1. Photography changed dramatically __________ introduced instant pictures.

A. when Polaroid
B. Polaroid
C. when was
D. it when Polaroid

2. Xavier Philippe will often spend his evenings __________ upside-down from the
ceiling in his room.
A. which hanging
B. that are
C. hanging
D. hang

3. ____________ sharks, whales and dolphins are warm blooded mammals.

A. Unlike
B. Not likeness to
C. Alike
D. Dislike

4. Sebastien can drink __________ a gallon of beer in one sitting.

A. mostly
B. as much as
C. so much that
D. their

5. The closer we ________ to our trip to Boston the more excited my students become.
A. are
B. have
C. the
D. it has

6. The USS Constitution, the oldest ship still in active service in the U.S. Navy,
___________ in 1797.
A. when it launched
B. that was launched
C. launching
D. was launched

7. __________ the end of the whaling industry came hard times for seaports like New
Bedford and Nantucket.
 A. Was it
B. This
C. Moreover
D. With

8. One purpose ________________ to make up for money spent in the French and
Indian War.
A. of the Stamp Act which was
B. the Stamp Act
C. of the Stamp Act was
D. of the Stamp Act

9. ___________________ in 1939, the Borne Bridge spans the Cape Cod Canal and is
one of the many grand projects of the Depression era.
A. Completes
B. Completed
C. Completing
D. Complete

10. The Copperhead is a venomous serpent, found as far North as the Blue Hills in
Massachusetts and _______ bite has proved dangerous to hikers and joggers.
A. who
B. whom
C. its
D. whose

11. The Boston Marathon ________ every April on Patriot's Day to commemorate the
Battles of Lexington and Concord.
A. ran
B. is run
C. run
D. running

12. Strangely enough, the Bunker Hill monument ___________ on Breed's Hill where
the actual battle took place.
A. is located
B. has situated
C. to situate
D. locating
13. With the publishing of Thoreau's On Walden Pond ____________ of the wonder of
Nature.
A. his appreciation
B. came a new appreciation
C. appreciated
D. the author appreciated

14. Samuel Adams argued that to live in a truly free and noble state the people permitted
to vote _______ even to the point of including women.
A. would be larger
B. should be increased
C. should larger
D. is

15. __________ Boston Harbor now, with its dolphins and seals, you would find it hard
to believe how polluted it was just a few years ago.
A. Seen
B. It sees
C. Is seeing
D. Seeing

For the next twenty five questions you must identify the error in the following
sentences:

16. Boston is know as the Hub of the Universe because it was a great seaport in the
18th and 19th centuries.

17. Because computers are capable of storing, erasing and retrieve data easily their
use is becoming more and more widespread.

18 . Professors Andom Iyassou won two Noble prizes one for economics 1982 and
another in literature in 1992.

19. Mt Washington is over one mile height and has many picturesque waterfalls on
its slopes.

20. The Liberty Tree, which was once located in an area of Boston now called the
Combat Zone, is considered to be one of a symbols of the American Revolution.

21. Critics point out that windows 95 is not so efficient as the previous version.

22 . Most journalistic web sites still depend on print and TV stories from a great deal
of their content of the majority of their pages

23. Charlotte and Gautier, who are known as the Bobsy twins don't actually look
very much the alike.
24. E-mail delivers at seconds messages to any point on the globe.

25. After making two double plays Wade Boggs hitting a grand slam for the Red Sox.

26. Air, liquid, and gaseous are the three classical states of matter, but in this century, a
fourth state: plasma has been added.

27. I like to make sport on Thursday afternoons but it makes me tired on Friday
mornings.

28. Hurricane Michael that devastated Cape Cod for the last two day has moved out to
sea.

29. Alexander Graham Bell worked to aid and improving the hearing of the deaf and
this helped him when he invented the telephone.

30. Boston Baked Beans, a traditional dish of New England compose mainly of beans
and molasses and of course baked in an oven for hours.

31 The 1943 Pulitzer prize was won by Ester Forbes for its biography of Paul
Revere.

32. Annual producing tons of cranberries, Massachusetts is one of the largest producers
of this crop in the United States.

33. Edgar Allen Poe was born at Boston, but he detested the city calling its
inhabitants " Frog Ponders."

34. The National Seashore, with its magnificent dunes and often spectacular surf is
locate on Cape Cod.

35 . Early whaling harpoons, launched by hand from a rowboat, were closely related
about ancient javelins.

36. Almost a third of the students enrolled in Adult Education courses took a course in
computer.

37. Scrimshaw, the art of etching or carving on whale bone; has become
increasingly rare and value since whaling has been forbidden by the international
community.

38. Before the game the Patriot football team stayed at the Day's Inn next to the
stadium prior to the game

39. Rollerblading has become increasingly popular in the city of Cambridge in recent
years ago.

40. Most people who visit the Bay State prefer eat in small cafes and restaurants than
frequent franchised eateries like Papa Gino's or MacDonald's.
1. Waitresses at the Durgan Park Restaurant ________ the unenviable reputation of
insulting their clientele.
A. has
B. having
C. have been
D. have

2. Usually it is not until Heartbreak Hill is climbed that the Boston Marathon ____
decided.
A. has
B. did
C. is
D. would

3. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley ___________ wrote one of the

most horrifying novels of all time: Frankenstein.
A. having nineteen years
B. at the age of nineteen
C. aged nineteen
D. of nineteen years old

4. _________________ it was said you could

walk in to shore on the backs of codfish when
Massachusetts was first
discovered, fishing has declined in catch with
each passing year.
A. Although
B. Yet
C. However
D. Not only

5. The Gillette Razor Company is ____ successful today as it was in the

1980s.
A. as
B. more
C. an
D. so
6. ________________________ is not as easy as it looks in the changeable New England
climate.
A. Efficient solar house constructed
B. Solar home which are put together
C. Building efficient solar heated homes
D. Solar heated homes built

7. ____________ the Swan boats and the USS Constitution, the Old North Church is one
of the most
popular tourist attractions in the city.
A. both
B. unlike
C. like
D. alike

8. Chris Yukna _________________ the first thirty nine years of his life without leaving
the confines of his country.
A. inhabiting
B. who lived
C. was spent
D. spent

9. No matter ________________________ , Jerome gets sick at the sight of blood and

he's a pre-med student.
A. how ridiculous it seems
B. how seems it ridiculous
C. ridiculous how
D. that how is ridiculous
10. _________________ awesome number of coeds in the Boston area.
A. An
B. There are an
C. For an
D. Since there an

11. Tourists in Boston ________________ almost anything they want except public
toilets.
A. can find
B. when finding
C. this could find
D. which can found

12. __________________________ a series of parks that encircle Boston was envisioned

by Frederick Law Olmstead.
A. That the Emerald Necklace in which
B. The Emerald Necklace that
C. Because Emerald Necklace
D. The Emerald Necklace

13. By far ___________________ of the Athens of America is its charm.

A. the most important asset is
B. the most important asset
C. that is the most important asset
D. its most important asset

14. Not every girl _____________ at the University of Massachusetts, it just seems that
way.
A. beautifully
B. to be attractive
C. is attractive
D. are pretty

15. Nathaniel Hawthorne ____________ for his story The Scarlet Letter.
A. is famous
B. has celebrated
C. was famed
D. celebrated
For the next twenty five questions you must identify the error in each of the
folowing sentences:

16. It A. was not until 1966 B. when a law that C. forbid all forms of birth
control was rescinded D. at last.

17. In 1657, the General Court of Boston A. pass a law B. which stated that if a
man C. were a Quaker then his ear D. was to be cut off.

18. Oliver Smoot (Class of 66) A. was used B. at measure the Harvard Bridge
(Mass Ave.) by C. being flipped head over heels 364 D. times.

19. A. During the Civil War; the Bostonian General Joseph Hooker permitted
women B. follow his troops into camp and these C. women became D.
known as "Hooker Ladies" or simply hookers.

20. A. The larger pipe organ B. in the world is C. to be found in the First
Church of Christ Scientist D. of Boston.

21. Boston was A. original a peninsula B. which was C. separated

completely from the mainland D. at high tide.

22. Charles Dickens A. once said: " Boston is B. what I C. would like D.
a whole United States to be."

23. Boston's proximity to recreational areas; mountains, seashores, lakes and A. the
like B. attract C. many visitors D. each year.

24. A. Buildings range in size B. to the smallest, the wooden Paul Revere
House C. to huge skyscrapers D. like the John Handcock.

25. Boston's puritanical past A. is reflected in a collection of rules and regulations

called the "Blue Laws" B. because they were C. by tradition printed on D.
paper blue.

26. Boston's continued success A. as a large city is surprising B. since it has

C. neither abundant resources D. or
is it located along major trading routes.
27. The exquisite A. beautiful of the B. glass flowers at the C. horticultural
museum D. is breathtaking.

28. A. Rope maker were B. prolific in Boston C. since it was the rope
making capital of the United States D. at one time.

29. One A. of the unique features B. of this city C. they are that D. it is
not necessary to own a car to get around.

30. A. Sheeps and cows once B. grazed on the Boston Common and it is said that
the paths they made to get C. there were the basis D. for the city's streets.

31. One of the funniest urban A. legend recounts the B. story of a man "Charley"
who C. got on the subway just before a rate hike and was never allowed to get off
because he hadn't enough D. to pay for the increase. (He's the man who never
returned)

32. Fiscal investments and A. banking are sectors B. that have increased C.
dramatic D. in recent years.

33. How A. much you spend B. depends how expensive, C. are your
tastes D. in dining.

34. One A. inventor that Boston B. can claim home to is the "safety razor"
invented C. by "King Gillette" D. at the turn of the century.

35. A. Large block of ice B. packed in sawdust were shipped C. to India in the
19th century
making fortunes D. for many of Boston' Families.

36. A. The landfill makes up B. over 70 C. percent of the total surface D.

area of the city.

37. The "eggs" A. at Deer Island produce B. methane from bacteria and
waste C. pump in D. from Boston's sewerage system.

38. A. When the John Hancock Tower was B. built it was slightly taller C.
that the Prudential Building
so the Pru had to add a radio antenna D. to its building to make it the tallest building
in Boston.
39. Jaywalking A. has reached B. an art form so much C. so that Boston
D. have been named the Jaywalking Capital of the United States.

40. To celebrate A. the French Revolution, Boston had one of the B. large, C.
longest and rowdiest parties D. at the intersections of Kilby, Water, and Batterymarch
Streets and this spot is now known as Liberty Square.