English 9
THIRD QUARTER
Test Paper
Read the questions carefully.
Write the letter of your answer in the answer sheet.
1. From the one-act play,” Sorry Wrong
Number’, on what type of story does Mrs.
Stevenson’s strong feeling of fear and
helplessness fall?
a. horror
b. fiction
c. suspense
d. thrill
2. The same selection in number 1, how does
the playwright develop the theme?
a. through props
b. through setting
c. through mood and tone
d. through plot and characters
3. How do you assess the backstage technical
crew responsible for running the show and they
build the set and handled the load in and
during the performance they change the
scenery and handle their curtain?
a. artist
b. director
c. stage crew
d. ensemble
4. “In the city of Verona, the houses hold an
“ancient grudge” against each other that
remains a source of violent and blood conflict”,
how do you evaluate the word grudge in line 1
of the prologues suggest both houses are
alike?
a. in violence
b. in sadness
c. in social standing
d. in relation to Prince Escalus
5. How will you assess the feud between the
Capulets and Montagues has caused?
a. bankruptcy in both families
b. political exile for both families
c. violence and death in both families
d. social consent for both families
6. Interpret the rhyme scheme of the lines
below.
If I profane with my unworthiness hand
This holy shrine, the gentle find is this:
My lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand
To smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss.
a. abab
b. abba
c. aabb
d.. bbaa
7. Which of the following statements is an
example of metaphor?
a.” Oh, Romeo! Come on and love me!”
b.” Mercurio’s wound is just a scratch.”
c. “Juliet is a sun.”
d. “Live here in heaven and look upon her”.
8. How do we distinguish hyperbole and
understatement?
a. Hyperbole overstates a statement while
understatement underplays the truth.
b. Hyperbole underplays the truth while
understatement overstates the truth.
c. Understatement underplays a falsehood
while hyperbole overstates the statement.
d. Understatement overstates the statement
and hyperbole plays the truth.
9. What is the author’s purpose when using the
lines, “ Ask not what your country can do for
you, ask what you can do for your country” by
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
a. to encourage everyone to do your best for
your country
b. to wait for the country to do something for
you
c. to rely your country to make something new
for you
d. to depend your country to solve for your
problem
10. The author’s tone throughout the selection
entitled “For Conversation Press #1” is______
a. amusement
b. criticism
c. hostility
d. indifference
11. The idea that bothers the author most
about the effect of communication technology
on his life____
a. limited communication with strangers
b. lack of social formula
c. extreme preference for cellphones
d. deviation from meaningful interaction
12. The muse became imperious when she
could not connect to the number she dialled.
The underlined word means______.
a. humble
b. arrogant
c. obedient
d. meek
13. When the operator dialled again, she only
got a bland buzzing signal and heard the
conversation on the cross line. The underlined
word means_____.
a. dull
b. smooth
c. agreeable
d. irritating
14. “Juliet my dear, something terrible has
happened”. What does the underlined word means:
a. unforbidding
b. fearful
c. surprise
d. amaze
15. Based from the selection” Sorry Wrong 22. How is text 1 “Romeo and Juliet” similar to
Number”, what man’s value implied by the Text 2 “Sorry Wrong Number”? Both of the text
author? _________
a. Unmindful in calling mobile numbers. a. have built tension and tragic ending
b. Incautious in ringing contact number b. shaped by Deu E Machina
c. Conservative in dialling one’s contact c. begin with flashback
number d. show a discounted antagonist
d. Heedless in manipulating cellular phones. 23. How is text 1 different from text 2?
a. has pathetic mood
For items16-17 refer your answer from the b. has melancholic tone
text below c. uses First Person point of view
“Without it I was like a bear in a cave drowsing d. is meant to be performed on stage
through a shadowing winter. It rings and spring 24. Which part of the play is considered the
has come.” most exciting?
16. To what does the speaker compare man’s a. act
situation before the advent of the b. climax
technologies? c. element
a. dark d. resolution
b. lucid 25. What part of the story’s plot line in which
c. brilliant the problem is resolved?
d. illuminated a. exposition
17. What value do people give to the b. falling action
technologies when he has the access to it? c. resolution
a. unimportant d. rising action
b. deficiency 26. Which term is used to summarize what
c. worth of something happens and who changes from the beginning
d. highly invaluable to end of the story?
18. From the story,” Sorry Wrong Number”, a. drama
which among the following lines shows b. result
heightened tension and suspense? c. synopsis
a. It’s eleven o’clock. d. plot
b. May I speak to Miss Phillips. 27. Which of the gerunds function as direct
c. I don’t see how it could be busy all the time. object?
d. You’ve got to hear me. Oh, please, you’ve a. Dancing is my hobby.
got to help me. b. His favourite sport is biking.
19. Which is not a feature of a one act-radio c. Rose loves singing in the rain.
play? d. Sheila’s exercise, jogging, makes her feel
a. delivery of lines good.
b. the tone of choice of the characters 28. Which of the following verbal is used as
c. the sound effects used subject in a sentence?
d. foreshadowing a. Walking is a form of exercise.
20. The following are distinguished features of b. I am walking going to the school.
a one act play EXCEPT: c. My only exercise is walking, not diving.
d. Rodrigo is walking in the street
a. It is a play consisting entirely of one act. 29. Subjective Complement a. cooking
b. Characters are few in numbers b. Dina’s
c. It is the same from a full length play. c. hobby is
d. There is a complete drama within one act.
d. favourite
Arrange the words/phrases to form a
sentence and write it in you answer sheet. 30. Object of a preposition
Gerund as:
21. What are the genres of the two texts? Text a. writing
1 Romeo and Juliet, Text 2 Sorry Wrong b. busy by
Number c. Benny
a. Text 1 is a drama and text 2 is a poem.
b. Text 1 is an essay and text 2 is a one act play. d. keeps himself
c. Text 1 is an essay and text 2 is a narrative. “Ang exam ay parang love life din ‘yan,
d. Text 1 is drama and text 2 is a one act play kailangang mag focus kung ayaw mong masaktan”
-Ma’am Marnie
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