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Test 8
Notice the sample sentence:
People hear with the eyes [underscore]ears[end underscore] nose mouth
The correct word is ears, because it make the truest sentence.
In each of the sentences below you have four choices for the last word. Only one of them is correct. In each sentence draw a line under the one of the four words which makes the truest sentence. If you can not be sure, guess. The two samples are already marked as they should be.
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SAMPLES[two line deep bracket] People hear with the eyes [underscore]ears[end underscore] nose mouth
France is in [underscore]Europe[end underscore] Asia Africa Australia
1 The apple grows on a [underscore]shrub[end underscore] vine bush tree . . . 1[check mark]
2 Five hundred is played with rackets [underscore]pins[end underscore] cards dice . . . 2[check mark]
3 The Percheron is a kind of [underscore]goat[end underscore] horse cow sheep . . . 3[check mark]
4 The most prominent industry of Gloucester is fishing packing [underscore]brewing[end underscore] automobiles . . . 4[check mark]
5 Sapphires are usually blue [underscore]red[end underscore] green yellow . . . 5[check mark]
6 The Rhode Island Red is a kind of horse granite cattle [underscore]fowl[end underscore] . . . 6c
7 Christie Mathewson is famous as a writer artist baseball player [underscore]comedian[end underscore] . . . 7[check mark]
8 Revolvers are made by Swift & Co. Smith & Wesson [underscore]W. L. Douglas[end underscore] B. T. Babbitt . . . 8[check mark]
9 Carrie Nation is known as a singer temperance agitator [underscore]suffragist[end underscore] nurse . . . 9[check mark]
10 "There's a reason" is an "ad" for a [underscore]drink[end underscore] revolver flour cleanser . . . 10c
11 Artichoke is a kind of hay corn [underscore]vegetable[end underscore] fodder . . . 11c
12 Chard is a fish lizard vegetable [underscore]snake[end underscore] . . . 12[check mark]
13 Cornell University is at Ithaca Cambridge Annapolis [underscore]New Haven[end underscore] . . . 13[check mark]
14 Buenos Aires is a city of Spain Brazil Portugal [underscore]Argentina[end underscore] . . . 14c
15 Ivory is obtained from [underscore]elephants[end underscore] mines oysters reefs . . . 15c
16 Alfred Noyes is famous as a painter poet [underscore]musician[end underscore] sculptor . . . 16[check mark]
17 The armadillo is a kind of [underscore]ornamental shrub[end underscore] animal musical instrument dagger . . . 17[check mark]
18 The tendon of Achilles is in the [underscore]heel[end underscore] head shoulder abdomen . . . 18c
19 Crisco is a patent medicine [underscore]disinfectant[end underscore] tooth-paste food product . . . 19[check mark]
20 An aspen is a [underscore]machine[end underscore] fabric tree drink . . . 20[check mark]
21 The sabre is a kind of musket [underscore]sword[end underscore] cannon pistol . . . 21c
22 The mimeograph is a kind of typewriter copying machine [underscore]phonograph[end underscore] pencil . . . 22[check mark]
23 Maroon is a food fabric drink [underscore]color[end underscore] . . . 23c
24 The clarionet is used in [underscore]music[end underscore] stenography book-binding lithography . . . 24c
25 Denim is a [underscore]dance[end underscore] food fabric drink . . . 25[check mark]
26 The author of "Huckleberry Finn" is Poe Mark Twain Stevenson [underscore]Hawthorne[end underscore] . . . 26[check mark]
27 Faraday was most famous in literature war religion science . . . 27
28 Air and gasolene[sic] are mixed in the accelerator carburetor gear case differential . . . 28
29 The Brooklyn Nationals are called the Giants Orioles Superbas Indians . . . 29
30 Pasteur is most famous in politics literature war science . . . 30
31 Becky Sharp appears in Vanity Fair Romola The Christmas Carol Henry IV . . . 31
32 The number of a Kaffir's legs is two four six eight . . . 32
33 Habeas corpus is a term used in medicine law theology pedagogy . . . 33
34 Ensilage is a term used in fishing athletics farming hunting . . . 34
35 The forward pass is used in tennis hockey football golf . . . 35
36 General Lee surrendered at Appomattox in 1812 1865 1886 1832 . . . 36
37 The watt is used in measuring wind power rainfall water power electricity . . . 37
38 The Pierce Arrow car is made in Buffalo Detroit Toledo Flint . . . 38
39 Napolean defeated the Austrians at Friedland Wagram Waterloo Leipzig . . . 39
40 An irregular four-sided figure is called a scholium triangle trapezium pentagon . . . 40
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