Give antonyms of the following words:

Insert prepositions or adverbs if necessary:

The deadly but entertaining vehicle plowed ___ the Native American thoroughfare: The Mohawk Highway, the tribe that was tagged ___ an epithet for their skill ___t cracking skulls.

One evening ___ an intersection, a couple of teenagers pulled ___ next to the Omega and begged me to “peel ___” when the light changed. There was something ___ that car.

Tommy Schraft only came ____a Hustler and an old pipe. He looked ___the pipe, wondering if it was worth scraping the dusty resin ___ of the bowl, and then he put it ___in the exact position and exact location that he had found it in.

The two Guatemalans and I pushed the car ___ of the dirt lot and ___ the edge ___ the road. The towing company told ___ us that their insurance prohibited us ____working on their premises, but they allowed us____ work on the dirt edge of the road.

Hundreds of miles out the engine would make undiagnosable ticks and pings making me turn the car ___ in the direction of home. The engine was exhausting itself in its struggle to contain power. Metal pieces would pop ___ and bounce ___ the road.

Give the derivatives where possible:

Correct the mistake:

At last, my car broke down and we could go on driving.

Topping off the gas tank can result in your paying for gasoline that is fed back into the station's tanks because your gas tank is empty.  

If you want to buy a good car, go to a junkyard.

He put all the suitcases into the hood and they went.

The windshield or windscreen of an aircraft, car, bus, motorbike or tram is the side window.

Answer the following questions:

At what age did the narrator get the car?

How old was the car?

What did the main character do in case of car breaking down somewhere far from home?

What is Demolition Derby?

What means does the author use to narrate the story?

Why does the author think it is not really a story?

What is the attitude of the narrator to his car?

What does a car mean for an American?

Say if the statements are true or false. Provide evidence:

The narrator always planned his day, looked on a map and drove up that road.

He wrote the first paragraph he could be proud of, that could stand on its own. It was something about how bad television really was, always shouting about what was on next every minute for two days, and then just being a rescheduled repeat of something that had been on a year ago.

One of the best moments of the narrator’s life, something so simple that he’ll never forget, is buying his car.

That night he didn’t sleep on the ground in a tent, but in a cheap hostel.

That night his Mom did not work and cooked his favorite baked potatoes with tuna, fish cakes and sticky slow-roast belly of pork.

 The romantic iconography of America, forever attached to the road, has always seemingly encouraged the inebriated initiate. They must be in utter control of the elements, yet on the edge of extinction.