Agreement: Choose the correct subject-verb agreement.
1. A large percentage of officers a) votes b) vote.
2. The number of ways to fix the warp core a) increase b) increases with each hot-headed engineer.
3. The captain as well as her officers a) knows b) know who will vote against the bill.
Word Use: Choose the correct word or phrase.
4. Eli had to drive a) over b) more than 500 miles to find a decent sandwich.
5. By the end of the party, it seemed a) as if b) like the kids were winding down.
6. The a) enormity b) enormousness of the Cardassian conflict is astounding and gross.
7. The captain should be more a) discrete b) discreet with the crew.
8. The senior staff was a) anxious b) eager for the interrogations to begin.
Punctuation: Choose the incorrectly punctuated sentence.
9.
a) She gave her opinion on the tactical situation, but offered no facts.
b) The slow-moving starship is an easy target.
c) Was Captain Janeway telling the truth when she said she was not a "bad captain"?
d) all are correct
10.
a) Ensign Swirdoff tried to fix his mistake; however, he only made it worse
b) The captain offered three words of motivation: perseverance, precision and patients.
c) Cleo learned one thing in survival school: Don’t get lost in the wilderness.
d) all are correct
11.
a) I have to study tonight, my final exam is tomorrow.
b) Barely legible reports seem to be a prerequisite for enlisted officers.
c) Her first job—cleaning the transporter pad—was not very enlightening.
d) all are correct
Case: Choose the correct word.
12. When Lt. Peters asked for some cake, his department head said, "I'll give it to a) whoever b) whomever begs for it.
13. Before Alice told him, Kevin didn’t know that it was a) her b) she whom he blamed for the accident.
14. Wishing the doors had opened an hour earlier, a) we b) us officers stood waiting eagerly.
Chief Editor's Note: Send the answers to Chiefeditor@frontierfleet.com, so that I can send them to Peter for checking. Peter, thanks for this quiz! ;-)
