Example of Quiz #5

AGREEMENT
Instructions: Choose the answer that correctly identifies the proper use of agreement.

1. Do you know whether the members of the drama club a) has b) have arrived for the rehearsal.

2. If Jacob is telling the truth, some of the water a) is b) are gone.

3. None of you a) believes b) believe that he is innocent?

4. a) Has b) Have any of the hikers seen the lost dog?

5. The governor as well as her assistants a) knows b) know who will vote against the bill.

6. No one seems to know a) his b) her c) his or her d) their way around the building.

7. Though Ephram found the treasure, neither of the guards a) has b) have let him take it.

8. Either the man with the cane or the three musicians a) works b) work for the CIA.

9. It seems as if a number of new dangerous diseases a) appears b) appear in the world each year.

10. It seems as if the number of dangerous diseases a) increases b) increase in the world each year.

11. Two-fifths of the vineyard a) supplies b) supply all the grapes we need to make wine.

12. She is one of those scientists who a) examines b) examine that particular star.

13. A large percentage of the older population a) votes b) vote.

14. Not only the tiger but also the monkeys a) escapes b) escape from the zoo every night.

15. Everyone in that women-only investment club should protect a) her b) their life savings.

16. Neither Mary nor her co-workers a) want b) wants to work for any other company.

17. Mary is the only one of the employees who a) believes b) believe its claims of superiority.

18. Nonetheless, she knows that there a) is b) are several companies with the same attitude.

19. Aaron thinks that each of the companies a) have b) has something it excels at and no one is best.

20. Not only Mary’s opinion but also the latest market analysis a) supports b) support her belief.

21. Her team of designers a) plans b) plan to release a game that will make a fortune.

22. Mary was happy that none of the new designs a) were b) was stolen by corporate spies.

23. The number of ways to steal games a) increase b) increases with each passing year.

24. Mary knows the media a) looks b) look for stories on corporate espionage.

25. Every year, half of the computer games produced in the world a) is b) are pirated by thieves.

Instructions: Choose the word that correctly completes each sentence.

26. Eli had to drive a) over b) more than 500 miles to find a decent sandwich.
27. Adolph Hitler is a) famous b) notorious for his implementation of what is now known as the Holocaust.
28. By the end of the party, it seemed a) as if b) like the kids were winding down.
29. Am I supposed to a) infer b) imply from your silence that you are angry?
30. When I asked the psychic a) whether b) if he thought the Ducks would win this weekend, he nodded enthusiastically and yelled, "GO DUCKS!"

Choose the word that is spelled incorrectly.

31. a) synogogue          b) ecstasy                c) committee           d) repetition
32. a) relief                   b) presumptous       c) hypocrisy            d) compelled
33. a) agreeable            b) accommodate     c) seperate               d) exceed
34. a) obsession            b) tobbaco              c) disheveled           d) arrival
35. a) threshold             b) harrass                c) ancient               d) concurred

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