Don Mariano Marcos National High School
Don Mariano Marcos Lupon
Davao Oriental
SECOND QUARTER EXAM
English 8
Name: _________________________ Date: ________
Grade-Section: __________________ Score: _______
General Directions: Read and understand every direction. Answer neatly and honestly.
I- Identification: Identify what is being asked in each item. Choose your answer from the box. Write
your answer on the space provided.
_______________________________ 1. It is the center of ancient civilization
that affected the language and culture of many countries in Bhasa &
both Europe and Asia.
Kalidasa
_______________________________ 2. It contains stories of gods; it serves as
Bible of Indians. 2nd Centruy
_______________________________ 3. This is India’s ancestral language. India
_______________________________ 4. Indian drama reached a high stage Vedas
of development during this time.
_______________________________ 5. They were so called “Indian Shakespeare”. Sanskrit
II- Punctuating. Read each sentence carefully. Place the appropriate punctuation mark in each
sentence. There is more than one punctuation mark in some of the items. ( . , ? ! )
1. My goodness How smart you are
2. The president asked his fellow citizens for their support
3. Who will be on your volleyball team
4. Among the green blue and yellow lawn chairs the baby sat in her stroller
5. Will your dad drive us to the museum or shall we take a bus
III- Vowel Sound. Read each word carefully. Write whether /ē/ /i/ /ä/ /a/ after each word. Write your
answer on the space provided.
1. sack _____ 11. lack _____ 21. priest _____
2. pot _____ 12. sand _____ 22. lock _____
3. dill _____ 13. black _____ 23. pat _____
4. chip _____ 14. box _____ 24. will _____
5. peak _____ 15. sleep _____ 25. din _____
6. peal _____ 16. streets _____ 26. cap _____
7. hip _____ 17. reach _____ 27. land _____
8. odd _____ 18. beat _____ 28. cot _____
9. rat _____ 19. pick _____ 29. bead _____
10. hot _____ 20. bit _____ 30. freeze _____
IV- Sequencing: Recall the Indian epic “Ramayana”. Sequence the events that happened in the story.
Number each item from 1-10 of which comes first and next. Write your answer in the space provided.
______ In Ayodia, Dasa-ratha grieved so much over banished Rama that he soon died.
______ Rama and his wife and his brother crossed the Ganges River, penetrating deeper into the
wilderness of the forest until they came to the hermitage of Valmiki.
______ Rama succeeds and wins the peerless Sita for his wife.
______ Kaikeyi, the mother of Bharat, became jealous of the honoured conferred on Kausalya, the mother
of Rama, and plotted against Rama.
______ Janak orders a severe test, an archery contest, for the hand of his daughter.
______ She requested that Rama be exiled for fourteen years in the forest of Dandak and that her son be
made regent king.
______ There he lived with Sita and Lakshman in peace and serenity for a few years.
______ Rama wandered from Northern India and reached Southern India.
______ Rama and his wife and Lakshman stole away at night to escape the citizens who wanted to follow
them.
______ Bharat then took Rama’s sandals to place them on the throne as testimony to the people that he was
ruling in Rama’s name.
