Grammar & Language
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200

Correct the error: Their going to the park.

They're (they are)

200

True or False: If something is logically valid, it must always be true.

False

200

The Roman orator famous for his speeches against Catiline.

Cicero

200

Year World War I began.

1914

200

In 2020, this sea shanty went viral on TikTok, inspiring countless meme remixes.

The Wellerman

400

The type of sentence here: Stop talking right now!

Imperative

400

The study of knowledge is called this...

epistemology

400

This author wrote Paradise Lost.

John Milton

400

The three branches of American government.

Judicial, Legislative, Executive

400

This NOCA teacher's mother also works at the school.

Miss Schutte

600

Identify the error: Neither the teacher nor the students was late today.

Should be "were late today."

600

Name the Greek philosopher who founded the Academy in Athens.

Plato

600

This historical novel published in 1859 by English author Charles Dickens, was set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution.

A Tale of Two Cities

600

The British monarch during the American Revolution.

King George III

600

This trending podcast features life at NOCA.

The Jalopy Chronicles

800

Give an example of an oxymoron.

 

800

Tabula rasa means this in philosophy.

Blank slate

800

Sophocles’ tragic hero was the ill-fated king of Thebes who ends up blind.

Oedipus

800

Name three rights protected by the First Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

800

This Pixar franchise features the voice of Tome Hanks.

Toy Story

1000

The literary term for a reference to another work of literature, history, or culture.

Allusion

1000

The Oracle at Delphi declared him the wisest man in Greece.

Socrates

1000

Hester Prynne is the heroine of this Nathaniel Hawthorne novel.

The Scarlet Letter

1000

The two capitals of the Roman Empire after the split. 

Rome and Constantinople

1000

The two NOCA teachers whose classrooms are in the same rooms of current Upper School administrators.

Mr. McNerney and Mr. Pfeiffer