I.

STUDENTS MORPHOPHONEMIC KNOWLEDGE

A. AFFIXATION (30 items)
Directions: Read and understand each question thoroughly and carefully. Choose the
letter of your best answer.
1. Working there was like being trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare. The latin suffix -
esque means?
a. A perfect copy
b. The same idea
c. In the style of
d. In the end
2. The band performance was an utter failure! In the word failure, what does the
suffix ure mean?
a. Full
b. Action
c. Without
d. Like
3. Which of the following is a suffix?
a. Dis
b. Mis
c. Re
d. Less
4. Which suffix can you add to the root word “cook” to make a new word?
a. Ful
b. Ship
c. S
d. Ly
5. Choose the word that contains a suffix. “the unhappy boy could run the fastest in
his preschool”.
a. Unhappy
b. Could
c. Fastest
d. Preschool
6. Choose the word that contains a suffix. “the tall fearless firefighter went into the
burning house”.
a. Fearless
b. Tall
c. Went
d. House
7. If you add the prefix “dis” to the word “appear” what is the correct spelling for the
new word?
a. Dispear
b. Disapear
c. Disappear
d. dissappear
8. which prefix can you add to the word “build” to make a new word?
a. Mis
b. Un
c. Pre
d. Re
9. What is the prefix of ungrateful?
a. Grate
b. Un
c. Ful
d. Grateful

10. Which suffix can you add to the root word “friend to make a new word?
a. Est
b. Ful
c. Ing
d. Ly
11. What does the prefix “dis” mean?
a. Before
b. Not
c. Again
d. Wrong
12. What does the suffix “less” mean?
a. Full of
b. The most
c. In the manner of
d. Without
13. Choose the word that contains a suffix. “last winter was windy and cold.
a. Winter
b. Cold
c. Windy
d. Last
14. What does the word hopeful mean?
a. Without hope
b. Full of hope
c. A person with hope
d. Hopeless
15. The children walked safely away during the fire drill. The word safely
means?
a. In a safe way
b. Not safe
c. Able to be safe
d. One who is safe
16. Which suffix means someone who does something?
a. Less
b. Able
c. Er
d. Ful
17. What word means in a quick way?
a. Quickful
b. Quickless
c. Quickly
d. Quicker
18. What word means able to be eaten?
a. Eater
b. Eatable
 c. Eatly
d. Eatless
19. Over the holidays I was so thankful for my family and friends. What does it
mean to be thankful?
a. Full of sadness
b. Without thanks
c. Full of thanks
d. Someone who celebrates Thanksgiving
20. What does the prefix “intra” mean?
a. Outside
b. Within
c. Between
d. Nowhere
21. “The man’s words were unintelligible, but Patrick guessed form the man’s
tone that Patrick was supposed to leave”. In the word unintelligible the prefix un –
most likely means?
a. Very
b. Not
c. A little
d. Against
22. What does the prefix per, like in the word perforate mean?
a. Push, drive
b. Feeling, suffering
c. Through, completely
d. False
23. In many countries it is ____legal to keep a gun in your house.
a. Un
b. In
c. Il
d. Dis
24. She’s thinking of going back to university and taking a ____graduate course.
a. Pre
b. Under
c. Post
d. Mid
25. Thousands of people have taken part in a ____democracy demonstration.
a. Pro
b. Anti
c. Dys
d. For
26. You shouldn’t eat chicken that is ____cooked.
a. Anti
b. Mis
c. Above
d. Under
27. There was some ____agreement over the bill.
a. Dis
b. Mis
c. Un
d. In
 28. She works for a ____national company. It has offices in over 30 countries.
a. Inter
b. Intra
c. Multi
d. Bi
29. Everyone was watching me and I felt very ____conscious.
a. Un
b. Over
c. Self
d. In
30. His ___wife is suing him for $35 million.
a. Pre
b. Ex
c. Post
d. Over
31.
B. PLURALITY
Direction:
1. The school was more than a mile from their home, and the _______ trotted along as
fast as their short legs could carry them.
a. Childs
b. Children
c. Child
d. Childish
2. The two _______ adjourned to the front porch to cut green beans and shuck corn.
a. Woman
b. Womans
c. Womens
d. Women
3. She moved the guns and ______ out of the way, unsettled by the thought of blood.
A. knives
B. knive
C. knife
D. knifes
4. An old Cat was in a fair way to kill all the ______ in the barn.
a. Mouse
b. Mice
c. Mices
d. Mouses
5. He who is only a traveller learns things at second-hand and by the _____, and is
poor authority.
a. Half
b. Halve
c. Halves
d. Halfs
6. Here vast numbers of ducks, ______, swans and pelicans resort every year.
a. Goose
b. Gooses
c. Geese
 d. Geeses
7. He finished brushing his _______, rinsed his mouth and then wiped it.
a. Teeth
b. Tooth
c. Teeths
d. Tooths
8. Mages, vampires, _______, immortal creatures with extraordinary powers who
battle evil for supremacy and the ultimate fate of mankind.
a. Elfs
b. Elve
c. Elves
d. Elf
9. he most common plants of the Mexican plateau are the agaves, yuccas and
_______, each of which is represented by a number of species.
a. Cactus
b. Cacti
c. Cactis
d. Cactuses
10. In all his travels he studied only the __________ of nature and human life.
a. Phenomenon
b. Phenomena
c. Phenomenology
d. Phenomenal
11. The instructor guide contains course _______, example lecture outlines, case
studies and laboratory data.
a. Syllabi
b. Syllables
c. Syllabus
d. Syllabis
12. Dalton himself made many _______ with the purpose of establishing his
views, but his skill as an analyst was not very great.
a. Analyse
b. Analysis
c. Analyses
d. Analytical
13. ______ are generally examined by two or more specialists.
a. These
b. Theses
c. Thesis
d. This
14. To appreciate his diagnoses, it is necessary to understand certain terms,
which unfortunately are not used in the same sense by all authors.
a. Diagnoses
b. Diagnose
c. Diagnosis
d. Diagnostic
15. The ______ of the original cells persist in the protoplasmic membrane.
a. Nuclear
b. Nucleus
c. Nuclei
 d. Nucleic
16. These two fungi usually grow in woods, but sometimes in hedges and in
shady places in meadows, or even, as has been said, as invaders on mushroom-
beds.
a. Fungi
b. Fungus
c. Funguses
d. Fungal
17. In the ______ of Sahara, and in other parts of Northern Africa, dates are
pounded and pressed into a cake for food.
a. Oasis
b. Oases
c. Oasess
d. Ousis
18. The machine will figure this out as it collects more ______ and incorporates
more variables, and then experiments on people to see which combinations of
factors work the best.
a. Date
b. Data
c. Datum
d. Datas
19. The surface of the water ruptured, spewing a colorful ______ into the air.
a. Fishes
b. Fishing
c. Fishis
d. Fish
20. Still, goats and sheep had been in North America for hundreds of years.
a. Ships
b. Ship
c. Sheeps
d. Sheep

II. STUDENTS LEVEL OF READING COMPREHENSION

Thank You, Ma'am (by Langston Hughes)
She was a large woman with a large purse that had everything in it but hammer and
nails. It had along strap, and she carried it slung across her shoulder. It was about
eleven o’clock at night, and she was walking alone, when a boy ran up behind her and
tried to snatch her purse. The strap broke with the single tug the boy gave it from
behind. But the boy’s weight and the weight of the purse combined caused him to lose
his balance so, instead of taking off full blast as he had hoped, the boy fell on his back
on the sidewalk, and his legs flew up. the large woman simply turned around and kicked
him right square in his blue-jeaned sitter. Then she reached down, picked the boy up by
his shirt front, and shook him until his teeth rattled.
After that the woman said, “Pick up my pocketbook, boy, and give it here.” She still held
him. But she bent down enough to permit him to stoop and pick up her purse. Then she
said, “Now ain’t you ashamed of yourself?” Firmly gripped by his shirt front, the boy
said, “Yes’m.” The woman said, “What did you want to do it for?” The boy said, “I didn’t
aim to. “She said, “You a lie!” By that time two or three people passed, stopped, turned
to look, and some stood watching. “If I turn you loose, will you run?” asked the woman.
“Yes’m,” said the boy. “Then I won’t turn you loose,” said the woman. She did not release
him. “I’m very sorry, lady, I’m sorry,” whispered the boy. “Um-hum! And your face is
dirty. I got a great mind to wash your face for you. Ain’t you got nobody home to tell you
to wash your face? “No’m,” said the boy. “Then it will get washed this evening,” said the
large woman starting up the street, dragging the frightened boy behind her. He looked as
if he were fourteen or fifteen, frail and willow-wild, in tennis shoes and blue jeans. The
woman said, “You ought to be my son. I would teach you right from wrong. Least I can
do right now is to wash your face. Are you hungry?”
“No’m,” said the being dragged boy. “I just want you to turn me loose.” “Was I bothering
you when I turned that corner?” asked the woman. “No’m.” “But you put yourself in
contact with me,” said the woman. “If you think that that contact is not going to last
awhile, you got another thought coming. When I get through with you, sir, you are going
to remember Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones.” Sweat popped out on the boy’s face
and he began to struggle. Mrs. Jones stopped, jerked him around in front of her, put a
half-nelson about his neck, and continued to drag him up the street.
When she got to her door, she dragged the boy inside, down a hall, and into a large
kitchenette furnished room at the rear of the house. She switched on the light and left
the door open. The boy could hear other roomers laughing and talking in the large
house. Some of their doors were open, too, so he knew he and the woman were not
alone. The woman still had him by the neck in the middle of her room.
She said, “What is your name?”
“Roger,” answered the boy.
“Then, Roger, you go to that sink and wash your face,” said the woman, whereupon she
turned him loose—at last. Roger looked at the door—looked at the woman—looked at the
door—and went to the sink. Let the water run until it gets warm,” she said. “Here’s a
clean towel.” “You gonna take me to jail?” asked the boy, bending over the sink. “Not
with that face, I would not take you nowhere,” said the woman. “Here I am trying to get
home to cook me a bite to eat and you snatch my pocketbook! Maybe, you ain’t been to
your supper either, late as it be. Have you?” “There’s nobody home at my house,” said
the boy. “Then we’ll eat,” said the woman, “I believe you’re hungry—or been hungry—to
try to snatch my pockekbook.”
“I wanted a pair of blue suede shoes,” said the boy. “Well, you didn’t have to snatch my
pocketbook to get some suede shoes,” said Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones. “You
could of asked me.” “M’am?” The water dripping from his face, the boy looked at her.
There was a long pause. A very long pause. After he had dried his face and not knowing
what else to do dried it again, the boy turned around, wondering what next. The door
was open. He could make a dash for it down the hall. He could run, run, run, run, run!
The woman was sitting on the day-bed. After a while she said, “I were young once and I
wanted things I could not get.” There was another long pause. The boy’s mouth opened.
Then he frowned, but not knowing he frowned.
The woman said, “Um-hum! You thought I was going to say but, didn’t you? You thought
I was going to say, but I didn’t snatch people’s pocketbooks. Well, I wasn’t going to say
that.” Pause. Silence. “I have done things, too, which I would not tell you, son—neither
tell God, if he didn’t already know. So you set down while I fix us something to eat. You
might run that comb through your hair so you will look presentable.” In another corner
of the room behind a screen was a gas plate and an icebox. Mrs. Jones got up and went
behind the screen. The woman did not watch the boy to see if he was going to run now,
nor did she watch her purse which she left behind her on the day-bed. But the boy took
care to sit on the far side of the room where he thought she could easily see him out of
the corner of her eye, if she wanted to. He did not trust the woman not to trust him. And
he did not want to be mistrusted now.
“Do you need somebody to go to the store,” asked the boy, “maybe to get some milk or
something?” “Don’t believe I do,” said the woman, “unless you just want sweet milk
yourself. I was going to make cocoa out of this canned milk I got here.” “That will be
fine,” said the boy. She heated some lima beans and ham she had in the icebox, made
the cocoa, and set the table. The woman did not ask the boy anything about where he
lived, or his folks, or anything else that would embarrass him. Instead, as they ate, she
told him about her job in a hotel beauty-shop that stayed open late, what the work was
like, and how all kinds of women came in and out, blondes, red-heads, and Spanish.
Then she cut him a half of her ten-cent cake.
“Eat some more, son,” she said.
When they were finished eating, she got up and said, “Now, here, take these ten dollars
and buy yourself some blue suede shoes. And next time, do not make the mistake of
latching onto my pocketbook nor nobody else’s—because shoes come by devilish like
that will burn your feet. I got to get my rest now. But I wish you would behave yourself,
son, from here on in.” She led him down the hall to the front door and opened it. “Good-
night! Behave yourself, boy!” she said, looking out into the street. The boy wanted to say
something else other than “Thank you, m’am” to Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones,
but he couldn’t do so as he turned at the barren stoop and looked back at the large
woman in the door. He barely managed to say “Thank you” before she shut the door.
And he never saw her again.
LEXICAL COMPREHENSION TEST
1. It was about eleven o’clock at night, and she was walking alone, when a boy ran
up behind her and tried to snatch her purse. What does the word “snatch” mean?
a. Trick
b. Watch
c. Grab
d. Follow
2. Do not make the mistake of latching onto my pocketbook nor nobody else’s—
because shoes come by devilish like that will burn your feet. What does the
meaning of the underline word?
a. Better
b. Wicked
c. Unfortunate
d. Good
3. He did not trust the woman not to trust him. And he did not want to be mistrusted
now. The word mistrust means suspicious of. What is the antonym of the word
mistrust?
a. Misgivings
b. Doubtful
c. Trust
d. Wariness
 4. The boy’s mouth opened. Then he frowned, but not knowing he frowned. What is
the meaning of the underline word?
a. Happy
b. Eager
c. Glare
d. Timid
5. “Here I am trying to get home to cook me a bite to eat and you snatch my
pocketbook! Maybe, you ain’t been to your supper either, late as it be. The word
supper means?
a. Buffet
b. Breakfast
c. Snacks
d. Dinner
LITERAL COMPREHENSION TEST
1. Who was the boy who tried to snatch Mrs. Jones purse?
a. Jack
b. Roger
c. Frederick
d. Manuel
2. What is the name of the big woman in the story?
a. Mrs. Santiago
b. Mrs. Jones
c. Mrs. Reyes
d. Mrs. Jack
3. What is Roger trying to steal to Mrs. Jones?
a. Book
b. Money
c. Purse
d. Jewellery
4. Where Mrs. Jones bring Rogers after the incident?
a. Jail
b. Orphanage
c. Home
d. Store
5. Why did Roger tried to steal Mrs. Jones purse?
a. He wants money
b. He wants to buy a pair of shoes
c. He wants to eat delicious food
d. He wants to buy toys
INTERPRETIVE COMPREHENSION TEST
1. How did Mrs. Jones react when Roger tries to steal her purse?
a. She was glad when someone came to snatch her purse.
b. She picked the boy up by his shirt front and shook him until his teeth rattled.
c. She disregards the boy and continue walking as if nothing happened.
d. She castigated the poor boy around other people.
2. When they arrived at the boarding house, what do you think Roger was planning
to do?
a. Roger was planning to robe her purse again since he has enough time to do it.
 b. Roger was trying to escape from Mrs. Jones and try his luck to other victims.
c. Roger was trying to manipulate Mrs. Jones so he could rob her purse.
d. Roger was trying to leave and forget everything that happened.
3. Why did Langston Hughes title the story, Thank You Ma’am?
a. Hughes titled the story because "The boy wanted to say something other
than 'Thank you, ma'am,' to Mrs. Jones.
b. Hughes titled the story because he wants to emphasize the significance of
gratefulness.
c. Hughes has no idea of what could be the best title for his story.
d. Hughes wants to share to readers that helping and saying thank you to
someone is a sign of kindness.
4. Mrs. Jones gives Roger the money to teach him a lesson. What do you suppose she
is trying to teach him?
a. Mrs. Jones is showing Roger kindness. She is teaching him honesty and
kindness by forcing Roger to see that he intended to rub on honest
woman. Roger will have to look at himself in the mirror.
b. Mrs. Jones is giving Roger a lesson about what he did to her. She is trying to
give Roger a punishment that he could never forget.
c. She wants Roger to know his worth as a person. Mrs. Jones helps Roger to
become a better version of himself.
d. She wants to uplift the moral of Roger by not doing bad deeds in life instead be
a good person to others.
5. What was Roger motivation for trying to steal the purse?
a. Rogers wants a pair of shoes
b. Roger wants love and care from a parent.
c. Roger wants to become a millionaire.
d. Roger wants to be the best thief at a young age.
APPLIED COMPREHENSION TEST
1. If you were Roger, would you trust Mrs. Jones right away?
a. Yes, because she is helpful and compassionate.
b. Yes, because she knows what’s best for Roger.
c. No, because she might be a dangerous person.
d. No, because what if she is a member of Mafia.
2. Do you think Roger’s encounter with Mrs. Jones altered his life?
a. No, Mrs Jones didn’t help him instead he punishes him.
b. No, Mrs Jones is such a bad woman who castigated him.
c. Yes, Because the woman helps him realize the importance of life.
d. Yes, Because Mrs Jones help him to be kind and honest person.
3. Based on the dialogue between the Roger and Mrs. Jones, what can you infer
about Roger’s feeling?
a. We can infer that the boy is scared, but also ashamed. He seems to be
submissive and answers truthfully to Mrs. Jones questions, even about his
intent to run away if she releases him.
4. Why do you suppose it is difficult for Roger to thank Mrs. Jones?
a. It is likely that Roger has never experienced kindness in this way. He is so
deeply impacted by this experience that he does not know to respond.
Hopefully, he well, “thank” Mrs. Jones, by transforming his life and being
honest.
 5. Roger faces a deep internal conflict. What do you suppose he is struggling with in
his mind?
a. Rogers is struggling his life at a young age.
b. Rogers is struggling where to get food for his daily needs
c. Rogers is experiencing difficulty how he would survive
d. Roger is experiencing loneliness and hunger
AFFECTIVE COMPREHENSION TEST
1. Roger says that there is nobody at his house. How do you feel about his home life?
a. I feel sorry for his unfortunate life that nobody cares for him even his parents.
b. I feel glad the he is alone at his home.
c. I feel sad about his home life. A young boy like him needs someone to
take care of and love him.
d. I feel terrible about his life his parents should not abandon him.
2. What do you do if you were in Roger’s situation in which he was caught by Mrs.
Jones?
a. I would run as fast as I could
b. I feel sorry for what I did and say I will never do it again
c. I will cry to her front and beg her to release me
d. I will accept whatever legal punishment she would put on me.
3. How would you feel when Mrs. Jones shows kindness instead of punishing Roger?
a. I feel like I’m sorry for her that I did a terrible thing to her.
b. I realized that there are still kind people who are willing to help you out from
your difficult times.
c. I realized that no matter how bad you are there is someone who will try to
fix you and teach you to be the better version of who yourself
d. I feel like I don’t deserve any of her good actions towards me.
4. Does Mrs. Jones make good choices about how to treat Roger?
a. Yes, because through her Roger’s life has become worth it and meaningful.
b. No, because through her Roger’s life become miserable
c. Yes, because through her help Roger’s become successful
d. No, because through her Roger suffer at the jail
5. Do you feel guilty about Roger’s action when he tried stealing Mrs. Jones purse?
a. Yes, because Mrs. Jones doesn’t deserve that kind of crime
b. Yes because Mrs. Jones is a wonderful woman who helped needy people
c. No, because Mrs. Jones is terrible woman that Roger ever met
d. No, because Mrs. Jones should stay at her home at that such time.