ELA Trivia

John launched into a furious ___against Randy, blaming him for everything that had gone wrong.

• enmity

• tirade

• suffusion

• recrimination

2. Jack’s ___grew as he relied on fear rather than leadership.

• illusiveness

• luxuriance

• ebullience

• belligerence

3. The boys treated the pig’s head as an ___, offering it to the imagined beast.

• effigy

• emphatic

• effulgence

• immured

_____ of sweat and dirt streak down the boys’ faces as they race through the jungle.

• incantations

• parody

• runnels

• coverts

The ___boy struggled up the beach, his breath heavy in the heat as the others watched in silence.

• corpulent

• demure

• vulnerable

• derisive

Choose the best way to combine the following ideas into one clear sentence:

The lights went out.

The audience gasped.

• The lights went out the audience gasped.

• The lights went out, the audience gasped.

• The lights went out, and the audience gasped.

• The lights went out because the audience gasped.

Choose the best sentence using the ideas below:

The team was tired.

They kept playing.

They wanted to win.

• The team was tired they kept playing they wanted to win.

• The team was tired, and they kept playing they wanted to win.

• Although the team was tired, they kept playing because they wanted to win.

• The team tired playing wanted to win.

Choose the clearest sentence using these ideas:
he storm started suddenly.

Everyone ran inside.

• The storm started suddenly everyone ran inside.

• Because the storm started suddenly everyone ran inside.

• The storm started suddenly, so everyone ran inside.

• The storm starting suddenly everyone ran inside.

Which woman became the first self-made female millionaire in the United States through her hair-care business?

• Madam C. J. Walker

• Annie Turnbo Malone

• Sarah Breedlove

• Mary Kay Ash

Which woman was the first to win a Nobel Prize and remains the only person to win Nobel Prizes in two different scientific fields?

• Rosalind Franklin

• Marie Curie

• Lise Meitner

• Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin