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WorksheetsS.B. Practice Rounds 1
Total questions: 48
Worksheet time: 24mins
FRENCH: Que fais-tu avec ces vieux livres?
GERMAN: Was machst du mit diesen alten Büchern?
SPANISH: ¿Qué haces con estos libros viejos?
What are you doing with these old books?
What are you doing with these new books?
What are you doing with these old tables?
What are you doing with these new table?
What writing device is exemplified in the following sentence: Teenagers enjoy sleeping, eating and dancing.
Parallelism
Metaphor
Alliteration
Hyperbole
Name Ernest Hemingway's first novel that captures the disillusionment and cynicism of the lost generation.
THE SUN ALSO RISES
A FAREWELL TO ARMS
FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS
THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA
What Greek heroine defies the king by burying her brother?
Antigone (Ann tee gone nee)
Helen of Troy
Penelope
Clytemnestra
What scale is used to determine the relative hardness of a mineral?
Moh's Scale (of Hardness)
Richter Scale
Beaufort Scale
Fahrenheit Scale
What does the area under the curve of a velocity-time graph represent?
displacement
velocity
acceleration
force
What gland is located on the superior surface of the kidneys?
Adrenal glands
Pituitary gland
Thyroid gland
Parathyroid gland
What type of election allows people to remove their state electoral officials before the next general election?
Recall
Primary
General
Runoff
What area was George Washington describing when he wrote that the Army could be tracked 'by the blood of their feet on the snow?'
Valley Forge
Yorktown
Saratoga
Trenton
What term was used to denote the line dividing Soviet-controlled Eastern Europe from Western Europe from 1945 to 1989?
Iron Curtain
Berlin Wall
Maginot Line
Great Wall
How many ounces are there in three quarts and one pint?
112 ounces
96 ounces
80 ounces
128 ounces
Give the base three logarithm of 729.
6
4
5
7
What is the second derivative of the function: f of x equals 5x cubed plus 4x squared plus 47x plus 21?
30x plus 8 OR (30 times x plus 8)
15x plus 4 OR (15 times x plus 4)
10x plus 8 OR (10 times x plus 8)
6x plus 4 OR (6 times x plus 4)
What former conductor of the Boston Pops Orchestra wrote film scores for Jaws and Star Wars as well as music for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics?
(John) Williams
(Leonard) Bernstein
(Hans) Zimmer
(Danny) Elfman
(Howard) Shore
Name the dance form that resulted from the mixing of African dances with Irish clogging.
Tap dance
Ballet
Salsa
Tango
According to experts, what document could Terri Schiavo (shee-AH-vo) have written to prevent the tragic and costly legal wrangling concerning her condition?
living will
power of attorney
marriage certificate
insurance policy
What is the English translation of the French, German, and Spanish sentences above?
Usually I go to bed at 10 (p.m.).
I always wake up at 6 (a.m.).
I eat breakfast at noon.
I go to school at 8 (a.m.).
What late 19th Century Russian wrote both the short story "The Boor" and the play "The Cherry Orchard"?
Chekov, Anton
Tolstoy, Leo
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
Turgenev, Ivan
What term differs from the denotation of a word because it implies personalized meaning to the word?
Connotation
Definition
Syntax
Phoneme
Identify the author of the following passage: "At times he regarded the wounded soldiers in an envious way. He conceived persons with torn bodies to be peculiarly happy. He wished he, too, had a wound, a red badge of courage."
Crane, Stephen
Hemingway, Ernest
Twain, Mark
London, Jack
Name the two moons of Mars.
Phobos and Deimos
Io and Europa
Titan and Rhea
Ganymede and Callisto
What anatomical term is used when naming the fingers and toes?
Phalanges (Fa-lan-gees)
Metacarpals
Tarsals
Carpals
What is the charge for ions formed from the alkaline earth metals?
Two positive, positive two, or plus two
One positive, positive one, or plus one
Two negative, negative two, or minus two
Neutral, no charge
Name the court order which prevents arrest and confinement without charges.
Writ of Habeas Corpus
Writ of Mandamus
Writ of Certiorari
Writ of Prohibition
What is the name of the laws enacted by Southern states to separate white and black people in public and private facilities?
Jim Crow (Laws)
Emancipation Proclamation
Civil Rights Act
Reconstruction Acts
In 1940, to what French seaport did England send a fleet to rescue Allied troops from the advancing German army?
Dunkirk
Marseille
Calais
Bordeaux
Find the x intercepts of the parabola with the equation: y equals x squared plus x minus 6
in any order: 2 and negative 3
in any order: -2 and 3
in any order: 1 and -6
in any order: -1 and 6
In triangle ABC, the measure of angle B is 2 times the measure of angle A. The measure of angle C is 5 degrees more than angle B. Find the measure of angle C.
75 degrees
80 degrees
70 degrees
65 degrees
Simplify the following: Secant of theta minus the quantity of theta times the sine of theta.
cosine of theta
tangent of theta
cosecant of theta
theta squared
What guitar-like instrument was brought to western civilization by the Moors in 711 AD and became very popular throughout Europe during the Renaissance?
lute
sitar
banjo
mandolin
Name the 18th Century British potter who developed a cheap earthenware alternative to expensive porcelain.
(Josiah) Wedgwood
Thomas Chippendale
William Morris
John Wedderburn
Name the 17-year-old first-time author of Eragon (AIR-uh-gone), a novel that debuted at #3 on the New York Times best-seller list, ahead of four of the five Harry Potter books.
(Christopher) Paolini
(J.K.) Rowling
(Rick) Riordan
(Suzanne) Collins
FRENCH Mes parents se sont mariés il y a combien d'années ?
GERMAN Wie viele Jahre ist es her, dass meine Eltern geheiratet haben?
SPANISH ¿Hace cuántos años se casaron mis padres?
When did my parents get married?
How many years ago did my parents get married?
When did you get married?
Will you marry me?
The African-American, Kansas author and photographer who wrote A CHOICE OF WEAPONS and THE LEARNING TREE is:
Gordon Parks
Langston Hughes
Richard Wright
James Baldwin
The title of a fable about a pilot who crashed in the desert and meets a prince who has arrived from another planet is:
The Little Prince
The Old Man and the Sea
Alice in Wonderland
Journey to the Center of the Earth
In Norse mythology, the god who is the leader of all slain warriors in Valhalla is:
Thor
Odin
Loki
Freyja
A rectangular container, usually made of metal, used in collection of gases by water displacement is called:
Burette
Gas jar
Pneumatic trough
Beaker
The quantity that is equal to the slope of a position-time graph is:
velocity
acceleration
distance
force
Weather occurs in which layer of the earth's atmosphere?
Stratosphere
Troposphere
Mesosphere
Thermosphere
In psychiatry, which term refers to a "false, resolute belief maintained in spite of evidence to the contrary"?
Delusion
Hallucination
Obsession
Phobia
The series of pamphlets written during the Revolutionary War discussing issues of the Revolution is known as:
The Federalist Papers
Common Sense
The Bill of Rights
The Articles of Confederation
The tribunal used after the Reformation by the Catholic Church to identify and punish heretics was called:
The Inquisition
The Synod
The Council of Trent
The Edict of Nantes
Find the maximum area of a rectangle with a perimeter of 80 feet?
400 feet
200 feet
600 feet
320 feet
When b equals negative 4, what is the value of 2 times b to the negative third?
negative 1 over 32 OR negative 1 divided by 32 OR negative one-thirty-second
negative 1 over 8
positive 1 over 32
negative 8
Find the value of k for which the graph of 7x plus ky equals 10 is perpendicular to the graph of 3y plus 6x equals 18?
k equals negative 14
k equals 7
k equals 2
k equals negative 3
Name the musical that won a Pulitzer Prize for drama and a Tony Award for best musical in 1996, which is based on the opera, La Boheme.
Rent
Cats
Les Misérables
The Phantom of the Opera
Name the three components of paint.
pigment, solvent, and binder
water, oil, and wax
resin, clay, and sand
dye, alcohol, and glue
chalk, lime, and starch
Name the movie that danced away with the best-picture Oscar in 2003.
Chicago
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Gangs of New York
The Pianist
