Free Printable GRADE 8 QUIZ BEE

1.

1. What is the name of an overused expression?

a)

A. Quiche

b)

B. Clink

c)

C. Cliche

d)

D. Clef

2.

2. You can be easily accused of plagiarizing other author's work if you will not cite your sources. Plagiarizing means ______.

a)

A. Copying

b)

B. Repeating

c)

C. Stealing

d)

D. Robbing

3.

3. This consists of a sequence of events that tells the entire story.

a)

A. Theme

b)

B. Conflict

c)

C. Setting

d)

D. Plot

4.

4. Which of these is not a part of speech?

a)

A. Conjunction

b)

B. Interrogation

c)

C. Preposition

d)

D. Interjection

5.

5. ________ , Egypt is much smaller than Israel.

a)

A. In comparison with

b)

B. Compared to

c)

C. In comparison

d)

D. Besides

6.

6. Which of these is not to be taken literally?

a)

A. Idiom

b)

B. Noun

c)

C. Ideogram

d)

D. Verb

7.

7. Which of these is a homophone for Bear?

a)

A. Animal

b)

B. Bier

c)

C. Stare

d)

D. Bare

8.

8. She was very INQUISITIVE about the job description. What is the meaning of the highlighted word?

a)

A. Scared

b)

B. Confused

c)

C. Misguided

d)

D. Curious

9.

9. What does the Latin phrase et.al mean?

a)

A. among others

b)

B. and others

c)

C. for example

d)

D. With others

10.

10. What is the world's most widely used way to organize library collections?

a)

A. Roman Numeral System

b)

B. Library of Congress Classification System

c)

C. World’s Book Management

d)

D. Dewey Decimal Classification System

11.

11. I want to put more interesting words into my story. What should I use?

a)

A. Thesaurus

b)

B. Encyclopedia

c)

C. Dictionary

d)

D. Atlas

12.

12. If you get a perfect score on this quiz, you may feel ________!

a)

A. exhilarated

b)

B. exhillerated

c)

C. exhilerated

d)

D. exhillarated

13.

13. It is a major social system that groups people according to birth.

a)

A. Birth System

b)

B. Caste System

c)

C. Cast System

d)

D. Adaptive System

14.

14. Who founded Confucianism?

a)

A. Kung Fu Tzu

b)

B. Gautama Buddha

c)

C. Meng Ke

d)

D. Mao Tse Tung

15.

15. There is no sense in CRYING OVER SPILT MILK. What does this idiomatic expression mean?

a)

A. Something that was going to happen.

b)

B. Something that could have been avoided.

c)

C. Something that you didn't know about.

d)

D. Something that can't be changed.

16.

1. What is the longest poem in the world?

a)

A. The Book of Songs

b)

B. Once Upon a Time

c)

C. Mahabharata

d)

D. Ramayana

17.

2. He is considered as the Hindu Shakespeare.

a)

A. Kalidasa

b)

B. Tagore

c)

C. Javadeva

d)

D. Bezbarua

18.

3. It is defined by Hindu tradition as the natural process of birth, death, and rebirth.

a)

A. Immortalization

b)

B. Rajas

c)

C. Reincarnation

d)

D. Karmas

19.

4. Who wrote Mahabharata?

a)

A. Valmiki

b)

B. Lord Ganesh

c)

C. Veda Vyasa

d)

D. Rig Veda

20.

5. A Great Poet and creator of Ramayana.

a)

A. Vanara

b)

B. Vasistha

c)

C. Urmila

d)

D. Valmiki

21.

6. This book (of Bible) deals with Hebrew’s escape from Egypt and their journey back to Palestine under the able leadership of Moses.

a)

A. Leviticus

b)

B. Genesis

c)

C. Exodus

d)

D. Deuteronomy

22.

7. Which of the following tells a correct structure of this sentence?

My birthday is in April and my sister’s birthday is in October.

a)

A. Simple

b)

B. Compound

c)

C. Complex

d)

D. Compound – Complex

23.

8. The word 'bibliography" originated from the Greek words ' biblion' means a book and 'graphia' means_______.

a)

A. Copy

b)

B. Listen

c)

C. Read

d)

D. Write

24.

9. I __ English for three years by 2021

a)

A. will be learning

b)

B. am learning

c)

C. will have been learning

d)

D. have learned

25.

10. What is the plural form of ‘Ox’?

a)

A. Oxen

b)

B. Oxen's

c)

C. Oxes

d)

D. Oxs

26.

1) This refers to the characters, dialect, customs, and other features particular to a specific region.

(a)

27.

2) This tense talks about the "past in the past".

(a)

28.

3) A traditional Japanese form of theater with roots tracing back to the Edo Period.

(a)

29.

4) It is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen.

(a)

30.

5. The author of the poem “Africa”

(a)

31.

1) It is a group of words containing a subject and a predicate and used as part of the sentence.

(a)

32.

2) It is a specific type of Japanese poem which has 17 syllables divided into three lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables

(a)

33.

3) It is a Sanskrit word “kamma” in Pali which means “action.”

(a)

34.

4) These are words or phrases that connect the ideas in your sentences or paragraphs.

(a)

35.

5) They add meaning to the main verb in a sentence by expressing possibility, ability, permission, or obligation.

(a)

GRADE 8 QUIZ BEE

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 8mins

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