SHORT QUIZ IN ENGLISH 9

Name:____________________ Score:_____________
Grade&Section: ________________________ Date: ______________
Directions: Read each passage carefully and answer the questions
below.
1. Bullying was once commonly thought to be an unpleasant but
normal part of child’s play, not to be encouraged, of course, but of
little consequence in the long run. However, developmental
researchers who have looked closely at the society of children
consider bullying to be a very serious problem, one that harms both
the victim and the aggressor, sometimes continuing to cause
suffering years after the child has grown up.

1. What was the old common thought about bullying?

2. What did the developmental researchers find out the effects of

bullying?

2. The people of the Republic of Abkhazia in the southwest corner of

the former Soviet Union have the distinction of living on the average,
longer than any other people on Earth. In one village of twelve
hundred people studied by anthropologists, for example, almost two
hundred people were over the age of 81.
 1. What is main idea of the passage?

2. Does the main idea support the objective of the passage why?

3. Tsunamis, large waves caused by underwater earthquake, can

be deadly and destructive. For example, in December 2004, an
underwater earthquake triggered a massive tsunami throughout the
Indian Ocean. The Tsunami killed more than. 200, 000 people and
caused billions of dollars of damage to the coasts of numerous
Southeast Asian countries.

1. What is the topic of the passage?

2. Identify the main idea of the passage.