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ACT List #2 (11th Grade)

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

When Coach Bruce digresses during class, he is:

a)

loudly passing gas

b)

straying from the original topic

c)

talking at length about the subject at hand

d)

growing angry about something

2.

What part of speech is digress?

a)

adjective

b)

adverb

c)

noun

d)

verb

3.

Olga wore an ethereal dress to the wedding. What did it look like?

a)

It was dark and heavy.

b)

It was light and airy.

c)

It was colorful and very short.

d)

It had a Wu-Tang clan logo on it.

4.

What part of speech is the word ethereal?

a)

noun

b)

pronoun

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

5.

Which word BEST describes a student who is sleeping in his/her desk?

a)

scintillating

b)

lethargic

c)

gregarious

d)

burgeon

6.

If you have a "green thumb," that means that you can help plants do this:

a)

corpuscle

b)

photosynthesize

c)

burgeon

d)

digress

7.

Spelling counts for this one! Which of our vocab words means "heavy?"

(a)  

8.

Politicians aren't always __________. Sometimes they purposefully give confusing speeches.

a)

placid

b)

imminent

c)

digress

d)

coherent

9.

Clark Kent's superpowers were ___________ until he realized the extent of his gifts.

a)

latent

b)

opaque

c)

lethargic

d)

cumbersome

10.

What does the word aloof mean?

a)

about to happen

b)

light and airy

c)

cold or distant

d)

heavy

11.

Spelling counts on this one! Which of our vocab words means, "a short, usually humorous story about a true event?"

(a)  

12.

Greg looked at the nearby mushroom cloud and realized that his doom was ___________.

a)

consequential

b)

imminent

c)

acumen

d)

philanthropic

13.

What is the part of speech of the word anecdote?

a)

noun

b)

pronoun

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

14.

What is the part of speech of the word digress?

a)

noun

b)

pronoun

c)

adjective

d)

verb

15.

What is the part of speech of the word cumbersome?

a)

noun

b)

pronoun

c)

adjective

d)

adverb

16.

Random: Who was the 40th President of the United States?

a)

Bill Clinton

b)

George W. Bush

c)

Ronald Reagan

d)

Gerald Ford

17.

Random: What is the very tip of Africa called?

a)

The Cape of Good Hope

b)

Cape Horn

c)

Patagonia

d)

The Etruscan Cape

18.

Random: What is the name of the African-American cultural movement that took place in America during the 1920's?

a)

The Chicago Movement

b)

The Harlem Renaissance

c)

The Bronx Awakening

d)

The Harlem Uprising

19.

Random: This French emperor was banished to an island called Elba.

a)

Louis VIII

b)

Napoleon

c)

Tsar Nicholas

d)

George III

20.

Random: This high-performance version of the Ford Mustang was originally built during the years 1965-1967.

a)

Idlewild

b)

Delorean

c)

Packard

d)

Shelby