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Adjectives and Articles Test
With Pilots...

Reading Level 2

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 is known for her ability to land large planes on short runways.	

a)	ability	b)	land 	
c)	short	d)	runways	

2. 	Ace Steel is without a doubt the best gunner among this sorry lot of louses.	

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

3. 	After losing a dog fight with Duke Deadeye, Jen Queen limped away from the smoking wreckage with a smile on her face.	

a)	wreckage	b)	smile	
c)	limped	d)	smoking	

4. 	Duke Deadeye wore an eyepatch bedazzled with sparkly jewels.	

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

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

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

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

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

7. 	Brett King had seen his share of bloody battles and wanted to negotiate for peace.	

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

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

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

9. 	Jack Juniper soared over the tallest trees from behind the yoke of his plane.	

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

10. 	Ace Steel locked on to his target with the homing missile and smiled a crooked smile.	

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

11. 	Red Raven heard rumors that the Galactic Federation was fighting a hopeless war against Baron Von Squire's forces.	

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

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

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

13. 	Jen Queen is the world's most dangerous woman when she is soaring in the cockpit of her warbird.	

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

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

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

15. 	Red Raven's plane was painted a dark shade of maroon and shimmered under the light of the moon.	

a)	maroon	b)	shade	
c)	shimmered	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 despite Queen's recent successes.	

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

17. 	Red Raven thought that Duke Deadeye was the ________ man that she had ever seen.	

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

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

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

19. 	When it came to dog fighting, 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, but Queen was flying closer to the ground.	

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

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

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

22. 	Jack Juniper figured that it would be better to crash into trees than rocks because trees are ________.	

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

23. 	It was darker now than it had been, but Baron Von Squire wanted to wait until the ________ hour of night to attack.	

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

24. 	Red Raven learned that taking out Duke Deadeye would be ________ than she 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 aircraft carrier.	

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

26. 	Ace Steel destroyed ________ target with a storm of missiles 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 with precise aim, she is also ________ honest person.	

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

28. 	Jen Queen may be ________ youngster, but she can take down ________ hostile target like a seasoned veteran.	

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

29. 	If Baron Von Squire catches a whiff of this trouble, he'll 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 together to form ________ unified front.	

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