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Capitalization Test 1
On Adventure!

Identifying Capitalization Errors

Choose the word that is incorrectly capitalized.

1. Bruce Hand, the famous adventurer, was on his way to africa.

a. Hand 						b. famous 

c. adventurer						d. africa	

2. He was searching for a rare plant that could cure Athlete's foot. 		
a. Athlete's						b. plant 

c. rare 							d. foot

3. He landed his small plane by the Nile river in the Republic of South Sudan. 

a. plane 						b. Nile 

c. river							d. of

4. Bruce Hand put Bronson and bronson's Suncream 4000 on his nose. 

a. Bronson 						b. bronson's

c. Suncream 						d. his 

5. By the time he finished applying Sunblock, Bruce Hand had already been captured by a hostile tribe.

a. hostile 						b. Sunblock

c. tribe							d. finished 

6. The leader of the tribe, chief Watsu Bangu, gave Bruce Hand a chance to dance for his freedom. 

a. leader 						b. freedom 

c. tribe							d. chief 

7. Bruce Hand was doing the hokey pokey, but the tribe panicked when he tried to take his Right foot out.

a. foot 							b. Right 

c. Hand 						d. tribe 

8. Bruce Hand awoke hours later to a nice Woman helping him remove the poisonous darts from his neck.

a. Woman 	 					b. poisonous 

c. darts 						d. neck

9. Bruce Hand turned to the beautiful woman wearing the beaded dress and asked, "what day is it?"

a. woman  						b. beaded 

c. what 						d. Hand 

10. She removed a heavy dart from his neck and said, "Today is thursday, Mr. Hand."

a. Mr.	 						b. Today 

c. Thursday						d. Hand

11.  "I haven't been sleeping too long then," said Bruce, "But how do you know my name?"

a. I 	 						b. But 

c. said 							d. name

12.  "Everybody knows the famous Adventurer, Bruce Hand," she replied. 

a. Adventurer 						b. she 

c. famous 						d. replied

13. "Then why did you shoot me with your blowguns?" asked Bruce Hand while rubbing his Neck.

a. asked  						b. Then 

c. Hand 						d. Neck

14. "We did not recognize you with sunblock on your nose," She laughed.

a. We 	 						b. sunblock 

c. She 							d. nose

15. Bruce Hand was invited to dine with Chief Watsu Bangu and his Wife, Kathy. 

a. dine 	 						b. Chief 

c. Kathy						d. Wife

16. Kathy is from the Watutu Tribe, but she and Watsu Bangu met at the Sudan university of Technology.

a. Watutu  						b. Sudan 

c. university 						d. of 

17. Bruce Hand wept while he heard the tale of their love, one that would rival Romeo And Juliet.

a. love	 						b. And 

c. one							d. Juliet

18. That's when Bruce Hand remembered his own wife, mrs. Hand, was waiting for him at home. 

a. mrs. 	 						b. wife

c. Hand						d. home

19. Bruce Hand told Kathy And Chief Watsu Bangu the story of his wife's itchy feet.

a. wife's 						b. Chief  

c. story 						d. And

20. The Chief was moved by the adventurer's tale and led him to the rare plant that he sought.

a. Chief  						b. adventurer's

c. tale 							d. plant