Chapter 4 Review
Before beginning Chapter 5, let’s see how much you remember from the previous
chapter with this fill-in-the-blank exercise. You can check your answers on this page.
1. Our amiable guide made us feel ______________ in what would otherwise
have been a cold and forbidding museum.
2. The credulous housewife ______________ that she had won a million dollars
through an e-mail scam.
3. The accountant’s ______________ made him culpable in the tax-fraud case.
4. In elocution class, Brad learned ______________.
5. Babies can mash food into their hair with impunity; no one ______________
them.
6. The intractable child was ______________ to his nursery school teacher.
7. Hubert’s remarks were few but lucid: He ______________ the complicated
issue with just a handful of well-chosen words.
8. The snow on the ground appeared eerily luminous at night; it seemed to
______________.
9. It would be easier to trust Charlotte if she had a reputation for being veracious
—but she doesn’t. In fact, she’s been called a ______________ many times
before.