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WorksheetsUnit 2 Benchmark 1
Total questions: 13
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What is the best way to check the accuracy of an inference you make?
a)
Use reference sources
b)
Use common sense
c)
Read on
d)
Ask someone else
2.
Which of these answers is a setting?
a)
pain
b)
Central Freshman Academy
c)
a student's struggle against a bully
d)
Mayella, an uneducated girl from Maycomb, Alabama
3.
Which of these answer choices is the past participle of the verb understand?
a)
understanded
b)
understood
c)
to understand
d)
understanding
4.
Which sentence uses verb forms correctly?
a)
We have broke our new television.
b)
We breaked our new television yesterday.
c)
We have broken our new television.
d)
We break our new television yesterday.
5.
What is true of all irregular verbs?
a)
They are action verbs.
b)
They are linking verbs.
c)
They do not follow standard patterns in forming past or past participle forms.
d)
They are extremely uncommon in the English language.
6.
The suffix -esque usually changes nouns to adjectives and means "in the style or manner of." Which of these adjectives would you most likely use to describe a disgusting scene in a movie?
a)
statuesque
b)
picturesque
c)
grotesque
d)
Lincolnesque
7.
The prefix inter- means "between." Using this knowledge, choose the answer that best defines the word interdependence.
a)
two or more people or things relying upon each other.
b)
two or more people sharing what they have
c)
one person deciding to share what he or she has
d)
who the heck knows the answer to this one... smh
8.
The prefix de- means "lessen." Which is a correct definition for destabilize?
a)
To make something unsteady or uncertain
b)
To become skinny
c)
To upset a mother when you don't take out the trash
d)
To take a traditional approach to modern history
9.
What does the suffix -ant mean?
a)
one who does something
b)
before or earlier
c)
between or among
d)
similar or resembling
10.
How would a character experiencing external conflict most likely feel?
a)
sweaty
b)
excited
c)
calm
d)
affectionate
11.
A character struggles to survive a death of a family member. What kind of conflict does this story description emphasize?
a)
internal
b)
external
c)
generational
d)
symbolic
12.
What does the word irony mean?
a)
To press clothes with a hot iron until they are stiff and straight.
b)
Exactly what I predicted to happen will happen in the story.
c)
The opposite of what you expect to happen
d)
The mascot of our school is a devil.
13.
What is the main purpose of signs?
a)
to forewarn danger
b)
to communicate information quickly
c)
to symbolize situations ahead
d)
to generate money for sign companies
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