MS QB - online practice #4

John Keats used what two figures of speech when he wrote of autumn "sitting careless on a granary floor, with its hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind"?

• oxymoron, allusion

• metaphor, hyperbole

• onomatopoeia, simile

• paradox, understatement

• personification, alliteration

Which is not a renewable resource?

• air

• soil

• water

• forests

• petroleum

Which is misspelled?

• morgage

• suspicion

• hierarchy

• successfully

• accompanied

Marjorie Rawlings' work, "The Yearling," is about a(n) ...

• antlered ruminant

• cloven-hoofed swine

• shaggy-haired bovine

• horned fleecy ruminant

• domesticated hoofed quadruped

A well-stocked first aid kit should include syrup of ipecac and what other substance to help someone who has been poisoned?

• iodine

• vinegar

• antihistamine

• calamine lotion

• activated charcoal

Identify the two main categories of powers exercised by Congress.

• express, implied

• foreign, domestic

• legislative, judicial

• absolute, restricted

• hereditary, acquired

A situation from which it is impossible to progress is a dead ...

• end

• duck

• beat

• loss

• ringer

An art material made from pure gypsum is plaster of ...

• Pisa

• Paris

• Palermo

• Potsdam

• Plymouth

Often more than 20 million ants live in a single ...

• den

• hive

• colony

• warren

• kennel

Which have talons?

• frogs and toads

• elk and antelope

• salmon and tuna

• boas and cobras

• hawks and eagles