Business English 10th Edition By Guffey – Test Bank

Chapter 11—Modifiers: Adjectives and Adverbs

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ____ answer questions such as When?, How?, Where?, and To what extent?
a. Adjectives
b. Adverbs
c. Adjectives and adverbs

ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: LEVEL 1 REF: p. 227

2. ____ describe or limit nouns and pronouns.
a. Adjectives
b. Adverbs
c. Adjectives and adverbs

ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: LEVEL 1 REF: p. 227

3. ____ answer questions such as What kind?, How many?, and Which one?
a. Adjectives
b. Adverbs
c. Adjectives and adverbs

ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: LEVEL 1 REF: p. 227

4. General Motors recently experienced its ____ earnings in the company’s history.
a. worse
b. worst

ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: LEVEL 1 REF: p. 230

5. When comparing prices at Amazon.com and Wal-Mart, we decided that the prices at Amazon.com were ____ reasonable.
a. most
b. more

ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: LEVEL 1 REF: p. 230

6. The ____ part of my job is having the chance to work closely with the CEO.
a. rewardingest
b. most rewarding

ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: LEVEL 1 REF: p. 229

7. Steve’s office at the end of the hall should be a ____ place to meet.
a. more quieter
b. quieter

ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: LEVEL 1 REF: p. 229

8. Of the two wireless plans, which one is ____ for our use?
a. best
b. better

ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: LEVEL 1 REF: p. 230

9. If we had been ____, we probably could have avoided the system-wide security breach.
a. alerter
b. more alert

ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: LEVEL 1 REF: p. 229

10. Please don’t take the comments I made during the meeting ____.
a. personal
b. personally

ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: LEVEL 1 REF: p. 228

11. We expect the merger to go ____ now that stockholders are in agreement.
a. smoother
b. more smoothly

ANS: B PTS: 1 DIF: LEVEL 1 REF: p. 228