Basic Training - Core - 4 - Identify - Level: 08

How can you fix a sentence with a misplaced modifier?

• Change the modifier
• Move the modifier
• Delete the modifier
• Write a new sentence

The police chased the bear in the squad car.

This sentence needs to be corrected because of the ____________.

The grateful soldier relaxed after years of battle in his living room.

• faulty parallelism
• a misplaced modifier
• running on
• comma errors

Another word for the structure of language is ___________.

• mechanics
• word usage
• grammar
• vocabulary

Grammar is called the ____________ of language.

• word usage
• structure
• vocabulary
• mechanics

What word is the modifier?

“Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.”

• think
• beginning
• is
• beautiful

The use of components in a sentence that are the same or similar in their construction, sound, meaning, or meter is called ________________.

• alliteration
• grammatical
• parallelism
• foreshadowing

What is the problem with this sentence?

“When the lady left her house, she was hoping to see her best friend, grab a few groceries, and that she would be home before supper.”

• tense shift
• comma splice
• run on
• faulty parallelism

What change should be made to the sentence below?

While we were on vacation I bought a sombrero.

• Add a comma after “we”
• Add a comma after “While”
• Add a comma after “vacation”
• Add a comma after “bought”

Which of these sentences has the correct use of the comma?

• I want to buy the new jacket but it is too expensive.
• I want to buy the new jacket, but it is too expensive.
• I want to buy the new jacket, but it is, too expensive.
• I want to buy the new, jacket but it is too expensive.

What is the anxiety or excitement about an outcome in a story?

• fear
• suspect
• motive
• suspense

The new girl at school didn’t talk to anyone all day. When the teacher called on her she looked down at her desk. I don’t think she made any friends on her first day.

From this situation we can guess that the new girl is probably _________________.

• kind
• shy
• funny
• mean

“Alot” is ________________________

• a word that means, “few”
• a word used to mean, “many”
• a word that often ends a sentence
• not a word in the English dictionary

An idiom is a ________________________.

• phrase or expression with a different meaning
• phrase that might not make sense
• phrase or expression meaning what it says
• term for a person with low aptitude

The meaning of a word is called the ___________.

• description
• definition
• dictation
• etymology

What is a synonym for the word politely?

• smartly
• meanly
• strictly
• kindly

What change if any would correct the following sentence?

We went to the store to buy two loafs of bread.

• Change the word went to are going
• Change the word two to too
• Change the word loafs to loaves
• Make no change to the sentence

You can look for _____________ in a sentence to help figure out what confusing words mean.

• similar words
• synonyms
• context clues
• punctuation

Which word is an antonym for emancipate?

• confuse
• rescue
• liberate
• enslave

What is the base word of misguided?

• mis
• guided
• guide
• misguide

Select the correct pronoun to complete this sentence.

Both of the boys turned ___________________ homework in late.

• their
• his or her
• his
• her

This is a noun (or group of words acting as a noun) to which a pronoun refers.

• interrogative pronoun
• reflexive pronoun
• subject
• antecedent

What type of word is Everyone?

Everyone reads a part of the novel to the class.

• pronoun
• proper noun
• indefinite pronoun
• verb

Find the superlative form of the adjective delicious.

• deliciouser
• deliciousest
• more delicious
• most delicious

What is the noun, proper noun, or compound noun being used as an adjective in the following sentence?

The story came from a newspaper reporter.

• reporter
• newspaper
• came
• from

In this sentence, the word ourselves is an example of which type of pronoun?

We let ourselves into the old cabin through the back door.

• personal
• relative
• intensive
• reflexive

A narrative device in which suggestions or warnings about events to come are dropped or planted is called ________________.

• parallelism
• alliteration
• foreshadowing
• suspense

What is the type of pronoun They represents in this sentence?

They bought the desk.

• personal
• reflexive
• subject
• object

In the following sentence, what type of word is right?

When the driver reached the intersection, she turned right.

• adjective
• adverb
• verb
• noun

What type of word is beautiful in this sentence?

Some of the ruins are absolutely beautiful.

• pronoun
• verb
• adverb
• adjective

^{the forty cars in the annual car show, were only Chevrolets.}

A.  Among
B.  their
C.  too
D.  No change is necessary.

^{the forty cars in the annual car show, were only over thirty years old.}

A. Between
B. there
C. too
D. No change is necessary.

^{the fifty signs we saw on the trip, were advertising lawyers.}

A. Between
B. their
C. two
D. No change is necessary.

^{the forty cars in the annual car show, were only two .}

A. Between
B. their
C. Fords
D. No change is necessary.

^{the fifty signs we saw downtown, were only advertising restaurants.}

A. Between
B. their
C. too
D. No change is necessary.

^{All three states have a major public university in .}

A. except
B. there
C. capitol
D. No change is necessary.

^{All three states have a major public university in .}

A. accept
B. their
C. capitol
D. No change is necessary.

^{All three states have a major public university in .}

A. accept
B. there
C. capital
D. No change is necessary.

^{All three states have a major public university in .}

A. accept
B. there
C. capitol
D. No change is necessary.

^{All three states have a major public university in .}

A. accept
B. there
C. capital
D. No change is necessary.

Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary (12th ed.). (2001). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster.The type of resource represented in this citation is a _____________.

• journal
• conference paper
• book
• website

Scott, J. C. (2002). African-Americans in children’s literature. Phoenix, AZ: Jackson Press.The type of resource represented in this citation is a _____________.

• one-author book
• one-author journal article
• subsequent edition book
• music recording

Druid, A., & Smith, C. (2009). Designing multimedia environments for adults. New York, NY: J. White & Sons.The type of resource represented in this citation is a _____________.

• newspaper article
• magazine article
• two-author journal article
• two-author book

Dunlap, L. L. (Ed.). (1974). An introduction to gifted education. Boston, MA: Smith and Santana.

The type of resource represented in this citation is _____________.

• a one-author journal article
• an edited book
• an online magazine article
• an electronic book

Covello, S.M. (2001). The history of Florida honey bees. Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.co.fl/html/bees.edu

The type of resource represented in this citation is an _____________.

• one-author book
• chapter in an edited book
• conference proceeding
• journal from a printed source

Covello, S.M. (2001). The history of Florida honey bees. Retrieved from http://www.ebrary.co.fl/html/bees.edu

The type of resource represented in this citation is an _____________.

• electronic book
• ERIC document
• online journal article
• online magazine article

Association for Middle Level Education. (2015). Expanding boundaries: A year in review, 2016. Alexandria, VA: AMLE.

The type of resource represented in this citation is a _____________.

• conference paper
• corporate author
• chapter in an edited book
• journal article from a printed source

Unsnarling I-10 traffic jams. (1997, February 2). Car, Track & Driver, p. 105.

The type of resource represented in this citation is a _____________.

• movie released in 1997
• conference paper
• journal article from a printed source
• magazine, no author, from a printed source

Berendt, K. (2017, March 8). The untold war: Inside the hearts, minds, and souls of military wives. Army Times, 178(5), 61.

The type of resource represented in this citation is a _____________.

• video released in 2017
• book with one author
• magazine from a printed source
• journal article from a printed source

Jacobs, Drew. “How I learned from Dad.” Men’s Health Oct. 2018: 110-14.

• journal article
• magazine article
• one-author book
• newspaper article

An electronics store is having a sale on all their TVs. The regular price of a TV is $900, and the sale is for 30% off. How much money would you end up saving if you bought a TV during this sale?

• $270.00
• $300.00
• $630.00
• $1170.00

An alert was sent out to a small town that said, because there was a drought, the price of corn would be increasing by 7%. The price of corn before the alert was $1.70. What will the price of corn be after the alert?

• $2.03
• $1.82
• $1.77
• $1.58

If it takes Chelsey 3 hours to wash a car, and it takes Sammie 2 hours to wash that same car, how long would it take to wash the car if they worked together?

• 5 hours 0 minutes
• 2 hours 20 minutes
• 1 hour 20 minutes
• 1 hour 12 minutes

Kaitlyn is baking cookies at home. The recipe calls for    of a cup of flour, but she wants to triple the recipe. After tripling the amount of flour, she splits what she has into two separate bowls. How much flour is in one of the bowls?

If    and    what does    represent?

• 0
• 60
• 68
• 72

Grandma Jean decides to write down her secret fruitcake recipe. She uses one pineapple for every plum, two pears for every pineapple, and three apples for every plum. If she wanted to make a fruitcake with 10 pears in it, how many total pieces of fruit would she need to buy?

• 35
• 45
• 60
• 110

Jacques is filling his fish tank with water. Unfortunately, her hose is broken and can only pump half a gallon of water every 3 minutes. If filling her fish tank took three and a half hours, how many gallons of water can her fish tank hold?

• 30 gallons
• 35 gallons
• 70 gallons
• 140 gallons

A recipe calls for 2 cups of flour, 1 cup of milk and 3 teaspoons of baking soda. If you wanted to use 5 cups of flour, how many teaspoons of baking soda would you need?

What is the lowest common denominator for the following fractions?

, ,

• 1
• 24
• 48
• 96

What is the greatest common factor of the following numbers?

• 4
• 8
• 16
• 24

If and , which of the following is equivalent to   ?

What is the equation of a line that is parallel to      and passes through the point ?

Solve for x.

Toni went flower shopping for Mother’s Day and picked out a bouquet of tulips and roses. The bouquet had a total of 16 flowers and cost $31.50. If the roses were worth $2.25 each and the tulips were worth $1.50 each, how many roses were in the bouquet?

• 6
• 10
• 12
• 16

If   and , what does equal?

• -2
•  0
•  1
•  5

Alisha had $100 in her checking account when the year began. On November 1st, she had $2500 in the same account. What was the average rate of change per month?

• $100
• $240
• $250
• $400

Which linear equation has the greatest positive y-intercept?

Which equation represents the function on the following graph?

What is the slope of the line that passes through and ?

William works 38 hours a week and gets paid $8.75 per hour. He receives a raise, and after the raise gets paid $347.70 per week. By how much did his hourly wage increase?

Consider the similar images, . If and what is the scale factor going from to ?

A tent is pitched with one pole in the center and 4 cords running from the top of the center pole down to the ground in all 4 corners. The center pole is 8 feet tall. If the cords are fastened to the ground 6 feet from the center pole, how many feet of cord is needed to pitch the tent?

• 4 feet
• 32 feet
• 40 feet
• 56 feet

A square pyramid how many number of faces?

• 3
• 4
• 5
• 9

All ___________ are rectangles but not all rectangles are _____________.

• squares … squares
• circles … circles
• parallelograms … parallelograms
• quadrilaterals … quadrilaterals

What is the next term in the geometric sequence 32, -8, 2, ____?

• 1/2
• 1/4
• – 1/2
• – 1/4

Solve for x in the following diagram.

Two parallelograms are similar. If the first one has a base of 4.5 cm and a height of 3 cm, and the second one has a base of 9 cm, what is the height of the second?

• 2.25 cm
• 6 cm
• 7.5 cm
• 13.5 cm

A triangle has a base that is half the length of its height. If the triangle has an area of 9 square inches, the length of its base is ________ inches.

• 3
• 4.5
• 6
• 18

What is the volume of the following square pyramid given that the side of the base is 3 units and the height is 10 units?

• 30 square units
• 45 square units
• 60 square units
• 270 square units

Carolyn is driving a long way to see her friend. The GPS says, with no stops or traffic, it will take her 23 hours and 26 minutes. If she takes an extra 9 hours for all breaks and traffic, and started her trip at 9:36 am, at what time will she arrive at her friend’s house?

• 10:02 am
• 5:36 pm
• 6:02 pm
• 7:26 pm

Ichiro rode 3 kilometers on his bike. His sister Amber rode 3500 meters on her bike on the same day. Who rode the farthest and how much farther did they ride?

• Amber; 500 meters
• Amber; 350 meters
• Ichiro; 500 meters
• Ichiro; 1/2 kilometer

Six bikers are on a relay team and must ride 17,500 meters each. How many kilometers will they ride as a team in total?

• 10.5 km
• 105 km
• 1050 km
• 105,000 km

Adana wants to send two boxes of oranges to a friend. Each box can hold a mass of 5 kg. If each orange has a mass of 100g, what is the maximum number of oranges she can send?

• 10
• 50
• 100
• 1000

Susan wants to paint her entire room, except for the floor. The length of the room is 12 feet, the width is 8 feet and the height is 10 feet. There are two windows in her room, each measuring 2 feet wide by 3 feet tall. If a gallon of paint will cover 32 square feet, how many gallons of paint will Susan need to paint her room?

• 6
• 10
• 15
• 16

Stacey jogged to the mall. She jogged twice as fast as the amount of time it took her (in miles per hour). If it took her 3 hours, how far did she jog?

• 6 miles
• 9 miles
• 18 miles
• 20 miles

How many cubic centimeters are there in 5 liters?
(Note: 1 liter = 1,000 cubic centimeters)

• 10,000
• 5,000
• 1,000
• 100

If Andy travels 120 miles in 3 hours, how fast was he traveling in miles per minute?

• 0.67 miles per minute
• 0.76 miles per minute
• 6.7 miles per minute
• 240 miles per minute

If John is traveling 60 miles per hour, how many feet per second is he traveling? (1 mile = 5280 feet)

• 6 feet per second
• 18 feet per second
• 88 feet per second
• 90 feet per second

There is a statue 45 feet tall that is casting a shadow 63 feet long. Nearby there is a bush casting a shadow 7 feet long. How tall is the bush?

• 5 feet
• 6.2 feet
• 9.8 feet
• 20 feet

The test scores for a class are as follows: 4 students got a 73%, 18 students got a 96%, 3 students got a 66%, and 10 students got an 86%. What is the average test score for the class?

• 80.3%
• 86%
• 87.9%
• 99%

A bag of assorted fruits has 8 kiwis, 3 apples, 5 peaches and 13 grapes. If you were to randomly choose a kiwi and eat it, what is the probability that the next fruit you choose will be a peach or kiwi?

If Robert and Jasmine had three children, what would be the probability that all three children would be boys?

What rational number represents the average of    and   ?

What is the range of set S?

S = {41, 28, 13, 26, 38, 45, 42, 10}

• -31
• 31
• 33
• 35

The following pie chart represents the colors of binders that students are choosing for school. What percentage of students are choosing a binder that is a color other than red?

Alicia asked her teacher if she could collect the resting heart rates of the students in her 5th-grade science group. The following numbers represent the resting rates in beats per minute.
89  87  85  84  90  79  83  85  86  88  84  81

What is the range of the resting heart rates?

• 10
• 11
• 90
• 85

According to the following pictograph, how many more Jonathan apples than McIntosh apples are there in the food store?

A random survey was taken to see what activities were popular among adults 25-45 years old. The results yielded that 25 people preferred reading, which was approximately 31.6% of the people surveyed. How many total people were surveyed? (Round to the nearest integer.)

• 25
• 68
• 75
• 79

According to the following histogram, how many Black Cherry Trees measured at most 80 feet?

• 14
• 19
• 24
• 45