Test 2 Units 5-7

Question 1

What is the singular possessive of valley

Answer 1

valley’s

Question 2

What is the plural possessive of valleys

Answer 2

valleys’

Question 3

What is the singular possessive of wolf

Answer 3

wolf’s

Question 4

What is the plural possessive of wolves

Answer 4

wolves’

Question 5

What is the singular possessive of child

Answer 5

child’s

Question 6

What is the plural possessive of children

Answer 6

children’s

Question 7

What is the singular possessive of decoy

Answer 7

decoy’s

Question 8

What is the plural possessive of decoys

Answer 8

decoys’

Question 9

What is the singular possessive of student

Answer 9

student’s

Question 10

What is the plural possessive of students

Answer 10

students’

Question 11

Add the missing punctuation:

The cargo consisted of the following frozen beans cabbage and wheat.

Answer 11

The cargo consisted of the following: frozen beans, cabbage, and wheat.

Question 12

Add the missing punctuation:
Did anyone in the class see the article in the Reader's Digest about the Dead Sea asked Mr. Jones.

Answer 12

“Did anyone in the class see the article in the Reader’s Digest about the Dead Sea?” asked Mr. Jones. (Reader’s Digest should be underlined)

Question 13

Add the missing punctuation:

Joseph earned his letter in basketball Alexander earned his in baseball.

Answer 13

Joseph earned his letter in basketball; Alexander earned his in baseball.

Question 14

Add the missing punctuation:

What poem begins with the line, Let me but do my work asked the teacher.

Answer 14

“What poem begins with the line, ‘Let me but do my work’?” asked the teacher.

Question 15

Add the missing punctuation:
Two thirds of the students in Avas history class did well on the test.

Answer 15

Two thirds of the students in Ava’s history class did well on the test.

Question 16

Add the missing punctuation:

Im sorry that I cannot go to the activity sighed Hannah.

Answer 16

“I’m sorry that I cannot go to the activity,” sighed Hannah.

Question 17

is the capitalization correct?

On May 21, 1927, Charles Lindbergh landed the Spirit of St. Louis in Paris after flying nonstop across the Atlantic.

Answer 17

Correct

Question 18

is the capitalization correct?

The Romantic age began when the British poets William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge published Lyrical Ballads.

Answer 18

not correct

Question 19

is the capitalization correct?

New Orleans’s main thoroughfare, Canal Street, ends at the Mississippi river.

Answer 19

not correct

Question 20

is the capitalization correct?

The Statue of Liberty was unveiled in New York Harbor on October 28, 1886.

Answer 20

correct

Question 21

Name the two classification systems that most libraries use.

Answer 21

Dewey Decimal or Library of Congress

Question 22

The titles Reverend and Honorable must be written out if preceded by ____.

Answer 22

the

Question 23

The abbreviation B.C. should ____ the year number.

Answer 23

follow

Question 24

Names of numbered streets under ____ are written out.

Answer 24

100

Question 25

A summary is a brief composition that states the ___ of a longer piece of writing.

Answer 25

main ideas

Question 26

An ____ is a collection of maps and other data.

Answer 26

atlas

Question 27

The three main parts of a book report are the introduction, the ____, and the conclusion.

Answer 27

body

Question 28

Do not use the phrase ‘in the morning’ with the abbreviation _____.

Answer 28

A.M.

Question 29

In a _____ outline, the points are stated as words or phrases.

Answer 29

topical