College & Career
Grammar
A Piece of Cake
by
Cupcake Brown
Historical Identity Facts
Writing/Literary Devices
100
What is the lowest amount of money an employer is allowed to pay a worker?
minimum wage
100
What is a noun?
A noun is a person, place or thing.
100
How old was Cupcake's brother, Larry when their mother died?
He was two years older than Cupcake, which was 13.
100
What is a griot?
It is a storyteller that remembered family history and pass down the information to the next generation.
100
What type of sentence belongs at the beginning of a paragraph?
A topic sentence
200
Which of these is the total amount an employee earns for a pay period before taxes?
Gross pay
200
What is a verb?
A verb is an action word!
200
Where did Cupcake live when her mother died?
San Diego, California
200
What is the call-and-response pattern?
When a leader sang out a short bit of music and the people sang it back to him, accompanied by drums and other percussion instruments.
200
When a teacher says support your answer, what does that mean?
It means to quote evidence directly from the text!
300
Having confidence and satisfaction in yourself is called what?
self-esteem
300
What is an adjective?
An adjective describes a noun?
300
How many additional foster children came to live with Diane Dobson the next day after Cupcake & Larry.
6
300
What is a jihad?
A jihad is a holy war, which muslims begin to force the spread of the religion of Islam.
300
Identify the adjectives in this sentence: Shakira took her little booklet back to the corner office inside the school and exchanged it for the purple and green notebook that the Principal had.
little, corner,purple, green
400
A written review of an employee's job performance is call what?
job evaluation
400
What is a fragment?
A fragment is an incomplete thought.
400
What was Cupcake's favorite color?
Red
400
What is a subsistence farmer?
A subsistence farmer is an individual who grew enough crops for his own use.
400
What is the correct abbreviation for the following: Reverend Michael Edward Johnson Junior
Rev. Michael E. Johnson, Jr.
500
A percentage of money taken in from sales made is called what?
Commission
500
Choose one of the following sets that must be included in order to be considered a complete sentence: 1) Noun and adjective 2) Adverb and verb 3) Noun and verb 4) Adjective and adverb
#3) Noun and verb
500
When Cupcake and Larry were fighting before he was sent away to live with they're Daddy, how did Cupcake try to kill him?
She put rat poison in his Kool-Aid
500
In West Africa, what is bridewealth?
Bridewealth were gifts the groom's family was expected to give the bride's parent's to pay for the loss of her labor. Since she would be leaving the home to live with her husband, her family would loose her helping out in the household.
500
Which one of the conflicts does this situation describe? A woman had difficulty paying her parking ticket. She knows it's not correct, because there was no meter on the street where she parked, she believes in justice.
Man vs. Society
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