8th Grade 1st Semester Review 2023

When you wrote your life story, this was an example of a...?

• biography

• autobiography

• memoir

• fiction

In "Stop the Sun" by Gary Paulsen, when Terry's dad remembers surviving a Vietcong attack, this is an example of...?

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• inference

• setting

Which of the following often changes a word's part of speech?

• prefix

• root

• suffix

• punctuation

Which of the following is not one of the PRIDE time words we have studied this year?

• Balance

• Generosity

• Inclusivity

• Determination

Who is the protagonist in Flowers for Algernon?

• Charlie Gordon

• Miss Kinnian

• Dr. Nemur

• Algernon

The prefix "con" means...?

• against

• in favor of

• person

• mind

Which sentence below is not a compound sentence?

• Becky hit a deer; her vehicle was totaled.

• Trase hit a cow, and his vehicle was damaged.

• Trase drove his vehicle home and hit a cow.

• Trase and Becky both damaged their vehicles, but they got them fixed.

A complex sentence must contain...?

• two independent clauses

• an independent clause and a dependent clause

• a clause and a phrase

• a fan boy conjunction

Which complex sentence is punctuated correctly?

• Although I studied I did not do well.

• I did not do well although I studied.

• Even though I asked for help I did not understand.

• I did not understand, even though I asked for help.

In "running is my favorite sport," running would be...?

• a gerund (noun)

• a participle (adjective)

• an infinitive

• a transition word