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8th Grade Midterm Part 1

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 23mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The largest mountains in Europe are the Alps.

a)

declarative

b)

interrogative

c)

exclamatory

d)

imperative

2.

Is that the mountain range that begins near the Mediterranean Sea?

a)

declarative

b)

interrogative

c)

exclamatory

d)

imperative

3.

Look at all the snow-covered peaks.

a)

declarative

b)

interrogative

c)

exclamatory

d)

imperative

4.

Do you know how tall Mont Blanc is?

a)

declarative

b)

interrogative

c)

exclamatory

d)

imperative

5.

Tell me about Sir Walter Raleigh.

a)

declarative

b)

interrogative

c)

exclamatory

d)

imperative

6.

Identify the simple subject and the simple predicate.

The Rocky Mountains are the largest mountain range in North America.

a)

Rocky Mountains; are

b)

range; are

c)

North America; largest

7.

Identify the simple subject and the simple predicate.

The Rockies serve as the Continental Divide.

a)

Continental Divide; serve

b)

Rockies; serve

c)

Rockies; as

b. Rockies;

8.

Identify the simple subject and the simple predicate.

Wyoming, New Mexico, and Idaho are three of the states through which the Rockies pass.

a)

Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho; pass

b)

Wyoming, New Mexico, Idaho; are

c)

half; includes

9.

Identify the simple subject and the simple predicate.

Pikes Peak is named for him.

a)

Pikes Peak; is

b)

Pikes Peak; is named

c)

Pikes Peak; named

10.

The Andes Mountains, the longest chain of mountains above sea level in the world.

a)

sentence

b)

fragment

c)

comma splice

d)

fused sentence

11.

The word Andes comes from the word anti, this is the Quechuan word for copper.

a)

sentence

b)

fragment

c)

comma splice

d)

fused sentence

12.

One of the most popular volcanoes, Nevado del Ruiz in Columbia.

a)

sentence

b)

fragment

c)

comma splice

d)

fused sentence

13.

The Appian Way, the first and most famous passageway.

a)

sentence

b)

fragment

c)

comma splice

d)

fused sentence

14.

Early Christians sometimes met in these tombs they often used the catacombs as places of refuge.

a)

sentence

b)

fragment

c)

comma splice

d)

fused sentence

15.

The bony structure around the eye is the socket.

a)

S-TrV-DO

b)

S-TrV-IO-DO

c)

S-InV

d)

S-LV-PN

16.

The muscles around the eye move the eye and the eyelid.

a)

S-TrV-DO

b)

S-TrV-IO-DO

c)

S-InV

d)

S-LV-PN

17.

The color of the iris depends on the amount of pigment in the eye.

a)

S-TrV-DO

b)

S-TrV-IO-DO

c)

S-InV

d)

S-LV-PN

18.

He spent a fortune in the colonization of America.

a)

S-TrV-DO

b)

S-TrV-IO-DO

c)

S-InV

d)

S-LV-PN

19.

They explored from North Carolina to Florida.

a)

S-TrV-DO

b)

S-TrV-IO-DO

c)

S-InV

d)

S-LV-PN

20.

We need to do a research paper for English class.

a)

indicative

b)

imperative

c)

subjunctive

21.

Although born a slave, Douglass escaped at the age of 27.

a)

indicative

b)

imperative

c)

subjunctive

22.

Listen to Douglass’s quote on education: “Knowledge unfits a child to be a slave.”

a)

indicative

b)

imperative

c)

subjunctive

23.

If I knew about Fredrick Douglass before, I would have done my paper on him last year.

a)

indicative

b)

imperative

c)

subjunctive

24.

He slipped past the British blockade and entered the country through its southern border.

a)

common

b)

proper

25.

He and his followers overthrew the old government and set up a new system called the Consulate.

a)

common

b)

proper

26.

Reform within the country was his next priority.

a)

common

b)

proper

27.

Two years later, the French Senate made Napoleon the emperor of France.

a)

common

b)

proper

28.

Napoleon's goal was to control all of Europe.

a)

count

b)

noncount

29.

Great Britain stood in his way.

a)

count

b)

noncount

30.

Napoleon turned instead to the land, where his domination was clear.

a)

count

b)

noncount

31.

When Russia refused to cooperate, France was faced with the difficult decision to go to war.

a)

count

b)

noncount

32.

In 1813 Napoleon gathered his soldiers for one more campaign and was eventually defeated at the Battle of Nations.

a)

compound noun

b)

noun

33.

Napoleon was banished to the Isle of Elba, but his desperate need for power was his downfall.

a)

compound noun

b)

noun

34.

As soon as he saw his opportunity, he left the island and returned to Paris.

a)

compound noun

b)

noun

35.

His comeback was staged at the Battle of Waterloo, which ended in his complete and final defeat.

a)

compound noun

b)

noun

36.

He spent the remaining six years of his life under house arrest on the small South Atlantic island of St. Helena.

a)

compound noun

b)

noun

37.

Identify the antecedent

Lions and their prides are found in southern Africa and western India.

a)

Lions

b)

prides

c)

Africa

38.

Identify the antecedent

Because the female stalks the prey, she sometimes must leave her cubs.

a)

female

b)

prey

c)

cubs

39.

Identify the antecedent

The cub has its mother as an example of hunting and stalking.

a)

example

b)

cub

c)

hunting

40.

Identify the antecedent

Although the females do the actual fighting, they are much smaller than the male lions.

a)

lions

b)

females

c)

male

41.

Leopards almost never fight among themselves.

a)

intensive

b)

reflexive

42.

A leopard normally stays by itself.

a)

intensive

b)

reflexive

43.

The leopard himself is very territorial.

a)

intensive

b)

reflexive

44.

On the field trip to the game reserve, we saw the mother leopard herself.

a)

intensive

b)

reflexive

45.

Have you yourself ever petted a leopard?

a)

intensive

b)

reflexive