Lesson 1
Choose the answer that best completes the sentence. There may be more than one technically correct
wer, but one will be more closely related to the italicized vocabulary word than the others.

1. Joe was alienated from the Shakespeare
convention when he admitted that he

A. likes mythology
B. had been to Verona, Italy
C. was a playwright
D. hates reading plays
E. loves Hamlet

5. If two swordsmen continue to parry each
other's advances, then the fencing competition
may be considered

A. exciting
B. frightening
C. a draw
D. poorly matched
E. over

2. A ruffian is someone who
A. follows the law
B. forgets to study
C. does not sleep
D. breaks the law
E. enforces the law


6. Jack's licentious behavior eventually led to his

A. decision to go back to school
B. arrest
C. recognition as a model student
D. retirement
E. release from prison