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UA 1 Review

Total questions: 11

Worksheet time: 12mins

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1.

Without hope of a revolution the animals wouldn’t be able to survive the awesome starvation or terrible work conditions.


"Awesome" is not the most effective word to use. Which of the following could replace awesome in this sentence?

a)

brooding

b)

breathtaking

c)

decisive

d)

extreme

2.

Delete the redundant word:


Old Major was a large, giant pig who often spoke for hours on end when giving a speech to the other farm animals.

a)

On end

b)

Large

c)

Old

d)

Farm

3.

What word should replace however in these sentences?


Old Major’s speech had impacts far beyond his death. However, Napoleon and Snowball led a revolution based off of Old Major’s principles after Mr. Jones and his men forgot to feed them and abused the cows.

a)

Meanwhile

b)

Coincidentally

c)

For example

d)

Likewise

4.

In the mid 1940s, as America and Britain were deep into World War II Orwell was busily writing one of his most influential novels.

a)

Insert a comma after World War II

b)

Change World War II to world war II

c)

Change busily to bussily

d)

Make no change

5.

The newly created philosophy of animalism was initially designed to to create a more equal society for animal’s not only on Manor Farm, but all throughout England.

a)

Change philosophy to phillosophy

b)

Change animal’s to animals

c)

Change England to england

d)

Make no change

6.

While watching Old Major deliver his compelling speech, the sheep shrieked, “four legs good, two legs bad!

a)

Change compelling to compeling

b)

Change the comma after speech to a semicolon

c)

Change shrieked to shreiked

d)

Insert quotation marks at the end of the sentence

7.

Songs were sung, and the animals cheered; Mr. Jones’s time as leader of the farm had past and a new era had begun.

a)

Delete the semicolon

b)

Change cheered to are cheering

c)

Change farm to Farm

d)

Change past to passed

8.

It was time for the morning chores for the animals, an inevitibly boring and arduous task for them.

a)

Delete the comma

b)

Change inevitibly to inevitably

c)

Change animals to animal’s

d)

Make no change

9.

The leaders of the rebellion, Napoleon and Snowball worked tirelessly to ensure that all of the animals wanted to get rid of Mr. Jones and start a new way of life on the farm.

a)

Insert a comma after Snowball

b)

Insert a comma after tirelessly

c)

Insert a comma after Jones

d)

Make no change

10.

Your after-school schedules all look different during the pandemic, but when you go to school and sit down in History or math class, the people are still the same, even with the masks.

a)

Change History to history

b)

Change pandemic to pandimic

c)

Delete the comma after same

d)

Change the comma after class to a period.

11.

For example, when the animals were finally freed from the oppression of Mr. Jones. They destroyed all the tools of punishment and control that humans used on them: the bits, nose rings, chains, and knives.

a)

For example, the animals were finally freed from the oppression of Mr. Jones, they destroyed all the tools of punishment and control that humans used on them: the bits, nose rings, chains, and knives.

b)

For example, when the animals were finally freed from the oppression, of Mr. Jones, they destroyed all the tools of punishment and control that humans used on them: the bits, nose rings, chains, and knives.

c)

For example, when the animals were finally freed from the oppression of Mr. Jones and they destroyed all the tools of punishment and control that humans used on them: the bits, nose rings, chains, and knives.

d)

For example, when the animals were finally freed from the oppression of Mr. Jones, they destroyed all the tools of punishment and control that humans used on them: the bits, nose rings, chains, and knives.