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Adverbs Test
With Spies...
Reading Level 2
Part One | Identifying Adverbs
Directions: Find the answer choice that is being used as an adverb in
each of these sentences. Circle your answer.

1. Gizmo works very hard to make new weapons for the spies at Omega Central.
a) works b) hard
c) new d) very

2. The evil supervillain Dr. Hurt is always trying to take over the world.
a) trying b) evil
c) supervillain d) always

3. Ms. Fortune is too clever and resourceful to stay behind bars for long.
a) too b) clever
c) keep d) resourceful

4. Flint Steel is simply the most effective secret agent in the field.
a) secret b) field
c) best d) simply

5. Agent Green almost blew off his hand with an explosive gum wrapper.
a) wrapper b) almost
c) explosive d) blew

6. Red Widow usually keeps a set of stainless steel lock picks in her purse.
a) stainless b) lock
c) usually d) keeps

7. Gizmo cleverly designed a high-tech pair of glasses that can see through walls.
a) designed b) high-tech
c) glasses d) cleverly
8. A warning message for the spies came over the radio secretly.
a) secretly b) warning
c) spies d) came

9. General Pain will never stop trying to conquer the world.

10. Flint Steel jumped off his motorcycle and landed softly in a garbage truck.
a) jumped b) garbage
c) his d) softly

Part Two | Adjective or Adverb?

11. Dr. Hurt jumped ________ from the plane and landed ________ on the passing motorbike.
a) reckless, wild b) recklessly, wild
c) reckless, wildly d) recklessly, wildly

12. Ms. Fortune ________ pulled a ________ steel syringe filled with truth serum out of her
purse.
a) careful, cold b) carefully, cold
c) careful, coldly d) carefully, coldly

13. Dr. Hurt ________ pressed the ________ button to start his doomsday device.
a) grim, final b) grimly, final
c) grim, finally d) grimly, finally

14. Agent Green hit the ________ switch on his car and it transformed into a ________ jet.
a) secret, stealthy b) secretly, stealthy
c) secret, stealthily d) secretly, stealthily

15. Red Widow is ________ at fighting enemies but she doesn't speak very ________ to me.
a) good, polite b) well, polite
c) good, politely d) well, politely
16. General Pain's junky ________ car drove ________ down the boulevard.
a) old, noisy b) oldly, noisy
c) old, noisily d) oldly, noisily

17. Red Window ________ noticed that General Pain's car was leaking oil ________.
a) keen, rapid b) keenly, rapid
c) keen, rapidly d) keenly, rapidly

18. Gizmo designs equipment for spies very ________, but he is not so ________ at fighting.
a) good, good b) well, good
c) good, well d) well, well

19. Dr. Hurt's metallic robot horse was ________ and obeyed ________.
a) strong, loyal b) strongly, loyal
c) strong, loyally d) strongly, loyally

20. Gizmo was working ________ on a hat that keeps one's ears ________ and has an FM radio.
a) patient, warm b) patiently, warm
c) patient, warmly d) patiently, warmly

21. Ms. Fortune made a ________ threat to use a ________ ice ray to freeze the police station.
a) forceful, powerful b) forcefully, powerful
c) forceful, powerfully d) forcefully, powerfully

22. Red Widow is ________ ________ at Flint Steel for trying to apprehend Dr. Hurt without
her.
a) real, angry b) really, angry
c) real, angrily d) really, angrily

23. We thought that Flint Steel sounded ________ when he sang the song in disguise, but at
least he fights ________.
a) bad, good b) badly, good
c) bad, well d) badly, well

24. Agent Green flipped ________ and ________ over the burning bridge while on his
motorbike.
a) bold, brave b) boldly, brave
c) bold, bravely d) boldly, bravely
25. Gizmo made a ________ coat that protects its wearer from ________ rain.
a) special, torrential b) specially, torrential
c) special, torrentially d) specially, torrentially

26. Ms. Fortune used her coat-glider to fly ________ out the museum window with the
________ piece of art.
a) fearless, rare b) fearlessly, rare
c) fearless, rarely d) fearlessly, rarely

27. Gizmo built an ________ tool that can add numbers very ________.
a) incredible, fast b) incredibly, fast
c) incredible, fastly d) incredibly, fastly

28. Agent Green trailed ________ behind the bad guys as they walked down the ________
alley.
a) silent, dirty b) silently, dirty
c) silent, dirtily d) silently, dirtily

29. The news anchors reported ________ that Dr. Hurt was ________ from prison.
a) sad, free b) sadly, free
c) sad, freely d) sadly, freely

30. Ms. Fortune thought that Dr. Hurt's evil lair smelled ________, but Dr. Hurt didn't notice the
________ odor.
a) bad, foul b) badly, foul
c) bad, foully d) badly, foully