This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Academic Writing > Academic Vocabulary – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Academic Vocabulary Quiz 19 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What does the word 'aid' in this sentence mean?"The aim of settlement studies is to aid the understanding and interpretation of ancient principles relating to sensitive and appropriate interaction of the built form and its associated landscape" A) To help. B) To help someone to do something illegal or wrong. C) Money, food, medicine, or other supplies. D) A piece equipment that helps you to do something. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To help. 2. The factor in an experiment that is kept the same throughout (not changed). A) Control variable. B) Independent variable. C) Data. D) Dependent variable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Control variable. 3. One example of evidence is ..... A) A simile or metaphor. B) A statement or conclusion that answers a question. C) A justification that connects the claim to the evidence. D) Scientific data that supports the claim. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scientific data that supports the claim. 4. How are drama and other forms of literature similar? A) They contain the same structure and point-of-view. B) They contain characters, plot, setting, themes, conflict and literary devices. C) They contain a cast of characters and dialogue. D) They are published in a newspaper format. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They contain characters, plot, setting, themes, conflict and literary devices. 5. A literary element that evokes certain feelings in readers through words and descriptions. A) Mood. B) Tone. C) Playwright. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mood. 6. The author wrote this selection mostly to give information. A) Vanilla ice cream. B) The main idea of a story. C) A piece of literature that you or someone else has chosen for you to read. D) The moral of a story. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A piece of literature that you or someone else has chosen for you to read. 7. My sister didn't go to university. She did a ..... course in office management. A) Nursery school. B) Vocational. C) Primary. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vocational. 8. Keith finished his work. His is the pronoun. Keith is the ..... ? A) Adjective clause. B) Abstract. C) Antecedent. D) Adverb clause. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antecedent. 9. Prohibition in the 1920's was the ..... of alcohol. A) Ban or forbidding. B) Increase. C) Advertisement. D) Multiplication. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ban or forbidding. 10. To include (something) as part of something else A) Incorporate. B) Distinguish. C) Relevant. D) Isolate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Incorporate. 11. Features on the earth's surface that were made by people. A) Human characteristics. B) Movement. C) Place. D) Location. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Human characteristics. 12. The narrator is a character in the story A) 1st Person POV. B) Character. C) 3rd Person POV. D) 2nd Person POV. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1st Person POV. 13. What is the literary/poetic device diction refer to A) Using the right word or phrase at the right time. B) Using a complicated word instead of a simple one. C) Writing two words that rhyme. D) Using many synonyms of the same word in the poem. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Using the right word or phrase at the right time. 14. One ..... to tackling the threat of global warming is to tax carbon-producing business. A) AREA. B) ROLE. C) APPROACH. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) APPROACH. 15. The SYNONYM of awareness is: A) Insight. B) Bored. C) Curious. D) Wondered. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Insight. 16. The lion hadn't eaten for three days and was beginning to look slender. A) Skeletal. B) Chubby. C) Hungry. D) Thin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Thin. 17. A suffix meaning "full of" OR "having" A) -y. B) -er. C) -less. D) -ly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -y. 18. What is the main idea of a text? A) Important words or phrases. B) A model. C) An opinion, perspectibe or position. D) What a text is mostly about. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) What a text is mostly about. 19. The zoo has a (a) of exotic animals. A) Lavish. B) Occult. C) Peripheral. D) Fledgling. E) A. menagerie. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) A. menagerie. 20. Fewer than sixty ..... of those questioned could identify the current Prime Minister. A) PERCENT. B) PERCENTAGE. C) FACTORS. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) PERCENT. 21. How the conflict or problem in a story is solved A) Metaphor. B) Solution. C) Problem. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Solution. 22. The action of explaining the meaning of something A) Replicable. B) Defend. C) Interpretation. D) Analyze. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Interpretation. 23. There is more than one way to ..... the problem. A) Interpret. B) Context. C) Approach. D) Indicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Approach. 24. A list of characters that appear in the play or drama is called a ..... They are also written in the brochure or program of the play. A) People. B) Group. C) Cast. D) Crowd. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cast. 25. Characters in the play A) Actors or actresses. B) Script. C) Dialogue. D) Playwright. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Actors or actresses. 26. Various ideas are ideas that are simply ..... A) Different. B) Strong. C) Mean the same thing. D) Simple. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Different. 27. You have to get good ..... if you want to goto university. A) Grades. B) Exams. C) Pass. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Grades. 28. What is a pronoun? A) A word that takes the place of a verb, like he, she or they. B) A word that takes the place of a noun, like he, she or they. C) A word that takes the place of a adverb, like he, she or they. D) A word that takes the place of a adjective, like he, she or they. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A word that takes the place of a noun, like he, she or they. 29. The main events of a story, play, or other literary work. These events may or may not be told in the order that they occur. A) Conflict. B) Character. C) Resolution. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plot. 30. The information or the results that you get from your experiment (you organize it into charts and graphs). A) Variables. B) Observationsconclusion. C) Data. D) Hypothesis. 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