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Quiz 102

DIRECTIONS: Below, you will see 10 items. Each item contains 7 lines of text. In the middle of each line is a gap (a blank line). Which word fits in all of the gaps in each set? Use the drop-down menu to make your choice. If you choose an incorrect word, it will appear next to the drop-down list. Keep trying until you choose the right word. When you finish the quiz, you will see your score. Click START OVER to try the quiz again.
Which word/phrase fits all the gaps in each set?

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[001]   Now when the Prince and his friends arrived  at the   _____  gates they went inside, locked the  gates  carefully      
[002]   friends walking around the  park.  You can visit the  _____  of Sleeping Beauty, ride on a  river boat, or have an      
[003]   able to touch them.  It was a huge and extraordinary  _____ , built to Prince  Prospero's own  plan.  It had strong     
[004] dresses  all around her. Behind them you could see the  _____ , with  British flags flying from its towers. 'I wonder     
[005]        'I'm the young queen, and I'm a prisoner in the  _____ !'  Heloise  shouted.  'Yes, and I'll rescue her,      
[006]  box  and watched while the  children built their sand- _____ .  'I'm the young queen, and I'm a prisoner in the          
[007]       a thousand happy men and women rang  through the  _____ .  Then came the hour of midnight, and  once  again dan     


	
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[001] Hydraulic  owns 7,000  acres or 42 percent of the land  _____ . First Selectman  Anthony  Colonnese says he thinks      
[002]   cheeses melted to a  tantalizingly fragrant cohesive  _____ . A platter of apple wedges, button mushrooms, carrots     
[003]    satiny strip steak topped with frizzled onions or a  _____  of  meltingly delicious mushrooms and onions flavored      
[004] membership which turned the citizens'  militias into a  _____  movement. Waco, which seemed new  and  inexplicable      
[005]   of  working-class culture and examination of the new  _____  culture. It  became  a seminal book. After a lecture     
[006]                            conceived the importance of  _____  producing this basic tool for general use.       
[007] for the smallest particles, which must have a higher    _____  density to remain in the solar system in the presence      


	
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[001]                    The first winners of Best Actor and  _____   awards are not very famous today       
[002] ave you been in many films?'  'Well, I'm not really an  _____ ,' said Miss Moss. 'I'm a trained  singer. But things     
[003]  parts of speech for the same  word - 'act,' 'actor,' ' _____ ,' or adjective 'active,' adverb  'actively,'      
[004]  Kate Winslet played Jack's  lover, Rose.  The British  _____  was also born in 1974.  Winslet was not interested in      
[005]            'Dorian Gray falls in love with a beautiful  _____  who plays  Juliet.  He asks her to marry him. Why not?     
[006]                     Joyce Ebert, a versatile character  _____  for more than 30  years  with the Long Wharf Theater      
[007]                       Judy Dench won a Best Supporting  _____  award for Shakespeare in Love.  She played Queen Eliza


	
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[001]  Are you ever thinking of coming back to  England?  K:  _____ , I'm still fond of London and Londoners -  but not yet  
[002]           boy! Tell your mother I'll come and see her   _____ ,  will you?' And Morse  stared at Edward for a few  sec     
[003] it's been so interesting. Perhaps we shall meet again   _____ ...'  Mr Mybug jumped at this remark,    
[004]    and now I think it's been  long enough. I hope that  _____  you'll come back to  Mungwi.  My house is waiting for      
[005]                  everyone made a  fool  of  themselves  _____  or other when they had drunk too  much,    
[006] erhaps you could give your statement to Sergeant Lewis  _____  next week?'  'Monday? Will that be all right?'       
[007] Mr Jackson, you saw someone else going into  number 9   _____  in the afternoon?'  'I'm getting old, I don't remember   


	
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[001]  after school. It  was cool. Hu loved to read, and the  _____ , Miss Paula, helped her find new and interesting books     
[002]   recent fiction rentals, knows what it is to hear the  _____  say apologetically, "I'm sorry, but we don't have that     
[003] Mr. Mikochik is a computer programmer; his wife is  a   _____ . The income from their bed-and-breakfast helps pay  th     
[004] rofessional assistants, graduate students, abstractors, _____ ,   technical editor, machine operators, secretarial      
[005] about what was happening in Budapest. I had  asked the  _____  for this newspaper for every month of January, startin     
[006] BERTS: In 1973, I got my first proper adult job  as a   _____ , working at the British Council in Bangkok.      
[007] he man had left the room.  Later, Mr Dunning asked the  _____  if he knew the large  man's name.  Oh yes. That's Mr K     


	
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[001]           A policeman  came by, and  they asked him:  ' _____  house is that?'  'Mr Dorian Gray's, sir,' was the answ     
[002]  here I am.' 'We're happy you've come.'  'Thank: you.   _____  room am I in?' Karen looked around.      
[003]  Austin,' she  said at last, I cannot tell a secret.'   _____  secret? Catherine's? Mr Townsend's? If it is his,      
[004]      'Stop,? said Villefort, as Dantes took his hat.  ' _____   name and address are on the letter? '      
[005]     One family that moved west was the Ingalls family,  _____  daughter Laura Ingalls Wilder told  the  story of      
[006]    Then there is the work of the artist Edward Hopper,  _____   pictures of ordinary American people, streets, and      
[007]            It is also the home of the  United Nations,  _____  offices are in a beautiful glass  skyscraper.    


	
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[001]    He immediately noticed the letter, and he knew the   _____  on it.  He saw that the woman looked worried       
[002]          It was addressed to the Minister in a woman's  _____ .  "I knew almost immediately that it was the stolen      
[003]    Then he had calmly written a note in his brother's   _____ , thrown the stylograph into the quarry after his broth     
[004] held it while  Joyce read the letter: a single page of  _____ . Then she handed the letter to him.  Dear Joyce I want     
[005]     on an envelope  addressed to her in Charles's neat  _____ .  She was extremely annoyed. 'My letters, please,' she     
[006]  and  written on thin, lined paper in childish,  messy  _____ . It  said:  Dear Cousin,  So you want your rights at      
[007]    second piece of paper, written in Boom Boom's tiny   _____ , listed six dates when Pole Star had lost contracts      


	
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[001]  My wife and I needed to get something from the cellar  _____  the house.  The cat followed us  down the  steps    
[002]  three boards from the wooden floor,  and hid the body  _____ .  Finally, I replaced the wooden  boards  with great      
[003]  the yellow on top, 'over  easy' means with the yellow  _____  but still soft.  With  your breakfast you can drink as     
[004]    A few minutes later they found some large rocks and  _____  them,  in the side of the hill,  was a large hole,       
[005] he was only wearing a thick winter  coat, with nothing  _____ .  All the players wondered what Allison was doing with     
[006] ar was found on  its side by the bridge.  A river ran   _____  the road there, and the car was lying next to the  bri   
[007]    , dug away some more  of the grass to see the stone  _____ . As he did so, a  piece of earth fell inwards, showing     


	
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[001]  Each man marched behind a large shield, each carried a  _____ . The Germans were caught between two walls of death.      
[002]  Maximus was trapped  between two Germans. He swung his  _____  around in a  circle, striking both men dead.      
[003]    both men dead. Then he rode forward, again,  and his  _____  cut through, the enemy soldiers in his path.       
[004]  terror on the officer's face and immediately swung his  _____  around, cutting off his  attacker's head.      
[005]     to the first man, he saw his chance and  pushed the  _____  through his body.  On the road above, Cornelius and Sa     
[006]        with a deep cut to his shoulder from Cornelius's  _____ . He fought the pain and moved toward the horses.       
[007]     my king,' he said. Only the next king can pull the   _____  out of the stone.  Many people try, but they cannot        


	
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[001]                          He still had his little girl,  _____  he named Catherine after her  poor mother.      
[002]          He  spent most of  it on his daughter, Peggy,  _____  he loved very much.  '     
[003]   birds,  fish, a dog, chickens, and a cat.  This cat,  _____  we called Pluto, was a large black cat.  He  was a  be     
[004] For the first  time he  looked shocked.  'Murdered? By  _____ ?'  'By his brother.'  'Simon? But my dear Brat, that's     
[005]    into an  organization with 55,000 members,  most of  _____  are parents and friends of mentally handicapped people     
[006]  T he main characters in this story are Ibos, most of   _____  live to  the east  of the great Niger River     
[007]  piece of paper. I pulled it out. It was a letter:  To  _____  It May Concern:  This letter is carried by Howard Great