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Adjectives and Articles Test
With Pilots...

Reading Level 1

Part One | Identifying Adjectives

Directions: Read each of the following sentences. Determine which of your answer choices is being used as an adjective. Circle your response.

1. 	Red Raven can land a large plane on a short runway.	

a)	land 	b)	plane	
c)	short	d)	runway	

2. 	Ace Steel is the best gunner among this sorry lot of louses.	

a)	lot	b)	best	
c)	Ace Steel	d)	is	

3. 	Jen Queen walked away from the smoking wreck with a smile on her face.	

a)	wreck	b)	smile	
c)	walked	d)	smoking	

4. 	Duke Deadeye wore a patch with sparkly jewels on it.	

a)	patch	b)	sparkly	
c)	wore	d)	jewels	

5. 	Red Raven spun her plane around and flew it between two huge oak trees.	

a)	spun	b)	plane	
c)	trees	d)	huge	

6. 	Baron Von Squire was making an evil plan in his lair.	

a)	lair	b)	making	
c)	evil	d)	plan	

7. 	Brett King had seen his share of bloody battles and he now wanted peace.	

a)	bloody	b)	peace	
c)	share	d)	battles	

8. 	Jen Queen hit the red button on her dash just before her plane crashed.	

a)	crashed	b)	dash	
c)	plane	d)	red	

9. 	Jack Juniper flew over the tallest trees in his plane.	

a)	tallest	b)	over	
c)	plane	d)	trees	

10. 	Ace Steel locked on to his target and smiled a crooked smile.	

a)	locked	b)	crooked	
c)	target	d)	smile	

11. 	Red Raven heard rumors that the Galactic Federation was tied up in a hopeless war.	

a)	Galactic Federation	b)	rumors	
c)	hopeless	d)	war	

12. 	Duke Deadeye gave a blank stare to Jen Queen as she put the cuffs on his wrists.	

a)	put	b)	wrists	
c)	blank	d)	she	

13. 	Jen Queen is a dangerous woman when she is in her warbird.	

a)	warbird	b)	bird	
c)	woman	d)	dangerous	

14. 	The bright sun blinded Ace Steel as he came in for a landing.	

a)	bright	b)	landing	
c)	came	d)	blinded	

15. 	Red Raven's plane was painted a dark shade of maroon.	

a)	maroon	b)	shade	
c)	was	d)	dark	

Part Two | Choosing the Correct Adjectival Form

Directions: Choose the answer that will best complete each sentence. Circle your response.

16. 	Red Raven is a ________ pilot than Jen Queen.	

a)	more good	b)	better	
c)	gooder	d)	best	

17. 	Duke Deadeye is the ________ man that I have ever seen.	

a)	bigger	b)	most big	
c)	biggest	d)	more big	

18. 	Ace Steel feared Duke Deadeye but he was ________ of Baron Von Squire.	

a)	afraider	b)	afraidest	
c)	more afraid	d)	more afraider	

19. 	Brett King could be just as ________ as Baron Von Squire.	

a)	sneaky	b)	sneakier	
c)	sneakiest	d)	more sneaky	

20. 	Jen Queen's warbird was ________ than Red Raven's.	

a)	slower	b)	slowest	
c)	more slow	d)	more slower	

21. 	Ace Steel may be smarter than most of these pilots, but Red Raven is the ________ pilot in the fleet.	

a)	smarter	b)	more smart	
c)	smartest	d)	most smartest	

22. 	It is better to crash into trees than rocks because trees are ________.	

a)	softer	b)	more soft	
c)	more softer	d)	softest	

23. 	Baron Von Squire wanted to wait until the ________ hour of night to attack.	

a)	darker	b)	most dark	
c)	darkest	d)	most darkest	

24. 	Beating Duke Deadeye would be ________ than Red Raven had thought.	

a)	hard	b)	harder	
c)	more hard	d)	more harder	

Part Three | Articles

Directions: Circle the pair of articles that best completes each sentence. 

25. 	Red Raven had ________ clear shot at ________ enemy's airbase.	

a)	a, a	b)	the, a	
c)	an, the	d)	a, the	

26. 	Ace Steel hit ________ target and then flew off into ________ sunset.	

a)	an, the	b)	the, a	
c)	the, an	d)	the, the	

27. 	Red Raven is not only ________ expert pilot, she is also ________ honest person.	

a)	a, a	b)	a, an	
c)	an, a	d)	an, an	

28. 	Jen Queen may be ________ young pilot, but she knows how to take down ________ hostile target.	

a)	a, a	b)	a, an	
c)	an, a	d)	an, an	

29. 	Baron Von Squire will have his entire fleet in ________ air within ________ hour.	

a)	a, the	b)	the, an	
c)	the, a	d)	an, the	

30. 	Brett King got all of ________ pilots to form ________ unified front.	

a)	a, the	b)	an, the	
c)	the, a	d)	the, an