Unit 7 Review

Question 1

incorrect vocab

Answer 1

• since only half of the team showed up for the game, they lost by perusal
• it was a tranquil moment when the astronauts suddenly realized their precarious situation
• if you want to join two sentences together, be sure to use a conjecture
• if she would just acquiesce me one of her videos on the subject, i could finish my report
• i knew it would be obstreperous to try to get him to change his mind, once it was made up

Question 2

what did the captain tell mark twain he had to do to become a riverboat pilot

Answer 2

he had to get the entire river by heart; to know it like the abc’s

Question 3

in paragraph 25 of life on the mississippi when twain says that bixby “would boil a while to himself, and then overflow and scald me again” he means that

Answer 3

bixby would boil inside with anger, then let his anger spill over and yell at twain

Question 4

the setting for mark twain’s “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county” is

Answer 4

a miner’s camp in the west

Question 5

when the narrator of mark twain’s “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county” finally escapes simon wheeler and his endless tale about jim smiley, he leaves him

Answer 5

good-naturally

Question 6

the underlined passage from paragraph 14 of “a wagner matinee” uses aunt Georgiana’s hands to compare and contrast

Answer 6

the harsh life of the prairie farm with the beauty and refinement of the city

Question 7

why wasn’t aunt Georgiana embarrassed by her queer, country clothes

Answer 7

• she was so much in her pioneer world she was oblivious to her clothes
• she had a different feel for what was important – staying alive, not her clothes