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JEOPARDY PAS C

Definition

Question: Define Shrewd
Answer: Having a sharp awareness and good sense

Question: Define reservation 
Answer: an area of land set aside for the use of an American Indian group

Question: Define bleak
Answer: cold; dreary; cheerless

Question: Define Elevation
Answer: The height of something with relation to a point of reference, such as sea level

Question: Define strain
Answer: To make excessive demands upon, or stretch to the limit

People

Question: Who wrote All things are Linked
Answer: no one but the book has said it came African Folktale

Question: Who wrote Can Wolves Save Trees?

a. You
b. Tracy Hightower
c.Eve Rice

Answer: B

Question: Who wrote the Crow and the water jug

a. Eve Rice
b.Gary Soto
c. Kinda Sue Park

Answer: a

Question: Who wrote Fly Pretty Bird

a. Langston Hughes
b. Gladys Weeks
c. Angel Ramon

Answer: b

Question: Who wrote The Choice

a. Frances M. Wood
b. Maya Johnson
c. Edward Fenton
d.Krystal Nyman

Answer: a.

Fill in the blank

Question: The moon looks like a_________ to us during its lunar cycles?
Answer: crescent

Question: "As a result, the moon__________Earth." (similar to keeping distance)
Answer: stays away from

Question: based on Old time farm and the Hot N' Speedy Burger Bite"
Jessie thinks that milking cows and making butter and cheese is_____, but Joe thinks it is _____.

Answer: Cool, hard

Question: based on "Cash:As Good as Gold... Or is it?

They believe gold is _______ than cash.

Answer: safer

Question: "Cash: As Good as Gold... Or is it?"

The _______for _______ strain on the supply of gold.

Answer: Demand, paper

Multiple Choice

Question: Based on "Which do you love more? A Small Town or a Big City? Which inference can be made about a city according to the selection?
a. It is hard to find delicious food to eat in a city
b.It is easy to find taxis in a city
c. People are always very tired from moving around quickly
d. Taking a cab is the safest way to move around in a city.

Answer: b. 

Question: from "Which do you love more? A small town or a big city?"

What does "pain in the neck" mean in this selection
a.silent
b.very slow
c. unpleasant
d.harmful 

Answer: c.

Question: based on "stop the sprawl"
Which  is NOT an effect of sprawl?
a. there are more traffic jams
b.people have to pay more taxes
c.the air is polluted
d. more people move into a city's center

Answer: d.

Question: based on "these shoes of mine"
Tio Jose describes his "huaraches" as beaten up or work out. Which of the following gives you a clue to the meaning of "huaraches"?
a.Manuel scribbles a note as lights dim.
b. Tio Jose rises, sleepily rubbing his face.
c. A rooster crows offstage.
d. Manuel examines his uncle's work sandals.

Answer: D.

Question: based on "Jeans, Prices, and Inflation"
What would happen if there were less cotton for sale?
a. The price of cotton would go down.
b.The demand for cotton would go down.
c.The price of Blue Sky's jeans would go up.
d. The demand for Blue Sky's jeans would stay the same.

Answer: C.

50/50

Question: Lineage is written by

Margaret Walker/Mia Lewis

Answer: Margaret Walker

Question: Who wrote Old time Farm and the hot and speedy Burger bite

Dorothy Rhoads /Mia Lewis

Answer: Mia Lewis

Question: Something that fails to work or its ineffective

Duty/dud

Answer: dud

Question: To make great effort

stress/strive

Answer: strive

Question: Playful and knowing

Sly/shrewd

Answer: sly