English 11
Final Exam – Spring „10
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Date ___________________
I.
The Crucible:
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1. Which two girls are “afflicted” following the escapade in the woods?
a. Betty and Abigail
c. Betty and Mary
b. Betty and Ruth
d. Betty and Mercy
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2. Why is Abigail obsessed with John Proctor?
a. he is highly regarded farmer
c. she is in love with him
b. she wants to work for him
d. she doesn’t like him at all
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3. From the comments of Parris in Act I, his concern for his daughter seems primarily based on his
a. anxiety about his reputation
c. great love for his only child
b. fear for the fate of her soul
d. that illness may spread
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4. What phrase best describes Abigail Williams’ character?
a. impulsive and thoughtless
c. proud and manipulative
b. naïve and timid
d. affectionate and vulnerable
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5. Which word best describes John Proctor’s words and actions in Act I?
a. compassionate
c. independent
b. devout
d. shrewd
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6. Thomas Putnam’s attitude toward Reverend Parris is one of
a. mistrust
c. pity
b. respect
d. contempt
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7. Which of the following sentences best describes the relationship between John and Elizabeth Proctor
at the opening of Act II?
a. They are warm and affectionate.
c. They seem ill at ease together.
b. They don’t talk to each other at all.
d. none of the above
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8. Why does Proctor forget the commandment forbidding adultery?
a. He has a guilty conscience.
b. He has never properly learned the commandments.
c. He believes that it is an unjust commandment.
d. He is afraid of revealing his own sin.
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9. Proctor believes that Abigail accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft because
a. Elizabeth treated Abigail harshly
b. Abigail wants to punish John for rejecting her.
c. Abigail fears that Elizabeth will denounce her for seducing Proctor.
d. Abigail wants to distract attention from the episode in the woods.
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10. Why doesn’t Proctor go to Salem to report what Abigail has told him?
a. he cannot prove she said it
c. he is not trustworthy
b. he doesn’t know anything
d. he is going to go
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11. Why does John Proctor forbid Mary Warren to continue with the trials?
a. he wants to participate himself
c. she is needed more at the house
b. she is perpetuating lies by continuing
d. the trials are really over
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12. Elizabeth is being arrested after being accused of witchcraft by whom?
a. Abigail Williams
c. Mercy Lewis
b. Mary Warren
d. Ruth Putnam
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13. At the beginning of Act III, who has come to the court to try to save the lives of their wives?
a. Giles and Francis
c. Giles and Thomas
b. Francis and Parris
d. Thomas and Parris
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14. Why is Mary Warren in court?
a. She is being charged as a witch.
b. She has brought another accused person.
c. She is there to confess that the girls are lying.
d. all of the above
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15. Who denounces the proceedings?
a. Parris
b. Hale
c. Danforth
d. Cheever
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16. What does Danforth ask Mary to do to prove that she has been lying?
a. scream
c. face off with Abigail
b. write her confession
d. faint or turn cold
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17. Why does Proctor confess lechery to the court?
a. He wants to free his wife.
b. He wants to overthrow the court.
c. He is moving anyway, so he doesn’t care if he name is ruined.
d. He doesn’t confess lechery.
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18. Why does Elizabeth not tell the court that her husband committed lechery with Abigail Williams?
a. she doesn’t know that he committed lechery
b. she is a habitual liar
c. she doesn’t want to blacken John’s name
d. she is trying to save herself
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19. What do the girls do after Mary accuses them of lying?
a. they turn on Mary and accuse her of sending out her spirit to them
b. they admit to lying
c. they try to convince Mary not to tell
d. they don’t know that Mary accuses them of lying
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20. What news does Parris bring to the court?
a. that he is going back to Barbados
c. he is quitting the court
b. Abigail and Mercy have run away
d. John Proctor died
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21. Why does Danforth allow Elizabeth to speak to John Proctor?
a. they are hoping that she can convince him to admit to witchcraft
b. the court is allowing them one last visit before his death
c. she wants to say goodbye
d. she wants to tell John about Abigail leaving
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22. Why will Proctor not let Danforth have the signed confession?
a. Proctor says his word should be enough evidence.
b. Proctor cannot sign his own name.
c. Proctor has not admitted to being a witch.
d. Proctor doesn’t want anyone else to know.
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23. Why does Hale return to Salem?
a. His conscience won’t let him walk away from what he knows is a lie.
b. He was sent back to try to stop the trials.
c. Parris requested that he come back.
d. He wanted to see how it ended.
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24. Why does John Proctor confess to witchcraft?
a. He wants to die.
c. He wants to be with Elizabeth.
b. He really is a witch.
d. He wants to be a hero.
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25. Why doesn’t Elizabeth beg John to confess?
a. she wants him to decide for himself
b. she would rather that he confess to Hale
c. she wants him to die
d. she cannot tell him what to do because she is condemned
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26. What is John Proctor’s fate?
a. he is set free
b. he is hanged
II.
The Scarlet Letter
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27. Hester Prynne
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28. Pearl
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29. Arthur Dimmesdale
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30. Roger Chillingsworth
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31. Reverend Wilson
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32. Governor Bellingham
c. he is excommunicated
d. he breaks out of jail
A. suffers from guilt of his sin and selfinflicts punishment
B. heroine, brave, sentenced to wear a
scarlet A
C. typical rich Puritan
D. product of a committed sin; brat
E. typical Puritan minister
F. husband of Hester; monster
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33. What crime has Hester Prynne committed?
a. theft
c. adultery
b. murder
d. hit and run
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34. What is Hester’s punishment for the crime?
a. time in jail
c. wear a scarlet A
b. stand on scaffold
d. all of the above
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35. Who does Hester recognize when she is on the scaffold suffering her fate?
a. her lover
c. Governor Bellingham
b. her husband
d. her mother
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36. How does Hester earn her living once she is released?
a. she works at the grocery store
c. she embroiders
b. she cleans houses
d. all of the above
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37. Why do they want to take Pearl from Hester?
a. Hester leaves Pearl alone at the house when she is working
b. Pearl does not act like the other children
c. Hester has asked that they take Pearl away
d. the father has asked to have custody of Pearl
____ 38. What is the irony in what Hester says to Dimmesdale in the garden: “You know me better than all
others here.”?
a. Dimmesdale and Hester have been intimate
b. Hester has gone to Dimmesdale for confession
c. Chillingsworth is in the garden too
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39. How do the townspeople view Dimmesdale?
a. they think he’s just another minister
b. they want him removed from the pulpit
c. they are supportive of him going back to seminary
d. they idolize him and think he is incredibly holy
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40. What is Roger’s reaction when he sees Arthur’s self-inflicted wounds?
a. sadness
c. sympathy
b. shock
d. joy
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41. When Arthur, Hester, and Pearl are standing on the scaffold, what is it that they appear to see in the
sky?
a. an A
c. an S
b. the north star
d. the big dipper
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42. What has the A come to stand for after seven years?
a. Able
c. Adultery
b. Awesome
d. Angle
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43. What secret does Hester finally tell Dimmesdale that causes him to threaten not to forgive her?
a. that she doesn’t love him anymore
c. that Chillingsworth is her husband
b. that she is leaving town
d. that Pearl is not his child
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44. What does Hester suggest she and Dimmesdale do to escape this torture they are living?
a. leave town
c. admit it to the town
b. kill Chillingsworth
d. all of the above
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life?
45. In her forest meeting with Dimmesdale, how does Hester symbolize her intention to begin a new
a. she takes off the A
b. she dances at the thought of freedom
c. she kisses Dimmesdale
d. all of the above
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46. What does Pearl do after Dimmesdale kisses her forehead?
a. gives him a big hug
c. laughs at him
b. washes her forehead in the stream
d. runs away
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47. What happens to Dimmesdale at the end of the novel?
a. he dies
c. he gets on the boat with Hester
b. he kills Chillingsworth
d. all of the above
_____ 48. Which of the following is NOT a theme of The Scarlet Letter?
a. Unpardonable Sin
b. Universal Sin and Guilt
c. Effect of Isolation
d. Absolution from Sin
III.
Romanticism
“The Devil and Tom Walker”
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49. A main lesson of “The Devil and Tom Walker” is
a. greed and mean-spiritedness lead to misery.
b. husbands and wives should love each other.
c. prayer can ease all past sins.
d. great wealth can never produce happiness.
_____ 50. In this story the woods are used to symbolize —
a. evil
c. isolation
b. goodness
d. greed
_____ 51. What happens to Tom Walker’s money at the end of the story?
a. It is given to the townspeople.
c. It goes to Mrs. Walker.
b. The townspeople seize it.
d. It turns into cinders and ashes.
“The Pit and the Pendulum”
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52. You can infer that the narrator is frightened about being in the dark because —
a. he has always been afraid of the dark
b. he knows exactly what torture awaits him
c. the unseen is more terrifying than the seen
d. he can hear the bats and rats but not see them
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53. The prisoner frees himself when he
a. waits until the pendulum cuts the bonds and quickly rolls out of the way
b. screams and screams until they release him
c. pays a great deal of money and is released
d. smears meat on the bonds that hold him, and the rats chew through them
_____ 54. At the end of the story, the —
a. narrator plunges to his death in the pit
b. narrator is saved from the pit by a French general
c. inquisitors release him because he is really innocent
d. prison burns, and in the turmoil the prisoner is able to escape
from “Resistance to Civil Government”
_____ 55. What does Thoreau ask for instead of no government?
a. An end to all taxes
c. A better government at once
b. Increased trade and commerce
d. New elected officials
_____ 56. Thoreau thinks that if people want a better government, they should —
a. withhold all tax payments until government improves
b. go to jail to protest poor government
c. speak out about the kind of government they want
d. write to their elected officials
_____ 57. Thoreau’s primary purpose in this essay is to persuade people to —
a. call for an immediate end to the government
b. rebel against an unjust war
c. follow their individual conscience
d. devote themselves to eliminating all wars
from “Self-Reliance”
_____ 58. According to Emerson, how do we feel after we have worked hard for a goal?
a. angry and cheated
c. annoyed and tired
b. relieved and happy
d. despairing and gloomy
_____ 59. What is Emerson’s opinion of society?
a. Society helps people achieve their potential.
b. We must accept society’s rules.
c. Society is all that stands between us and the forces of chaos.
d. Society conspires to deny people their freedom.
_____ 60. Emerson states that the most sacred part of a person is —
a. the work that they accomplish
b. their courage to be a nonconformist
c. the shadow that they cast on the world
d. the integrity of their individual mind
“The Minister‟s Black Veil”
_____ 61. Wearing the veil changes Mr. Hooper’s sermon in that it makes the sermon —
a. more difficult to understand
c. more interesting
b. less frightening
d. more powerful
_____ 62. Mr. Hooper tells his fiancée, Elizabeth, “There is an hour to come . . . when all of us shall cast aside
our veils.” He means that —
a. everyone’s soul will be revealed on the Judgment Day
b. everyone will soon be wearing veils but only for a short time
c. everyone is already wearing a veil in the privacy of the home
d. everyone should be wearing a veil to hide his or her shame
_____ 63. “The Minister’s Black Veil” is a parable mainly because the —
a. characters and setting are made up
b. story is based on a true event
c. moral themes form the center of the story
d. story is sad and depressing
IV.
Realism
“A Mystery of Heroism”
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64. Collins does not consider himself a hero because he —
a. believes heroes lead shameless lives, and he regrets some of his actions
b. was just going to the well to get some water
c. was terrified by the risk he took
d. turns his back on the wounded lieutenant
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65. The story’s title probably includes the word mystery because —
a. Collins wonders whether there is water in the well
b. Collins behaves more like a coward than a hero
c. the story is a mystery
d. heroic behavior is not easy to define
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66. In “A Mystery of Heroism,” it is ironic that —
a. the bucket is empty in the end
b. Collins really does go to the well
c. the battle continues even though Collins has stopped fighting
d. the well is dry
“A Pair of Silk Stockings”
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67. How do the silk stockings affect Mrs. Sommers?
a. She is ashamed that she cannot afford them.
b. She is put off by their extravagance.
c. She is repelled by their slimy feeling.
d. When she touches them, she wants more things.
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68. Before she buys herself some luxuries, Mrs. Sommers is likely motivated by all of the following
forces except —
a. political forces to vote
b. social pressure for women to be self-sacrificing
c. philosophical beliefs that women do not deserve their own money
d. ethical forces that spark her deep-seated guilt about indulging herself
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69. Each of the objects that Mrs. Sommers buys is —
a. against her religious beliefs
b. an unnecessary extravagance
c. essential to maintain her social status, given her husband’s good salary
d. a political statement of defiance at her second-class status
“An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”
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70. Peyton Farquhar is best described as a —
a. spy posing as a farmer
b. middle-aged sentinel in the army
c. thirty-five-year-old planter
d. young and enthusiastic captain in the army
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71. What actually happens in this story?
a. Farquhar escapes hanging and is reunited with his family.
b. The officers imagine that Farquhar is hanged.
c. Farquhar dies by hanging.
d. Farquhar drowns under the Owl Creek Bridge.
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72. In part, this story illustrates —
a. the importance of staying true to your values
b. how all reality is an illusion
c. the price people pay for being traitors
d. our deep attachment to life
“Richard Cory” and “Miniver Cheevy”
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73. Richard Cory has all of the following qualities except -a. wealth
c. good manners
b. good clothes
d. happiness
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74. Richard Cory’s eventual fate —
a. results from his business failures
b. shows his true criminal nature
c. comes as a surprise to the townspeople
d. was predictable, given his everyday behavior
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75. To comfort himself, Miniver Cheevy —
a. relies on alcohol
b. writes about knighthood
c. teaches Greek history
d. dresses in royal clothing
V.
The Secret Life of Bees
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76. What activity ends up bringing Lily and June together?
a. making honey to sell
b. labeling the honey jars
c. having a water fight
d. praying with the Black Mary
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77. Where do they find May?
a. in the honey house
b. drowned in the river
c. in the theatre
d. praying to the Black Mary
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78. What part of the Mary Day ceremony makes Lily “feel better about the world”?
a. making the streamers
b. cooking the food
c. mowing the lawn
d. watching the adults feed each other honey cakes
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79. What does Lily believe people would rather die than do?
a. forgive
b. pay taxes
c. move houses
d. none of the above
Choose the adjectives that best describe each of the following characters:
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80. Lily’s father
a. August Boatwright
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81. Lily’s nanny/housekeeper
b. Deborah
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82. sings “Oh, Susanna” when upset
c. June Boatwright
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83. obvious leader of the sisters
d. Rosaleen
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84. Lily’s mother
e. T. Ray
True or False:
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85. T. Ray’s favorite form of punishment is whipping with a belt.
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86. Rosaleen is interested in the T.V. because the Vietnam war has just begun.
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87. Lily sees Rosaleen as a mother figure.
VI.
Grammar
Choose the correct verb in each sentence.
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88. The dairy farmer was happy that none of the milk (was, were) sour.
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89. Several of these retired people (has, have) begun working as volunteer tutors.
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90. I didn't realize that each of the presents (was, were) mailed separately.
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91. Most of our lawn chairs (is, are) rather uncomfortable.
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92. Neither the coach nor the players (was, were) satisfied with the ump.
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93. Mother Goose, famous in nursery rhymes, (is, are) buried in Boston.
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94. The trees, as well as the garden, (is, are) being destroyed by insects.
Choose the correct word in parenthesis and write it on the line.
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95. Could you please go (to, too, two) the store for me?
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96. The flowers will be delivered to (who, whom)?
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97. (Who‟s, Whose) book is this?
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98. The missing quarter is only an (allusion, illusion).
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99. They are planning to build a memorial at the (cite, site, sight) of the bombing.
Identify if the sentence is a run-on, comma splice, a fragment or correct.
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100. Are you a fan of the Hardy Boys and Nancy Drew books?
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101. The author for the Hardy Boys is Franklin W. Dixon the author for Nancy Drew is
Carolyn Keene.
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102. While keeping pets is fun. It is also a big responsibility.
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103. First the horse trotted then he broke into a gallop.
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104. Jim hoped that someone would come to relieve him, for he had been there since
morning.
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105. Swimming along the edge of the river where it was not deep.
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106. He put off writing his paper until an hour before class, of course, he didn't get it
finished.
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107. I used to drive a bright red Chevy, now I drive a little light blue Datsun.
Write the preposition and the object of the preposition in each sentence.
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108. The sky over the swamp was hazy.
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109. The milk on the porch has frozen solid.
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110. Most of the cabins were repainted.
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111. His voice sounded harsh on the telephone.
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Write the action verb in the sentence.
112. My uncle works in a laboratory.
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113. Bea ran as fast as she could to the store.
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114. The world revolves around the sun in 364 days.
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115. I ran after the ice cream truck.
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116. Allen chopped down the tree in the front yard.
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117. The team rushed to the end zone together.
Write the linking verb in each sentence.
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118. I think the old house is haunted.
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119. The large, barking dogs were scary.
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120. My socks are in the top dresser drawer.
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121. There were five fish in the aquarium.
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122. I am the fastest runner on the team.