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Ruby Goldberg's Bright Idea Vocabulary Quiz

Total questions: 12

Worksheet time: 8mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Match the definition "an idea about the way things work"

a)

superstition

b)

theory

c)

caution

d)

cunning

2.

Which word means "a piece of paper given to someone giving them the right to handle their invention"?

a)

tension

b)

caution

c)

patent

d)

disrupting

3.

What is the definition for the word "cunning"?

a)

good at fooling others

b)

breaking apart

c)

close care

d)

to be concerned

4.

Choose one of the three words below to fill in the blank.

The students were (a)   class by talking to each other.

preoccupied, spewed, disrupting

5.

Which word means "the force that affects objects that are pulled or stretched"?

a)

pollinate

b)

theory

c)

caution

d)

tension

6.

In the story "Ruby Goldberg's Bright Idea", what object spewed out of Dominic's pencil case?

a)

pencils

b)

markers

c)

buttons

d)

erasers

7.

Which word choice best completes the sentence?

The butterfly (a)   the flower in the garden.

spewed, cautioned, pollinated

8.

Match the definition to the word...

"to be concerned with a situation"

a)

tension

b)

preoccupied

c)

theory

d)

cunning

9.

What is a synonym for "caution"?

a)

hard

b)

broken

c)

watchfulness

d)

patent

10.

Which word means "a belief based on ignorance or fear"?

a)

superstition

b)

spewed

c)

patent

d)

preoccupied

11.

What's a synonym for "spewed"?

a)

pollinate

b)

expelled

c)

cared

d)

tension

12.

Ruby Goldberg would like to have a (a)   for her page-o-matic invention?

theory, caution, patent