TUDELA NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL
English 10
Third Quarter Examination
Name: ___________________
Section: ________ Score: _________
1. What is the purpose of an informative essay?
A. to tell a story
B. to persuade the reader
C. to entertain the readers
D. to provide information
2. A writer uses persuasion attempts to _____________.
A. tell a story
B. teach you how to do something
C. influence you to do or believe something
D. inform you about historic or current events
3. What are the components of a persuasive writing?
A. Arguments, Details, Thesis
B. Introduction, Body, Conclusion
C. Topic Sentence, Details, Concluding Sentence
D. Introduction, Thesis Statement, Body Paragraphs, Conclusion
4. What is a thesis statement?
A. It is a summary of the main idea.
B. It is a general idea of what the essay is about.
C. It is a suggestion that you should read the essay.
D. It is a statement that explains the main idea of an essay.
5. What is argumentative writing?
A. It is the trustworthiness of a source.
B. It is the evidence that supports a claim.
C. It is the writer’s position on an issue or problem
D. It is a form of writing that expresses a position on a problem and
supports with reasons and evidence.
6. What academic writing requires you to analyze a book, identify its
arguments, and evaluates its strength and weaknesses?
A. book report
B. book review
C. article critique
D. literature review
7 .The following are recommended to be included in writing your book
review
introduction EXCEPT ______________.
A. thesis of the book
B. link of the title to the subject matter
C. book title, theme and author’s name
D. new material to read link of the title to the subject matter
8. What is the first step in critiquing a book or article?
A. Write your reactions.
B. Note the author’s main point/thesis statement.
C. Begin by reading the book or article and annotate as you read.
D. Divide the book/article into sections of thought and write a brief
summary of each thought in your own words.
9. What is the main difference between an article review and a formal
essay?
A. Formal essays need titles.
B. When writing an essay, you’re more focused on the conclusion.
C. Article reviews don’t require the same formatting as formal essays.
D. When writing an article review, you’re focused solely on the content
of that particular article.
10. What information can be found in the body of critique writing?
A. summary
B. thesis statement
C. recommendations
D. book title and author’s name
11. What literary approach analyzes the material by examining underlying
structures, such as characterization or plot, and attempted to show how
these patterns could be used to develop general conclusions?
A. feminist
B. formalist
C. Marxist
D. structuralist
12. If I told you this story takes place in a jungle on a mysterious island
sometime in the 1930s/1940s involving an eccentric hunter, I would be
describing what aspect of the story?
A. character
B. plot
C. setting
D. theme
13. Which part of the story is conflict resolved?
A. climax
B. denouement
C. falling action
D. rising action
14. The point of view that is told from one character’s perspective and uses
pronouns such as “he” and “she” is
A. narrator first person
B. first person
C. second person
D. third person
For numbers 15 and 17, read the poem below and answer the questions that follow.
15. The theme of the poem is
A. a blessing
B. a father’s prayer
C. on a child’s innocence
D. a father’s great love to a daughter
16. The values implied are
A. Being loving and caring
B. Being nonsense and callous
C. Being prayerful and peaceful
D. Being affectionate and prayerful
17. It is a type of literary critique that judges the value of the literature
based on its moral lessons or ethical teachings.
A. feminist
B. formalist
C. Marxist
D. moralist
18. In Marxist theory, those who own property and the means of production
are the
A. bourgeoisie
B. poor
C. proletariat
D. wealthy
19. Feminist criticism in general has moved away from exposing male bias
and towards
A. advocating lesbian-only criticism
B. acknowledging women’s inferiority to men
C. studying women’s texts and women authors
D. none of the above
20. Feminist criticism .
A. is concerned with the marginalization of women in a patriarchal
culture
B. tries to examine the experiences of women from all races, classes,
and cultures
C.tries to explain how the subordination of women is reflected in or
challenged by literary texts
D. all of the above
21. When and where was Jack London born?
A. January 12, 1867 in San Francisco, California
B. January 12, 1876 in San Francisco, California
C. January 12, 1967 in San Francisco, California
D. January 12, 1976 in San Francisco, California
22. What is the weather like at the beginning of the story entitled “To Build
a Fire”?
A. cold, gray day
B. cold, rainy day
C. hot, sunny day
D. warm, windy day
23. Where is the man going to in the story “To Build a Fire”?
A. Alaska Creek
B. Henderson Creek
C. Indian Creek
D. Yukon Creek
24. What does the dog’s “instinct” tell us about the main character?
A. The man has affection for his friends.
B. The man does not think beyond the surfaces of things.
C. The man probably shouldn’t be traveling in such cold weather
alone.
D. The man shouldn’t stop from walking so that he could not feel the
freezing weather.
25. What happens to the man at the end of the story?
A. The man dies.
B. The man falls asleep.
C. The man is able to survive the cold weather with the dog.
D. The man successfully arrives to his destination.
26. When did Ahmad Shah DURRANI find Afghanistan?
A. 1747
B. 1919
C. 1979
D. 1989
27. When did Afghanistan gain independence from Great Britain?
A. 1747
B. 1919
C. 1979
D. 1989
28. What country invaded Afghanistan in 1979?
A. Great Britain
B. Iraq
A. Soviet Union
D. United States
29. What organization arose in Afghanistan in 1994?
A. Al-Qaeda
B. Communist Party
C. Hamas
D. Taliban
30. When and where was Osama bin Laden killed?
A. August 2, 2009, in Washington, D.C.
B. December 1, 2005, in New York City
C. May 2, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan
D. September 1, 2001, in United States
31. Why do you think the story entitled ‘A Day in the Country’?
A. It is because the author lives in the country the major characters
live.
B. It is because the characters made their way to adventure and
explored the beauty of nature.
C. One day, a little boy had trapped his hand inside a hole in the bark
of a tree in the country forest.
D. The story is so called as it is based on the incidents in the life of the
three country folks in one single day.
32. What significant lesson can we learn from the story ‘A Day in the
Country’?
A. It can be difficult sometimes to understand the lessons of life.
B. Living a simple life means living an unsatisfactory life whether
you’re in a country or not.
C. We should know every little detail the fields have, the river banks,
the
birds, and the tress.
D. In modern days, people have been too preoccupied with
technology that they forget to appreciate the benefits and wonders of
nature.
33. Who wrote the selection “A Day in the Country”?
A. Anton Chekhov
B. Craig Rain
C. Ernest Hemingway
D. F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. When a narrator is the major character in a story, what point-of-view is
being emphasized?
A. first person point-of-view
B. second point-of-view
C. third person point-of-view
D. omniscient person point-of-view7
35. The lines “Red zigzag of lightning gleam here and there across it.” and
“There is a sound of far-away rumbling.” describes
A. earth
B. plants
C. seas
D. skies
36. The line ‘colors of the rainbow that are on the faces of people’ convey
A. generosity and serenity
B. friendship and camaraderie
C. happiness and contentment
D. lasting relationship among spouses
37. The line “A dark leaden-coloured mass is creeping over the sky toward the
sun.” uses what literary device?
A. analogy
B. imagery
C. irony
D. metaphor
38. What is the opposite word for agitate?
A. calm
B. disturb
C. move
D. stir
39. The line “The frail little beggar-girl tripping after them.” suggests that
______.
A. she is sick
B. she is tired
C. she wants to play
D. she wants to be left behind
40. Interpret the mood of the statement, “He longs to tell someone, all that is
haunting him now, but there is no one to tell.”
A. confused
B. disappointed
C. excited
D. sad
41. In the story “A Day in the Country” from the way the characters react to
the setting, you can tell that they are _________.
A. comfortable with their surroundings
B. excited by the prospects of an adventure
C. confident that they will get through the forest
D. disturbed by the dark stuffiness of the forest
42. What is the main problem in the story?
A. A threatening storm lures at the village.
B. The characters enjoy the splendors of the country.
C. The children have nowhere to go except for the barn.
D. Fyokla needs the cobbler’s help to rescue her brother.
43. What is the author’s purpose in writing the story?
A. to compare experiences
B. to explain the beauty of nature
C. to show that there is the same sun for us all
D. to reflect of nature’s gift and the wisdom of country folks5
44. You can tell that the story is told from the third-person point of view
because the narrator ___________.
A. is a character in the story
B. is a voice outside the story
C. takes part in the story’s action
D. knows all the characters’ thoughts
45. How important is historical context in analysis and interpretation of a
text?
A. It depicts the probable happening in the future.
B. It shows significant people and events in the present.
C. It gives little information about the important events in the past.
D. It gives all details of the time and place in which a situation occurs.
46. What is the purpose of an informative essay?
A. to tell a story
B. to persuade the reader
C. to entertain the readers
D. to provide information, or explain steps in a process
47. A writer uses persuasion attempts to _________________.
A. tell a story
B. teach you how to make or do something
C. influence you to do or believe something
D. inform you about historic or current events
48. What is a thesis statement?
A. It is a summary of the main idea.
B. It is a general idea of what the essay is about.
C. It is a suggestion that you should read the essay.
D. It is a statement that explains the main idea of an essay.
49. Every argument begins with one of these.
A. claim
B. evidence
C. explanation
D. reason
50. What is argumentative writing?
A. It is the trustworthiness of a source.
B. It is the evidence that supports a claim.
C. It is the writer’s position on an issue or problem.
D. It is a form of writing that expresses a position on a problem and
supports with reasons and evidence.