Department of Education

Region X
Division of Bukidnon
SUMILAO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Poblacion, Sumilao, Bukidnon

PERIODICAL TEST IN ENGLISH -9

FIRST QUARTER

Direction: Read each item carefully. Shade the circle that corresponds to the best answer. Use the
separate answer sheet provided. DO NOT WRITE ANYTHING ON THIS QUESTIONNAIRE.

1. What is the kenning in the sentence: “The first lady is busy entertaining the guest who are
dignitaries from other countries.”?
A. busy entertaining B. dignitaries C. first lady D. the guest
2. What is the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence: Soldiers must have the right
battle gear to win the war.
A. Armor B. combat plan C. Strategy D. . Strength
3. It is gloomy today. The sky-candle did not come out. What is the meaning of the underlined
word?
A. light bulb B. Moon C. Star D. Sun
4. Beowulf aims his sword precisely. He never missed his target. The underlined word
means
A. bravely B. exactly C. nicely D. strongly
5. My friend almost fell off the cliff in Mt. Kitanglad because he stood right on the precipice.
A. big stone B. edge C. hole D. stiff
6. My sister loathes action movies, but she loves Korean drama films. Loathes means
A. admires excitedly C. watches eagerly
B. dislikes intensely D. likes just a little
7. The President gave a commendation to the brave soldiers of Marawi for their bravery.
A. An award for an outstanding achievement C. A lecture
B. An object designed to bring good luck D. A gift

Read the selection below, then answer the questions that follow.

Circadian rhythms have fascinated scientists for many years. Recognizing

that the eye nerves translate information to the brain about the time of day,
scientists observe that we adapt to the conditions around us. Also, these
researchers have recently discovered that not everyone is alike. For example,
teenagers are nocturnal. That is, they are more active at night but do not function
as well early in the morning.

8. What is the purpose of the author in writing the text?

A. To entertain B. To give an advice C. To persuade D. To inform
9. What does the selection say about circadian rhythms?
A. It has fascinated the scientists
B. Teenagers are more active at night than during the day.
C. Each of us follow a body clock that determines our best time of the day to work and think.
D. Each one follows a rhythm which makes us different from each other throughout the day.

Read the advertisement below , then answer the questions that follows.

Wouldn't you like to feel safe in your neighborhood? Please join our
watch group. We need good volunteers to protect our streets and report
suspicious activity to the police.

10. What is the author's purpose in writing this advertisement?

A. To entertain B. To inform C. To persuade D .To scare the reader
11. What is the message of the advertisement?
A. Anyone can join the watch group.
B. There are bad people in the neighborhood.
C. Police needs the help of the people to protect the neighborhood
 D. There is going to be an organization that will help protect the neighborhood
12. Choose the best sentence connectors to complete the statement.
We went out ________the cold weather.
A. despite B. although C. besides D. Later
13. My sister was in the dentist's office for ten minutes. ______, I sat in the waiting room with an
old magazine in my hands.
A. First B. Later C. Meanwhile D. Therefore
14. The volleyball coach announced, "Today, we will begin practicing for the coming match."
______ he added, "Let's warm up first."
A. Then B. After C. Eventually D. For example
15. Joanna is a lazy girl. Consequently, all her grades are very low.
What is the function of the underlined connector in the sentence?
A. It introduces a contrast C. It introduces a new idea
B. It introduces a result D. It introduces new information
16. Kaamulan Festival highlights the culture of the seven tribes of Bukidnon. Furthermore, it is
also a celebration of unity among these tribes. What is the function of the underlined
connector in the sentence?
A. It introduces a contrast C. It introduces a new idea
B. It introduces a result D. It changes the topic
17. Dahilayan Forest Adventure Park is a very popular tourist attraction in Northern Mindanao.
At the same time, it promotes Bukidnon as a safe and beautiful place. What is the function of
the underlined connector in the sentence?
A. It introduces a contrast C. It introduces a new idea
B. It introduces similar ideas D. It introduces a result

18. What sensory details does the second line appeal to?
Our hearts though stout and brave
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
A. hearing B. Sight C. smell D. touch
19. The thunder clapped loudly shaking the house. What sensory detail does the line shows?
A. hearing B. Sight C. smell D. touch
20. The afternoon sun penetrated my upturned face
A. hearing B. Sight C. smell D. touch
21. Which of the following sound devices is an example of alliteration?
A. The bee buzzed by my ear.
B. "silken, sad, uncertain, rustling.."
C. Fell and frantic and forced from their slumber
D. All the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
22. Which of the following sound devices is an example of onomatopoeia?
A. "silken, sad, uncertain, rustling.."
B. He whiffed the aroma of brewed coffee.
C. The buzzed by my ear.
D. She sells seashell at the seashore
23. Which of the following is an example of imagery?
A. Life is like a box of chocolates.
B. She sells seashells at the sea shore.
C. All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players.
D. And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes.

Read the given passage and answer the questions that follow.

“React positively to life by looking for ways to make your life better if not the best”

24. What attitude towards life is being suggested in the line above?
A. Optimistic B. Passivism C. Pessimistic D. Skeptical
25. What advice did the author give in order to have better life?
A. anticipate the ways D. disregards the ways
B. focus for ways C. wait for ways
 Let us then be up and doing
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing
Learn to labor and to wait
- Invictus (exceprt)

26. What is the tone of the given stanza?

A. Angry B. doubtful C. fearful D. Hopeful
27. What is meant by the first line?
A. The speaker wanted us to fight for life
B. We can wait for our destiny
C. We need to stand and take action
D. We need to wake up from our sleep

Well son, I tell you

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair
It had tacks in it.
28.What is the tone of the given lines?
A. admiring B. hopeful C. playful D. Serious
29.To what does the speaker compare life?
A. crystal B. stairway C. tacks D. son
30. A type of poetry which expresses personal emotions or feelings.
A. blank verse B. Epic C. Lyric D. Ode
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,

That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
-Robert Frost,"The Mending Wall"

31. The poem above is an example of a___

A. blank verse B. Epic C. Lyric D. Ode
32. What is a sonnet?
A. A poem with 14 lines C. a poem about a hero
A. A poem about death D. A poem that gives praise
33. Beowulf is an example of a/an ____
A. epic B. sonnet C. Ode D. Blank verse

Read the excerpt from the Psalm of Life, then answer the questions that follow

Footprints, that perhaps another,

Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,

With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.

34.. What does the speaker want to say in the last four lines?
A. Let us discover our life’s destiny
B. Let us take care of our heart
C. Let us face whatever life offers us
D. Let us live a full life and be active
Read the following extracts from the Psalm of Life and answer the questions that follow.
35.. All the world’s a stage
and all the men and women merely players:
They have exits and entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
36.. What does the poet mean by the terms ‘exits and entrances?
A. It refers to the doors of our lives
B. It symbolises death and life respectively.
C. It refers to being ready in case of emergency
D. It refers to the entrance and exits on the stage when you perform a stage play.
37.. Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel,
Seeking the bubble reputation
Even in the cannon’s mouth :
Who is the person being described in the above lines?
A. an actor B. . a clown C. a poet D. a soldier

38. At first the infant

Mewling and puking in the nurse’s arms
Then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel
And shining morning face, creeping like snail.
How is the life of a person like an infant ?
A. A man, like an infant, is totally dependent.
B. As an infant a man cries a lot.
C. The man vomits in the nurse’s arms.
D. The man needs a nurse to take care of him.
39. Why is the the schoolboy depicted as ‘shining’ and
‘whining’?
A. He is unwilling to go to school.
B. He is like a snail
C. He is a small boy with shining face
D. He is happy to go to school.

40.. What is the theme of the poem ‘The Seven Ages’?

A. There is nothing permanent in life
B. Human life goes from infancy to adulthood.
C. Humans will pass through all the stages of life
D. Life starts from ‘entry’ and ends in ‘exits

41-43. What type of text is the following passage?

41. The boy was astonished by what he saw inside. Never could he have imagined that,
there in the middle of the desert, there existed a tent like this one. The ground was
covered with the most beautiful carpets he had ever walked upon, and from the top
of the structure hung lamps of hand-wrought gold, each with a lighted candle.

A. Journalistic text B. Informative Text C. Literary Text D. Persuasive Text

The Black Plague In 1348, the bubonic plague arrived in Britain through the
42..
southern coast ports. The plague reached London by September 1348 and Scotland,
Wales and Ireland in the winter of 1349. Estimates place the total dead as
somewhere between a tenth and a third of the population (for the period 1348-50)

A. Journalistic text B. Informative Text C. Literary Text D. Persuasive Text

43.
Manila, Phil. The Liberal Party (LP) warned members of the country’s highest court
against starting a “constitutional crisis” by considering a petition that seeks to
invalidate the appointment of Chief Justice on-leave Maria Lourdes Sereno, a move
seen to bypass the impeachment process.

A. Journalistic text B. Informative Text C. Literary Text D. Persuasive Text

44. Which of the following is an example of informative text?

A. a school paper C. a recipe book
B. Harry Potter D. TV commercial on a shampoo
45. Which of the following lines has an end rhyme.
A. I went to town to buy a gown. / I took the car and it wasn’t far.
B. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary - Edgar Allen Poe (The
Raven).
C. 'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door;
Only this, and nothing more."
D. I had a cat who wore a hat.

46. Which of the following has an internal rhyme?

A. The sky was a clear, rich shiny blue.
I knew it was true
B. Tyger Tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night” (William Blake)
C. “ A word is dead
When I is said” ( Emily Dickenson)
D. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.. (Edgar Allan Poe)
47. All of the following are characteristics of lyric poetry EXCEPT
A. It is meant to be sung C. It expresses thought or emotion
B. It has musical quality D. It has an involvement of the supernatural

48. Which of the following is an element of epic?

A. It has a legendary hero C. It uses dialogues
B. It has musical quality D. It talks about the beginnings of things
49. All of the following are examples of lyric poetry, EXCEPT
A. ode B. sonnet C. epic D. elegy
50. Which of the following is an example of narrative poetry?
A. ode B. sonnet C. epic D. elegy

51. The items below do not have any punctuation. Choose the option with the correct punctuation
One day I hope to achieve my lifelong dream __ to go to the moon
A. One day I hope to achieve my lifelong dream: to go to the moon.
B. One day I hope to achieve my lifelong dream; to go to the moon.
C. One day I hope to achieve my lifelong dream,to go to the moon.
D. One day I hope to achieve my lifelong dream -to go to the moon.
52. Which sentence has the correct punctuation?
A. The Philippine flags has three colors ; red, white, and blue.
B. The Philippine flag has: three colors: Red, white, and blue
C. The Philippine flag has: three colors: red, white, and blue
D. The Philippine flag has: three colors. Red, white, and blue
53. Which sentence has a correct punctuation?
A. She said she loved to swim; so, we went to RR Spring resort.
B. She said she loved to swim, so we went to RR Spring resort.
C. She said: she loved to swim, so we went to RR Spring resort.
D. She said she loved to swim: so, we went to RR Spring resort.

54. Which sentence has the correct punctuation?

A. We ask; therefore that you keep this matter confidential.
B. We ask, therefore; that you keep this matter confidential.
C. We ask, therefore, that you keep this matter confidential.
D. We ask: therefore, that you keep this matter confidential.
55.Which sentence has an inverted word order?
A. At the end of the story is a terrible surprise.
B. Beowulf is classic Anglo-Saxon hero.
C. The dog ran after the little girl.
D. We went to Bohol last summer.
56.Which sentence has an inverted word order?
A. Africa is a huge continent with many countries.
B. Many different areas are carved out in this continent
C. With all the different areas, come different animals and plants.
D. Therefore, different groups of people have come to live in each area of Africa.
57.Which sentence has an inverted word order?
A. Who is responsible for creating computer virus?
B. The detective look for clues intently.
C. Beyond the meadow flows a beautiful river.
 D. The whole place is so clean.
58.Which statement is the correct paraphrase of the sentence: In the back of the room, a crash was
heard
A. A crash was heard in the back of the room.
B. In the back of the room was heard a crash.
C. Was heard a crash in the back of the room.
D. In the back, a crash was heard in the room.

59. Which statement is the correct paraphrase of the sentence: My mother is the greatest love of my
life.
A. The greatest love of my life is my mother.
B. My greatest love is my mother in my life
C. My mother’s greatest love is my life.
D. I love my mother greatly.
60. Which sentence is in the natural word order?
A. Lighting the path, they walk carefully.
B. Behind every success is a man who works hard.
C. With music and dancing, everyone enjoyed the night party.
D. I always love to read books especially action novels and horror.