Free Printable TACS Academic Challenge Tier II 1.0

1.

Which of the following sentences contains a misused underlined word?

a)

Please bring a bag lunch and subway money to school tomorrow.

b)

That is a good haircut.

c)

Dad chose a funny card for Mom for her birthday.

d)

Phillip walked proudly to the stage to except his award.

2.

Segment XZ is shown above. If XY = 2x, YZ = 3x + 3, and XZ = 48, what is the length of YZ?

a)

24

b)

9

c)

18

d)

30

3.

What is the main difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic?

a)

The eukaryote has a nucleus, and the prokaryote does not.

b)

The prokaryote has a nucleus, and the eukaryote does not.

c)

The eukaryote is always larger than the prokaryote.

d)

The eukaryote is the only type of cell that is capable of photosynthesis.

4.

What city is the capital of Canada?

a)

Quebec

b)

Ottawa

c)

Montreal

d)

Edmonton

5.

Simplify the expression:

$\left(2a^3b^{\frac{3}{2}}\right)\left(a^2b^{\frac{1}{2}}\right)^2$

a)

$2a^5b^{\frac{3}{2}}$

b)

$2a^7b^{\frac{3}{2}}$

c)

$2a^7b^{\frac{5}{2}}$

d)

$2a^5b^{\frac{5}{2}}$

6.

In “Masque of the Red Death,” the seven rooms are symbolic for

a)

the seven deadly sins

b)

the seven different personality types

c)

the Plague

d)

the seven days of the week

7.

Which expression is equivalent to

$^3\sqrt{144x^3y^6z^2}$

a)

$2xy^2\sqrt{18z^2}$

b)

$8x^3y^6\sqrt{18z^2}$

c)

$6xy^2\sqrt{2z^2}$

d)

$6xy^2z\sqrt{2}$

8.

Which of the following is an example of a symbiotic relationship?

a)

Wolves working together to hunt in a pack.

b)

Plants growing in the same rolling meadow.

c)

Humans and their pets living in the same home.

d)

Weeds clinging to the roots of trees in your backyard.

9.

Social Security was put in place by which program?

a)

New America

b)

New Deal

c)

Great Society

d)

New Freedom

10.

To establish firmly in a position

a)

abstain

b)

rescind

c)

ensconece

d)

lampoon

11.

The following excerpt from “Let America Be America Again” is an example of which literary device?

For all the dreams we’ve dreamed/And all the songs we’ve sung /And all the hopes we’ve held /And all the flags we’ve hung,

a)

parallelism

b)

anachronism

c)

hyperbole

d)

personification

12.

$9.3-3x\ <\ 3$ What is the solution set for the inequality?

a)

$\left\{x:x\ >2.1\right\}$

b)

$\left\{x:x\ <2.1\right\}$

c)

$\left\{x:x\ >-2.1\right\}$

d)

$\left\{x:x\ <-2.1\right\}$

13.

The work done by a friction force is:

a)

always positive

b)

always negative

c)

always zero

d)

either positive or negative depending on the situation

14.

Who is the most recent woman appointed to the Supreme Court?

a)

Sandra Day O’Connor

b)

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

c)

Sonia Sotomayor

d)

Sally Ride

15.

Which President served the least amount of time in office?

a)

William Henry Harrison

b)

Benjamin Harrison

c)

James Garfield

d)

Andrew Johnson

16.

The title Of Mice and Men alludes to which poem?

a)

Robert Burns’ “To a Mouse”

b)

Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself”

c)

William Butler Yeats’ “When You Are Old”

d)

Emily Dickinson’s “Grief is a Mouse”

17.

Solve the following equation.

$\sqrt{2x-8}=4$

a)

$x\ =\ 2$

b)

$x\ =\ -4$

c)

$x\ =\ 2\ and\ x\ =\ -4$

d)

No Solution

18.

A standing wave is formed on a tightly stretched string. The distance between a node and an antinode is:

a)

1/8 wavelength

b)

1/4 wavelength

c)

1/2 wavelength

d)

1 wavelength

19.

Which of the following was a direct result of the assassination of James Garfield?

a)

Civil Service Reform

b)

Prohibition

c)

Pure Food and Drug Act

d)

Social Gospel Movement

20.

Two steel balls are at a distance S from one another. As the mass of ONE of the balls is doubled, the gravitational force of attraction between them is:

a)

quartered

b)

halved

c)

doubled

d)

quadrupled

TACS Academic Challenge Tier II 1.0

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

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