MID TERM TEST FIRST TERM PRIMARY 6 VERBAL REASONING

                CLASS: PRIMARY 6            SUBJECT: Verbal Reasoning

OBJECTIVES

Give the class name of each of these set of words

Example:     apple        orange        mango        cashew    fruit

1. bee ant    moth    mosquito    ________
2. teaching law    engineering    accounting    _____________
3. gun revolver    arrow        _________
4. parrot     eagle        peacock    drake        _______
5. fork pot    knife    plate        _________

In each of the following set of words only one is correctly spelt, others are wrong. Underline the correctly spelt word.

6. wednesday     wesday    weddnesday        wednextday
7. quene     quew        quiw        quaww
8. quiet     qaiet        quiaet        quet

9    february    febrary    feburuary    febrruary

10. niece     ninece        nince        niec

complete each of these analogies using the right word from the brackets

11. see and saw; cut and ________ ( cut, cutted, cutting, cute)
12. owl and hoot; dog and _______ (below, bark, hiss, mew)
13. Bird and nestling; lion and _________ (piglet, den, cub, squah) 
14. god and goddess; manager and _________ (managers, manageress, goddess, female)
15. Needle and thread; boat and _________ ( stick, paddle, foot, leg )

Use the sound words in the box to complete the following sentences. The first one is done for you.

Bleating,    hissing,    barking,     croaking,        Grunting

16. The frogs are  croaking   in the lake
17. The  pigs are all ____________
18. The dogs are __________ at the stranger.
19. Five of the sheep are _________ because they are hungry.
20. The snakes were ___________ on the top of the cashew tree.

Complete these similes

Example: As old as the hills

1. As  _________ as Solomon
2. As  _________ as bone
3. As crafty as a ____________
4. As cunning as a ___________
5. As simple as _____________