Skills Quiz 4/11

The current events club had to decide whether to __________________ hunters’ rights or the child helmet law.

• exhibit

• debate

• acquire

• preserve

We chose the child helmet law, the __________________ issue, because it was more relevant to students our age.

• latter

• sanitary

• widespread

• foe

The members of our team gave such __________________ speeches in favor of the law that the other team won, although their arguments were more emotional than fact-filled.

• sprawl

• monotonous

• sanitary

• persuasive

In 1994 a brutal __________________ took place in Rwanda, a country in Central Africa. Hundreds of thousands of people were injured or killed.

• massacre

• exhibit

• foe

• debate

The major __________________ were the Hutu and Tutsi peoples.

• exhibits

• foes

• preserves

• achievements

In overcrowded refugee camps, __________________ conditions were dangerously poor. Clean water, food, and medicines were in short supply.

• monotonous

• sanitary

• widespread

• cavernous

Rescue workers found entire families __________________ on the ground. Many of these people were dying of starvation and disease.

• sprawling

• preserving

• acquiring

• exhibiting

Many historians consider Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address to be the greatest __________________ in public speaking this nation has produced.

• foe

• achievement

• debate

• sprawl

The fame of this brief speech is so __________________ that most Americans—and even many from other nations—know the opening of it by heart.

• widespread

• monotonous

• sanitary

• preserved

The Library of Congress __________________ a copy of the speech, written in Lincoln’s own hand. Only four other copies in his handwriting are still in existence.

• exhibits

• acquires

• preserves

• debates