Homonyms and Homophones Quiz

“He simply sat down on the ledge and forgot everything _____ [accept or except] the marvelous mystery.”

• Accept

• Except

"I live in the Oakland Hills in a tiny house on a street so windy you can’t drive more than ten miles per hour. I rented it because the _____ [ad or add] said this: 'Small house in the trees with a garden and a fireplace. Dogs welcome, of course.'

• Ad

• Add

"Francis wondered what _____ [advice or advise] a psychiatrist would have for him."

• Advice

• Advise

"The _____ [aid or aide] gets out of the way, picking her skirt out of the rubble of children at her feet."

• Aid

• Aide

"He seemed to want to recapture the cosseted feeling he'd had when he'd been sick as a child and she would serve him flat ginger _____ [ail or ale], and toast soaked in cream, and play endless card games with him, using his blanket-covered legs as a table."

• Ail

• Ale

"He sat down and leaned forward, pulling the chair's rear legs into the _____ [air, ere, or heir] so that the waitress could get by."

• Air

• Ere

• Heir

"[T]he stewardess was moving down the _____ [aisle, I'll, or isle], like a trained nurse taking temperatures in a hospital ward, to see that they were all properly strapped in for the take-off."

• Aisle

• I'll

• Isle

"Mrs. Parmenter laughed at his _____ [allusion or illusion] to their summer at Mrs. Sterrett's, in Rome, and gave him her coat to hold."

• Allusion

• Illusion

"In the long years between, she had fashioned many fine dresses—gowned gay girls for their conquests and robed fair brides for the _____ [altar or alter]."

• Altar

• Alter

"On a Saturday morning soon after he came to live with her, he turned over her garbage while she was at the grocery store and _____ [ate or eight] rancid bacon drippings out of a small Crisco can."

• Ate

• Eight