The following story is completely random. It makes no sense whatsoever.

You are just going to have to accept that fact and move on from there. It will, I hope, be at least somewhat entertaining as you practice with angles, triangles, and stuff like that. Once upon a time, M_1 was sitting by the lake throwing stones into the water. As we can tell from the picture to the right, the stones were going in to the water at a ________________ degree angle. Since this represented an ________________ angle instead of an obtuse angle, the great trapezoidal ziggurat of acuteness rose from the water, as pictured on the left, and out of it stepped M_2, saying I am the guardian of the ziggurat with a lower left hand angle of _________ degrees! Begone, evil creatures! Before M_1 could even respond, a triangular shaped spaceship slid in from the east and dropped two bombs from its 90 degree angle, four from its 43 degree angle, and ten bombs from its ___________ degree angle, while its driver (named M_3) laughed at everyone from above. Fortunately, the great wizard M_4 saw the plight of the poor, innocent stone throwing M_1 and immediately opened his/her arms in a _____________ angle, which immediately opened a vortex in the space-time continuum. Darkness flashed before everyones eyes, and when they awoke, they found themselves in a

strange, alien landscape. Not a single person was in sight, except for a three headed manticore, which said My name is M_5. Welcome to Erewhon! Having spoken thus, the manticore wandered off, looking for a triangular Isalillian plant where angle Y was exactly __________ degrees. No such plant was in evidence, unfortunately, so the manticore called upon the Golden Horde (a warrior clan from the country of M_6) to join him/her. As they rode in on jernback, the clan sang their traditional marching song: Triangles are we! We march from sea to sea! We know our angles, without any tangles, must add up to ____________. Sure enough, when the warrior M_7 arrived, M_7 placed a triangular offering on the ground, and demanded the manticore determine the missing angle in each before they would lend their aid. After careful consideration,

the manticore responded: _________, _________, _________, and _________ degrees. At this correct answer, the world shimmered and faded, and before anyone knew what was happening, they were all fast asleep, and dreaming of the magical world of M_8, where M_9 ruled over everyone with an iron fist. The good knight M_10 had set off that day before realizing that he/she didnt know the measure of angle W in his/her triangular shield shield. M_10 knew angle X was 25 degrees and angle Y was 24 degrees, but it took a minute of calculating to realize that W must be _________ degrees. An instant after this had been figured this out, the cyborg ninja M_11 appeared and demanded an answer before allowing him to pass, saying I have searched this land my entire life without finding the answer to the question: What do you call a triangle with two congruent sides? While M_10 was pondering, M_12 the forest ranger (who was watching from the trees) whispered: Doesnt he know thats an

____________________ triangle? Not wasting any time, he fired two arrows at acute angles, one named arrow D and one named E at angles of __________ and ___________. Unfortunately, the arrows hit the Hawkman named M_13, causing M_13 to plummet to the earth. While falling M_13 remarked Im falling straight down and not bending at all. That must mean Im falling in a ____________________ angle, (which measures ____________ degrees). Luckily, the enlightened tribunal of Geo Metry (headed by M_14) heard these words and decided to spare his/her life, creating a giant cushion with four sides, with all sides parallel to the opposite side, which is called a ___________________-cushion. Before you could get off the cushion, you had to know the measure of at least two angles. One of the angles had its measurement listed, but they were stuck until the eternal chorus of the M_15 spirit chanted In this shape, opposite angles are always __________________ Seeing that the ranger would be alright, the eternal chorus M_15 teleported themselves over to see how their spirit friend M_16 was doing. Unfortunately, M_16 was in the midst of a battle with the ghostbuster M_17. The ghostbuster was firing proton lasers at the angle shown to right, while the spirits taunted You cant even measure that angle, you dont have a __________________________! The ghostbuster shouted back At least I know that its an _____________________ angle! That means its bigger than __________ degrees, but smaller than _____________ degrees! The battle raged on for hours, until finally the police showed up. Officer M_18 started yelling at everyone Move along, theres nothing to see here! The crowd that had gathered to watch reluctantly dispersed except for a small kangaroo-beast named M_19.

M_19 hopped forward and pointed out: Of course theres something to look at! I can totally see a parallelogram, right there! I can even tell that angle N is ____________ degrees! M_19s friend M_20 the Barrow-Wight added I see it too! I even measured the left side of the parallelogram, and it was 8 feet. M_21 the Raging Ocelot added That means the right side is also ____________ feet long! As you can imagine, the police were getting pretty tired of all of this measurement talk, and they were just about to bust out the tear gas, when they noticed the infamous thief M_22 trying to scale the crystal triangle. The crystal triangle was famous for having a pile of rubies equal to the number of degrees of its top angle, which was _______________ degrees. Unfortunately for all concerned, the rocks that people had been throwing way back at the beginning of this story fell out of the sky and shattered the crystal triangle into a thousand pieces, the biggest of which rocketed away at an angle of ____________ degrees. The pieces flew and flew, past the kingdom of Cordoba, past the autocracy of Bakhasa, the steadhold of Harrington, and the helotry of Suhn, straight into the city of Elstown, which was governed by burgomaster M_23. The town was quickly thrown into a panic, since the safety of their town depended upon it being shaped like a triangle with angles of 30, 20, and __________ degrees. If this rule was ever broken, the town would be transformed into a shape with four sides with only one pair of parallel lines (called a ________________________), and who wants to live in a town shaped like

that? There was nothing to do but call M_24, the local thaumaturgist, and hope that M_24 knew some incantation that could deal with the problem. M_24 took one look at the town in shambles, and announced that she would need help: nothing could be done without conjurer M_25. Word was quickly dispatched by carrier pigeons, which flew off at an angle so obtuse it was almost straight, (although it was actually ____________ degrees). Once help arrived, M_24 and M_25 quickly created a homunculus they called M_26 and a clay golem called M_27. These two stood at the corners of a triangle which had angle of 40, 100, and ________ degrees. Since this triangle had two angles which were acute and ____________________, that meant it was an ____________________ triangle, with two congruent sides! (It was also an __________________ triangle because it had a 100 degree angle, but no one cared about that). Anyway, the triangles power caused a giant rift in the ground to open up, swallowing the whole town! Well, at least they dont have to live in a town shaped like a trapezoid, said M_28, flying by in a jetpowered helicopter. Me, Id much rather live in a rhombus shaped town. That way all the sides of the town would be _______________________. Once M_28 finished the helicopter patrol and landed at Burpleson airforce base, where she immediately reported to CPO M_29, in charge of reconnaissance. Did you find any scalene triangles? M_29 asked. General Raenah insists that we recover only scalene triangles. She likes the fact that all of their sides and angles are ___________________. Unfortunately not, replied M_28. Every triangle I saw had all of its angles equal to 60 degrees, so they were all _____________________ triangles. All of a sudden the alarm sounded! The report came in: Were under attack by an army of ligers! What do we do? Dont

worry, replied M_29. We shall endure. Just as every square has four _____________ angles, our angle measures will prevail!

Answers 5 8 23 25 30 35 40 40 45 45 47 60 60 60 70 90 95 112 130 131 180 180 180 acute congruent (equal) congruent (equal) congruent (equal) different equilateral isosceles isosceles obtuse obtuse parallelogram protractor right straight trapezoid