GUIPOS NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Poblacion, Guipos Zamboanga del Sur

Name: Grade&Section:_______________
English 10 – 3rd QUARTER Assessment
Week 4

Learning Competency: Draw conclusion on how effective the treatment of underlying or

overarching issues concerning human experience EN10-RCIIIb22.2

Test I. Poetry Interpretation: Read the passage and answer the questions that follow.

Man of Earth
Amador Daguio 3 If the wind passes by,
Must I stoop and try
1 Pliant is the bamboo, To measure fully
I am a Filipino; My flexibility?
They say that from the bamboo
We had our birth. 4 I might have been the
bamboo,
2 Am I of the body, But I will be a man
Or of the green leaf? Bend me then, O Lord.
Do I have to whisper Bend me if you can.
My every sin and grief?

1. Pliant is the bamboo, means

A. cannot be bent shaped C. can be bent or shaped
B. can be grown D. can be cut down
2. Must I stoop and try to measure, means
A. bend or yield C. go forward
B. stand upright D. come down
3. Flexibility as used in the poem means
A. ability to run C. ability to change or adapt
B. ability to climb D. inability to change or adapt
4. The third stanza refers to the
A. Filipino’s ability to adjust to varying pressures or situations.
B. Filipino’s hospitability.
C. Filipino’s ingenuity.
D. Filipino’s ability to be cooperative.
5. The fourth stanza suggests
A. love and devotion C. faithfulness and compassion
B. strength and courage D. frailness and cowardice

Test II. Reading Comprehension: Read the following selection. Then answer the questions that
follow.

Providence

In an old people’s home, run by the Little sisters of the Poor, one day, the cook told the
Mother Superior that there was absolutely nothing to serve for dinner… What should she
do?
“Shall I bring the dinner bell?” And when our poor come, what will they think?”
“Go and pray, Sister,” said the Mother Superior. “Be sure that God knows that our poor
need their dinner. Ring the bell at the usual time.”
The Sister hastened to the chapel to pray. The moments passed by, the dinner hour
came, she rang the bell and waited, full of fear. Just as the bell was ringing, there was a
knock at the door. It was a messenger of God, who brought the dinner to the poor.
 That day, a wealthy family was about to give feast when news was brought that a son of
the house was dying in a distant city. They started off at once and, to call heaven’s favor
down on their son, they sent to the Little Sisters the entire dinner they were about to serve,
together with a quantity of bread and a generous sum of money.
The sister rushed to the Mother Superior and told her the joyful news.

-Adapted

6. The title that best expresses the main idea of this selection is
A. The Help of God C. The Poor in Need
B. The Praying Nun D. The Power of God
7. The Mother Superior advised the Sister
A. to go and buy some food in the market
B. to go and pray to God
C. to ask some food from the townspeople
D. not to ring the bell at supper time
8. God heard the Sister’s prayer because
A. a family sent plenty of food and some money to the Sisters
B. the townspeople sent some food
C. the cook was able to prepare food
D. the bell was rung at the usual time
9. The wealthy family wanted to ask favor from God because
A. they wanted to become rich
B. they wanted to do apostolic work
C. they wanted their son to be cured
D. they were friends of the Sisters
10. Despite the problem that confronted them, the Sisters
A. had self-confidence C. had been obedient to God
B. had great faith in God D. had been punctual in ringing the bell

Test III. Vocabulary: Read and choose the best answer for each item.

11. Good weather always perks her up

A. cheers her up C. calls her up to stand
B. makes her up D. increases her blood pressure
12. Nature brings solace to lonely hearts.
A. food C. company
B. comfort D. friend
13. Anyone who has courage and faith will never perish in misery.
A. live with lots of money C. paint misery
B. wear mask D. die in pain

Test IV. Reading/Literature:

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

A Little Child- An Excerpt

Salvador P. Lopez-Reprinted from Essay
A little child once smiled at me as I stood hanging on to a strap in a crowded street car.
She was blue-eyed and curly-haired, and when she smiled at me, I thought I saw her round
little face transfigured into a holy thing.
For the gesture was pure instinct, unpremeditated as the blossoming into the air and
sun of a rose. When I smiled back at her, I was thinking of flowers.
When, a little later, I turned to go down, she extended her tiny hand to me. I took it, and
I could swear that in that moment the secret of all living was revealed to me.
Pure twaddle, don’t you think? And surrounding with mystery and sentiment what after
all must have been a commonplace thing and banal?
 I try to look at it that way. For there is also a hardness in me that does not easily sway
to the rhythm of feeling. Yet, when I have done so, there is still something left untouched by
the reason that, open-eyed and unbelieving, would reduce everything to sensible terms.
Can science tell me what it is? Can your psychoanalyst, or your spiritist/ Can Freud?
Perhaps, they can. Perhaps, they can take the whole experience apart even as a
watchmaker can take a delicate timepiece apart to see where the ticking comes from and
the force that makes the hands go through the hours. Yet when the timepiece disarray,
have you found what time is, what deathless spring it comes from, what stuff it is made of?
Dismantle the mansion of the spirit, tear down the chambers of the heart. Yet, when
you have pulled down the edifice and broken through those secret chambers, have you
found out what stuff the spirit is made of, where it dwells, or how the heart keeps its own
sovereignty unimpaired by the rule of reason?
I will probably never see that little child again. She will grow up into a woman, blue-
eyed and curly-haired I know gracious and beautiful I hope. And I will grow old, bent with
passing beneath the arches of many years, yet, blest forever by the memory of a little child.
Or maybe she will grow into a shrewish old hag, her eyes an indistinct shade of blue,
and her hair a dirty silver. And I will be lying in a pauper’s cemetery, still hugging in the
cage of the ribs a moment’s riches that I never again could lose.

Directions: Draw the meaning of the following expressions. Choose your answer from the pool
of choices.

A. unintended or not planned C. plain and ordinary

B. area of control D. crib

14. For the gesture was pure and instinct, unpremeditated…as the blossoming…of a rose.
15. A commonplace thing and banal
16. …. or how the heart keeps its sovereignty, unimpaired by the rule of reason

For Items 7-9. Identify the figures of speech used by the author. Write the letter that
corresponds to your chosen
Answer.

17. arches of many years A. Metaphor B. Personification C. Hyperbole D. Irony

18. chambers of the heart A. Personification B. Metaphor C. Irony D. Hyperbole
19. a moment’s riches A. Hyperbole B. Irony C. Personification D. Metaphor

20. What message is the author trying to give?

A. A smile especially from an innocent child can be a source of immeasurable
happiness.
B. A smile of an innocent child is contagious.
C. A smile of a child must be treasured.
D. A smile is all we need.