Quarto 3 : Ultimate Test
Grade 8
Prepare thyself
70 points total
The Glorious Grammatical Section:
Santa Clauses :
Short Answer
1. What is an independent clause? (2 points)
2. What is a dependent clause? (2 points)
3. How does a dependent clause relate to an independent clause? (1 point)
4. Does a dependent clause start with a coordinating conjunction or a subordinating conjunction?
(1 Point)
5. List three subordinating conjunctions. (3 points)
6. What is a coordinating conjunction? (1 point)
Santa Clauses Continued:
Directions: Label the underlined portions of each sentence as either dependent (D) or
independent (I). (four points total)
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When I went to the zoo, I ate pizza.
When I went to the zoo, I ate pizza.
Since it was your homework, I hope you turned in your reading minutes.
I run to the bank if I have no money.
The Glorious Grammar Section Continued:
I Actively Resist Passive Voice (Passive/Active Voice)
In what three situations do you use the passive voice? Explain each situation. (6 points)
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Directions: Match the following (four points total)
Active Voice_____
a. When the subject is doing the action and is explicitly
stated as the subject
Passive Voice_____
b. The person or object doing the action
Agent_____
c. When the agent is the receiver of the action from the
subject of the sentence
Direct Object_____
d. noun or pronoun that receives an action or shows the
result of an action
Directions: Convert each following sentence from active to passive or from passive to active. (5
points)
1. When the Phillies's Shane Victorino overran him, third base was stolen by Johnny Damon.
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2. A happy Thanksgiving is wished by me for everyone.
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3. The attorney general indicted the notorious gangster, Al Capone, for federal income tax
evasion.
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4. The student services committee forwarded revised disciplinary procedures to the campus
president.
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5. Six Thousand shares of Disney stock were bought by Jenny Allen when she was only nineteen.
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This section is on…excuse me, I am writing a test, come back and speak to me later
Beauregard…anyway, this section is on, well, interrupters.
Directions: Underline the interrupters, which break up the flow of a section, in the following
sentences.(four points total)
1. My test, to be perfectly honest, is quite easy.
2. The children are, well, very talented.
3. The chocolate covered strawberries-although containing vitamins-are an unhealthy
alternative to regular strawberries.
4. My cat Fuzzy loves to dance and play which makes people happy. I, on the other hand, am
not pleased by the cats. I hate them.
Section 2
Shake it Shakespeare! Sonnets
Short Answer/Definitions (2 points each)
1. What is iambic pentameter?
2. What is an iamb?
3. How many quatrains are there in a Shakespearean sonnet?
4. What are the last two lines of a Shakespearean sonnet?
Sonnets Continued
Directions: Label the following Shakespearean sonnet by circling the quatrains, labeling the
end rhyme, and putting a box around couplet. (5 points total)
Sonnet 60
Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,
So do our minutes hasten to their end;
Each changing place with that which goes before,
In sequent toil all forwards do contend.
Nativity, once in the main of light,
Crawls to maturity, wherewith being crown’d,
Crooked elipses ’gainst his glory fight,
And Time that gave doth now his gift confound.
Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth
And delves the parallels in beauty’s brow,
Feeds on the rarities of nature’s truth,
And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow:
And yet to times in hope my verse shall stand,
Praising thy worth, despite his cruel hand.
Directions: Using the above poem, decipher the meaning to the best of your abilities and paraphrase the
overall message in the space provided. (2 points)
Directions: Using your own words and derived meaning, fulfill (finish) the following sonnet. (6
points total)
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date:
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest;
Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou growest:
Section 3: Characterization
Define the following. Use examples when necessary.(8 points total)
Direct Characterization:
Indirect Characterization:
Directions: Read the following and classify each example as either direct characterization or
indirect characterization. Explain your answer. (8 points total)
1. Ed Johnson scratched his head in confusion as the sales rep explained Dralco’s newest engine
performance diagnostic computer. The old mechanic hated modern electronics, preferring the old
days when all he needed was a stack of manuals and a good set of tools.
2. “That Ed Johnson,” said Anderson, watching the old mechanic scratch his head in confusion as the
sales rep explained Dralco’s newest engine performance diagnostic computer. “He hasn’t got a clue
about modern electronics. Give him a good set of tools and a stack of yellowing manuals with a
carburetor needing repair, and he’d be happy as a hungry frog in a fly-field.”
Extra Credit:
1. Define Petrarchan sonnet.
2. What are the five distinct types of conflicts found in novels?
Section 4: Diagramming
Directions: Diagram the following sentences in the space at the bottom of the paper.
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Julie ran.
Julie and Steve ran.
The tall man jumped quickly.
Steve hit the wall.