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English Club Quiz Bee - Final Round

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

1. The county cleared this path and paved it with packed gravel, so they would have a peaceful place to hike and bike.

Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?

a)

A. path, paving

b)

B. path and then paved

c)

C. path before paving

d)

D. path paved

2.

2. The first train took twenty-six minutes to complete the route, which ran from City Hall to West 145th Street in under a half an hour.

a)

A. NO CHANGE

b)

B. in the completion of its route

c)

C. in twenty-six minutes.

d)

D. DELETE the underlined portion and end the sentence with a period

3.

3. Banneker lived and worked on the family farm. After his father died in 1759, Banneker took over the responsibility of the farm and the care of his mother and younger sisters. In addition, he pursued scientific studies and taught himself to play the flute and violin.

 

If the writer were to delete the last part of the preceding sentence (ending the sentence with a period after the word studies), the paragraph would primarily lose:

a)

A. support for the essay’s point about Banneker’s love of learning.

b)

B. a direct link to the previous paragraph

c)

C. a humorous description of Banneker’s other interests.

d)

D. an extensive digression about music

4.

4. Some sixty years later, an elderly Frances Griffiths publicly admitted that her and her cousin had staged the photographs as a practical joke.

a)

A. NO CHANGE

b)

B. her cousin and herself

c)

C. she and her cousin

d)

D. her cousin and her

5.

5. The Navajo language is complex, with a structure and sounds that makes them unintelligible to anyone without extensive exposure to it.

a)

A. NO CHANGE

b)

B. makes it

c)

C. make it

d)

D. make them

6.

6. Put the three cantos of The Divine Comedy in the correct order.

a)

A. Paradiso, Purgatorio, Inferno

b)

B. Inferno, Limbo, Paradiso

c)

C. Purgatorio, Inferno, Limbo

d)

D. Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso

7.

7. Who is the protagonist of James Joyce’s Ulysses?

a)

A. Leopold Bloom

b)

B. Leopold Ulysses

c)

C. Ulysses Bloom

d)

D. Homer Bloom

8.

8. Select the word that is spelled incorrectly.

Professor Rinkie told the story but preferred omitting the forgettable occurrance with the horses.

a)

A. preffered

b)

B. omitting

c)

C. forgettable

d)

D. occurance

9.

9. The _______ crowd mourned the loss of their leader.

a)

A. sember

b)

B. somber

c)

C. sombar

d)

D. sombor

10.

10. The mother attempted to _________ her son with toys.

a)

A. molifey

b)

B. mollify

c)

C. molify

d)

D. molliffy