Building Vocabulary: Word Roots, Affixes, and Reference Materials — Cumulative exam Answers

Read the paragraph from a personal narrative.1 It may have seemed like an ordinary day to everyone else, but to me, it couldn't have been further from it. 2 Today was my first day working as a waitress at Pete's Pizza Haven, and I could not have been more excited. 3 In fact, I was so excited that I rushed to get ready much faster than I typically do. 4 "I'm ready to go!" I shouted, bouncing down the stairs and flying into the kitchen, where my mom was making breakfast. 5 "I have so much to learn and don't want to be late," I declared for emphasis. 6 My mom just grinned and placed a steaming plate of eggs before me.

Which topic is suitable for the size and scope of a five-paragraph essay?

Read the excerpt from The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England.There is no concept of "health and safety" in Elizabethan England, so you will inevitably feel vulnerable when you arrive. Nauseating smells and sights will assail your senses; contemporary standards of cleanliness will worry you. People die every day from unknown ailments, the young as often as the old. Infectious diseases periodically kill thousands within a few weeks. Even when plague is not in town, it lurks as an anxiety in the back of people’s minds and, when it does strike, their worry turns to terror. On top of the illnesses, the chances of being attacked and hurt are much higher than in the modern world, and workplace injuries are far more common.

Which excerpts from Act III of Hamlet show that plot events have resulted in Claudius feeling guilty? Select 3 options.Claudius: I like him not, nor stands it safe with us To let his madness range.Claudius: I your commission will forthwith dispatch, And he to England shall along with you.Claudius: A brother’s murder! Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will:Claudius: Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow?Claudius: But, O! what form of prayer Can serve my turn? 'Forgive me my foul murder?'

Read the excerpts from Samuel Johnson’s preface to A Dictionary of the English Language.In both excerpts, the word endeavour means to

Read the excerpt from Act II of Hamlet.Guildenstern: Which dreams, indeed, are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.Hamlet: A dream itself is but a shadow.Rosencrantz: Truly, and I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow’s shadow.

Read the excerpt from The Republic by Plato. But is war an art so easily acquired that a man may be a warrior who is also a husbandman, or shoemaker, or other artisan; although no one in the world would be a good dice or draught player who merely took up the game as a recreation, and had not from his earliest years devoted himself to this and nothing else? No tools will make a man a skilled workman, or master of defence, nor be of any use to him who has not learned how to handle them, and has never bestowed any attention upon them.

Which phrases provide clues that sepulchre means "grave”? Choose three answers.

Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.ROS (aggrieved, aggressive) >Well, I won—didn’t I?GUIL (approaches him—quieter) And if you’d lost? If they’d come down against you, eighty-five times, one after another, just like that?ROS (dumbly) Eighty-five in a row. Tails?GUIL Yes! What would you think?ROS (doubtfully) Well. . . . (Jocularly.) Well, I’d have a good look at your coins for a start!

Looking at the gray sky, Beckie wondered ___________ the ___________ would ruin the class trip.Which words complete the sentence correctly?

Which is the word root in democratically?

Read the passage.The rocket is fully fueled, and the liftoff is scheduled for next week. The journey to the space station should take five hours, but it could take longer. The mission control team is very experienced, so the launch should go smoothly.

Read the sentences.The wind whipped the branches into a frenzy. It looked like the tree was doing a crazy dance.

Read the passage.The panther paused to sniff the humid night air. It heard noises up ahead, but it did not recognize the sounds. The strange noises continued, and the panther became frightened. The panther crept into a cave because it was afraid.

Which sentence uses a subjective pronoun correctly?

Read the passage.On our way home, we passed a meadow surrounded by trees. We stopped to look at the beautiful wildflowers. I walked toward the trees, and I saw two deer. A fawn nibbled on the grass, while its mother stood sentinel.

Read the dependent clause.after the conversation with her publisher, when she decided to write an autobiography

Which words contain an affix? Select 4 options.strengthunhappyinchwormrereadrestlesscomfortable

Read the excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.GERTRUDE Good (fractional suspense) gentlemen . . . They both bow.He hath much talked of you,And sure I am, two men there is not livingTo whom he more adheres. If it will please youTo show us so much gentry and goodwillAs to expand your time with us awhileFor the supply and profit of our hope,Your visitation shall receive such thanksAs fits a king’s remembrance. . . .[GERTRUDE] And I beseech you instantly to visitMy too much changed son. Go, some of you,And bring these gentlemen where Hamlet is.

Read the excerpts from Hamlet by William Shakespeare and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard.Excerpt 1HAMLET. Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks; but I thank you: and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny. Were you not sent for? Is it your own inclining? Is it a free visitation? Come, come, deal justly with me: come, come; nay, speak.GUIL. What should we say, my lord?HAMLET. Why anything, but to the purpose. You were sent for; and there is a kind of confession in your looks which your modesties have not craft enough to colour: I know the good king and queen have sent for you.ROS. To what end, my lord? HAMLET. That you must teach me. But let me conjure you, by the rights of our fellowship, by the consonancy of our youth, by the obligation of our ever-preserved love, and by what more dear a better proposer could charge you withal, be even and direct with me, whether you were sent for or no!ROS. [Aside to GUILDENSTERN.] What say you?HAMLET. [Aside.] Nay, then, I have an eye of you. If you love me, hold not off.GUIL. My lord, we were sent for.Excerpt 2GUIL Draw him on to pleasures—glean what afflicts him.ROS Something more than his father’s death—GUIL He’s always talking about us—there aren’t two people living whom he dotes on more than us.ROS We cheer him up—find out what’s the matter—GUIL Exactly, it’s a matter of asking the right questions and giving away as little as we can. It’s a game.