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What name is given to the system of exchange where goods or services are traded without the use of money?

• bartering

• banking

• investing

• saving

If one were listing the top seven ranks of male English royalty, what would the top rank be?

• King

• Duke

• Baron

• Earl

The inventor of the motion picture camera, what man held more than 1000 U.S. patents for his inventions?

• (Thomas) Edison

• Alexander Graham Bell

• Nikola Tesla

• Guglielmo Marconi

What is the superlative form of the adjective, good?

• best

• better

• goodest

• gooder

Correct the following sentence. Neither Thomas or Macie finished their homework.

• Change "or" to "nor"

• Change "Neither" to "Either"

• Change "their" to "his"

• Change "finished" to "finishes"

Name the 1963 Newbery Medal award winning sci-fi fantasy novel that inspired Janice Voss to become an astronaut and take a copy of the book with her on her fourth trip to space.

• A Wrinkle In Time

• The Giver

• Island of the Blue Dolphins

• Charlotte's Web

What is defined as a polyhedron with eight plane surfaces?

• octahedron

• cube

• tetrahedron

• dodecahedron

In slope-intercept form, write the equation for a line with a slope of 5 and a y-intercept of 2.

• y = 5x + 2 (read as y equals, 5x plus 2)

• y = 2x + 5 (read as y equals, 2x plus 5)

• y = 5x - 2 (read as y equals, 5x minus 2)

• y = -5x + 2 (read as y equals, negative 5x plus 2)

If Matthew is 9 years old and his dad is forty-seven years old, how old will his dad be when Matthew is 21?

• 59 years old

• 57 years old

• 61 years old

• 63 years old

What term is defined as an organism containing both male and female reproductive organs?

• hermaphrodite

• androgen

• zygote

• larva