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El/MS Quiz 2

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

This author may portray his real feelings in his fictional book The Witches and the teachers/head masters he recalled during his time at boarding school in his autobiographical book Boy Tales of Childhood. What author is this?

a)

Roald Dahl

b)

Frank Baum

c)

Mercer Meyer

d)

Dr. Seuss

2.

What story will you find these famous quotes in?

Ralphie: I want an official Red Ryder, carbon action, two hundred shot range model air rifle!

Mrs. Parker: No, you'll shoot your eye out.

a)

A Christmas Story

b)

Old Yeller

c)

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nymph

d)

Where the Red Fern Grows

3.

What type of figurative language is used in the following sentence? Pumpkin pie would look perfect on a purple plate!

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Alliteration

c)

Rhyme scheme

d)

Personification

4.

What type of figurative language is often used in comic book writing?

a)

Hyperbole

b)

Onomatopoeia

c)

Simile

d)

Metaphor

5.

What music group was an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. With members John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr, they became widely regarded as the foremost and most influential music band in history.

a)

The Beatles

b)

The Rolling Stones

c)

Alabama

d)

U2

6.

Also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, what is the name of this musical instrument?

a)

Harmonica

b)

Flute

c)

Accordion

d)

ukulele

7.

What insect migrates in the winter to Mexico, can be found in the central United States around memorial day, and requires the Milkweed plant to complete it's life cycle?

a)

Monarch Butterfly

b)

Sandhill Crane

c)

Corn earmworm

d)

Bumblebee

8.

This famous basketball player was cut from his freshmen team in high school, but went on to play for the Chicago Bulls, lead his team to multiple championships, and created a shoe and clothing line that is still popular today. Who is this famous basketball player?

a)

Michael Jordan

b)

Larry Bird

c)

Shaq

d)

Charles Barkley

9.

What are messages distributed by electronic means from one computer user to one or more recipients via a network more commonly know as?

a)

Snap chats

b)

emails

c)

texts

d)

insta-messages

10.

He is a small elephant and the son of Mrs. Jumbo. He is most famous for his giant floppy ears, which give him the ability to glide in the air. What Disney character is this?

a)

Dumbo

b)

Lorax

c)

Elephant Giddy

d)

Babar

11.

This term could be what an aircraft does before take off or something that a person may flag down to catch a ride across town, what is it?

a)

Taxi

b)

Uber

c)

Troley

d)

Train

12.

What is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months so that evening daylight lasts longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times known as?

a)

Daylight Savings Time

b)

Leap Year

c)

Summer Solstice

d)

Falling Back

13.

This continent provides the setting for the movie Crocodile Dundee, is home to over 3,000 reefs, houses animals such as the Kangaroo and duck-billed platypuses, and has wilderness areas known as the outback.

a)

Australia

b)

Antartica

c)

North America

d)

Africa

14.

In the United States government, who would be in line for the presidency behind the vice president?

a)

Secretary of state

b)

Speaker of the house

c)

Attorney general

d)

Secretary of the treasury

15.

A person's name written in a distinctive way as a form of identification in authorizing a check or document or concluding a letter is known as their what?

a)

Signature

b)

John Hancock

c)

Autograph

d)

Stamp

16.

What do you call it if you are unable to see things clearly unless they are relatively close to the eyes?

a)

Nearsightedness

b)

Farsightedness

c)

Color blindness

d)

Astigmatism

17.

If there were 4 seniors, 5 juniors, 6 sophomores, 10 freshmen and 4 coaches, what is the median of this group of volleyball players?

a)

4

b)

5

c)

6

d)

10

18.

This was a political protest that occurred on December 16, 1773, at Griffin’s Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts. American colonists, frustrated and angry at Britain for imposing “taxation without representation,” dumped 342 chests of British tea into the harbor

a)

Boston Tea Party

b)

Stamp Act

c)

Battle of Bunker Hill

d)

Tea Act

19.

What do we call the part of a sailing vessel that is a tall spar, or arrangement of spars, erected more or less vertically on the centre-line of a ship or boat?

a)

Mast

b)

Sail

c)

Rudder

d)

Boom

20.

People who are diabetic, have difficulty creating insulin within this part of their body.

a)

Pancreas

b)

Galbladder

c)

Thyroid

d)

Adrenal gland