How My Brother Leon

Brought Home A Wife

by Manuel E. Arguilla

Test Items Creation:

Identification
English Grade 7
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VALUING Waig
COMPARE the milieu of ______1. It is the pathway that
the text with their the characters went through to
current, real-life one in get to their father's house, and
terms of: time, physical Comprehension
environment, values, it was a dry bed of a field and a
relationships (romantic route that is often only traveled
and familial), and through during the dry season.
practices/traditions,
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VALUING
COMPARE the milieu of
the text with their
current, real-life one in
terms of: time, physical
environment, values,
relationships (romantic
and familial), and
practices/traditions,
Test Items
Waig
______2. Labang was the name
of the bull that the characters
rode and was their guide to get
Analysis to the house of Noel’s father.
What is the use of the bull as
symbol for strength and loyalty
suggest about life and values?
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Simile
READING _______3. The authors wrote,
APPRECIATE the “her voice flowed into his like a
writer’s style by gentle stream meeting a
**noting the use of Comprehension
similes; stronger one”. What figure of
**pointing out the effects speech being used in the
of conflicts in the plot; highlighted text?
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Simile
_______4. Baldo described
READING Maria as Tall and Lovely and
APPRECIATE the
writer’s style by noticed that “She was fragrant
**noting the use of Comprehension like a morning when papayas
similes; are in bloom”. What figure of
**pointing out the effects
of conflicts in the plot; speech being used in the
highlighted text?
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Leon’s
READING Father
_______5. He’s the one who
APPRECIATE the
writer’s style by doesn’t believe that Maria can
**noting the use of Comprehension cope with living in a province
similes; after growing up in a city. Who
**pointing out the effects
of conflicts in the plot; is he?
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Leon
READING _______6. He’s the one who
APPRECIATE the thinks about how his parents
writer’s style by might react when he tells them
**noting the use of Comprehension
similes; he won't study in the city
**pointing out the effects anymore because he already
of conflicts in the plot; has a wife. Who is he?
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READING
APPRECIATE the Maria
_______7. She was afraid
writer’s style by around the possibility of not
**noting the use of Comprehension
similes; being accepted or approved of
**pointing out the effects by Noel's parents. Who is she?
of conflicts in the plot;
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FORM and FUNCTION Tall

BE FAMILIAR with the Woman
_______8. Baldo noticed Maria
structure of the
descriptive pattern of as she looked up to Leon with a
paragraph by- smile and saw that “her
**noting the use of word Comprehension
and (adjectival) phrase forehead was on a level with
modifiers; describing Leon’s mouth”. Maria was
persons, places or described to be a?
objects.
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FORM and FUNCTION _______9. The author wrote,

BE FAMILIAR with the
structure of the “Before us the fields swam in a
descriptive pattern of golden haze through which
paragraph by- floated big purple and red and
**noting the use of word Comprehension
and (adjectival) phrase yellow bubbles when I looked at
modifiers; describing the sinking sun”. In the line
persons, places or “swam in a golden haze”, what
objects.
does it describe?
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FORM and FUNCTION

BE FAMILIAR with the
structure of the
descriptive pattern of _______10. The author wrote,
paragraph by- “the sky was wide and deep
**noting the use of word Comprehension
and (adjectival) phrase and very blue above us”, what
modifiers; describing does it describe?
persons, places or
objects.