Unit 2 Benchmark 1

What is the best way to check the accuracy of an inference you make?

• Use reference sources
• Use common sense
• Read on
• Ask someone else

Which of these answers is a setting?

• pain
• Central Freshman Academy
• a student's struggle against a bully
• Mayella, an uneducated girl from Maycomb, Alabama

Which of these answer choices is the past participle of the verb understand?

• understanded
• understood
• to understand
• understanding

Which sentence uses verb forms correctly?

• We have broke our new television.
• We breaked our new television yesterday.
• We have broken our new television.
• We break our new television yesterday.

What is true of all irregular verbs?

• They are action verbs.
• They are linking verbs.
• They do not follow standard patterns in forming past or past participle forms.
• They are extremely uncommon in the English language.

The suffix -esque usually changes nouns to adjectives and means "in the style or manner of." Which of these adjectives would you most likely use to describe a disgusting scene in a movie?

• statuesque
• picturesque
• grotesque
• Lincolnesque

The prefix inter- means "between." Using this knowledge, choose the answer that best defines the word interdependence.

• two or more people or things relying upon each other.
• two or more people sharing what they have
• one person deciding to share what he or she has
• who the heck knows the answer to this one... smh

The prefix de- means "lessen." Which is a correct definition for destabilize?

• To make something unsteady or uncertain
• To become skinny
• To upset a mother when you don't take out the trash
• To take a traditional approach to modern history

What does the suffix -ant mean?

• one who does something
• before or earlier
• between or among
• similar or resembling

How would a character experiencing external conflict most likely feel?

• sweaty
• excited
• calm
• affectionate