FIRST PERIODIC TEST IN GRADE 9 ENGLISH

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I. LISTENING COMPREHENSION (1-5)
Answer the following questions after listening from the text which will be read by your teacher/proctor. Write
only the letter of the correct answers.
What kind of article was read?
Book Analysis
Book Bashing
Book Raves
Book Review
What is the title of the article about the book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad”?
What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not
What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor Dads Don’t
Why I want to punch someone in the face when they rave about this book
How the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money and how to spend it
According to the book, what is the problem of most people who have money problem?
Absence of checkbook balance
Cheating during tests
Lack of financial education
Making blind decisions
Why does the author want to punch someone who raves about the book?
They always have money problems.
They have not actually read the book.
They have not done much to get there.
They work only for those who have money.
What does the author mean when he said he has “grudging respect” for the book?
He hates but loves the book at the same time.
He wants to complain about the book.
He has no respect for the book.
He resents the author.
II. ORAL LANGUAGE AND FLUENCY (6-10)
If you were to deliver these lines from “Beowulf: The Battle With Grendel,” in which line should the first
gesture be seen?
Waiting to see his swift hard claws.
Grendel snatched at the first Geat
He came to rip him apart, cut
His body to bits with powerful jaws,
“The sixth age shifts into the lean and slippered pantaloons.” What sound device was used in the given line?
A. alliteration
B. assonance
C. consonance
D. onomatopoeia
In what part of this line of a poem should a reader’s pause be most observable?
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
A. after the word ‘gave’
B. after the word ‘to’
C. between ‘things’ and ‘you’
D. between ‘watch’ and ‘the’
In a poem, the stress depends on the sound device used. Where will the stress appear in a poem that makes use
of assonance?
A. In words with repeated consonant sounds at the beginning
B. In words with repeated consonant sounds at the ending
C. In words with repeated consonant sounds within
D. In words with repeated consonant sounds within and at the end
What correct critical consonant sound of /s/ is used in the underlined word from this line of a poem? “And then
the justice, in fair round belly with good caper lined,”
A. /s/
B. /sh/
C. /z/
D. /zh/
III. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT (11-17)
Then heard they people cry in the field. “Now go thou, Sir Lucan,” said the King, “and let me know what
betokens that noise in the field.” The underlined word means…
filled with tokens
made of tokens
to signify; to indicate
to think of; to expect
Grendel lost to Beowulf; traces of his battle-sweat were found in his trail as he escaped back to the marsh where
he lived. The underlined word-pair is an example of a kenning which means…
A. ash
B. blood
C. bone
D. claw
Fill each blank with a single letter to form an antonym pair: _EEBLE - _ELICATE
B and R
F and D
H and P
W and S
“Time is fleeting,” and, according to Paulo Coelho, “it flies and waits on no man.” What is the synonym of
fleeting?
dreaming
escaping
passing
wandering
In the war of independence, it was repeatedly subjected to pillage and slaughter by both parties in the strife, and
did not recover its losses for many years. The opposite meaning of the highlighted word is…
conflict
harmony
rivalry
trouble
If you can make one heap of all your winnings // And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss. The underlined words
mean…
bundle – accomplishments
stack – lotteries
trash – victories
waste – achievements
Tell me not in mournful numbers, // Life is but an empty dream! What is the antonym of the underlined word?
cheerful
desolate
doleful
miserable
IV. GRAMMAR AWARENESS (18-27)
Correct the error in the use of contraction and possessive pronoun in this sentence – Who’seit’s author?
Who’s it’s author?
Who’s its author?
Whos’e its’ author?
Whose it’s author?
I will not give up until my dreams are realized. What is the correct contraction of the underlined words?
‘ll not
willn’t
won’t
wouldn’t
Which sentence makes use of single quotations correctly?
A. Jason told Mark, “I saw Cynthia the other day, ‘and she said I'm really looking
forward to Mark's graduation! ’ ”
B. Jason told Mark, “I saw Cynthia the other day, and she said ‘I'm really looking
forward to Mark's graduation! ’ ”
C. Jason told Mark “I saw Cynthia the other day, and ‘she said I'm really looking forward
to Mark’s graduation!”
D. Jason told Mark, “I saw Cynthia the other day ‘and she said I'm really looking forward
to Mark’s graduation!”
I am under the impression that she has no instructions at all and doesn’t need any. Where should the dash (––)
be placed in this sentence?
after the word “impression”
after the word “under”
between “all” and “and”
between “has” and “no”
What is the correct way of hyphenating this phrase: “pre and post adolescent trauma”?
pre-and-post-adolescent-trauma
pre- and post-adolescent trauma
pre and post-adolescent trauma
pre and post-adolescent-trauma
How should quotation marks be used in the following passage?
The city's mayor explained that the recent tornado levelled entire neighborhoods but miraculously took no lives
in its wake.
A. The city's mayor explained that “the recent tornado levelled entire neighborhoods but
miraculously took no lives in its wake.”
B. The city's mayor explained that the recent tornado “levelled entire neighborhoods but
miraculously took no lives in its wake.”
C. The city's mayor explained that the recent tornado “levelled entire neighborhoods” but
miraculously took no lives in its wake.
D. The city's mayor explained that “the recent tornado levelled entire neighborhoods but
miraculously took no lives” in its wake.
Which word in the following lines must be capitalized?
Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. then a soldier
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like a pard,
A. eyebrow
B. pard
C. then
D. woeful
“Whodunnit” is a contraction of what complete sentence?
Who do not like it?
Whose dun is it?
Who has done it?
Who dude Annie is it?
What expression of disagreement is found in the following sentence?: Todd doesn't like spaghetti. Neither does
Louise.
Does
Doesn’t
Like
Neither
Choose the best place to insert ellipsis points in this passage: The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the
heart, lover of absolute good, we awake –Ralph Waldo Emerson
A. The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of absolute good…we
awake…
B. The intellect, seeker of absolute truth…or the heart, lover of absolute good…we
awake
C. The intellect, seeker of absolute truth, or the heart, lover of… absolute good, we
awake…
D. The intellect…seeker of absolute truth, or the heart…lover of absolute good, we
awake
V. READING COMPREHENSION (28-37)
The following article is an example of what type of text?

A. Informative
B. Journalistic
C. Literary
D. Technical
Study the following Diagram

What kind of relationship is shown in the above diagram?

cause
difference
effect
similarity
The educational reforms of Charlemagne led to the invention of lowercase letters which could be written and
read much faster. This text belongs to the…
A. informative type
B. journalistic type
C. literary type
D. technical type
About what information is articulated in the following article?

Eating potatoes purchased in the supermarket

Growing potatoes at home
Planting potato before spring frost
Preparing tender, juicy potatoes for cooking
What significant human experience is expressed in the following paragraph?

A. Competing with birds

B. Enjoying summer
C. Falling from the cherry tree
D. Picking and eating cherries
What conclusion can be derived from the following paragraph?
Work and school share similarities since…
A. A student and a worker have to exert efforts.
B. Both give benefit to students and workers in their places.
C. Both are governed by time.
D. School prepares a student for the job of his choice.
Shakespeare’s “The Seven Ages of Man” was taken from the play “As You Like It.” What does the first title
suggest?
One man can have seven different ages.
One man will encounter seven aged people.
Seven ages will take seven men to encounter.
Seven life stages will be experienced by one man.
For items 35-36: Read the ff. paragraph then answer the questions that follow.

35. What is the best summary for the paragraph above?

a.) It takes practice in reading and writing to master the punctuation system.
b.) It was at the end of the 17th century that a punctuation system was in place.
c.) The punctuation system was in place for the most part in varying details.
d.) You can master a system that took centuries to develop in just one day.
36. What conclusion can be drawn from it?
a.) It takes only a few lessons to practice reading and writing.
b.) It takes only days to master something developed for centuries.
c.) Practice makes perfect.
d.) The development of the punctuation varies for the most part.
Identify the type of text used in the following passage:

a.) informative
b.) journalistic
c.) literary
d.) technical
VI. LITERATURE (38-45)
38. What is meant by the author in the following lines of a poem?
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
––A Psalm of Life
 a.) Become great by emulating great men.
b.) Leave footprints on the sands.
c.) Make our lives inspiring.
d.) Remember the lives of great men.
39. What is the main message of this stanza, from Rudyard Kipling’s “If?”
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so, hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
A. Always do what is right and just.
B. Be true to oneself.
C. Don’t give up.
D. Know the value of self-worth.
40. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the “sixth-aged man?”
a.) Big manly voice turning again toward childish treble
b.) Lean and slippered pantaloons
c.) Satchel and shining morning face
d.) Spectacles on nose and pouch on side
41. What is the tone of the mother as she spoke to her son? (from “Mother To Son” by Langston Hughes)
Well, son, I’ll tell you:
Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.
It’s had tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor—
Bare.
A. angry
B. inspiring
C. mysterious
D. triumphant
42. What is the real characteristic of Beowulf that Grendel discovered based on these lines from the poem?
Then he (Grendel) stepped to another
Still body, clutched at Beowulf with his claws,
Grasped at a strong-hearted wakeful sleeper
—And was instantly seized himself, claws
Bent back as Beowulf leaned up on one arm.
That shepherd of evil, guardian of crime,
Knew at once that nowhere on earth
Had he met a man whose hands were harder;
 His mind was flooded with fear—but nothing
Could take his talons and himself from that tight
Hard grip.
A. Guardian of crime
B. Hard-handed
C. Of great strength
D. Shepherd of evil
Imagery paints words that appeal to our senses of sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch. The underlined words in
the following passage appeal to what sense?

A. sight
B. smell
C. sound
D. touch
44. Poetic contractions are used in a poem to suggest a different culture, language use, etc. In which line/s of
the poem below is poetic contraction most evident?
a.) But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
b.) And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
c.) And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
45. To what sense does the following image appeal?

a.) sight
b.) smell
c.) sound
d.) touch
VII. WRITING AND COMPOSITION (46-50)
For Items 46-48: Punctuation Marks.
In which word/s should a comma appear in each of the numbered sentences in the paragraph below?
46. A. after paragraph
B. before (the first) as
C. between comma and
D. between period and as
47. A. after people
B. after time
C. before commonly
D. between came and to
48. A. after system
B. before place
C. before though
D. between century and us
For Items 49-50: Paraphrase the following lines from a song.
49. Just give me a reason
Just a little bit's enough
Just a second, we're not broken just bent
And we can learn to love again
[Just Give Me A Reason, Pink featuring Nate Ruess]
a.) Let us learn to love again
b.) Give me a second to mend our broken hearts
c.) Explain, fix this mistake, and let our love continue
d.) We can love again if you just give me a little bit of a reason
50. I used to bite my tongue and hold my breath
Scared to rock the boat and make a mess
So, I sat quietly, agree politely
- [Roar, Katy Perry]
a.) I’m scared of rocking the boat, it might turn into a mess
b.) I bite my tongue and hold my breath when I ride a boat
c.) I kept quiet, then, afraid I might mess things up
d.) I sit quietly so I won’t rock the boat