SCHOOL-BASED ACADEMIC OLYMPIAD QUESTIONNAIRE

SY 2022 - 2023

Subject: English
Grade Level: 9

EASY (1 point each)

1. I __________________ get good grades, 2. What is the past participle of the verb 3. Who is the author of Romeo and Juliet?
so I can go to university. “RISE”? a. William Woodsworth
a. can b. Langston Hughes
b. have to a. Rise c. Walt Whitman
c. cannot b. Rose d. William Shakespeare
d. haven’t to c. Risen
d. Rising
Answer: Answer:
b. have to Answer: d. William Shakespeare
c. risen
AVERAGE (2 points each)
2. What are the words which are no longer 3. A completely new word is made up from
1. Who is speaking in the poem “Mother to used in everyday life but sometimes are scratch to suit certain purposes. What are
Son”? still used by some modern writers for these that are often invented by
specific effects? companies with new products or
Answer: processes, or taken from names?
Mother Answer: Answer:
Archaic Words Coinage
DIFFICULT (3 points each)
1. What do you call the verb that ends in – 3. What is the genre of the play “Romeo and
2. “Romeo and Juliet” was written in what Juliet”?
ing?
year?
Answer:
Answer:
Gerund Answer:
1599
Melodrama
 CLINCHER (1 point each)
2. Using “He” as a generic pronoun for the subject in all forms of
1. Who is the author of the poem “Mother to Son”?
writing and speech is considered as what type of bias?
Answer:
Answer:
Langston Hughes
Gender Bias

Prepared by: Checked by: Noted by:

Ms. Anne Kenneth M. Bal-ot Mr. Aldrin C. Laddran Mr. Leo Renz Nicolas Mr. Rudy P. Aquino
Subject Teacher Academic Coordinator Vice Principal School Director