Language Arts Written Assessment

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Language Arts Written Assessment

• Practice TestUsing Student Response System

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Which expression means at first glance?

• face up to
• make a face
• show ones face
• on the face of it
• put a god face on it

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How many pains are there in one megahertz?

• 100
• 1,000
• 10,000
• 100,000
• 1,000,000

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This is a paraphrase of what psalm?Yahweh is my
shepherd I lack nothing. In meadows of green
grass he lets me lie. To the waters of repose he
leads me.

• 15th
• 17th
• 19th
• 21st
• 23rd

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Which word was borrowed from Norwegian?

• shawl
• slalom
• borsch
• boomerang
• catastrophe

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Which has a compound subject?

• Meg is not as tall as Jo.
• We think and therefore we are.
• They talked about bats and rats.
• While running and skipping he fell.
• The train and blimp collided today.

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Which line illustrates standard English usage?

• You must do as we say.
• We should of started a fire.
• The officer done all he could.
• You hadnt ought to feed the bears.
• Stephen King he write scary stories.

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What word is missing from this quip by Agatha
Christie?An ---- is the best husband a woman can
have because the older she gets, the more
interested he is in her.

• alchemist
• economist
• entomologist
• archeologist
• ophthalmologist

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Wilson Rawls novel, Where the Red Fern Grows,
is set in the

• Ozarks
• Sierras
• Rockies
• Black Hills
• Adirondacks

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The body of a deceased person is a

• palaver
• cadaver
• bereaver
• depraver
• semiquaver

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Cloning and DNA are essential to which story?

• The Veldt
• Jurassic Park
• Fahrenheit 451
• The War of the Worlds
• Rendezvous with Rama

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This passage is by the same author who wrote what
other story? I knew Weena and I were lost, but I
resolved to make the Morlocks pay for their
meat.

• Dune
• Brave New World
• The War of the Worlds
• The Martian Chronicles
• Rendezvous with Rama

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What word is missing in this ditty?The ---- fell
ten stories and at each window bar He shouted to
his friends, All right so far!

• alarmist
• optimist
• alchemist
• pessimist
• conformist

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Which are anagrams for animals that carry bubonic
plague?

• reed, peas
• star, leafs
• saber, flows
• tutor, shores
• togas, sneaks

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Which proverb has essentially the same meaning as
the first stroke is half the battle and a good
lather is half the shave?

• Well begun is half done.
• Half a loaf is better than none.
• Half the truth is often a whole lie.
• A trouble shared is a trouble halved.
• Its six of one, half a dozen of another.

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If the first line contains 5 syllables, the
second line contains 7 syllables, and the third
and final line contains 5 syllables, you have a

• haiku
• ballad
• sonnet
• limerick
• quatrain

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Which line includes an intensive pronoun?

• I myself am a paradox.
• It licked whomever It pleased.
• He really loves his coffee.
• His fang caused unbearable pain.
• She abandoned herself to surfing.

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Which is not one of the children in The Lion,
the Witch, and the Wardrobe?

• Milo
• Lucy
• Peter
• Susan
• Edmond

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The last syllable of which word is pronounced
differently from the others?

• ragout
• lookout
• hangout
• flameout
• phaseout

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Which choice lacks the same rhythm as this
line?The northern lights have seen queer sights

• It fell to earth I know not where
• It was many and many a year ago
• Come live with me and be my love
• Whose woods are these I think I know
• They have been working for hours

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An emphatic verb form is used in which line?

• Get thee behind me!
• You ought to be in pictures.
• But I did call you last night.
• She would be a great accountant.
• They have been working for hours.

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Are you ready?