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Language Arts Bluegrass Middle School Academic Conference 15 rounds of 35 multiple-choice questions Copyright © 2014 Academic Hallmarks Language Arts Round 1 Page 1 1. Hyphenation 6. Settings Which can be used as a noun? An island near New Guinea is a setting for ... A. know-it-all A. White Fang B. never-say-die B. Captains Courageous C. holier-than-thou C. When the Legends Die D. never-to-be-forgotten D. The Pied Piper of Hamelin E. long-to-be-remembered E. The Swiss Family Robinson 2. Literature 7. Sentence Analysis What is in this epitaph? What is illustrated by this sentence? Here lies Pecos Bill. The gorgon that turned me into salt lacked He always lied and always will. certain social graces. He once lied loud. A. passive voice He now lies still. B. adverb clause A. pun C. relative pronoun B. simile D. infinitive phrase C. imagery E. subjunctive mood D. foreshadowing E. understatement 3. Analogy Analysis 8. Protagonist Gist What is not in this sentence? In which tale is the protagonist of the same gender as The little boat gently drifted across the pond those in "The Lottery" and "Through the Looking exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. Glass"? A. adverb A. The Time Machine B. contraction B. The Miracle Worker C. personal pronoun C. The Purloined Letter D. dependent clause D. The Lord of the Flies E. prepositional phrase E. The Catcher in the Rye 4. Suffixes 9. Accents When a root word ends in "e" you usually drop the "e" Which word is not accented on the same syllable as the before adding the suffix "ing." Which is an others? exception? A. ricochet A. dye B. fortified B. evoke C. suffocate C. survive D. preferable D. precede E. superimpose E. regulate 5. Pronouns 10. Library Science Which sentence includes a first person possessive Which is in the biography section of a library? pronoun? A. Paul Bunyan A. Yon yelps your young yak yet. B. David Copperfield B. Her hedgehog howled hungrily. C. Worthies of England C. Their thing thudded thataway. D. Essays of John Keynes D. Henry hefted his hippo handily. E. Darwin's Theory of Evolution E. Mel's mom mashed my mummy. Language Arts Round 1 Page 2 11. Animal Poems 16. Verbs This is about what creature the poet also describes as a Which is not an irregular verb? "near artichoke"? A. hold Another armored animal--scale lapping scale B. keep with spruce-cone regularity until they form the C. build uninterrupted central tail-row! D. creep A. pika E. solve B. peccary C. pangolin D. platypus E. pachyderm 12. Allusions 17. English Literature Mort said that public speaking was his Achilles heel. C.S. Lewis wrote "The Lion, the Witch, and the Mort was referring to one of his ... Wardrobe" in which four children meet Aslan the lion A. vulnerabilities trying to liberate ... B. health problems A. Narnia C. personal secrets B. Prydain D. special interests C. Middle Earth E. particular talents D. Dictionopolis E. Green Knowe 13. Science Fiction 18. Capitalization Rules The Book People are significant in ... For titles of books, plays, and magazines, you should A. Fahrenheit 451 capitalize the first and last words and all remaining B. Brave New World words except ... C. The Time Machine A. nouns D. In Memory Yet Green B. verbs E. The Martian Chronicles C. adverbs D. pronouns E. prepositions 14. Dystopian Time Reckoning 19. Pronouns In "Brave New World," the abbreviation "A.F." stands Which line includes an indefinite pronoun? for "after ..." A. Was it you who screeched? A. Fox B. What was she thinking about? B. Ford C. I have toads which are toasted. C. Foster D. When we sang, few chose to stay. D. Franklin E. He found that he had bitten himself. E. Farnsworth 15. Allusions 20. Sports Poetry Someone behind the times and out of touch with What follows in this excerpt from a poem? current events may be called a ... But Flynn let drive a single, to the A. Mad Hatter wonderment of all, B. Hans Brinker And the much-despised Blake ... C. Chicken Little A. tore the cover off the ball D. Rip van Winkle B. the whole crowd he did enthrall E. Bartholomew Cubbins C. popped a drive over Big Joe Hall D. stood there grinning wide and tall E. smacked one clear out to the wall Language Arts Round 1 Page 3 21. Pronouns 26. Forms of Literature In which line is a reflexive pronoun used improperly? A summary of the main ideas in a "Scientific A. He always blamed himself. American" article is a(n) ... B. She pulled the beast toward herself. A. epilogue C. You hurt yourself with that comment. B. synopsis D. Myself drove the boat onto the rocks. C. foreword E. They allowed themselves another week. D. annotation E. compendium 22. Plurals 27. Affixes When forming the plurals of nouns, you should not Which word contains a prefix meaning "before"? add "es" when a noun ends in ... A. allegation A. f B. dissemble B. z C. intravenous C. x D. antemeridian D. sh E. hypercritical E. ch 23. Literary Categories 28. Redundancy Which line is not from a nonfictional work? Which expression is not redundant? A. The Romans built Hadrian's Wall. A. final end B. Blefuscu was at war with Lilliput. B. return early C. Anne composed her diary in Amsterdam. C. join together D. Joaquin Murrieta was a California outlaw. D. loquacious talker E. Few inmates tried to escape from Alcatraz. E. call up on the phone 24. Fragments 29. Predicates Which is not a sentence fragment? Which sentence has a compound predicate? A. Many dancing for joy. A. I will leave if you will stay. B. I didn't know who he was. B. Get going and don't look back. C. Because he savors fresh fish. C. Mel and Dan lost their marbles. D. Like a politician before a crowd. D. She is neither gentle nor attractive. E. First in the pit and later in a ship. E. They found us quarreling and fighting. 25. Consonant Sounds 30. Horse Tales Which is a "back-of-the-mouth" sound in contrast to a In "The Black Stallion," Alec Ramsey and a horse are "tip-of-the-tongue" sound? ... A. t as in ten A. kidnapped by pirates B. z as in zoo B. stranded on a desert island C. n as in nine C. both cruelly mistreated by a farm owner D. d as in dark D. sent to live with relatives in South America E. r as in right E. separated following a financial arrangement Language Arts Round 1 Page 4 31. Deviant Denotations What did Longfellow define as "the more ardent zeal of others" and Santayana as "redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim"? A. stoicism B. mysticism C. fanaticism D. empiricism E. skepticism 32. Spelling Which line includes a misspelled word? A. The audience was fatigued. B. The millionaire was in debt. C. We harassed the orchestra. D. The league held a tournament. E. Her credentials were counterfeit. 33. Clipping Clipped words have been shortened. Which choice does not include back-clipped words? A. Our lab is run by a pro. B. Jill read the ad in the deli. C. Meg's hippo sat on the gent. D. An old chimp lives in my condo. E. The gator was ground into burger. 34. Suffixes Which are not typical adjective suffixes? A. -ize, -ate B. -able, -ible C. -tive, -less D. -ish, -ulent E. -acious, -ous 35. Sentence Analysis 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 Language Arts Round 1 - Answers 1. A 2. A 3. C 4. A 5. E 6. E 7. C 8. B 9. E 10. C 11. C 12. A 13. A 14. B 15. D 16. E 17. A 18. E 19. D 20. A 21. D 22. A 23. B 24. B 25. E 26. B 27. D 28. B 29. B 30. B 31. C 32. C 33. E 34. A 35. B Language Arts Round 2 Page 1 1. Shorted Sentences 6. Literary Lines Which is not a sentence fragment? What is this about? A. Because he is an Asian mystic. My humble friend, we know not how to live this B. Into the pit he fell with aplomb. life which is so short yet seek one that never C. Tripping over his own feet and mine. ends. D. The rebus which filled his imagination. A. honor E. Navigating his way through the archipelago. B. jealousy C. gratitude D. immortality E. forgetfulness 2. Irregular Verbs 7. Popular Prose Which is not an irregular verb? Which story by Ray Bradbury is a nostalgic look at a A. swim small American town in the 1920s? B. clean A. The Veldt C. shrink B. Dandelion Wine D. choose C. Fahrenheit 451 E. freeze D. The Illustrated Man E. The Martian Chronicles 3. Literary Techniques 8. Tom Swifties What technique was used in this beginning of a story? Which adverb completes this Tom Swifty? The beautiful sunrise gave no hint of the "I'm heading off to the racetrack," said Tom ... afternoon's troubles. A. dryly A. allusion B. gravely B. flashback C. hoarsely C. euphemism D. figuratively D. anachronism E. transparently E. foreshadowing 4. Verbs 9. Clipped Words An irregular verb is not part of which sentence? Which is not a "clipped word" or a shortened form of A.
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