8-18 Vocab and Comprehension Quiz

At the beginning of Chapter 8, for the first time in months, Luke was able to leave the attic without worrying that he would be seen.

• True
• False

Matthew and Mark stayed home from school to help Father:

• get the hogs ready for sale
• plow the fields
• bring in the crops
• take care of Luke

Luke came up with a crazy plan to sneak into his new neighbor's house to:

• steal their food
• see if there was anyone really living there
• see if there was actually a TV
• see if there was another third child living there

Someone who is competent is:

• sick
• competitive
• necessary
• capable

aware; awake

• conscious
• flippantly
• incompetent
• sarcastic

disrespectfully or casually

• flippantly
• Incompetent
• conscious
• botching

Someone who is unskilled or incapable of doing something can be called:

• incompetent
• botching
• sarcastic
• infiltrator

mocking; scornful; said with irony

• bribe
• congealed
• flippantly
• sarcastic

buy off; pay off in return for something

• priorities
• bribe
• clout
• taboos

When making slime, the goal is to mix the ingredients until they have:

• clout
• conscious
• sarcastic
• congealed