English Assessment - Nine Weeks

Use your knowledge of prefixes, suffixes, and root words to complete the following sentence.

Police officers try to stop ___ activity.

• happily

• helpful

• illegal

Julian made ___ mistakes on his Math test.

• successful

• careless

• understood

Total Builders Contracting finished building the house ___.

• successfully

• misunderstood

• understand

We needed the teacher's help because there was a ___ on the playground during recess.

• misunderstanding

• reunderstanding

• understandless

An X next to the answer means that it is ___.

• impatient

• underpaid

• incorrect

Match the following antonyms.

• no

• true

• closed

• open

• cold

• hot

• false

• yes

• small

• big

Match the following synonyms:

• talk

• speak

• leave

• large

• untrue

• alike

• same

• false

• big

• exit

Choose the word that best completes each sentence.

• too

• The cub lost __ mother in the woods.

• its

• __ raining really hard outside!

• to

• Please bring back __ shovels.

• It's

• By the way, bring a large trash bag __.

• two

• Will you go __ the shed for me?

Choose the meaning of the underlined word.

The chef used a vanilla paste to add flavor.

• to secure or fix to a surface

• a cooking substance made of dry ingredients and water

The group of kittens cornered the scared puppy.

• blocked; prevented from escaping

• the place where two roads meet