BLUE ISLE INTEGRATED SCHOOL

Science and Technology

Filinvest, Blue Isle Subdivision
Sta. Maria, Sto. Tomas, Batangas

Quiz #1 in English 8 (Second Quarter)

Name: Date:
Grade and Section: Parent’s Signature:
I. Vocabulary Check. Read each sentence carefully. Determine the meaning of the underlined word by
analyzing the context in each sentence.
1. As I lifted the huge box, I felt pain in the sinew of my arms.
a. skin that protects the elbows and fingers c. substance that connects muscles to the bone
b. strong nutrient that keeps fingernails shiny
2. My muscles were growing flaccid because I was already exhausted.
a. highly durable b. loose and soft c. semi-flexible
3. I felt smug when I volunteered to carry the box, but I am not so confident now.
a. too painful to carry anything c. too uncomfortable with a plan
b. too satisfied with one’s abilities
4. My mother told me to scour the attic because it was filled with junk.
a. to clean thoroughly b. to decorate well c. to shed light on
5. The heavy box contained many valuable items, like a marmoreal key chain decorated with Rizal’s portrait.
The surface of the key chain reminded me of my childhood toys.
a. similar to marble in aloofness or lack of feeling c. similar to plastic in flexibility
b. similar to metal in hardness

II. Emphatic Verb. Read the sentences carefully. Complete each sentence with the appropriate verb. Write do,
does, or did on the spaces provided.
6. She ______ hang out with her friends, but she refuses to think ahead.
7. “We ______ have fun everyday. This will never stop!” she says.
8. They ______ presented the best performance last year.
9. I _____ enjoy our trip in Thailand because I met my idols.
10. He and his friends _____ try to enjoy each day to the fullest.

III. Read the following sentences and observe the underlined words, then identify the stressed and unstressed
syllable in each word.
11. Alas! And am I born for this, to wear this slavish chain?
12. Deprived of all created bliss, through hardship, toil, and pain!
13. How long have I in bondage lain, and languished to be free!
14. Oh, heaven! And is there no relief, this side the silent grave.
15. I scorn to see the disgrace in which enslaved I lie.

IV. Elements of Poems. Read the following lines. Then, identify the sound devices used.
16. Make me a grave where’re you will,
In a lowly pain, or a lofty hill;
17. Make it among earth’s humblest graves, but not in a land where men are slaves.
18. Soar on the pinions of that dove which long has cooed for thee.
19. I’d shudder and start if I heard the bay of bloodhounds seizing their human prey.
20. And the mother’s shriek of wild despair, rise like a curse on the trembling air.
21. I could not rest if I heard the tread
Of a coffle gang to the shambles led
22. I could not sleep if I saw the lash drinking here blood at each fearful gash.
23. And I saw here babes torn from her breast, like trembling doves from their parent nest.
24. If I saw young girls from their mother’s arms bartered and sold for their youthful charms.
25. We crave thy sacred sun to rise.