End of Year SUPERQUIZ QUIZ ELA 2, 3 & 4

Question 1

He was her first boyfriend and her heart ebbed with glee and joy.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 2

A lemonade break provides a nice _________ when mowing the grass all day in the hot, Florida sun.

Accepted Answer

Respite

Question 3

The girl committed a grave faux pas wearing white to the wedding.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

The cleaners did "not much" and the house looked as poopy as it did before they started, barely a modicum of effort.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 5

The NATO utilized 9 mm is the most popular cartridge because it is ubiquitous worldwide.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

The speech was very simple and yet very profound, containing a lot deep truths.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 7

An ultimatum is simply a suggestion, you can ignore it without concern.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 8

No trip to the Florida Keys is complete without at least a 1 day ______ to Key West and a visit to the Hemingway House.

Accepted Answer

Jaunt

Question 9

The old man was __________; rarely did he ever show any emotion or complain about anything.

Accepted Answer

Stolid

Question 10

The song lyric, "Hold on loosely, but don't let go," presents a bit of a paradox, i.e. simultaneously true and false.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

The marital relations got almost martial and warlike right before the divorce.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 12

The color white can have many nuances: antique, bone, bright, off-white, etc..

Accepted Answer

True

Question 13

The cleaners did way more than expected making the house shine top to bottom: clearly a perfunctory job.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 14

As a hater, I hope Taylor Swift's popularity has finally reached it's zenith and will crash and burn in the future.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

Two of the four rhetorical techniques often used in persuasive writing are _______ (emotion) and _____ (facts/logic).

Accepted Answer

pathos & logos

Question 16

He couldn't scuba dive because he refused to submerge his head under water

Accepted Answer

True

Question 17

Mr. Franklin explicitly said "next peep gets a referral" but he implicitly demanded no disturbances.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 18

The queen's ball gown had an airy, otherworldly, shimmery, __________ quality to it; it was sheer elegance.

Accepted Answer

Ethereal

Question 19

She didn't really see the hog but did see movement on the edge of her periphery.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 20

A new word that is created by combining two (2) existing words together is called a _______________.

Accepted Answer

Portmanteau

Question 21

Politicians often ______ the words of their opponents very critically in order to find some fault or disagreement.

Accepted Answer

Parse

Question 22

The student was full of _____ and had a vastly, overrated opinion of herself.

Accepted Answer

Hubris

Question 23

The automobile made the horse-and-carriage "buggy whip" a defunct product.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 24

The doctor was very tactful when she spoke with terminally ill, cancer patients.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 25

Vanilla Ice, Ice T and Ice Cube always rapt well.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 26

· The election results were in limbo pending an official recount of the ballots.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 27

After spending the summer in Europe, Fanning Springs seemed mundane and banal.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 28

The coach had a good ______ with the team and got along well with all the players and parents.

Accepted Answer

Rapport

Question 29

The wife was upset until doctor explained SOB means "short of breath" in medical jargon or nomenclature.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 30

The teenager had never been formally educated before and entered high school as a complete ____ or blank slate.

Accepted Answer

Tabula Rasa

Question 31

The teacher ___________ his students for failing to get any work done all year long and threatened to fail them all.

Accepted Answer

Lambasted

Question 32

The student had a litany of excuses why their essay wasn't turned in on Friday, 3/8.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 33

Students are expected to recite the Pledge of Allegiance verbatim.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 34

The onus or "burden of responsibility" falls first on the owner to make sure a property is safe to rent to tenants.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 35

The hikers signed a waiver giving their assent to make the ascent up the mountain

Accepted Answer

True

Question 36

Many believe the Holy Bible is infallible: i.e. never wrong, ever.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 37

Florida's clear springs were once considered a "cure-all" or __________ for all manner of ailments

Accepted Answer

Panacea

Question 38

After his downfall, the Republicans denounced their chairman and elected a new one.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 39

A rhetorical question is super difficult and nobody knows the answer.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 40

The collector had very ______ taste in art: she like oils, watercolors, sculptures, modern, classic, etc.

Accepted Answer

Eclectic

Question 41

The football coach loved it when his new players had a natural _____ for violence that didn't need to be taught.

Accepted Answer

Propensity

Question 42

The distinction between "race" and __________ depends on whether you were "born" with something or acquired it.

Accepted Answer

Ethnicity

Question 43

The differences between the identical twins was vast, they looked and acted exactly alike.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 44

The author was very prolific writing only two books in 40 years.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 45

The reporters are careful to be query when they do stories outside.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 46

A xenophobe is afraid of and/or dislikes foreigners and things foreign.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 47

A feeling of ______ and boredom settled over the whole town after only a few days post-storm without any electricity.

Accepted Answer

Ennui

Question 48

The news anchor was very biased and prejudiced and always presented both sides very evenly and without presumption.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 49

Mr. Franklin's swear jar is not working well and he may need to change tactics to reduce the cussing.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 50

The term "understatement" or meiosis is a technique of modesty and underselling a point to make a point.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 51

The girl affected a fake British accent to great effect: everyone thought she was from the U.K.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 52

Paramount means the lowest of the low, the very bottom or least important.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 53

The old farmer wasn't "book smart," but he was very ____ with practical stuff like numbers and money.

Accepted Answer

canny

Question 54

It was hard to get an objective foul call when both referees formerly played basketball for the Bears.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 55

The people were vigilant and were never on guard against their enemies.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 56

A 2 word, paradoxical literary device - e.g. "civil war" "silent scream" and "military intelligence" - is an ______.

Accepted Answer

oxymoron

Question 57

It can be inferred or deduced, that the blank space after the word "Name" is for students to fill in their name.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 58

The Jews were ruled and subjugated by the Egyptians until Moses led them out.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 59

"Love your neighbor as you love yourself" is a biblical principal, principle, i.e. an important rule or law.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 60

Homogenous means "alike" and Heterogenous means "different": the U.S.A. is definitely the most heterogenous.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 61

A 2,500 word paper, SAT and 20 IXL assignments in a week is so easy and arduous/formidable; a virtual cake-walk.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 62

Older people are sometimes myopic meaning short-sighted and close-minded.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 63

A metaphor that requires background knowledge in order to understand it, e.g. "raining like cats and dogs," is called

Accepted Answer

Idiom

Question 64

She was a real tyrant and a push-over constantly letting her boyfriend call all the shots in the relationship

Accepted Answer

False

End of Year SUPERQUIZ QUIZ ELA 2, 3 & 4

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End of Year SUPERQUIZ QUIZ ELA 2, 3 & 4

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