Chapter 2 Answer Key
Chapter 1 Review
1. A moral person does right; an immoral person does wrong; an amoral person does not
care about morality.
2. Ed’s art teacher said that his sculpture was amorphous; it was without shape.
3. John D. Rockefeller was a magnate. Magna- means great, so a magnate is a big or
important person.
4. Every night, Dr. Jekyll underwent a bizarre metamorphosis: He changed into Mr. Hyde.
5. When Lucy was a small child, she thought her parents were omniscient. Now that she’s a
teenager, she realizes that they don’t know everything.
6. Your peripheral vision is your ability to see on the edges (of your vision).
Fill in the Blank
1. Placid 2. maleficent or malicious or malevolent 3. beneficiary
4. volition
5. implacable
6. advocate
7. equilateral
8. vociferous
9. equitable
- malpractice
Multiple Choice
1 . B The best clues here are “shabby” and “untrained.” The doctor looks
down on his colleagues. Based on what you read in this chapter, (A) means torn
between two emotions, (C) means calm, and (D) means loud or talkative. None of
these are good matches, so you are left with (B).
2 . A The clue words for the blanks are “kind” and “calm.” Bene- means
kind or good, while equ- implies having an “even” personality. The answer is (A).
3 . D “Astonishing” is an important word to notice here. The executive’s
offenses are “grave,” so we would expect him to be remorseful. Instead, he must
be either unremorseful or calm. Choice (D) means calmness, so it is the correct
answer.
4 . D Hopefully you remembered from the chapter that –voc relates to
speaking. Eliminate (C). Choices (A) and (B) are good traps, but neither one really
describes memories. In context, it would make more sense to “recall,” or
