Practice for EOCT!

1. English Jeopardy
Parts of Speech Writing Prefixes Suffixes Literature
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3. A-100
• Answer: A word that takes
the place of a noun or a
pronoun.
• Question: What is a
pronoun?
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4. A-200
• ANSWER: A word that represents a
person, place or thing
• QUESTION: What is a noun?
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5. A-300
• ANSWER: A word that describes a noun
or pronoun
• QUESTION: What is an adjective?
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6. A-400
• ANSWER: A word that modifies a verb,
an adjective or an adverb
• QUESTION: What is an adverb?
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7. A-500
• ANSWER: A verb that shows a condition
or a state of being.
• QUESTION: What is a linking verb?
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8. B-100
• ANSWER: The number of paragraphs a
good essay should have.
• QUESTION: What is five?
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9. B-200
• Answer: The first stage of the writing
process.
• Question: What is pre-writing?
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10. B-300
• Answer: Reading and checking for
correctness.
• Question: What is proofreading?
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11. B-400
• Answer: The space that should occur at the
beginning of a paragraph.
• Question: What is an indent, or indentation?
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12. B-500
• ANSWER: The last stage of the writing
process
• QUESTION: What is publishing?
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13. C-100
• ANSWER: A syllable that is attached to
the beginning of a root or base word and
changes the meaning of that word.
• QUESTION: What is a prefix?
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14. C-200
• ANSWER: “pre-”
• QUESTION: What is a prefix that means
“before?”
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15. C-300
ANSWER: A prefix that means
“to go across”
QUESTION: What is “trans-?”
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16. C-400
• ANSWER: A prefix that means “with”
• QUESTION: What is “con-?”
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17. C-500
• ANSWER: The meaning of the prefixes
dis-, il-, im-, in-, un-, and non-
• QUESTION: What is “not?”
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18. D-100
• ANSWER: One of the suffixes that
makes a word plural
• QUESTION: What is “-s” or “es?”
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19. D-200
• ANSWER: A suffix that represents the
most of something.
• QUESTION: What is “-est?”
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20. D-300
• ANSWER: A suffix that changes the
meaning of a verb to show a process
(puts it in the progressive tense).
• QUESTION: What is “-ing?”
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21. D-400
ANSWER: A suffix that
changes a verb to the past
participle
QUESTION: What is “-ed?”
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22. D-500
• ANSWER: Suffix that means “more.”
• QUESTION: What is “-er” or “-ier?”
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23. E-100
• ANSWER: The name of the genre that
tells a story.
• QUESTION: What is “fiction?”
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24. E-200
• ANSWER: A story about someone’s life.
• QUESTION: What is a biography?
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25. E-300
• ANSWER: A type of story that includes
unrealistic, impossible, often dreamlike
effects.
• QUESTION: What is a fantasy?
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26. E-400
• ANSWER: The turning point, or moment
of highest “drama” in a story or play.
• QUESTION: What is the crisis or
climax?
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27. E-500
• ANSWER: The alphabetical listing of the
contents of a book.
• QUESTION: What is the index?
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28. FINAL JEOPARDY
• ANSWER: Ms. Blankenship’s favorite
food.
• QUESTION: What is chocolate?
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