Name:__________________________________ Date:______________

Grade 8 Saint Catherine Score:___

HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY

I. Direction: Match column G with column A. Write your answers on the blank
provided.

A. Vocabularies:

G A

______1) Yearned a. fruit that used as drinking cup

______2) Gourd b. longed

_____3) Calabash c. searching

______4) Prowling d. fruit that made into a bowl or cup

B. Elements of Short Story:

G A

_____6) Setting e. It is the sequence of events in a story

_____7) Characters f. the time and location in which a story takes place.

_____ 8) Plot g. creates tension or problem in the story

____9) Conflict h. takes part in the action of a story

_____10) Climax i. the action of solving a problem

______11) Resolution j. it is where the characters solve the problem

______ 12) Theme k. the central idea or belief in a short story/ moral
 II. Direction: Write like if the statement is correct. Otherwise write unlike if it is
wrong. Write your answers on the blank provided.

A. Story: Olorun the Creator

_________13) Olorun is being jealous by the skill of great god.

_________ 14) Olorun is regarded as the creator.

____________15) In the ancient times the earth was already complete.

B. Story: Anansis Tales

____________16) Nyame wanted to buy all the tales of the world from Anansi.

____________ 17) Anansi had to get Mmboro and Onini for him to buy the stories.

_____________ 18) Onini was the great python.

III. Direction: Explain the theme of the stories:

Olorun the Creator (3 points)

Anansis Tales (3 points)

Prepared by:

GERMILYN C. ANGEL
(Student-Teacher)