OMAM Final Test Mini Review

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the provided sentence.

Jenny will often _________ questions she does not want to answer.

• dwell

• elude

• intricate

• irrevocable

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the provided sentence.

The _________ design of the Statue of David is truly amazing.

• dwell

• elude

• intricate

• irrevocable.

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the provided sentence.

Mark tries not to _______ on past mistakes because he can't go back to fix them.

• dwell

• elude

• intricate

• irrevocable

Choose the vocabulary word that best completes the provided sentence.

Many view marriage as an ________ bond, believing it will never end.

• dwell

• elude

• intricate

• irrevocable

The sentences listed below are choppy and ineffective. What is the best way to revise these sentences?

Like many aspiring writers, he moved to New York City. He supported himself with jobs as a journalist and laborer, and worked on writing his first novel, Cup of Gold.

• He moved to New York City and worked on writing his first novel; like many aspiring writers, he called his first novel Cup of Gold, and he also supported himself with jobs as a journalist and laborer while he was writing his first novel.

• While working on writing his first novel, he moved to New York City, and he supported himself as a journalist and laborer; he called his first novel Cup of Gold.

• Like many aspiring writers, he moved to New York City, where he supported himself with jobs as a journalist and a laborer while writing his first novel, Cup of Gold.

• Supporting himself and moving to New York City, he worked as a writer and laborer, and he wrote Cup of Gold, his first novel.

Read the sentence below. What change needs to be made?

John Steinbeck comes from a solid, middle class family, but he became known for his novels the sympathetically showed the hard lives of poor people. 

• Change comes to came

• Omit the comma after solid

• Omit the comma after family

• Change sympathetically to sympatheticaly

Read the sentence below. What change needs to be made?

Steinbecks own beginnings were what many people would consider average, which may account for why he sought out unusual jobs and experiences later in life.

• Change Steinbecks to Steinbeck’s

• Change beginnings to beginings

• Insert a semicolon after average

• Change sought to seeked

Read the sentence below. What change is needed?

After he graduated from high school Steinbeck went to Stanford University in northern California.

• Insert a comma after graduated

• Insert a comma after school

• Change University to university

• Change northern to Northern

Read the sentence below. What change, if any, should be made?

All three are set in California, and all three deal with the daily struggles people face when trying to survive a life of hard work and poverty.

• Change California to california

• Delete the comma after California

• Change deal to deals

• No change should be made in this sentence.

Read the sentence below. What change, if any, should be made?

Steinbeck probably never would of been able to write so realistically about the harsh living conditions of the poor migrant workers if he had not gone to live and work with them.

• Change would of to would have

• Change realistically to realisticaly

• Change hadn’t to had’nt

• No change should be made in sentence 21.