Some Lexical Gems, Revisionist History, and Creative Connections

Test time has arrived again, and along with it, some interesting answers.

Here are some uses of (apparently unfamiliar) vocabulary words...

We had to desolate the babies to get them to stop crying.
The cat vanquished across the night sky. (That must have been interesting to watch.)
They said the cereal killer worked insidiously.

Watch out, Stalin:

During World War II, Hitler was the tyrranical ruler of Russia.

For a recent reading quiz on "The Devil and Tom Walker", I asked the following question: Write a few sentences that tell how the following objects are connected: Tom Walker, his wife's apron, a tree, and a human heart.

Some creative concoctions from people who didn't read the story:

A connection between Tom Walker and a human heart is that Tom's heart was human and makes mistakes like selling your soul to the devil. I can't even remember how the apron comes into the story, but I think it is how he meets the devil in the first place because he sees the snake.

Tom Walker made his wife's apron out of a tree, but he had to use the apron to put his heart in after the devil took it out of his chest. He kept it in it until he got to the hospital and they put it back in.

The tree symbolizes the person. We know this because after Mr. Crowninshield's tree fell down, he died. The apron and heart represent her tree.

Tom Walker put on his wife's magic apron because he decided to become a metro an dlook nice while he cooked some quiche. The apron turned him into a tree and the only way he could turn back would be to get a human heart from the Wizard of Oz.

Tom Walker took his wife's apron, hung it in a tree, and threw human hearts at it.

Tom Walker doesn't like his wife's apron b/c the tree next door hit a human heart.

Tom Walker found his wife hung on a tree by her apron which broke his heart.

Tom Walker found his wife missing, so using the cluse written out in cookie dough on her apron, he tracked her to a tree where the Devil had her captive. "The only way to get her back," said the Devil, "is to pour out the sins of your heart." So Tom did, and in the end he and his wife enjoyed a happy life and purchased a brand new BMW.

Last one (I promise)
There really is no connection between these 4 things. Tom Walker is a normal poor guy. (As if I have time to make up fake quiz questions...)

A research question in preparation to write a research paper:
"What kind of stock options to physicians get?"

More to come...