7th Grade Language Usage

Block 3 Mastery Test

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Question #1:

Which word is an adjective in this sentence?

Brazil is larger than Portugal.

  1. than
  2. is
  3. larger

Question #2:

Is the capitalized word a noun adjective or pronoun? Nearly all of BRAZIL'S industries are in three cities.

  1. noun
  2. pronoun
  3. adjective

Question #3:

Is the capitalized word a noun adjective or pronoun?

They lived by farming SMALL patches of land and hunting animals.

  1. pronoun
  2. adjective
  3. noun

Question #4:

What question do adjectives answer?

  1. when
  2. what kind
  3. to what extent

Question #5:

Which noun is modified by the capitalized adjective?

The rainforest, beautiful and UNIQUE, is being burned.

  1. beautiful
  2. rainforest
  3. burned

Question #6:

What is the degree of the adjective in this sentence? Mrs. James was the angriest person at the meeting.

  1. positive
  2. comparative
  3. superlative

Question #7:

What is the degree of the adjective in this sentence? Reba is younger than Howard.

  1. comparative
  2. superlative
  3. positive

Question #8:

What is the degree of the adjective in this sentence? Luke's backpack is heavier than Perry's.

  1. Positive
  2. Superlative
  3. Comparative

Question #9:

What is the degree of the comparative adjective?

He is a worse studier than I am.

  1. superlative
  2. comparative
  3. positive

Question #10:

What is the degree of the adjective in this sentence?

Two of the biggest grape growing countries in westernEurope are Italy and France.

  1. positive
  2. comparative
  3. superlative

Question #11:

Which of the answer choices is an adverb?

The government quickly banned publication of many of Pasternak's novels.

  1. many
  2. novels
  3. quickly

Question #12:

Which word in the sentence is a negative?

When the Soviet Union broke apart into fifteen nations, itwas not hard to define borders.

  1. define
  2. not
  3. hard

Question #13:

Choose the word to correctly complete this sentence.

Some people ______like to hear news, music, andsports.

  1. especial
  2. especially

7th Grade Language Usage

Block 3 Mastery Test

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Question #14:

Which word does the capitalized adverb modify?

The Trans-Siberian Railway in Russia is SURELY thelongest railroad in the world.

  1. railroad
  2. world
  3. is

Question #15:

Which word does the capitalized adverb modify?

Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania did NOT join thecommonwealth.

  1. did join
  2. commonwealth
  3. Estonia

Question #16:

Whatisthedegreeofthecapitalizedadverb?

The Ganges River plain is the MOST DENSELYpopulated part of India.

  1. superlative
  2. positive
  3. comparative

Question #17:

What is the degree of comparison for this adverb?

Most frequently

  1. comparative
  2. positive
  3. superlative

Question #18:

Choose the correct word to complete this sentence. Farmers who left their land behind faced ______hardships.

  1. really
  2. real

Question #19:

Choose the correct word to complete this sentence. Hinduism is ______the principal religion of India.

  1. undoubted
  2. undoubtedly

Question #20:

Choose the correct word to complete this sentence. Islam is ______the world's second largest religion.

  1. sure
  2. surely

Question #21:

Which of these answer choices is a preposition?

In West Africa, most people still live in mud and thatchedhouses.

  1. in
  2. still
  3. most

Question #22:

Choose the word that is the object of the preposition.

Subsistence farmers are barely able to grow enoughfood for their families.

  1. farmers
  2. families
  3. barely

Question #23:

Choose the word that is the object of the preposition.

Overgrazing and drought have hastened the advance ofthe Sahara Desert into the Sahel.

  1. drought
  2. advance
  3. Sahel

Question #24:

Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?

BEFORE EUROPEAN COLONIZATION, there were noseparate countries.

  1. adverb
  2. adjective

Question #25:

Is the prepositional phrase an adjective or adverb?

The Nigerian government had used money FROM OILEXPORTS to develop industry.

  1. adjective
  2. adverb

7th Grade Language Usage

Block 3 Mastery Test

Answer Key

1. C -larger

2. C -adjective

3. B -adjective

4. B -what kind

5. B -rainforest

6. C -superlative

7. A -comparative

8. C -comparative

9. B -comparative

10. C -superlative

11. C -quickly

12. B -not

13. B -especially

14. C -is

15. A -did join

16. A -superlative

17. C -superlative

18. B -real

19. B -undoubtedly

20. B -surely

21. A -in

22. B -families

23. C -Sahel

24. A -adverb

25. A -adjective