3rd Quarterly Assessment in English 10

Name: ____________________________________________ Score: _________/50_

Section: ___________________________________________ Date: _____________

I. Directions: Read the statements carefully and tell whether the statement is
TRUE or FALSE. Write TRUE in the blank before each number, if the
statement is correct and FALSE if it is not.

__________________1. Impromptu speech is a known as one type of speech delivery

that a requires a speaker to deliver a topic without any prior preparation.

__________________2. Impromptu speech allows the speaker to prepare for a couple

of minute before speaking.

__________________3. Impromptu speaking does not require time for preparation.

__________________4. Impromptu is known to be the most traditional way relaying a

verbal message.

__________________5. Impromptu speech utilizes even the oldest case and topics.

__________________6. Impromptu speech is easy since you can have all the time of
the day to prepare.

__________________7. Extemporaneous speaking refers to the most essential method

of relaying a readily composed speech.

__________________8. Extemporaneous is a manner of listing important items further

divided into additional sub-items.

__________________9. One of the three basic types of outlines is graphic organizer.

_________________10. The topic outline is a subtopic of the aforementioned main

entry.

II. Directions: Identify what is/are being asked in each of the following.

______________11. It is a tool that aids the learner to visualize the order of steps or a
process or timeline of events etc.

______________12. It is used in determining the varying elements of a narrative such

as the characters, character plots, themes, techniques, and many more.

______________13. It is a three column chart used in gathering information from an

experience.
______________14. It can be used to improve the problem-solving skills of the
learners. It helps in identifying and evaluating solutions to solve any problems.
______________15. It shows an event by clearly understanding the differences among
factors which contributed to the said relationship.

_______________16. It shows a sequence of events in chronological order.

_______________17. It allows students to study two divisions of any specific topic such
as the advantages and disadvantages, pros and cons, difference and similarities etc.
_______________18. Which of the following graphic organizer visualizes the elements
of a system, organization or concept from its highest position to the lowest.
_______________19. It shows the comparison between differences and similarities of
two subjects.
_______________20. Types of graphic organizer that shows how items are related to
one another.

III. Directions: Read the selection and answer the questions that follow.

The Story of an Hour

Richards tells Mrs. Mallard that her husband dies in a train wreck. He wants to be the
one to break the news to her because Mrs. Mallard has heart problems. We find out
soon enough that these heart problems are more than just physical. We also find out
that Richards needs to keep his big mouth shut (more on that in a second).

Mrs. Mallard cries…a lot. She goes to her room, plops down on a chair, and stares out
the window. She struggles to suppress her feelings, kind of like that time you drank a
gallon of milk in an hour or ate 33 hard-boiled eggs for dinner and tried to suppress
vomit (you’ve never experienced it? Try it and then finish the rest of this summary
later.). Her feelings are that of joy, that of excitement about being free from her
husband’s rule. She contemplates how wonderful her life will be.

Her nagging sister Josephine, not realizing that her ingrate sister is celebrating her good
husband’s death, summons her downstairs. As the two women and Richards discuss
matters at the door, Mr. Mallard walks in. Mrs. Mallard has a heart attack and dies. Mrs.
Mallard dies from what the doctors call “the joy that kills.”

21. From what ailment does Mrs. Mallard suffer?

a. kidney failure
b. heart trouble
c. detached retinas
d. H1N1

22. What might Mrs. Mallard’s ailment symbolize?

a. her inability to see things as they are
b. her inability to filter out less important things in life
c. her unhappiness and troubling emotions
d. a raging desire for pig flesh
23. Who breaks the news of Mr. Mallard’s death?
a. Richards
b. Roberts
c. Josephine
d. Friar John
24. The following passage is an example of _________ irony: “Louise, open the
door! I beg; open the door–you will make yourself ill. What are you doing,
Louise? For heaven’s sake open the door.”
a. situational
b. dramatic
 c. verbal
d. holistic
25. The following passage is an example of _________ irony: “Someone was
opening the front door with a latchkey. It was Brently Mallard”
a. situational
b. dramatic
c. verbal
d. kookalooka
26. The following passage is an example of _________ irony: “When the doctors
came they said she had died of heart disease–of the joy that kills.”
a. Situational
b. Verbal
c. Feral
d. Dramatic
27. What is significant about the story’s setting?
a. The story’s set in a time period that afforded women very few rights.
b. It takes place in a large house.
c. The story encompasses one hour.
d. The setting makes no difference.
28. How could we best characterize Brently Mallard
a. He is an abusive husband who deserves to die in a fiery train wreck.
b. He’s a conniving man who set up the train wreck story so he could scare
his wife and kill her.
c. He’s a typical husband in the late 19th-century.
d. He’s an adulterer.
29. How would the story change if it were written today?
a. There’s no way Mallard leaves the house without permission.
b. Richards calls Mallard on his cell phone and realizes he’s alive.
c. Mrs. Mallard smashes Mr. Mallard’s SUV with a golf club and demands a
divorce.
d. Richards tells Mrs. Mallard that her husband’s dead in order to get her in
bed. It works. Mallard walks in on the two in a passionate embrace and
Mrs. Mallard dies of a heart attack.
30. In what season does the story take place and why is it significant? * 
a. The story takes place in Spring and symbolizes a new beginning for Mrs.
Mallard. *
b. The story takes place in Summer and symbolizes the burning hot love Mrs.
Mallard has for her husband. *
c. The story takes place in Winter and symbolizes that everything dies

IV. Directions: Enumerate what is/are being asked in each of the following.

31-36: Listening Strategies

37-40: Reading styles
41-46: Kinds of Pronouns
47-48: Advantage and Disadvantage of Structuralism Theory
49-50: Advantage and Disadvantage of Marxist Theory