Sta. Margarita II District
NAPURO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
School ID: 303630
4TH QUARTERLY EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH 8
Name: __________________________________
Grade Level & Section: ___________________
TEST I: MULTIPLE CHOICE:
Directions: Read and answer the questions below. Select the letter of the correct answer among the given
choices.
1. It is the title of the newspaper.
A. Masthead
B. Headline
C. Byline
D. Place line
2. It is the first paragraph of the article where you must include the 4W’s.
A. Lead Paragraph B. Paragraph
C. Body Paragraphs D. Caption
3. Where the report is written.
A. Place line
B. Headline
C. Byline
D. Lead Paragraph
4. The title of the News Article.
A. Headline
B. Masthead
C. Byline
D. Place line
5. Is the name of the person who wrote the report.
A. Byline
B. Caption
C. Place line
D. Quotation
6. Which of the following is NOT true about journalism today?
A. A journalist needs a great deal of money to start a new news organization.
B. Journalists have a wider choice of career paths than in the past.
C. The journalism industry is evolving as people get their news in new ways.
D. Creative ideas for journalistic content and delivery systems are springing up everywhere.
7. Which of the following is NOT true about journalism today?
A. Stories created for one medium are likely to be found in other media.
B. Few people nowadays rely on journalists for information about important events.
C. The techniques for researching and writing stories continue to be important.
D. The tenets of good journalism—critical thinking, clear writing and organized presentation—
remain the same.
8. Traditional news media—newspapers, magazines and broadcast news operations—provide what
percentage of the factual information on the Internet?
A. 70 percent
B. 55 percent
C. 85 percent
D. 90 percent
9. The proportion of people who get their news from mobile devices was recently estimated at
A. about one-quarter B. about three-quarters
C. about two-thirds D. about half
10. In journalism, “convergence” means
A. sharing facilities, newsgathering resources, personnel or content.
B. different news media all cover the same story in the same way.
C. the content of one newspaper is indistinguishable from that of any other newspaper.
D. news organizations are all striving to put the same ideological slant on news stories.
11. What best describes the rightness or wrongness of plagiarism?
A. Always wrong because it is theft and fraud
B. Plagiarism is not a right or wrong kind of thing
C. In some situations, it is OK
D. There is nothing wrong with it
12. Which of the following is not an example of plagiarism?
A. Changing a few words of a paragraph someone else wrote
B. Borrowing an existing idea and presenting it as a new idea
C. Providing the full source for a quotation
D. Translating others’ written work into another language without citation
E. None of the above
13. To paraphrase properly, you need to:
A. Change a few words in the text and cite it to make it your own.
B. Put quotation marks around the text and cite it.
C. Use only the idea from the text without citing it.
D. Summarize the text in your own words and cite it
14. Which of the following are realistic consequences of plagiarism?
A. Ruined reputation
B. Being suspended or expelled from school
C. Losing money or job Being sued or having to face jail time
D. All of the above
15. Which of the following is NOT a true purpose for citation?
A. Citation recognizes the authors you are referencing.
B. Citation is used to distribute money for royalties.
C. Citation allows your readers to confirm that you aren’t just “making stuff up.”
D. None of the above
16. A topic sentence introduces the overall _______ of a paragraph.
A. title
B. concept
C. format
D. word
17. Alanna is afraid of spiders. She screams every time she sees one. If she sees one, she runs away.
Identify the topic sentence in this paragraph.
A. Alanna is afraid of spiders.
B. Spiders have 8 legs.
C. If she sees one, she runs away.
D. She screams, if she sees one.
18. The other sentences in a paragraph _____________ the topic sentence.
A. Change
B. Always come before
C. introduce
D. Support
19. A _________ sentence is usually the first sentence of a paragraph.
A. Supporting
B. Topic
C. Ending
D. Unimportant
20. When something is not clearly stated in a piece of writing, it is often referred to as what sort of
information?
A. Implicit
B. Explicit
C. Main Idea
D. Topic
TEST II: TRUE OR FALSE
Direction: Write TRUE if the sentence tells a correct idea about topic sentence and FALSE if not.
___________1. The topic sentence does not entirely tell the idea of the paragraph.
___________2. The topic sentence states the subject and the purpose of the paragraph.
___________3. The topic sentence gives the reader the idea of what he/she is going to read.
___________4. Topic sentence is usually found at the beginning of a paragraph.
___________5. A paragraph must only contain one main idea.
___________6. A paragraph is a group of related sentences that present and develop one main idea.
___________7. A topic sentence maybe found at the beginning, middle and end of the paragraph.
___________8. The topic sentence in a paragraph summarizes what the entire paragraph is all about.
___________9. One cannot identify the topic sentence if he/she does not understand the whole paragraph.
___________10. A topic sentence is usually a question.
TEST III: IDENTIFICATION
Direction: Read the paragraphs. Encircle the TOPIC, Underline the MAIN IDEA and Write the topic sentence
and identify where it is located on the space provided. (Beginning, Middle, End).
First of all, celebrities have to look almost perfect all the time. There’s always a photographer ready to
take an unflattering picture of a famous person looking dumpy in old clothes. Celebrities also sacrifice
their private lives. Their personal struggles, divorces, or family tragedies all end up as front-page news.
Last, and most frightening of all, celebrities are in constant danger of the wrong kind of attention.
Threatening letters and even physical attacks from crazy fans are things a celebrity must contend with.
Thus, being a celebrity is often difficult.
Answer:
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