Speech
Mr. Steward:
"'I'm afraid I'm not at liberty to tell you that...However, I assure you the organization is of international scope.'"
a. calm b. secretive c. reserved
b. secretive
Melinda Alice:
“‘Oh no,’ grimaced Melinda Alice. Her thoughts raced; ‘That darned snail made me late, and I forgot to study.”
a. resentful b. jealous c. hateful
a. resentful
Melinda Alice:
“She was called - never to her face, however - Melinda Malice.”
a. impolite b. judgemental c. cruel
c. cruel
Mrs. Jones:
"Now, here, take this ten dollars and buy yourself some blue suede shoes."
a. altruistic b. friendly c. polite
a. altruistic
Melinda Alice:
"'My first wish is that my next thousand wishes come true.' She smiled triumphantly and opened her bag to take out a small notebook and pencil to keep track.'
a. estatic b. happy c. proud
c. proud
Arthur:
"The point is, Norma...what's the difference whom you kill? It's still murder."
a. nice b. moral c. friendly
b. moral
Norma:
"I'm going to be late, she thought. She shrugged. What difference did it make? She should be home, anyway, not working in an office."
a. stressed about work b. lonely c. unhappy with her life
c. unhappy with her life
Guard about Boris:
"You'll learn your lesson...Maybe they'll let you out after a few months. But you're a tough one. I know what you did to get inside. You don't deserve anybody's pity."
a. Troublemaker b. Misunderstood c. Full of Malice
C. Full of Malice
Boris:
"Seven years ago, he had committed a crime. It was a crime so terrible that even he could not believe that he had done it."
a. Mean b. Immoral c. Unfair
b. Immoral
Melinda Alice:
"Wish number two, that I will always be perfectly dressed,' and she was just that. True her new outfit was not a lot different from the one she had worn leaving the house, but that only meant Melinda Alice liked her own taste."
a. vain b. selfish c. pretty
a. vain
Boris:
"'You don't have to put me in solitary...I'll never try that again. I promise!'"
a. Fearful b. Angry c. Offended
Norma:
"Reaching out, she pressed it down. For us, she thought angrily."
a. anxious b. contemptuous c. depressed
b. contemptuous
Roger:
"If I turn you loose, will you run?"
"Yes'm."
a. polite b. fair c. honest
c. honest
"She couldn't seem to breathe. She struggled to her feet and walked into the kitchen numbly."
a. shocked b. amazed c. surprised
a. shocked
Roger:
"'Um-hum! And your face is dirty..."
"He looked as if he were fourteen or fifteen, frail and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and blue jeans."
a. uncleanly b. disadvantaged c. lazy
b. disadvantaged
Arthur:
"What are you talking about?" Arthur asked him.
"Is this a practical joke?" asked Arthur.
"You aren't making sense," Arthur said. "You expect us to believe-"
a. annoyed b. confused c. incredulous
c. incredulous
Norma:
"Norma closed her eyes. Fifty thousand dollars, she thought."
a. acquisitive (interested in acquiring money)
b. driven (motivated)
c. rapacious (aggressively greedy)
a. acquisitive
Mrs. Jones:
"The boy wanted to say something other than, "Thank You m'am" to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones, but although his lips moved, he couldn't even say that as he turned at the foot of the barren stoop and looked up at the large woman in the door."
a. benevolent (well meaning and kindly)
b. considerate (careful to not cause inconvenience to others)
c. magnanimous (generous and forgiving)
a. magnanimous
Boris:
"His breath started to come in short gasps. His heart pounded. Boris turned to the guard."
a. anxious b. sad c. angry
a. anxious
"Norma, no.' His face was white."
a. frightened b. surprised c. crazed
a. frightened
Mrs. Jones:
"...And next time, do not make the mistake of latching onto my pocketbook, nor nobody else's - because shoes come by devilish like that will burn your feet."
a. wise b. smart c. clever
a. wise
Melinda Alice:
“After thinking for a while, she wrote, ‘Wish number three. I wish for pierced ears and small gold earrings.’ Her father had not allowed Melinda to have pierced hears, but now she had them anyway.”
a. selfish b. defiant c. untrustworthy
b. defiant
Mrs. Jones:
"But the boy took care to sit on the far side of the room where he thought she could easily see him out of the corner of her eye, if she wanted to. He did not trust the woman to not trust him. And he did not want to be mistrusted now."
a. Respected b. Kind c. Charitable
a. respected
Norma:
"The package was lying by the front door. Norma saw it as she left the elevator....She glared at the carton as she unlocked the door...Later, she went into the front hall. Opening the door, she picked up the package and carried it into the kitchen, leaving it on the table...After a while, she went back into the kitchen to turn the cutlets in the broiler. She put the package in a bottom cabinet. She'd throw it out in the morning."
a. disturbed by the unit b. obessed with the unit c. fearful of the unit
b. obsessed with the unit
Mrs. Jones:
"She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but hammer and nails."
a. old b. hard-working c. strong
c. strong