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Adjectives and Articles Test
With Pilots...

Reading Level 3

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 renowned 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 lechers, louses, and lethargic lumps.	

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

3. 	After an encounter 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's eyepatch was bedazzled with sparkly rhinestones.	

a)	eyepatch 	b)	sparkly	
c)	was	d)	rhinestones	

5. 	Red Raven spun her plane around and flew it between two humongous redwood trees.	

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 	Jack Juniper soared over the tallest trees while seated behind the yoke of his aircraft.	

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

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

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

11. 	Red Raven heard rumors that the Galactic Federation would soon be dragged into a hopeless war against Baron Von Squire's forces.	

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

12. 	Duke Deadeye snickered and gave a blank stare to Jen Queen as she slapped the handcuffs 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 through the skies in the cockpit of her warbird.	

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

14. 	The brilliant sun blinded Ace Steel as he approached the aircraft carrier for a landing.	

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

15. 	Red Raven's plane was painted a dark shade of maroon and shimmered under the light of the summer 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 on bombing missions.	

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

17. 	Duke Deadeye was the ________ man that Red Raven had ever seen and she was surprised that he could fit into his plane.	

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

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

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

19. 	When it came to aerial combat, 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 to compensate.	

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

21. 	Ace Steel may be smarter than most of these reckless 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 land on the trees rather than the rocks because trees are ________.	

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

23. 	It was darker than it had been earlier, 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 Duke Deadeye out of the sky would be ________ than she had originally 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 and she decided to take it.	

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

26. 	Ace Steel devastated ________ 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 battle-hardened 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 armed and 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 against Baron Von Squire's evil forces.	

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