CENTRAL LUZON COLLEGE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

OLONGAPO CITY

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Second Quarterly Examination – 2nd Semester, 2019-2020

Eng5 – Creative Writing

Name: Gacita, Shielo Date: March 20, 2020

Strand: GAS-11 Proctor: Ms. Rosielyn Fernandez

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Follow all instructions carefully; failure to do so will warranty a substantial deduction from
your final score.

2. You are not allowed to leave your seat unless you are through with the exam. If you have
any questions, just raise your hand and the Professor/ Proctor will attend you.

A. Directions: Read the poem carefully and answer the following questions below.

The Road Not Taken

BY ROBERT FROST
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,

And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay

In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh

Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
 1. Do you think the road that the speaker took was really the less traveled one? Why?

No, the road the speaker takes is not really the less travelled one, because, according to the second
stanzas, there is no road less travelled; they have both been travelled by relatively.

2. Do you think the speaker regrets his choice, or is happy about it? Why?

I think that you can argue that the speaker is not happy with his decision. The only evidence for that,
though, is that he will be telling the story “with a sigh.” But I think that he is content. Making a
decision that will affect the rest of one’s life. The speaker begins by simply looking at the two roads.

3. What type of choices do you think this fork in the road represents for the speaker?

The fork in the road then represent a stage in his life and even though he has tried to envision what
the road he does not. In The Road Not Taken, the speaker has come to a point in his life where he
can no longer look down “as far as I could” and he has to make some kind of potentially life-
changing decision. He has a choice one or the other as he cannot “travel both”

GOD BLESS! 

Prepared by: Reviewed by: Noted by:

Rosielyn S. Fernandez, LPT John Oliver F. Panes,LPT John James A. Larafoster, LPT, Ed.D.
Faculty SHS Coordinator School Principal