MS QB - online practice #1

The Coral Sea is what direction from Australia?

• due east

• northeast

• southwest

• southeast

• northwest

What is not in this example of a bad simile? Jane was swept away by the handsome stranger like a tiny dust bunny in the roaring cacophony of a gas-powered leaf blower.

• adverb

• past tense

• dependent clause

• prepositional phrase

• adjective in the positive degree

In which Italian town is there a marble tower which inclines over sixteen feet from the perpendicular?

• Pisa

• Milan

• Genoa

• Naples

• Venice

What is the product of the smallest and largest prime factors of 273?

• 21

• 39

• 46

• 64

• 91

Which story is not set somewhere in Europe?

• Dracula

• Born Free

• The Invisible Man

• The Diary of Anne Frank

• The Pied Piper of Hamelin

What Carthaginian general crossed the Alps with his army to surprise the Romans?

• Pompey

• Darius

• Hannibal

• Augustus Caesar

• Alexander the Great

Which did not occur in the 19th century?

• Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo

• Santa Anna's attack on the Alamo

• Cornwallis' surrender at Yorktown

• Simon Bolivar's liberation of Venezuela

• Spain's loss of Cuba and the Philippines

You cut a sheet of paper in two. Then you stack them and cut both halves in two again, and continue until you have made a total of 7 such cuts. The paper is now in how many pieces?

• 16

• 32

• 64

• 128

• 256

A lemonade concentrate is to be mixed at a ratio of 9 parts water to 2 parts concentrate. How many pints of water should be added to 7 pints of concentrate?

• 29.5

• 31.5

• 33.5

• 35.5

• 37.5

Which line has fewer syllables than this line? No one loves the man whom he fears.

• Malice hath a strong memory.

• Silence is wisdom's best reply.

• Ill fortune seldom comes alone.

• The good man is his own friend.

• The coward calls himself cautious.