Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Regional office VIII
Division of Northern Samar
ROSARIO LIM UY NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Cervantes, Catarman N. Samar
FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH 9
Name:_______________________Grade&Section:______________Date:_____Score:______
TEST I. Multiple Choice
Directions: Analyze the questions carefully. Choose the letter of the correct answer.
ENCIRCLE the correct answer.
1. The following words are the examples of kennings, EXCEPT:
a. battle-sweat
b. fighting-gear
c. life-evil
d. mobile-phones
For item 2-6, determine the correct word contraction from the choices.
2. I have
a. I’d
b. I’ll
c. I’ve
d. I’m
3. you had
a. you’d
b. you’ve
c. you’ll
d. you’re
4. were not
a. wasn’t b. weren’t
c. wouldn’t
d. wereno’t
5. you are
a. you’ll
b. your
c. you’re
d. your’s
6. I will
a. I’d
b. I’ve
c. I’m
d. I’ll
7. What form of dashes that can replace parentheses at the end of a sentence or when
multiple commas appear in a parenthetical phrase?
a. em dashes
b. en dash
c. single hyphen
d. double hyphen
Examine the correct used of dash/hyphen of the following:
8. a two thirds majority of the vote
a. a-two thirds majority of the vote
c. a two thirds majority- of the vote
b. a two thirds- majority of the vote
d. a two-thirds majority of the vote
9. one hundred thirty eight
a. one hundred thirty eightc. one hundred- thirty eight
b. one- hundred thirty eight
d. one hundred thirty- eight
10. The teacher assigned pages 101 181 for tonight’s reading material.
a. The teacher assigned pages 101-181 for tonight’s reading material.
b. The teacher- assigned pages- 101 181 for tonight’s reading material.
c. The teacher assigned- pages 101 181 for tonight’s reading material.
d. The teacher assigned pages 101 181 for- tonight’s reading material.
11. The pro choice pro life argument is always a heated one.
a. The pro-choice pro life argument is always a heated one.
b. The pro-choice-pro-life argument is always a heated one.
c. The pro choice pro-life argument is always a heated one.
d. The pro choice pro life argument is-always a heated one.
12. One of the literary text types that serves to provide knowledge, explaining a process, and
developing a concept is called .
a. essay
b. informative
c. journalistic
d. literary
13. What do you call a type of text in which it is an eye-catching, punchy headline, issues of
public interest, and concise language?
a. essay
b. informative
c. journalistic
d. literary
14. It is a wide variety of imaginative and creative writing that leads to the appreciation of a
variety of subjects is called
.
a. essay
b. informative
c. journalistic
d. literary
15. What do you call a punctuation marks that are used to show that something has not
been expressed?
a. comma
b. ellipsis
c. hyphen
d. period
16. Choose the blank that marks the best place to insert ellipsis points.
“Yet if we_____could scorn, hate and ____pride and fear:
If we were things born not to
shed a tear
” by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
a._______could
b.______pride
c._______If
d.______”by Percy Bysshe Shelley
17. Which words express agreement?
a. That’s not quite true.
c. Not really, it’s very important.
b. That’s good to know.
d. Okay, but I’m not good at it.
18. Which words express disagreement?
a. Okay, I’m good at it.
c. That’s true, Sam was there too.
b. I’m afraid not but we have to go somewhere. d. That would be nice.
Choose what poetry device is used in the following:
19. The hissing of the snake made me shoo it away.
a. alliteration
b. assonance
c. onomatopoeia
d. rhyme
20. “I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree.”
a. alliteration
b. assonance
c. onomatopoeia
d. rhyme
21. doubting, drearing dreams no mortal enter dared to dream before.
a. alliteration
b. assonance
c. onomatopoeia
d. rhyme
22. along the window sill, the lipstick stabs Glittered in their steel shells.
a. alliteration
b. assonance
c. onomatopoeia
d. rhyme
23. Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door
a. alliteration
b. assonance
c. consonance
d. rhyme
24. The bubbling brook breaks
a. alliteration
b. assonance
c. onomatopoeia
d. rhyme
25. Describe the school boy’s attitude towards the school in the poem, “Seven Ages of
Man”?
a. crying
b. enjoying
c. exciting
d. whining
26. What is compared to the “stage” in the first two lines?
a. challenges
b. drama
c. lifestyle
d. presentation
27. According to the speaker or persona in the poem, what physical and mental changes take
place as a man reaches the sixth and seventh ages?
a. alive and kicking
c. old and childishness
b. teenager that seeks attention
d. old and funny
28. From the poem, the following are the descriptions of being an old age, EXCEPT:
a. sans eyes
b. sans taste
c. sans teeth
d. shining morning face
29. What is the fourth stages of man according to the poem?
a. infant
b. lover
c. old
d. soldier
30. Describe what is being compared to the word “reputation”.
a. good career
b. mere oblivion
c. unwillingly to school
d. woeful ballad
31. How would you describe Grendel?
a. aloof
b. bad tempered
c. greedy monster
d. selfish
32. What did Grendel do to his victims?
a. drowned
b. stabbed
c. swallowed
d. tear into pieces
33. Why did Beowulf go to Heorot?
a. because Heorot was his father.
b. because he is a hero and want to save Heorot’s village
c. because he wants to marry the queen
d. because he will give son to Grendel’s mother
34. A type of poetry in which the character possessed an enormous strength and serve as a
hero is called
.
a. epic
b. lyric
c. music
d. short story
35. What happened to Grendel after the fight?
a. become stronger
b. hiding
c. shrink until death
d. runaway
36. What did King Hrothgar do to Beowulf?
a. let Beowulf replaced him as a King
c. ordered to kill Beowulf
b. let Beowulf exiled from their place
d. warned Beowulf
37. Who is the speaker or persona in the poem, “Mother to Son”?
a. brother
b. mother
c. son
d. writer
38. To what does the speaker compare her life?
a. palace
b. rope stair
c. stone
d. stair
39. What is the speaker doing?
a. giving up
b. sleeping until death
c. still sacrificing
d. tired of doing everything
40. What kind of stairway is the mother’s life different from?
a. crystal stair
b. golden stair
c. stair full of tacks
d. wooden stair
41. How would you describe the love of the mother to her son?
a. expensive
b. faded
c. fake
d. priceless
42. In a song “Where Are You Going To?”, what does the emotion evoked?
a. lonely
b. happiness
c. sad
d. curious
43. What is the best way to live life according to the song?
a. to know your directions in life
c. to achieve your dreams
b.
to live life to the fullest
d. all of the choices
44. How does the song’s message relate to your life?
a. to do things whatever it takes
c. to have a purpose driven life
b. to go wherever you want
d. to make decisions abruptly
45. To what does the speaker compare her life?
a. palace
b. rope stair
c. stone
d. stair
TEST II. ESSAY (5 points)
46-50. Directions: Expound the quote shortly but profoundly, “Life is a big sea full of many
fish. I let down my nets and pull.”
CRITERIA FOR WRITING
Relevance
Sentence Structure
Organization of Thoughts
Neatness
Whatever you can do today, do it now. For we can’t
turn back time once wasted.
GOD BLESS TAKERS! ☺
Prepared by:
OLIVETH D. SAGORIO
Teacher III
Approved by:
CICELL FRANCIS C. AJEL
English Dept. Head, MT-II
Noted by:
TED S. TOBES
School Head
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