Republic of the Philippines

Department Of Education
Region III
Division of Nueva Ecija
CABIAO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Cabiao, Nueva Ecija

SECOND QUARTERLY EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH 9

S.Y. 2016-2017

I. LISTENING

Direction: Listen carefully as your teacher reads the text. Then answer the following questions.
Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided before each number. Avoid erasures.

_____ 1. Why did the forest bird say, if they both live together in the cage, there will be no room
to spread their wings?
a. Because they will be locked in the cage.
b. Because the key of the cage is with the keeper.
c. Because they will not be free anymore.
d. Because they are powerless.
_____ 2. How did the caged bird encourage the forest bird to stay with her in the cage?
a. The caged bird will teach him the speech of the learned.
b. They can share and express their love peacefully.
c. They can share foods and shelter.
d. They can enjoy each other’s company.
_____ 3. What did the forest bird want the caged bird to experience?
a. To fly freely in the forest.
b. To see beautiful things around.
c. To have a company.
d. To sing of the song of the woodlands.
_____ 4. Why did the caged bird choose to live in the cage?
a. That is her choice.
b. Living in the cage is happy.
c. Her needs are provided and she is satisfied with it.
d. She wants to be alone.
_____ 5. If you are to compare the forest bird to a man, what statement below is true?
a. Man don’t want to be inside the cage.
b. Man don’t want neither be limited nor controlled.
c. Man has his own decision.
d. Man wants to be free and enjoy life’s blessings.
_____ 6. The story is all about ?
a. Making decisions in life c. Trust to the one you love
b. Being satisfied d. all of the above

II. VOCABULARY ENRICHMENT

Direction: Give an appropriate word for each statement by choosing the letter of the correct
answer. Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided before each number.
Avoid erasures.

_____ 7. Giving clothes, foods and service to others is an act of _______.

a. love b. concern c. greatness d. generosity
 _____ 8. It is June 27, this day everybody has a chance to pick a slip of paper. This refers to?
a. Meeting b. lottery c. gathering d. occasion
_____ 9. From the poem entitled, “The Man With the Hoe”, his bent body shows his hardships
in life. The bent body refers to?
a. Illness b. used body c. challenges d. burden
_____ 10. I saw Lito being killed without a real cause. The best word to describe this is?
a. Suffrage b. crusade c,justice d. lynch
_____ 11. The class is very active and noisy in all of the activities. Being active and noisy
refers to?
a. Boisterous b. fun c. participative d. stolid

III. READING

Direction: Read the poem silently and answer the following questions. . Write the
letter of the correct answer on the space provided before each number. Avoid erasures.

THE CRICKET

You cricket. What are you here for? Mankind

No longer knows the old leisure.

Green grass, white dew, a little silly now,

No use anymore, these poet’s toys.

Gold--- only gold is man’s new darling,

Ruling his day, lording his dreams.

Loving daylight --- lingering stars

Long ago retired, vanished long ago.

Nor do the stars return at dusk

Forever the black clouds hand beneath the sky.

Humility too has taken leave,

Gone to the dessert, there to make her home.

The blossoms may open, but no fruit forms.

Dogma cruelly ravishes thought.

Don’t complain that time is crawling;

There’s il-luck behind you right on your heels.

For a good half of this, blame the malice of the soul

Who likes to get away, to attend to his garden.

“Leave them,” says he, “let them wallow deeper;

Let them change to dogs, change to swine or frogs or maggots.

When the time comes, when the sun hides in shame,

When the moon has lost the wish to return from the wane –

When that day that comes, when the spirit of man is dead’
Then I shall strike the signal for revolt!”
 _____12. How does mankind regard the cricket today?
a. Silly b. useless c. unmindful d. nonexistent
_____ 13. What does gold stand for to a man?
a. Enemy b. a loved one c. friend d. Lord
_____ 14. What human virtue has taken leave?
` a. humility b. love c. hatred d. honesty
_____ 15. How did the speaker see time moving?
a. crawling b. sliding c. bouncing d. galloping
_____ 16. What should a man do to the malice of the soul?
a. Leave it b. blame it c. change it d. strike it
_____ 17. What is the meaning of the last two lines?
a. Man is weak in spirit. c. Man must die.
b. Man will revolt d. The speaker will fight for the cricket.
_____ 18. The cricket signifies?
a. The past b. the present c. the future d. none of the above

IV. MULTIPLE CHOICE

Direction: Give what is asked. Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided
before each number.
_____ 19. _______ is a short literary composition on a particular theme or subject and generally
analytic, speculative or interpretative.
a. Short story b. essay c. prose d. poetry
_____ 20. _______ is a kind of narrative which can be read in one sitting.
a. Short story b. essay c. prose d. poetry
_____ 21. _______ is an element of an essay which refers to the feeling of the writer he or she wants to
express or convey.
a. Tone b. style c. mood d. purpose
_____ 22. Expository, descriptive, narrative and _________ are the four types of an essay.
a. Persuasive b. analytic c. interpretative d. consultative
_____ 23. The parent asked the teacher politely why his son got low grade in English. Encircle the verb
and box the adverb.
_____ 24. The adverb in the above sentence is what classification of an adverb?
a. Adverb of time b. adverb of degree c. adverb of place d. adverb of manner
_____ 25. I will never go to the beach again because of a bad experience. What is the adverb?
a. Never b. will never c. again d. never and again
_____ 26. The farmers have to finish their work quickly. Choose the best verb and adverb match.
a. Finish -- quickly c. work -- quickly
b. Have -- finish d. have – quickly
_____ 27. The man painted the room _______. Give an appropriate adverb.
_____ 28. Regine Velasquez is really good in singing. The word really is the adverb and the word good
Is the word it modifies. What part of speech is “good”?
a. Another adverb b. adjective c. noun d. preposition
_____ 29. The line from the poem entitled; ”The Man With the Hoe” and “Sonnet 29” say that?
a. Not all individuals are given a chance to live a happy, easy and satisfied life.
b. Opportunities are hanged or sometimes cannot be found somewhere else.
c. People differ in what kind of circumstance he or she faced with.
d. All of the above.
_____ 30. The line from the poem entitled, “I Think Continually Of Those Who Were Trully Great”,
“See how these names are feted by the waving grass.”
a. Apostrophe b. personification c. metaphor d. metonymy
_____ 31. _______ is a fourteen line poem that follows a fixed pttern.
a. Free verse b. prose c. sonnet d. poetry
_____ 32. ABBA ABBA CDE CDE or CDC CDC is the rhyme scheme of ?
Petrarchan or Italian sonnet or Shakespearen sonnet
_____ 33. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG is the rhyme scheme of ?
Petrarchan or Italian sonnet or Shakespearen sonnet
 _____ 34. What literary device is used in the classic American short story entitled, “The Lottery”?
a. Foreshadowing b. cliché c. caricature d. pun
_____ 35. ________ is an element of poetry which gives or creates pictures for a vivid meaning.
a. Symbol b. imagery c. theme d. a only

_____ 36. What is the theme of the short story entitled, “ The Lottery”?
a. Bad ritual c. life by chance
b. Reexamine traditions d. letter b only
_____ 37. Sonnet came from the Italian word sonetto which means ?
a. A little sound c. a little tone
b. A little voice d. all of the above
_____ 38. In The Hunger Games movie, what do you think why the main character (Katniss)
volunteered herself as a tribute of District 12?
a. Katniss loves her sister very much.
b. Katniss doesn’t want her sister suffer nor be killed.
c. Katniss is more matured and skilled than her sister.
d. All of the above.
_____ 39. Shirley Jackson is the writer and author of what story?
a. The Lottery c. The Time to Help is Now
b. Hunger Games d. none of the above
_____ 40. Ida B. Wells – Barnett fought for racial and gender ______?
a. Discrimination b. justice c. segregation d. all of the above

V. WRITING

Direction: Classify and identify the rhyme scheme. Write the classification inside the box and put
the rhyme scheme at the end of each line. Choose from Limerick – AABBA, Petrarchan – ABBA
ABBA CDE CDE or CDC CDC, Shakespearean ABAB CDCD EFEF GG, Alternate – ABAB CDCD.

Eyes

There was a young lady whose eyes

Sonnet 130
My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips’ red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress when she walks treads on the
ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
Where unique as to color and size
When she opened them wide,
People all turned aside
And started away in surprise.
Invictus
( two out of four lines )
Out of the night that covers me
Black as the Pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
 How Do I Love Thee

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways

I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of the sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday’s
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light
I love thee freely, as men strive for right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith
I love thee with a love seemed to lose
With my most saints, I love thee with the breath
Smiles, tears, all of my life! And, if God choose,
I shall but love thee after death.

Prepared by:

MICHELLE N. SUBA
Chairperson

Checked by:

MARY ANN M. RODRIGUEZ

Head Teacher VI, English

Approved:

ROMULO V. VIJANDRE
Assistant Principal II

Noted:

LORENZO P. JOAQUIN
School Principal IV