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How Creative Are You?
Pre-Test
Finish These Ten Simple Sentences and Find Out.
INSTRUCTIONS:
For each one of the following expressions, choose the ending that is not necessarily more familiar, but which is more
appealing than all the other endings. There are no right or wrong answers. Do not deliberate or analyze.
Select the best liked ending and go quickly on to the next expression.
1. Straight as __________
A. a ruler
B. a stickpin
C. a pig’s tail
D. an arrow
E. a freight train
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6. Crooked as __________
A. a mile
B. a creek
C. a pin
D. a stick
E. a smook
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2. Green as __________
A. leaves
B. a golf green
C. a ghost
D. grass
E. a gremlin’s grin
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7. Black as __________
A. tar
B. a vulture
C. bleach
D. coal
E. a beetle’s blink
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3. Light as __________
A. foam
B. a lizard’s lick
C. a lever
D. a feather
E. a boulder
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8. Crazy as __________
A. a nut
B. a kook
C. a cop
D. a loon
E. a daisy
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4. Dry as __________
A. a stone
B. a drought
C. a drip
D. a bone
E. a fly’s eye
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9. Poor as __________
A. a bum
B. a pauper
C. Fort Knox
D. a church mouse
E. a pickle
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4. Snug as __________
A. a bird in the nest
B. a crook in a nook
C. a fish in the dish
D. a bug in a rug
E. a bow in the snow
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9. Roar like __________
A. a beast
B. the rapids
C. a bore
D. a lion
E. a rabbit
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The Author:
Judith M. Michaels is a private consultant from Green Bay, Wisconsin. You can reach her at Judmichaels@aol.com
Different languages — I mean the actual vocabularies, the idioms — have worked out certain mechanisms of communication and registration. No one language is complete. A master may be continually expanding his own tongue, rendering it fit to bear some charge hitherto borne only by some other alien tongue, but the process does not stop with any one man. While Proust is learning Henry James, preparatory to breaking through certain French paste-board partitions, the whole American speech is churning and chugging, and every other tongue doing likewise.
— Ezra Pound, "How to Read," 1929
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Assistant Professor of Foreign Language Education
in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction,
the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.
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