphor
D. hyperbole
E. personification
No line of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" ends with ...
A. ashore, more, or door
B. yore, before, or adore
C. nevermore, wore, or floor
D. implore, explore, or Lenore
E. chore, score, or sophomore
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20.
Characters
Who are characters in "The Princess Bride"?
A. Baloo, Akela
B. Inigo Montoya, Fezzik
C. Lady Galadriel, Boromir
D. Sancho Panza, Rocinante
E. Harvey Cheyne, Disko Troop
Modifiers
The superlative form of which adjectives cannot be
formed in the same way as the others?
A. near, warm
B. fair, strong
C. bleak, proud
D. yellow, smart
E. lonesome, famous
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References
26.
Polynesian Palaver
Which line is from a thesaurus?
A. Never say die: Do not give up.
B. merge: urge, surge, purge, diverge
C. drone: to make a dull humming sound
D. bad: vile, base, mean, wretched, awful
E. Treaty of Ghent: ended the War of 1812
No Hawaiian word is in which sentence?
A. Harry hid Heidi's Hula-Hoop.
B. That muumuu is my mommy's.
C. Do you usually use your ukulele?
D. Let's do a late lunch on the lanai.
E. Karl crammed his kiwi with kapok.
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27.
Short Stories
Poetic Syllabication
This is from what story?
He said Im doing something grate for sience
and Ill be famus. I dont care about famus. I
just want to be smart like other pepul so I can
have lots of frends who like me.
A. The Veldt
B. The Wonderful O
C. The Monkey's Paw
D. Flowers for Algernon
E. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
How many syllables are there in the line following this
excerpt from "The Raven"?
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,
weak and weary
A. 15
B. 17
C. 19
D. 21
E. 23
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28.
Tales of Yore
Homophones
Which book is about the Arthurian legends?
A. The Last Unicorn
B. The Secret Garden
C. The Princess Bride
D. The Wind in the Willows
E. The Sword in the Stone
A homophone for which word means "reproduced"?
A. guest
B. bread
C. aloud
D. soared
E. weighed
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29.
Number Affixes
Alphabetizing
Which words indicate the same number as "pentoxide,"
"pentagon," and "pentatonic"?
A. triad, triangularity, tricycle
B. sexagenarian, sextet, sextillion
C. quintuplet, quintet, quinquennial
D. heptathlon, heptagonal, heptameter
E. quadruplicate, quadruped, quadrangle
In a dictionary of historic terms, what comes next after
"Sindhia"?
A. Sioux
B. simony
C. Sitzkrieg
D. Sinn Fein
E. sinanthropus
25.
30.
Legendary Lines
What is the last name of the 17th-century Plymouth
man who was asked this question?
Why don't you speak for yourself, John?
A. Smith
B. Alden
C. Rolfe
D. Hancock
E. Winthrop
English Literature
C.S. Lewis wrote "The Lion, the Witch, and the
Wardrobe" in which four children meet Aslan the lion
trying to liberate ...
A. Narnia
B. Prydain
C. Middle Earth
D. Dictionopolis
E. Green Knowe
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Sentence Analysis
Which line includes an indirect object?
A. The mailman bit the dog's tail.
B. Never mistake stupidity for optimism.
C. "Give up and come out," she demanded.
D. Walt gave Cheryl his best rubber chicken.
E. Dr. Frankenstein willed his creation to live.
32.
Literature
Lines such as "Do not trust flatterers" or "It is best to
prepare for the days of necessity" at the end of each
of Aesop's fables are ...
A. morals
B. retorts
C. epitaphs
D. allegories
E. conclusions
33.
Antonyms
If Ned is namby-pamby and wishy-washy, he is not ...
A. wavering
B. obstinate
C. irresolute
D. ambivalent
E. compromising
34.
Implement Lore
The same tool is associated with Thor and ...
A. Jim Bowie
B. John Henry
C. William Tell
D. Paul Bunyan
E. Rumplestiltskin
35.
Phrases
Which sentence lacks a prepositional phrase?
A. She wanted to be a lion tamer.
B. I fed the piranhas in the pond.
C. Midge has a collection of knives.
D. They told stories about old hags.
E. Vlad came back from Transylvania.
Language Arts Round 4 - Answers
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Language Arts Round 5 Page 1
1.
Literature
6.
Death Puns
Which line contains an exclamation of grief?
A. Alas, her joints stiffen!
B. Ay, a wretched soul is his!
C. Gadzooks, the beauty dazzles!
D. Forsooth, it is Lady Montague!
E. O, she doth teach the torch to burn bright!
Complete this pun.
Old ---- never die. They just meet their
deadlines.
A. plumbers
B. reporters
C. milkmaids
D. clock makers
E. hypochondriacs
2.
7.
Adventure Tales
Aesop
In "Treasure Island," the name Flint is used for both a
bloodthirsty buccaneer and a(n) ...
A. inn
B. bird
C. island
D. schooner
E. cache of booty
Which moral is from a fable about a shepherd's boy?
A. Plodding wins the race.
B. Little by little does the trick.
C. Prepare for the days of necessity.
D. It is easy to despise what you cannot get.
E. A liar will not be believed even when he
speaks the truth.
3.
8.
Fictional Callings
Syllabication
Characters with much in common include Hercule
Poirot, Sam Spade, Sherlock Holmes, and ...
A. Nancy Drew
B. Laura Wilder
C. Wendy Darling
D. Heather Brown
E. Rebecca Randall
How many syllables are in the next line of this verse?
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought.
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped ...
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
E. 8
4.
9.
Figures of Speech
Poetry
What is illustrated in the last line of "Row, Row, Row
Your Boat"?
A. metaphor
B. hyperbole
C. alliteration
D. onomatopoeia
E. personification
How does the last line in this rhyme end?
Monday's child is fair of face
Tuesday's child is full of grace
Wednesday's child is full of woe
Thursday's child ...
A. likes to row
B. just says no
C. has far to go
D. loves to mow
E. needs a tow
5.
10.
References
If the guidewords on a page of the dictionary are
"tramp" and "transfuse," which word would not be on
that page?
A. tramway
B. trampoline
C. transfigure
D. tranquilizer
E. transgression
Epigram Parodies
What word completes the original observation that Will
Rogers parodied in this way?
A fool and his money are soon elected.
A. jolted
B. parted
C. wasted
D. stunted
E. tempted
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11.
Inferences
16.
Literary Techniques
If a writer says a character "walked heavily, not
looking where he put his feet," you can infer the
character is ...
A. tired
B. young
C. hurried
D. athletic
E. cheerful
What is illustrated in this verse?
When the frost is on the punkin
and the fodder's in the shock
And you hear the kyouck and gobble
of the struttin' turkey cock
A. dialect
B. caricature
C. incongruity
D. exaggeration
E. foreshadowing
12.
17.
Capitalization
Historical Poetry
Which category of words is not ordinarily capitalized?
A. names of pets
B. political groups
C. names of minerals
D. streets and avenues
E. organizations and clubs
This is part of a poem about what hero?
On the eighteenth of April in seventy-five,
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.
A. Ethan Allen
B. Nathan Hale
C. Paul Revere
D. Patrick Henry
E. Francis Marion
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18.
Connotation Comprehension
Puns
Which synonym carries connotations of elegance and
culture?
A. food
B. cuisine
C. rations
D. groceries
E. provisions
Which punnish definition does not pertain to the word
it follows?
A. minimum - a very small mother
B. bassinet - what fishermen want
C. paralyze - a fishhook without a worm
D. eclipse - what a gardener does to hedges
E. warehouse - what to ask when you're lost
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19.
Syllabication
Poetic Meter
Which word is not correctly divided into syllables?
A. fair-ly
B. rais-in
C. sail-or
D. dain-ty
E. bait-ed
Which choice has the same meter as this line?
He had no fear of falling off
A. An epicure dining at Crewe
B. I never have taken a shower
C. St. Dunstan as the story goes
D. Said the monkey to the donkey
E. Wherever I am there's always Pooh
15.
20.
Attitudes
Condemning something because it cannot be attained
is called ...
A. stale nuts
B. sour grapes
C. rotten apples
D. spoiled spinach
E. tainted bananas
Connotations
Which adjective used in this sentence has the most
negative connotation?
He is a ---- man and nothing stops him.
A. stubborn
B. obstinate
C. steadfast
D. pig-headed
E. strong-willed
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21.
Composition
26.
Etymology
What composition error is in this line?
He was given a novel by Charles Dickens.
A. ambiguity
B. anachronism
C. circumlocution
D. omission of apostrophe
E. lack of pronoun-verb agreement
Which words were derived from a Latin word
indicating "father"?
A. submarine, maritime
B. nominate, misnomer
C. legitimate, allegiance
D. compatriot, patriarch
E. eccentric, centrifugal
22.
27.
Writing
Dreadful Deaths
What technique is used in this passage?
Dirkovitch was a Russian, a handsome young
Oriental, with a taste for wandering through
unexplored portions of the earth.
A. allusion
B. imagery
C. digression
D. stereotyping
E. characterization
In which story does a central character not have a
gruesome ending?
A. The Veldt
B. The Lottery
C. To Build a Fire
D. The Secret Garden
E. The Cask of Amontillado
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28.
Surmising a Setting
Borrowed Words
The setting for Elizabeth Honey's story, "Don't Pet the
Wombat," is in ...
A. Algeria
B. Armenia
C. Australia
D. Argentina
E. Afghanistan
These words came into English from what language?
ambulance, courier, chauffeur, dossier, envoy
A. Greek
B. French
C. Italian
D. German
E. Portuguese
24.
29.
Wintertime Poetry
Stories
The name of what U.S. naval officer is missing in this
line from a Eugene Field poem about winter?
For why should I be happy or e'en be merry
In weather only fitted for Cook or ...
A. Terry
B. Kerry
C. Barry
D. Peary
E. Cleary
"Sarah, Plain and Tall" is about a(n) ...
A. mail-order bride
B. circus performer
C. adopted daughter
D. teenage supersleuth
E. Methodist missionary
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30.
Creature Combos
Which legendary being is not a combination of two
creatures?
A. yeti
B. sphinx
C. mermaid
D. Pegasus
E. minotaur
Nouns
Which noun appears to be plural in form but still takes
a singular verb?
A. news
B. pants
C. knives
D. dwarfs
E. scissors
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31.
Word Categories
Which words are homographs?
A. raise, raze
B. buffalo, bison
C. kernel, colonel
D. domicile, dwelling
E. pit (hole), pit (fruit stone)
32.
Literary Forms
During the colonial period it was the "vade mecum" of
every household, a calendar, diary, jest book,
meteorological bureau, and even a school book.
Name this literary form.
A. atlas
B. Bible
C. almanac
D. thesaurus
E. dictionary
33.
Hercules
For his ninth labor, Hercules had to bring whose belt
to Eurystheus?
A. Circe's
B. Pandora's
C. Penelope's
D. Hippolyta's
E. Cassiopeia's
34.
Capitalization
In which line is there a word that should not be
capitalized?
A. Last July, Aunt Harriet and I traveled
B. to Athens, Greece, where we saw the
C. Temple of Athena, walked up the steps
D. to the Parthenon, and got a first-hand
E. understanding of several Greek Gods.
35.
Literary Categories
Which work is not nonfiction?
A. An Oral History of World War II
B. Great Inventors and Inventions
C. The Warren Commission Report
D. The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
E. The Diary of a Young Girl
Language Arts Round 5 - Answers
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Language Arts Round 6 Page 1
1.
Forms of Poetry
6.
Prefixes
How many lines are in these forms of poetry?
2 limericks
3 haiku
4 couplets
A. 19
B. 27
C. 34
D. 41
E. 52
In which word is there a prefix with the same meaning
as the one in "counterproductive"?
A. catastrophe
B. composition
C. contradiction
D. coeducational
E. circumnavigate
2.
7.
Antagonists
Hinton's Characters
Who is not an antagonist in one of J.R.R. Tolkien's
fantasies?
A. Gollum
B. Sauron
C. Smaug
D. Aragorn
E. Saruman
In "The Outsiders," what is the surname of the
character in this excerpt?
If you can picture a little dark puppy that had
been kicked too many times and is lost in a
crowd of strangers, you'll have Johnny.
A. Cade
B. Alden
C. Henry
D. Hammond
E. Appleseed
3.
8.
Naive Notions
Biological Books
According to superstition, hanging a horseshoe
upright over your door has consequences similar to
those resulting from ...
A. handling a toad
B. finding a 4-leaf clover
C. walking under a ladder
D. opening an umbrella in your house
E. seeing a black cat walk before you
Which book would contain the widest range of
information about animals?
A. All About Dolphins
B. The Universe of Insects
C. Life Forms of Antarctica
D. Mammals of South America
E. Vertebrates and Invertebrates
4.
9.
Spelling
Creative Composition
Which word should not end with "ar"?
A. aviatar
B. vinegar
C. peculiar
D. grammar
E. caterpillar
Which is not a simile?
A. Sal's smile was like ice.
B. Like the wind did Ralph run.
C. Kent would like some coffee.
D. Lorraine laughed like a hyena.
E. Fred floated like a lead weight.
5.
10.
Poetic Sentence Analysis
What is the subject of this sentence?
There are strange things done in the midnight
sun by the men who moil for gold.
A. men
B. sun
C. gold
D. there
E. things
American Poetry
This is from a poem about what topic?
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of runic rhyme.
A. bells
B. drums
C. aerobics
D. marching
E. piano playing
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11.
Fictional Predicaments
16.
Proverb Finales
Which character had to deal with "thirty yards of
board fence nine feet high"?
A. Arthur Dent
B. Tom Sawyer
C. Bob Cratchit
D. Stanley Yelnats
E. Bastian Balthazar Bux
Finish this proverb.
The contents of a heated metallic cooking
receptacle fails to achieve the gaseous state
when it ...
A. perpetually gyrates
B. whimpers excessively
C. exceeds perceptual limits
D. precipitates unremittingly
E. is under continual surveillance
12.
17.
Writing
Latin Derivations
What literary technique is illustrated in this?
I felt like Custer at Little Bighorn when all the
freshmen were attacking me with questions
about their lockers and combinations.
A. aside
B. allusion
C. anagram
D. alliteration
E. anachronism
Which words were derived from a Latin root meaning
"lord" or "master"?
A. dominate, dominion
B. prejudicial, judicious
C. cautious, precaution
D. credulous, credential
E. aggregate, congregation
13.
18.
Thomas Hardy's Poetry
Mythology
What word is missing in this stanza?
Yes, quaint and curious ---- is!
You shoot a fellow down
You'd treat if met where any bar is,
Or help to half-a-crown.
A. war
B. love
C. grief
D. trust
E. death
Which was a mythical steed?
A. Sirius
B. Perseus
C. Pegasus
D. Cerberus
E. Hesperus
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19.
Figurative Language
Mammal Tales
When Juliet says to her departing Romeo, "In a minute
there are many days," she means what?
A. History repeats itself.
B. This joint is really boring.
C. Strike while the iron is hot.
D. I'll miss you when you're gone.
E. My watch is really running fast.
In the series of stories by C.S. Lewis, Aslan is the same
kind of creature that is central to ...
A. Born Free
B. Gentle Ben
C. The Yearling
D. Black Beauty
E. The Call of the Wild
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20.
Purposeful Penning
Writing that presents information to support a bias or
appeal to particular audiences is ...
A. slanted
B. objective
C. irrelevant
D. paradoxical
E. metaphorical
Borrowed Words
Which words were not borrowed from the French
language?
A. noodle, strudel
B. gourmet, ricochet
C. routine, margarine
D. camouflage, sabotage
E. chauffeur, entrepreneur
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21.
Time Frames
26.
Telling Quotations
Edward Everett Hale's story, "The Man Without a
Country," was written during the ...
A. Civil War
B. War of 1812
C. Mexican War
D. American Revolution
E. Spanish-American War
Who wrote this?
In 1887, I did nothing but explore with my
hands and learn the name of every object
that I touched.
A. Anne Frank
B. Betsy Ross
C. Helen Keller
D. Virginia Dare
E. Amelia Earhart
22.
27.
Bloomers
Historical Nonfiction
According to Eugene Field, what tree blooms on the
shore of the Lollipop Sea?
A. boojum
B. crabapple
C. sugarplum
D. breadfruit
E. sweetheart
A story of the 1853 American expedition to Japan is
entitled "Commodore Perry in the Land of the ..."
A. Huns
B. Shogun
C. Khmers
D. Basques
E. Manchus
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28.
Clues
Homophones
In "The Westing Game," the clues are mostly words
taken from what song?
A. Dixie
B. Yankee Doodle
C. Home on the Range
D. America the Beautiful
E. Battle Hymn of the Republic
Which word would not be found on a list of
homophones?
A. road
B. wave
C. shear
D. sting
E. throne
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29.
Poetic Accents
Literary Grammar
In which line are there exactly three accents?
A. Theirs is not to make reply.
B. The cow is of the bovine ilk.
C. I never have taken a shower.
D. Poems are made by fools like me.
E. And what is so rare as a day in June?
Shel Silverstein's poem about a hungry boa constrictor
contains several ...
A. interjections
B. indirect objects
C. superlative adjectives
D. verbs in the past tense
E. second-person pronouns
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30.
Latin
Which Latin phrase means "in the meantime"?
A. ad lib
B. ad hoc
C. ad interim
D. ad valorem
E. ad hominem
Poetic Accent
On what does the third accent fall in this line from a
poem?
For the moon never beams without bringing
me dreams.
A. me
B. nev
C. bring
D. moon
E. beams
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31.
Tex
In S.E. Hinton's novel, Tex's brother Mason is
especially talented in ...
A. math
B. running
C. geography
D. basketball
E. auto mechanics
32.
Syllabication
How many syllables are in this quote by Robert
Orben?
There are days when it takes all you've got just
to keep up with the losers.
A. 13
B. 14
C. 15
D. 16
E. 17
33.
Suffixes
Which words have suffixes indicating a condition or
state?
A. majorette, lioness
B. unlikelihood, fortitude
C. overemphasize, laminate
D. insecticide, tonsillectomy
E. anesthesiologist, squanderer
34.
Journalism
Which publication is associated with sensational
articles and a great many pictures?
A. journal
B. tabloid
C. tribune
D. gazette
E. chronicle
35.
Literary Elements
Suspense is least likely to be in a(n) ...
A. epic
B. fiction
C. allegory
D. editorial
E. short story
Language Arts Round 6 - Answers
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Language Arts Round 7 Page 1
1.
Verbs
6.
Mythical Monsters
Which is an irregular verb?
A. look
B. throw
C. contain
D. expurgate
E. depreciate
The Greek hero, Theseus, slew the ...
A. Hydra
B. Medusa
C. Cyclops
D. Phoenix
E. Minotaur
2.
7.
Engineered Equality
Translations
Who is the main character in the story in which
nobody is smarter, better looking, quicker, or stronger
than anybody else due to the vigilance of the U.S.
handicapper general?
A. Algernon
B. Guy Montag
C. Arthur Dent
D. Winston Smith
E. Harrison Bergeron
Which was translated into English?
A. Robinson Crusoe
B. The Time Machine
C. The Lord of the Flies
D. The Chronicles of Narnia
E. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
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8.
Fictional Settings
Textual Supplements
The setting for which story is in a state on the western
borders of South Dakota and Nebraska?
A. Old Yeller
B. The Virginian
C. To Build a Fire
D. Uncle Tom's Cabin
E. The Most Dangerous Game
Explanatory notes added to a text by an author or
editor are ...
A. narrations
B. annotations
C. elucidations
D. observations
E. commendations
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9.
Standard English
Words to Live By
Which sentence uses standard English?
A. He saw the creature hisself.
B. The fiend had went to the swamp.
C. The Thing hurt nobody in the cave.
D. Hide her behind that there boulder.
E. Mothra couldn't be found nowheres.
What topic is this quote about?
Give to every other human being every right
you claim for yourself.
A. pride
B. fidelity
C. gratitude
D. tolerance
E. patriotism
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10.
Malapropisms
Which line does not include a misused word?
A. They cut a child's biblical cord at birth.
B. UFOs are usually just optical conclusions.
C. The doctor felt for the injured man's pulse.
D. Samuel Morse devised a code for telepathy.
E. The last car of a train is the papoose.
Poetic Math
Subtract the number of lines in one haiku from the
sum of the number of lines in two limericks and four
couplets.
A. 9
B. 12
C. 15
D. 18
E. 21
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11.
Literary Vocabulary
16.
Sentence Analysis
Condensed books are ...
A. annulled
B. abridged
C. amended
D. annotated
E. alliterated
Which word is not in the predicate of this quote by
Thomas Jefferson?
The man who reads nothing at all is better
educated than the man who reads nothing but
newspapers.
A. is
B. all
C. but
D. better
E. newspapers
12.
17.
Lewis Carroll's Characters
Biographies
What two little fat guys recite poems to Alice?
A. Click and Clack
B. Hither and Thither
C. Rhyme and Reason
D. Romulus and Remus
E. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Complete the title of this biography.
Little Sure Shot: The Story of ...
A. Virginia Dare
B. Molly Pitcher
C. Annie Oakley
D. Amelia Earhart
E. Barbara Frietchie
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18.
Prefixes
Figures of Speech
Which words contain a prefix meaning "partly" or
"partially"?
A. semiarid, semiformal
B. forecastle, forefather
C. immodest, immortality
D. omnipresent, omnipotent
E. multitalented, multilingual
Personification may be illustrated by completing this
sentence with which word?
We bought this house instead of the one on
Birch Street because this one is more ...
A. airy
B. lavish
C. friendly
D. spacious
E. contemporary
14.
19.
Unusual Words
Good Things in Life
An autoantonym is a word that has two nearly
opposite meanings such as "clip" that can mean "attach
to" or "cut off from." Which of these is not an
autoantonym?
A. left
B. trim
C. bolt
D. halt
E. dust
What character says this?
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is
trying and failing.
A. Anne Shirley
B. Velvet Brown
C. Becky Thatcher
D. Rebecca Randall
E. Pollyanna Whittier
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20.
Tolkien
What word is missing in this line from a fantasy by
J.R.R. Tolkien?
One ---- to rule them all, one ---- to find them,
one ---- to bring them all and in the darkness
bind them.
A. Ring
B. Word
C. Chain
D. Stone
E. Sword
Animal Tales
Texas is the setting for which novel?
A. Sounder
B. Old Yeller
C. Born Free
D. National Velvet
E. My Friend Flicka
Language Arts Round 7 Page 3
21.
Spelling
26.
Poetic Meter
Which words are misspelled?
A. courageous, outrageous
B. advantageous, gorgeous
C. courteous, simultaneous
D. miscellaneous, erroneous
E. conscienteous, rebelleous
Which line has the same rhythm as this one?
Hiawatha aimed an arrow
A. a world is at our feet
B. a flea and a fly in a flue
C. for the moon never beams
D. once upon a midnight dreary
E. on Donner and Dasher and Prancer
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27.
Fictional Beings
Sentence Fragments
Who are hobbits?
A. Bert and Ernie
B. Bilbo and Frodo
C. Flopsy and Mopsy
D. Dab Dab and Pushmi Pullyu
E. Tweedledum and Tweedledee
Which is not a sentence fragment?
A. During the clown's act.
B. Riding slowly was an old man.
C. Because no light could be seen.
D. On a cliff high above our heads.
E. As each candidate reappeared for the
last time.
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28.
Biographies
Spoonerisms
What word is missing repeatedly in this title of a
biography about Luther Burbank?
Here a ----, There a ----, Everywhere a ---- ---A. Car
B. Gun
C. Moo
D. Plant
E. Church
Which is not a spoonerized version of a fairy tale title?
A. Beeping Sleauty
B. The Ford of the Lies
C. The Pea Little Thrigs
D. Prinderella and the Cince
E. Goldibear and the Three Locks
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29.
Dog Tales
Story Settings
According to Dodie Smith, Pongo and Misses Pongo
are ...
A. poodles
B. beagles
C. dalmatians
D. dachshunds
E. Saint Bernards
No part of which story takes place in the same city as
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol"?
A. Peter Pan
B. Mary Poppins
C. Johnny Tremain
D. One Hundred and One Dalmatians
E. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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30.
Borrowed Words
Which word is not paired with the language from
which it was borrowed?
A. blitz - Spanish
B. arpeggio - Italian
C. Sputnik - Russian
D. kowtow - Chinese
E. slalom - Norwegian
Writing
A story about the knights of the Round Table would
be anachronistic if the knights ...
A. wore armor
B. were French
C. were all women
D. carried flintlocks
E. practiced chivalry
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31.
Literary Techniques
Stories from the omniscient point of view are always
...
A. nonfictional
B. in the third person
C. in the present tense
D. about religious themes
E. from the protagonist's perspective
32.
Nonfiction
"The Life of Buffalo Bill" is an account of the life of
William ...
A. Cody
B. Seward
C. Bradford
D. Sherman
E. McKinley
33.
Unusual Words
The word "strengths" is the longest English word that
contains ...
A. a schwa
B. a silent "g"
C. a single vowel
D. two consonant blends
E. five consonants in a row
34.
Legends
What legendary character used a 4.08 kilogram hand
tool consisting of a handle with a perpendicularly
attached head made of a heavy, rigid material?
A. Pecos Bill
B. John Henry
C. Buffalo Bill
D. Casey Jones
E. Davy Crockett
35.
Capitalization
How many words should be capitalized?
slim told ma simpson that he'd be leaving alva,
oklahoma, on a july trip to visit the capitol
near the potomac.
A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
E. 9
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Language Arts Round 8 Page 1
1.
Unusual Signs
6.
Abbreviations
On a plastic surgeon's door is the sign, "May we pick
your nose?" On an electrician's truck is the sign, "Let
us remove your shorts." These signs illustrate ...
A. puns
B. anagrams
C. palindromes
D. hinky pinkies
E. spoonerisms
In Robert O'Brien's book featuring Mrs. Frisby,
"NIMH" stands for ...
A. Nickel Iron Metal Hydrate
B. New Interactive Media Hub
C. Neuro-Intensive Mouse Habitat
D. National Institute of Mental Health
E. Northwest Indiana Mutation Hospital
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7.
Plurals
Paraphrased Proverbs
Which is an incorrect plural?
A. altos
B. solos
C. heros
D. videos
E. pianos
It is inadvisable for Homo sapiens who dwell in
shelters composed of vitreous materials to ...
A. bound upward
B. hurl concreted matter
C. impair a thin, clear soup
D. ultimately express mirth
E. accumulate nonvascular plants
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8.
Villains
Biographies
Mr. Charrington, Winston Smith, and Julia appear in
the same novel as ...
A. Fagin
B. Gessler
C. Trampas
D. Big Brother
E. Simon Legree
Complete the title of this nonfictional work.
Marie Curie and ...
A. Radium
B. Sodium
C. Beryllium
D. Ytterbium
E. Zirconium
4.
9.
References
Capitalization
Which line was not taken from a thesaurus listing
synonyms for "bad"?
A. vile, base, evil
B. rank, tainted, filthy
C. shoddy, tacky, pathetic
D. irremediable, incurable, depraved
E. intact, irreproachable, immaculate
The names of ---- are not ordinarily capitalized.
A. ships
B. seasons
C. museums
D. mountains
E. nationalities
5.
10.
Folklore
Who described himself as "second cousin to a
hurricane, first cousin to a seven-day blizzard, and
brother to an earthquake"?
A. Mike Fink
B. John Henry
C. Dr. Dolittle
D. Ichabod Crane
E. Johnny Appleseed
Verbs
For which irregular verbs are the present, past, and
past participles the same?
A. draw, feel
B. keep, swim
C. spread, set
D. catch, beat
E. freeze, send
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11.
Fantasies
16.
Fable Morals
Who voyaged to Lilliput, Brobdingnag, Laputa,
Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and the country
of the Houyhnhnms?
A. Dr. Dolittle
B. Stormalong
C. Harry Potter
D. Lemuel Gulliver
E. Long John Silver
Complete this moral from Aesop's fable about the
hare with many friends.
He that has many friends has ...
A. no friends
B. old friends
C. friends galore
D. friends indeed
E. faithful friends
12.
17.
Homophones
Imaginary Zoology
If you remove the last letter from these words, which
new word is not a homophone of the original word?
A. inn
B. sow
C. fore
D. fade
E. caste
Beings not invented by J.K. Rowling include ...
A. lobalugs and shrakes
B. murtlaps and nogtails
C. dugbogs and billywigs
D. kelpies and leprechauns
E. chizpurfles and graphorns
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18.
Poetic Locales
Word Replacement
What village is the setting for the poem from which
this line was taken?
The Piper advanced and the children followed.
A. Hamm
B. Hamelin
C. Hamburg
D. Hannover
E. Heidelberg
Which words could not be appropriately substituted
for the blanks in this example?
"No," she ---- and ---- from the room.
A. blurted, lurched
B. shrieked, bolted
C. asserted, darted
D. concurred, dwindled
E. murmured, sauntered
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19.
Animal Tales
Literary Components
Which story takes place in Africa?
A. Old Yeller
B. Born Free
C. Gentle Ben
D. White Fang
E. Rikki-tikki-tavi
The two components of the setting in a novel include
the place and ...
A. plot
B. time
C. style
D. purpose
E. character
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20.
Books
This is from what part of a book?
Rameses - 80, 82
Red Sea - 29, 36, 71
Renaissance - 14, 105-111, 212
A. index
B. preface
C. glossary
D. bibliography
E. table of contents
Article Use
Which phrase should be preceded by the article "a"
instead of "an"?
A. AEC official
B. PTA member
C. EPA violation
D. ICU physician
E. FBI investigator
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21.
Regional Associations
26.
Connotations
Because of a Mark Twain story, what are especially
associated with Calavaras County?
A. frogs
B. preachers
C. steamboats
D. huckleberries
E. picket fences
What word has appropriate connotations for an old
swaybacked mare?
A. nag
B. foal
C. steed
D. bronco
E. gelding
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27.
Adjectives and Adverbs
Accents
Consider this sentence.
Small vampire bats frequently bite sleeping
cattle.
A. "Small" modifies "bats."
B. "Sleeping" modifies "bite."
C. "Vampire" modifies "cattle."
D. "Bite" modifies "frequently."
E. "Frequently" modifies "bats."
Which word is not accented on the same syllable as the
others?
A. subtle
B. superb
C. spacious
D. scathing
E. sprightly
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28.
Types of Literature
Mental Inclinations
Which literary form is most unlike the others?
A. diary
B. journal
C. memoir
D. allegory
E. autobiography
Believing that "even when worst comes to worst, it
won't be so bad," and that "what will come and must
come, shall come well" are imaginative definitions of
...
A. worry
B. modesty
C. optimism
D. kindness
E. conscience
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29.
Story Lines
Prefixes
The murder of Colin Campbell, the "Red Fox" of
Glenure in Scotland, is central to which novel?
A. Sounder
B. Born Free
C. Kidnapped
D. The Call of the Wild
E. The Children of Green Knowe
A prefix meaning "before" is in which word?
A. anteroom
B. dissemble
C. obstinate
D. intramural
E. retrograde
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Suffixes
Which word lacks a suffix that means "small"?
A. rivulet
B. dinette
C. childish
D. particle
E. molecule
Writing
What literary technique is illustrated in this line by
Robert Burns?
Ha! Where ye gaun ye crawlin' ferlie?
A. irony
B. dialect
C. allusion
D. digression
E. euphemism
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31.
Capitalization
How many words should be capitalized?
on tuesday, dr. ardith penrose spoke to
officials of the national aeronautics and space
administration about the expanding ozone hole
above antarctica.
A. 6
B. 7
C. 8
D. 9
E. 10
32.
Archaic Language
Which archaic word is not paired with its modern
equivalent?
A. doth - do
B. thither - there
C. smote - struck
D. betwixt - between
E. forsooth - forward
33.
Spelling
Which line contains a word misspelled because of a
dropped consonant?
A. Spelling is irrelevent.
B. It was a disasterous occasion.
C. He accidentaly stubbed his toe.
D. My truck has an auxilliary tank.
E. Prehaps it is a message from mom.
34.
Stories
In which story do a Siamese cat, a bull terrier, and a
Labrador retriever play central roles?
A. Charlotte's Web
B. The Call of the Wild
C. The Incredible Journey
D. A Day No Pigs Would Die
E. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
35.
Extrications
The princesses that Milo tries to rescue in "The
Phantom Tollbooth" are ...
A. Kith and Kin
B. Thick and Thin
C. Hale and Hearty
D. Low and Behold
E. Rhyme and Reason
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Language Arts Round 9 Page 1
1.
Affixes
6.
Fantasies
Which words contain prefixes meaning "first"?
A. prideful, priestess
B. priceless, pricklier
C. primeval, prioritize
D. prismatic, primping
E. prisoner, prizefighter
In J.R.R. Tolkien's trilogy, Gollum calls the magic
ring his ...
A. pet
B. dear
C. worthy
D. beloved
E. precious
2.
7.
Pen Power
Words within Words
Which form of literature criticizes a subject by
evoking an attitude of ridicule or scorn?
A. satire
B. allegory
C. editorial
D. synopsis
E. exposition
All of the letters for which word are not contained in
the word, Cambridge?
A. cigar
B. grace
C. crumb
D. admire
E. badger
3.
8.
Books Never Written
Principal Parts
Which author's name is an inappropriate pun for the
book with which it is paired?
A. "Deep in Debt" by Owen A. Lott
B. "The Burglary" by Jimmy D. Locke
C. "He Wore Big Shoes" by Claude Hopper
D. "The Man with One Leg" by Rufus Leakken
E. "Around the Mountain" by Sheila B. Cummin
For which verb is the past tense not identical to the
past participle?
A. say
B. tear
C. weep
D. teach
E. shine
4.
9.
Ancient Wisdom
Communication Skills
This quote by Pindar from the fourth century B.C. is
about what topic?
Trial is the true test of mortal men.
A. falsity
B. curiosity
C. adversity
D. animosity
E. generosity
Rebuttals are parts of ...
A. fables
B. diaries
C. debates
D. parodies
E. editorials
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10.
Missing Letters
Given that "o" is the only vowel used, how many "o's"
are missing from this line?
Cmmn ld frgs g nly n shrt hps.
A. 5
B. 6
C. 7
D. 8
E. 9
Mythical Beings
The Harpies of Greek mythology ...
A. controlled human destiny
B. turned people into pillars of salt
C. lured sailors to their destruction
D. had eagle's wings and lion's bodies
E. had heads of women and talons of birds
Language Arts Round 9 Page 2
11.
Hobbit Blades
16.
Writing Techniques
Known for its blue glow and deadly accuracy, Bilbo
Baggins' elvish knife-sword is called ...
A. Slit
B. Stab
C. Slice
D. Sting
E. Slash
A story that follows the development of a town from
the colonial period through the 20th century is
presented ...
A. neurologically
B. toxicologically
C. chronologically
D. technologically
E. seismologically
12.
17.
I Got Rhythm
Homelands
Which uses a meter different from the others?
A. Children you are very little
B. And the raven never flitting
C. Life is but an empty dreaming
D. 'Twas the night before Christmas
E. Big words do not smite like war clubs
Heidi and which legendary hero are from the same
country?
A. Samson
B. Odysseus
C. Robin Hood
D. William Tell
E. Sir Lancelot
13.
18.
Proverbs
Biographies
Which proverb has essentially the same meaning as
"the first stroke is half the battle" and "a good lather is
half the shave"?
A. Well begun is half done.
B. Half a loaf is better than none.
C. Half the truth is often a whole lie.
D. A trouble shared is a trouble halved.
E. It's six of one, half a dozen of another.
This is about whom?
At last joining the thought of the flowing liquid
and the word, she stooped down and touched
the earth showing her desire to know its name.
A. Helen Keller
B. Coretta King
C. Amelia Earhart
D. Marjorie Rawlings
E. Louisa May Alcott
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Imaginative Tales
Forms of Poetry
Most of which story takes place in a young boy's
imagination?
A. Sounder
B. The Last Unicorn
C. The Secret Garden
D. My Side of the Mountain
E. Where the Wild Things Are
Which is not the first line of a limerick?
A. A gourmet dining at Crewe
B. 'Tis a favorite project of mine
C. Said an ape as he swung by his tail
D. I glide where the foaming billows dance
E. There once was a sculptor named Phidias
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20.
Novels
Schmendrick, a central character in "The Last
Unicorn," is a ...
A. mad king
B. forest outlaw
C. knight's squire
D. lovelorn prince
E. bumbling magician
Fragments
Which is not a sentence fragment?
A. Many dancing for joy.
B. I didn't know who he was.
C. Because he savors fresh fish.
D. Like a politician before a crowd.
E. First in the pit and later in a ship.
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21.
Clauses
26.
Mythical Journeys
Which line could illustrate a subordinate clause?
A. he stopped suddenly
B. near the huge crater
C. as the green creatures slithered
D. out of their fractured space ship
E. gurgling and spewing frothy spray
Those who voyaged with Jason to obtain the Golden
Fleece were ...
A. Bedouins
B. Argonauts
C. buccaneers
D. cosmonauts
E. conquistadors
22.
27.
Forms of Literature
Stories of India
What form of literature might begin with this?
Here rests his head upon the lap of Earth
A youth to fortune and to fame unknown
A. epic
B. elegy
C. essay
D. epigram
E. epilogue
In Kipling's "The Jungle Book," Mowgli is raised by ...
A. apes
B. lions
C. wolves
D. pythons
E. mongooses
23.
28.
Literary Deaths
Allusions
Who died in this passage?
Who saw him die? "I," said the fly, "with my
little eye."
A. Elsa
B. Wilbur
C. Old Yeller
D. Cock Robin
E. Rhode Island Red
Which line includes an allusion to a character created
by Charles Dickens?
A. His life is a Horatio Alger story.
B. We thought of her as a lady Scrooge.
C. Ralph is this school's Holden Caulfield.
D. Nobody sees her as a Princess Buttercup.
E. He was swallowed up in the dust like Jonah.
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29.
Modifiers
Limericks
Which are not superlative adjectives?
A. vastest, fastest
B. clearest, dearest
C. keenest, greenest
D. wouldest, couldest
E. hollowest, narrowest
The last word in a limerick rhymes with the ...
A. 1st word in the 1st line
B. 1st word in the 5th line
C. 1st word in the 2nd line
D. last word in the 1st and 2nd lines
E. last word in the 3rd and 4th lines
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Proverbs
What words are missing in this proverb?
You cannot get ---- from a ----.
A. milk, tree
B. gold, troll
C. dates, tulip
D. blood, turnip
E. tears, tortoise
Propaganda
What technique is illustrated in this example?
Hi there. I'm Maria Sharapova, and nothing
puts a zip into my forehand smash like Zara
Zippiskie's Zippitydodah Pills.
A. plain folks
B. testimonial
C. bandwagon
D. card stacking
E. emotional appeal
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31.
Code Breaking
What is an antonym for the predicate adjective in this
encoded sentence?
LUFITUAEB ERA SKUA TAERG GNOUY.
A. fat
B. old
C. ugly
D. slow
E. short
32.
Capitalization Rules
For titles of books, plays, and magazines, you should
capitalize the first and last words and all remaining
words except ...
A. nouns
B. verbs
C. adverbs
D. pronouns
E. prepositions
33.
Proverbs
Which proverb contradicts this one?
Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
A. Out of sight, out of mind.
B. Many hands make light work.
C. Don't judge a book by its cover.
D. It's better to be safe than sorry.
E. Too many cooks spoil the broth.
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Sentence Parts
Which has a compound subject?
A. Meg is not as tall as Jo.
B. We think and therefore we are.
C. They talked about bats and rats.
D. While running and skipping he fell.
E. The train and blimp collided today.
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Prophesies
When the daughter of King Priam of Troy said, "I fear
the Greeks and most when bearing gifts," she was
referring to a(n) ...
A. urn
B. ship
C. horse
D. shield
E. fleece
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Spelling
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European Legends
Which words are correctly spelled?
A. tournament - bachelor
B. compulsery - syndacate
C. laringytus - cantalope
D. terratorial - committment
E. apreciative - interogative
One retelling of the Pied Piper story is entitled "What
Happened in ..."
A. Hamelin
B. Hanover
C. Hamburg
D. Helmstedt
E. Heidelberg
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John Bunyan
Stories
To what was John Bunyan referring with this?
He who bestows his goods upon the poor shall
have as much again, and ten times more.
A. duty
B. peace
C. flattery
D. capitalism
E. philanthropy
The locale for which story is not in the same state as
the others?
A. Rip Van Winkle
B. The Pushcart War
C. Anne of Green Gables
D. The Last of the Mohicans
E. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Literary Forms
Historical Novels
"The Oxford Book of English Verse," "A Treasury of
War Poetry," and "The Little Book of Modern Verse"
are ...
A. trilogies
B. synopses
C. chronicles
D. anthologies
E. bibliographies
Which is a story set during the Great Depression in
Oklahoma?
A. True Grit
B. Out of the Dust
C. Gone with the Wind
D. The Wind in the Willows
E. Little House on the Prairie
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Legendary Critters
Sentence Parts
In American folklore, which adjective applies to
Widowmaker?
A. feline
B. lupine
C. bovine
D. canine
E. equine
These could all be examples of what?
quite carelessly, about noon, from her nose,
because of a dumb remark, the little parasite
A. clauses
B. phrases
C. expletives
D. phonemes
E. complements
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Keyboarding
Which word is usually typed with just the left hand on
a qwerty keyboard?
A. benedictions
B. reverberated
C. recognizance
D. telemarketer
E. sandpapering
Literary Genres
"The Life of William Lloyd Garrison," "Narrative of
the Life of Frederick Douglass," and "Uncle Tom's
Cabin" are all examples of ---- literature.
A. satirical
B. romantic
C allegorical
D. abolitionist
E. nonfictional
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Animal Tales
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Figurative Language
Which story is not about canines?
A. Jaws
B. Sounder
C. Old Yeller
D. The Call of the Wild
E. Where the Red Fern Grows
John Keats used what two figures of speech when he
wrote of autumn "sitting careless on a granary floor,
with its hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind"?
A. oxymoron, allusion
B. metaphor, hyperbole
C. onomatopoeia, simile
D. paradox, understatement
E. personification, alliteration
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Sentence Parts
Allusions
In which line is there no indirect object?
A. Pitch him a fast ball.
B. It is time to serve Marian her lunch.
C. Row the boat merrily down the stream.
D. I'll make the man an offer he can't refuse.
E. Gloria baked her friends some anchovies.
Splitting the atom was like ...
A. playing Orpheus' lyre
B. opening Pandora's box
C. shooting Cupid's arrow
D. drawing Odysseus' bow
E. looking at Medusa's hair
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Portal Principles
References
What is this line by Don Quixote about?
When one door is shut, another opens.
A. indignity
B. reliability
C. credibility
D. hospitality
E. opportunity
In an encyclopedia of historical terms, which comes
next after "kolkhoz"?
A. Koran
B. Komeito
C. Koreagate
D. Komsomol
E. Knights Templar
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Silent Letters
Concepts
Which word lacks a silent consonant?
A. scene
B. yacht
C. column
D. answer
E. privilege
Which is the least inclusive concept?
A. tree
B. flora
C. plant
D. spruce
E. evergreen
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Fearsome Creatures
In "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," the large and
hungry Whangdoodles are the main natural enemies
of the ...
A. Shmoos
B. Argopelters
C. Hidebehinds
D. Sidehill Gougers
E. Oompa-Loompas
Sentence Analysis
Categorize "Iran" in this sentence.
Persia later became modern-day Iran.
A. direct object
B. indirect object
C. noun in apposition
D. predicate adjective
E. predicate nominative
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Fictional Characters
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Wartime Poetry
Jane, Michael, John, and Barbara Banks are characters
in a story also featuring ...
A. Tiger Lily
B. Mary Poppins
C. Rebecca Randall
D. Katrina van Tassel
E. Pippi Longstocking
Which poem is not about the American Revolution?
A. Bunker Hill
B. Paul Revere's Ride
C. The Concord Hymn
D. The Green Mountain Boys
E. The Battle of New Orleans
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European Folklore
References
Trolls are creatures in the folklore of ...
A. Italy
B. Spain
C. Turkey
D. Greece
E. Norway
In what reference would this be found?
FLESHY - meaty, well-upholstered, rotund,
Falstaffinian, pudgy, stocky, tubby, corpulent
A. index
B. almanac
C. thesaurus
D. dictionary
E. bibliography
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Time Frames
Which line illustrates standard English usage?
A. You must do as we say.
B. We should of started a fire.
C. The officer done all he could.
D. You hadn't ought to feed the bears.
E. Stephen King he writes scary stories.
Edgar Allan Poe's poem, "The Raven," is set during
which month?
A. May
B. August
C. October
D. February
E. December
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Literary Analysis
English Grammar
Which line from a short story is in first person?
A. "Yes," said the boy.
B. Are you building a cabin?
C. There are blankets in the hut.
D. Grandpa was sitting in his room.
E. We began the trek in late autumn.
Standard usage is illustrated in which line?
A. Elvis sings good.
B. I will set on the bench.
C. Steffi can play tennis well.
D. The sun will raise at 5:15 a.m.
E. Miss Bardot wants to learn me French.
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Figures of Speech
Tongue twisters involve ...
A. irony
B. metaphors
C. alliteration
D. onomatopoeia
E. personification
Sci-fi
Which appear least frequently in science fiction?
A. clones
B. goblins
C. cyborgs
D. mutants
E. androids
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Syllabication
How many syllables are in this Oscar Wilde quip?
The advantage of the emotions is that they
lead us astray.
A. 14
B. 15
C. 16
D. 17
E. 18
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English Authors
C.S. Lewis wrote "The Chronicles of ..."
A. Urania
B. Hernia
C. Narnia
D. Titania
E. Aquitania
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Modifiers
In which line is a modifier used inappropriately?
A. She generally ran real fast.
B. Willis is extraordinarily tall.
C. He has a wonderfully calm demeanor.
D. He literally fell out of the frying pan into
the fire.
E. Max is certainly the dumbest dog on Earth.
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Aspects of Poetry
A grouping of lines forming a repeating pattern in a
poem is a ...
A. foot
B. meter
C. stanza
D. refrain
E. paragraph
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Stories
The father had to send his daughter, Beauty, to the
Beast because he took a ---- from the Beast without
permission.
A. rose
B. cloak
C. goose
D. magic ring
E. bag of gold
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