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1) Explain and give an example of the literary term "onomatopoeia." ANSWER: Onomatopoeia refers to words that sound like what they describe. (e.g. Boo, gurgle, hiss)
2) Explain and give an example of the literary term "alliteration". ANSWER: Alliteration means starting several words in a row with the same first letter or the same sound.
3) What is the difference between a simile and a metaphor? ANSWER: A simile is a figure of speech that compares unlike things by including the word "like" or "as." A metaphor is also a figure of speech that brings together unlike things. But a metaphor doesn't use "like" or "as," so the comparison is not so obvious.
4) What is personification? ANSWER: To personify is to give an inanimate object or an animal the qualities of a human.
5) What was the name of Don Quixote’s horse? ANSWER: Rocinante
6) What is another word for "Pen name" and what does it mean? ANSWER: Anther word for pen name is pseudonym. "Pseudo" comes from a Greek word meaning "false" and "nym" from, a Greek word meaning "name."
7) "O Captain! My Captain!" was written in honor of the untimely death surrounding what historical figure? ANSWER: Abraham Lincoln
8) What is the Renaissance piece of literature studied at length in the 5th Grade? ANSWER: Don Quixote
9) Before the Civil War, who wrote an autobiography describing the horrors of slavery? ANSWER: Frederick Douglass
10) What is a colorful imaginative way of expressing oneself in which a person doesn’t say exactly what he/she means? ANSWER: figurative
Language Arts (Writing, Grammar)
11) Name 3 common helping verbs. ANSWER: Possible answers: shall,
has, do, will, would, should, must, can, may, have, had, did, and the various
forms of the be verb: is, are, was, were, am, been
12) What is a pattern 3 sentence? ANSWER: SN V-t IO DO
13) What is the subject of a sentence? ANSWER: The part of the sentence that names.
14) What is the predicate of a sentence? ANSWER: The part of the sentence that tells more.
15) How does the following prefix affect word meaning: 1) anti? ANSWER: against
16) How does the following prefix affect word meaning?: inter ANSWER: inter=between
17) How does the following suffix affect word meaning?: ist ANSWER: ist = one who
18) Define the following part of speech: adjectives ANSWER: Adjectives describe or modify nouns and pronouns.
19) Define the following part of speech: conjunctions. ANSWER: Conjunctions connect individual words or groups of words.
20) Define a noun. ANSWER: A noun is a word that is the name of
something: a person, place, thing or idea.
Science
21) Name each of the 5 kingdoms of living things. ANSWER: Plant,
Animal, Fungus, Protist, Moneran
22) What is the name of the important life process that occurs in plant cells, but not in animal cells? ANSWER: photosynthesis
23) What are the two structures that plant cells, unlike animal cells, contain? ANSWER: cell walls and chloroplasts
24) Name the two types of plant structures. ANSWER: Vascular and nonvascular
25) What is the scientific name for the species to which human beings belong? ANSWER: Homo sapiens
26) What is the difference between physical and chemical change? ANSWER: Chemical change changes what a molecule is made up of and results in a new substance. Physical change changes only the properties or appearance of the substance, but does not change what the substance is made up of.
27) What are the 4 basic parts of an atom? ANSWER: nucleus, protons, neutrons, electrons
28) Atoms can join together to form what two structures? ANSWER: molecules and compounds
29) What does the Periodic Table do? ANSWER: It organizes elements with common properties.
30) State the growth stages of the human life cycle. ANSWER: embryo,
fetus, newborn, infancy, childhood, adolescence, adulthood, old age
American & World Geography
31) The Andes Mountains are located on what continent? ANSWER: South
America
32) What line of longitude runs through the city of Greenwich, England? ANSWER: the Prime Meridian
33) Name the continent of the Great Lake, Huron: ANSWER:
Huron: North America
34) Name the largest countries in South America. ANSWER:
Brazil and Argentina
35) What is an archipelago? ANSWER: a string of many islands in a large body of water
36) What is the name of the famous South American river? ANSWER: Amazon
37) What two bodies of water does the Erie Canal connect? ANSWER: Hudson River and Lake Erie
38) Name three Mexican areas surrendered to the United States after the Mexican War. ANSWER: 3 of the following: Regions which became known as California, Nevada, Utah, parts of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona
39) What land purchase was known as "Seward's folly?" ANSWER: Alaska
40) Name 3 states of the Confederacy. ANSWER: 3 of the following:
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Tennessee
American & World History
41) Name three ancient civilizations, which at one time stretched from
southern Mexico to the Andes Mountains of South America. ANSWER:
Aztec, Maya, and Inca
42) State 1 of the European motivations for exploration in the West. ANSWER: Muslims controlled many trade routes which limited travel to the East 2) Profit through trade 3)Spread of Christianity
43) In Europe from approximately 1350-1600 AD, a time period known for its great and lasting accomplishments in science, literature and the arts became known as ___ __________________. ANSWER: the Renaissance
44) Explain the role of the daimo (DIME yo),of feudal Japan to their Medieval European counterparts. ANSWER: The daimyo were similar to feudal European lords.
45) Name one famous Russian leader who greatly expanded the Russian Empire. ANSWER: (any one) Ivan the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great, and Catherine the Great
46) What exactly did the Emancipation Proclamation do? ANSWER: The Emancipation Proclamation announced that all slaves in areas controlled by the Confederacy would be free beginning January 1, 1863.
47) When and where did the Civil War begin? When and where did the Civil War end? ANSWER: Fort Sumter, South Carolina 1861; Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia 1865
48) What was Reconstruction? ANSWER: The process of bringing the 11 Confederate states back into the Union.
49) Describe briefly the 13th amendment to the Constitution.
Answer:
The 13th amendment outlaws slavery.
50) Name the two great Native American chiefs that were camped at Little Big Horn when Custer made his last stand. ANSWER: Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse
Mathematics
51) Round 6325 to the nearest 10 and 100. ANSWER: 6330 and 6300
52) What percentage is each of these fractions 75/100 and 240/100? ANSWER: 75% and 240%
53) Tell how many degrees are in the following: 1) an angle with a small
square in its corner ANSWER: 90 degrees
54) Make a fraction out of this mixed number: 8 4/100.
Explain how a person solves these types of problems.
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ANSWER: 100 . Multiply the denominator of the fraction by the
whole number and then add the numerator. Finally, place that answer
over the denominator of the original problem. (i.e. 100 x 8 = 800 then
800 + 4 = 804 then place 804 over 100)
55) How do you average a series of numbers? ANSWER: Add all the numbers (including zero if appropriate) and then divide by the total number of numbers. (E.g. 6, 2, 0, 4 6+2+0+4=12 12 divided by 4 = 3. 3 is the average number)
56) What is the formula for volume? ANSWER: V= area of B x H (volume equals area of base times height)
57) What types of units are used in area problems? volume problems? ANSWER: square units are used in area problems and cubic units are used in volume problems
58) What is a common error when finding the area of a triangle? ANSWER: People forget to divide the answer (b x h) by 2
59) What formula do you need to figure out the circumference of
a circle?
ANSWER: ( px D = C (pi times diameter = circumference)
60) How many triangular surfaces are on a pyramid with a rectangular
base? ANSWER: Rectangular base = 4 triangular surfaces
Spelling
61) All morphographs have what? ANSWER: meaning
62) When do you double the final c (consonant) in a short word? ANSWER: When the words ends cvc (consonant, vowel, consonant) and the next morphograph begins with v(a vowel)
63) When a word ends in an e and you add a morphograph that begins with a vowel letter, you must ___________. ANSWER: drop the e
64) What other consonant besides y acts like a vowel letter at the end of a morphograph? ANSWER: w
65) When do you change the y to i in a word? ANSWER: When the word ends with a consonant-and-y, and the next morphograph begins with anything except i.
66) When a word ends with the letter w and you add e-n, what letter
should you drop?
ANSWER: e
67) What letter acts like 2 consonant letters because it has two consonant sounds? ANSWER: x
68) When a word ends in the letters i-c, you must add what morphograph before adding l-y? ANSWER: a-l
69) When a word ends in a short cvc (consonant, vowel, consonant) morphograph, what rule should be followed? ANSWER: the doubling rule
70) What is the rule for spelling many words that end with the morphograph o-r? ANSWER: Use o-r if a form of the word ends i-o-n (e.g. act becomes actor while compose becomes composer)
Art
71) The line where the sky meets the ground is called what? ANSWER: Horizon line
72) The point on the horizon line where the lines come together is called what? Answer: Vanishing point
73) Michelangelo was a sculptor and painter. One great sculpture of a person he created was_______________. Answer: David
74) Michelangelo was also responsible for painting the ceiling of the______________________. ANSWER: Sistine Chapel
75) The great American school of painting that produced many landscapes was called what? Answer: The Hudson River School
76) A great painting by Raphael of a Madonna is ______________________? ANSWER: “The Alba Madonna” or “The Small Cowper Madonna””
77) Japan is known for it’s beautiful landscape ________________________that contains pond, flowers, Koi fish and bridges. ANSWER: gardens
78) Who painted “The Birth of Venus?” ANSWER: Botticelli
79) Name a great painting by Leonardo da Vinci? Answer: Mona Lisa, The Proportions of Man, or The Last Supper
80) The great American school of painting that produced a lot
of landscapes was_______________________. Answer: The Hudson River School
Music
81) Who wrote Pictures at an Exhibition? ANSWER: (Modest) Mussorgsky
82) During what time period did Josquin Desprez and John Dowland compose? ANSWER: During the Renaissance
83) Who wrote the incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream? ANSWER: Mendelssohn
84) How many sixteenth notes equal one quarter note? ANSWER: Four
85) How would you play music marked pianissimo (pp)? ANSWER: very quietly
86) How would you sing music marked legato? ANSWER: Smoothly
87) How would you play or sing music marked staccato? ANSWER: Short and detached
88) What tempo is allegro? ANSWER: Fast
89) What tempo is adagio? ANSWER: Slow
90) How many beats are in a measure for 6/8 time? ANSWER: six
Spanish
91) I yo
92) she ella
93) we nosotros
94) they ellos
95) you all ` ustedes
96) you formal usted
97) caminar to walk
98) correr to run
99) cantar to sing
100) bailar to dance
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