Name: ____________________________________________________________ Level F, Unit 2: Quiz
Choose the answer that best completes the sentence or answers the question.
1. To bring about suddenly is to:
A modify
B stifle
C precipitate
D expostulate
2. Which of the following would you not use to
decribe an approach or setting in which rules are
not strictly enforced?
A lax
B lenient
C permissive
D stringent
3. If you commemorate a period of one thousand
years, you mark a:
A decade
B century
C bicentennial
D millennium
4. Someone who represents the height of fashion
might be referred to as its:
A enemy
B epitome
C hiatus
D umbrage
Yesterday was our school’s annual Career Day. To my surprise, the presentation I found most interesting
centered on the field of advertising. The speaker, whose name is Teresa Rodriguez, is an account executive at
a large agency. She began by eliciting our impressions of advertising and then went on to address our negative
opinions with great aplomb. It is true, she acknowledged, that many commercials are made up of tedious
drivel that is supposed to convince us to buy a given product. Others are little more than crude, bombastic
messages that exhort us to pick up the phone and order the product being featured. However, she also
maintained that, by contrast, the best commercials do not infringe on our enjoyment of a program. Instead,
they entertain us while making sure we remember the product that is being promoted. In this way, they
ingratiate themselves with us rather than annoy us.
5. In line 4, aplomb is used to show that the
speaker handled her presentation in what way?
A with a lack of self-confidence
B with great poise
C in a halting manner
D in a humorous manner
6. In line 5, drivel means:
A persuasion
B facts
C questions
D nonsense
7. Which of the following could not be used to
replace bombastic (line 5)?
A overblown
B pompous
C appropriate
D inflated
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8. To exhort (line 6) is to:
A urge strongly
B ask politely
C discourage strongly
D forbid
9. In line 7, infringe means:
A encroach
B improve
C embellish
D border
10. If commercials ingratiate (line 9) themselves
with viewers, the viewers find them:
A dull
B offensive
C agreeable
D instructive
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