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Homonyms - Quiz 27

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  1. Are you feeling ___ or are you angry?
    a. blew
    b. blue

  2. The church bells ___ and the crowds cheer.
    a. peal
    b. peel

  3. The truck will ___ away the bags of leaves.
    a. hall
    b. haul

  4. She never could ___ her words. She always said what she thought.
    a. mince
    b. mints

  5. I was wondering ___ you think you are going.
    a. were
    b. where

  6. Would you like ___ dance?
    a. to
    b. too
    c. two

  7. Would you like a ___ of pie or cake?
    a. peace
    b. piece

  8. Do you know ___ way he went?
    a. which
    b. witch

  9. Fabric ___ takes a lot of skill.
    a. dyeing
    b. dying

  10. We ___ the slow car on the highway.
    a. passed
    b. past

  11. I have a ___ and a daughter going to school.
    a. son
    b. sun

  12. He ran so fast that he ___ all of the other runners.
    a. beat
    b. beet

  13. It was so cold that ___ frost formed on the window.
    a. hoar
    b. whore

  14. People usually play golf in groups of ___.
    a. for
    b. fore
    c. four

  15. One of the most hard-working of all insects is the ___.
    a. ant
    b. aunt

  16. Harold ___ his thanks before he eats every meal.
    a. praise
    b. prays
    c. preys

  17. He was ___ unprepared for the warm reception that her family gave him.
    a. holy
    b. wholly

  18. In the old days, a doctor might use a ___ to suck bad blood from a patient.
    a. leach
    b. leech

  19. Pointy-___ shoes are not good for the feet.
    a. towed
    b. toed

  20. The ___ point is a thesis.
    a. main
    b. mane

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Copyright (C) 1998 Donna Tatsuki (dtatsuki@gol.com)
This quiz is part of the HTML-Only Self-Study Quizzes which is part of Activities for ESL Students, a project by The Internet TESL Journal.