Department of Education

National Capital Region

Division of Las Piñas

First Periodic Test in English

Grade 9
S.Y. 2017-2018

Directions: Write the letter of the correct answer in your answer sheet.

My Heart Leaps Up
by William Wordsworth

My heart leaps up when I behold

A rainbow in the sky:
So was it when my life began;
So is it now I am a man;
So be it when I shall grow old,
Or let me die!
The Child is father of the Man;
And I could wish my days to be
Bound each to each by natural piety.

1. What does the poem talk about in lines 1-2?

A. Sadness in death
B. Admiration for nature
C. Familial bonding
D. Sense of remembrance

2. Why does the heart of the poet leap up when he sees a rainbow in the
sky?
A. He praises the creator of nature
B. He enjoys the scenic beauty of nature.
C. He wonders how nature is created
D. He travels to see the nature

3. What does the persona wish for in the last two lines?
A. That he continues to be faithful
B. That he be a child once again
C. That he continues to be connected to the nature
D. That he fulfills his duties and responsibilities

4. What does the line, The Child is father of the Man, means?
A. The present is the outcome of the past
B. The present is the root of the past
C. The present depends on the past
D. The present connects to the past

5. What figurative language is used in the line:

My heart leaps up when I behold a rainbow in the sky
A. Apostrophe
B. Hyperbole
C. Metaphor
D. Personification
 6. What figure of speech is employed in the following lines?

“I am getting married in the morning! Dingdong! The bells are gonna

chime.”
A. Onomatopoeia
B. Simile
C. Metaphor
D. Personification

7. “My brother was boiling mad.”

A. Alliteration
B. Simile
C. Hyperbole
D. Personification

8. Identify the sensory images presented in the following lines

“Sun in the knifed horizon bleeds the sky”

A. Auditory
B. Olfactory
C. Tactile
D. Visual

9. “Some sudden crickets, ambushing me near”

A. Auditory
B. Olfactory
C. Tactile
D. Visual

10. “The quiet sound of serenity, I am at peace”

A. Tactile
B. Visual
C. Auditory
D. Olfactory

11. What type of text is employed in the selection below?

There was once an old farmer who owned a very stubborn donkey.
One evening, the farmer was trying to put his donkey into its shed.
The farmer pushed the donkey, but the donkey wouldn’t move. Then
the farmer pulled the donkey, but the donkey still wouldn’t move ...
as soon as the cat scratched the dog, the dog began to bark. The
barking dog frightened the donkey who jumped immediately into its
shed.

A. Argumentative
B. Descriptive
C. Expository
D. Narrative

12. What type of text is employed in the selection below?

On one corner of my dresser sits a smiling toy clown on a tiny

unicycle--a gift I received last Christmas from a close friend. The
 clown's short yellow hair, made of yarn, covers its ears but is parted
above the eyes. The blue eyes are outlined in black with thin, dark
lashes flowing from the brows. It has cherry-red cheeks, nose, and
lips, and its broad grin disappears into the wide, white ruffle around
its neck. The clown wears a fluffy, two-tone nylon costume.

A. Argumentative
B. Descriptive
C. Expository
D. Narrative

13. What type of text is employed in the selection below?

Potato Omelette

Wash, peel and thinly slice potatoes.

Slice onions.
Beat the eggs in a bowl, season.
Heat oil in a frying pan, sauté onions.
Add potatoes and leave to cook over a low heat for 20 or 30 minutes.
Leave to cool and add beaten egg.
Cook for 15 minutes in frying pan.

A. Argumentative
B. Descriptive
C. Instructional
D. Expository

14. What type of text is employed in the selection below?

Humans have somewhere between 2,000 and 8,000 taste buds, all
concentrated on the little lump of flesh wiggling around your mouth.
Catfish, on the other hand, have closer to 100,000 individual taste
buds—all over their bodies. In a sense, a catfish is just a big
swimming tongue. Each taste bud is about 50 nanometers (50
billionths of a meter, or 164 billionths of a foot) wide, and the bigger
the fish is, the more taste buds it has. Larger fish can have more than
175,000 taste buds dotted across their body.

A. Argumentative
B. Descriptive
C. Instructional
D. Expository

Sonnet 26
By Edmund Spenser

Sweet is the rose, but grows upon a briar;

Sweet is the juniper, but sharp his bough;
Sweet is the eglantine, but pricketh near;
Sweet is the fir-bloom, but his branch is rough;
Sweet is the cypress, but his rind is tough;
 Sweet is the nut, but bitter is his pill;
Sweet is the broom-flower, but yet sour enough;
And sweet is moly, but his root is ill.
So every sweet with sour is tempered still,
That maketh it be coveted the more:
For easy things that may be got at will,
Most sorts of men do set but little store.
Why then should I account a little pain,
That endless pleasure shall unto me gain!

15. What is every sweet flower tempered with?

A. A little gain
B. A little pain
C. Sourness
D. Sweetness

16. What is sweetness and sharpness of natural things refers to in the poem?
A. Analogy for pain and pleasure
B. Comparison to a woman’s love
C. Difference between love and hate
D. Just the best combination

17. There are interlaced flavors of chocolate candy in the valentine present.
What does the word "interlaced" mean?
A. Meshing together
B. Establishing the truth, to certify
C. Looking back in time, to think about something
D. Not the same, random

18. "Excuse me," she said. "The train conductor told me what happened. You
were on the wrong train car." Then she pointed to the large board that had
previously mystified Patrick. "You will want to catch the next train to
Milan," she said. "From there it is easy to get to Rome."
In the excerpt above, the word mystified most likely means:

A. Confused
B. Surprised
C. Shocked
D. Scared

19. My husband and my mother don't really like each other, but they
__________ one another for my sake.
A. Tolerate
B. Liberate
C. Haughty
D. overwhelm

20. The song was inaudible so Mary had to turn up the volume.
In this sentence the word inaudible means:
A. Able to be heard
B. Able to be seen
C. Unable to be heard
D. Unable to be seen

21. What conflict is raised in the situation below?

 On the 1st of December 1955, Mrs. Rosa Parks, an African-
American seamstress, was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama for not
standing and letting a white bus rider take her seat.

It was an established rule in the American south (at that time) that
African-American riders had to sit at the back of the bus. African-
American riders were also expected to surrender their seat to a white
bus rider if it was needed. When asked to move to let a white bus
rider be seated, Mrs. Parks refused. She did not argue and she did not
move. The police were called and Mrs. Parks was arrested.

A. Sexism and order

B. Feminism and rule
C. Treatments
D. Prejudice and discrimination

22. What conflict is presented in the passage below?

As the leader of a group, Grace was happy to note that all her
team members, except for Juancho, did their share to complete their
project. Grace confronted Juancho about it, but he said nothing and
just walked away. That night, she read Juancho’s complaints on
Facebook about how a certain leader he worked with recently was
demanding, ridiculous, and a certified “slave driver.” Grace was very
sure that she is the person he was referring to.

A. Man vs. Man

B. Man vs. Nature
C. Man vs. Himself
D. Man vs. Society

23. Identify what element of short story is being defined

The underlying meaning or main idea of a story is called the ______________.

A. Theme
B. Mood
C. Plot
D. Setting

24. The angle from which the story is told.

A. Camera view
B. Character view
C. Point of view
D. First person point of view

25. The opposition of forces, essential to the plot is called__________?

A. Setting
B. Theme
C. Conflict
D. Climax

26. Don't judge a book by its cover is an example of ___________.

A. Mood
 B. Theme
C. Point of view
D. Conflict

27. Interpret the figurative language used in the sentence

“He that I am reading seems always to have the most force.”

- Michael de Montaigne

A. I have to read many books before I can make up my mind

B. The most recent books are the best
C. Many writers use words to make their readers believe them
D. I am easily swayed by what I said

28. Interpret the figurative language used in the sentence

“I’ll news is winged with fate and flies apace.”

- John Dryden

A. Bad news travel fast

B. Everybody encounters bad luck
C. Nobody can escape from bad luck
D. Time flies when there is bad news

29. Choose the appropriate punctuation marks

“Somebody give me an example of a person _____ you, Vick.”

A. Comma ( , )
B. Period ( . )
C. Ellipsis ( … )
D. Dash ( - )

30. “Teresa,” Vick said automatically.

“What if _____ never mind.”
A. Comma ( , )
B. Period ( . )
C. Ellipsis ( … )
D. Dash ( - )

31. Ben shouted, “Bingo _____ you really had a crush on her.”
A. Comma ( , )
B. Period ( . )
C. Ellipsis ( … )
D. Exclamation point ( ! )

32. Identify what correction should be done in the following sentences

She asked me whether I could attend next week’s presentation with her?
A. Change question mark to period
B. Change next week’s to next weeks
C. Change whether to weather
D. Change I could to I can
33. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (the only president who served three times)
instituted the New Deal Reforms.
A. Place commas before and after the parenthesis
B. Make the initial letters of New Deal Reforms lowercase
C. Capitalize the word “president”
D. No correction is necessary

34. Determine the correct interjection to use in the following statement

“_____! You’re stepping on my foot.” (expressing pain)

A. Alas
B. Well
C. Ouch
D. Ah

35. “Oh _____! Does it hurt? (expressing pity)

A. alas
B. hmmm
C. dear
D. er

36. “It’s hot today,” “_____?” “I said it’s hot today.” (asking for repetition)
A. alas
B. hmmm
C. dear
D. er

37. “Because I could not stop for Death,

He kindly stopped for me.”
- Emily Dickenson

What is the best paraphrase of the line?

A. I don’t care about my life.
B. I am preoccupied of my life that I do not think about death.
C. I have the power to stop death and continue my life.
D. I am immortal and invincible.

38. “Life is real!

Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal.”
- H.W. Longfellow

What is the best paraphrase of the line?

A. Death is not a goal in life.
B. Life is true and earnest.
C. Life is not an illusion. It is serious and true yet death is not its aim.
D. One’s life is just an imagination but the grave is not its goal.

39. In Finland, people greet each other with a firm handshake. In France,
people use a looser grip. In Zambia, handshakes are given with the left
hand supporting the right hand. In Japan, people bow to one another
instead of shaking hands. In Thailand, people greet one another by
pressing their own two hands together at chest level, as though praying.
In parts of Latin America, people commonly embrace and kiss when they
meet. In most Arab countries, men greet one another by saying salaam
alaykum, shaking hands, saying kaif halak, and then kissing each other on
 the cheek. Clearly, different cultures have very different kinds of
customary greetings.

What is the best paraphrase of the paragraph?

A. The handshake is the most widely used form of greeting in the world.
B. When it comes to shaking hands, people of different cultures have
different expectations.
C. People of different cultures use different methods for greeting one
another.
D. Touch is an important type of human expression.

40. What synonym can replace the word in bold?

It is not ethical to cheat on tests.
A. okay
B. moral
C. satisfactory
D. tolerable

41. He felt uneasy, but he didn't know why.

A. fearful
B. scared
C. afraid
D. anxious

42. Eyes pained by dust secrete a lot of tears.

A. hurt
B. irritated
C. infected
D. numb

43. Identify two coordinating conjunctions in the sentence below.

Greg has other plans, so he won't be going to the dog park with Warren,
Patrick, and Margot today.
A. has, so
B. so, with
C. so, and
D. with, and

44. We wanted to spend the day at the beach; __________, it rained so we

stayed home.
A. Moreover
B. Unless
C. However
D. Additionally

45. Identify the conjunction in the sentence below

We'll play tennis until it gets dark.

A. We’ll
B. Until
C. It
 D. gets

46. The coach will be here if he can.

A. The
B. be
C. here
D. if

47. Use the words in brackets to form a new word that fits into the gap.

How long is the __________________ from Manila to Palawan? (FLY)

A. flying
B. flight
C. flyby
D. flywheel

48. Pulling my front tooth didn’t hurt. – It was completely ________. (PAIN)
A. paint
B. painless
C. painful
D. painting

49. I can tell from your __________________ that you’re not really happy.
(EXPRESS)
A. expressive
B. expression
C. expressing
D. expresses

50. We offer free __________________ for purchases over Php100. (DELIVER)

A. delivered
B. delivers
C. delivery
D. delivering
 DIVISION OF CITY SCHOOL
LAS PIÑAS CITY
FOURTH PERIODIC TEST IN ENGLISH
GRADE 9
S.Y. 2017 – 2018

KEY

1. B 26. B
2. B 27. A
3. C 28. A
4. A 29. D
5. C 30. C
6. A 31. D
7. C 32. A
8. D 33. D
9. A 34. C
10. C 35. D
11. D 36. D
12. B 37. B
13. C 38. A
14. D 39. B
15. A 40. B
16. C 41. D
17. A 42. A
18. A 43. C
19. A 44. C
20. C 45. B
21. D 46. D
22. A 47. B
23. A 48. B
24. C 49. B
25. C 50. C
 DIVISION OF CITY SCHOOL
LAS PIÑAS CITY
FOURTH PERIODIC TEST IN ENGLISH
GRADE 9
S.Y. 2016 – 2017

TABLE OF SPECIFICATION

Topic Competencies Percent No. of SKILLS

Of items
Items Kno Com Appli Anal Synth Eval
wled preh catio ysis esis uati
ge ensi n on
on
I. Reading

A. Reading Extract accurately 8% 4 1,2 3,4

Comprehensi the required
on information from
the text
B. Context Get the meaning of 10% 5 17,
Clues the unfamiliar 18,
words through 19,
context clues 20,
C. Text Types Distinguish 8% 4 11,12
different text types ,13,1
4
II. Literature

A. Figures of Name the 12% 6 5, 6, 7 27,28

Speech figurative
language used
B. Sensory Identify the 4% 2 8, 9,
Images sensory images 10
used
C. Literary Identify literary 16% 8 23, 15, 26 21, 22
Devices devices 24, 16
25
III. Grammar

A. Conjunction Connect words and 8% 4 43,

ideas correctly 44,
45, 46
B. Word Explain how words 8% 4 47,
Derivation are derived 48,
49, 50
C. Interjections Use interjections to 6% 3 34,
convey meaning 35, 36
IV. Writing

A. Paraphrasin Paraphrase text 12% 6 40, 37,

g correctly 41, 42 38,
39
B. Punctuation Use appropriate 10% 5 29, 32,
s punctuation marks 30, 31 33