This document appears to be a sample first quarter examination in English 10. It tests students on various English grammar and literature comprehension topics through multiple choice and short answer questions. The exam covers vocabulary, formal/informal definitions, modals, intensive/reflexive pronouns, and reading comprehension including analysis of passages and poems. It directs students to match terms to descriptions, identify definition styles, choose writer intentions, determine pronoun uses, and answer questions about provided literature excerpts. The exam is to be signed by the student and parent after completion.
This document appears to be a sample first quarter examination in English 10. It tests students on various English grammar and literature comprehension topics through multiple choice and short answer questions. The exam covers vocabulary, formal/informal definitions, modals, intensive/reflexive pronouns, and reading comprehension including analysis of passages and poems. It directs students to match terms to descriptions, identify definition styles, choose writer intentions, determine pronoun uses, and answer questions about provided literature excerpts. The exam is to be signed by the student and parent after completion.
This document appears to be a sample first quarter examination in English 10. It tests students on various English grammar and literature comprehension topics through multiple choice and short answer questions. The exam covers vocabulary, formal/informal definitions, modals, intensive/reflexive pronouns, and reading comprehension including analysis of passages and poems. It directs students to match terms to descriptions, identify definition styles, choose writer intentions, determine pronoun uses, and answer questions about provided literature excerpts. The exam is to be signed by the student and parent after completion.
Yr. /Section: _______________ Score: I. VOCABULARY DEVELOPMENT Directions: Match each description in column A with the most appropriate term in column B A B ____1. Traditional story that is rooted in a particular culture A. Controlling Idea ____2. The statement of the argument B. Catchy hook ____3. Words that strongly appeal to emotion C. Opinion ____4. What needs to be proven by facts D. Myth ____5. Central idea of a work of literature E. Claim II. FORMAL AND INFORMAL DEFINITION Directions: Distinguish the given definitions between formal and informal. Write F if it is formal and IF if it is informal. ___6. Comic books are sequential ad narrative publications consisting of illustrations, captions, dialogue balloons and often focus on super-powered heroes. ___7. Freedom, also referred to as liberty or independence, is a state people reach when they are free to think and do whatever they please. ___8. Cruelty and unusual punishment are likely to describe when people were shocked and horrified and when they learned of the water torture, temperature extremes, and sensory overloads. ___9. Stellar Wobble is a measurable variation of speed wherein a star’s velocity is shifted by the gravitational pull of a foreign body. II. MODALS Directions: Choose from the pool of answers the writer’s/speaker’s intention as hinted by each underlined expression. A. ability B. probability C. obligation/advice D. permission
___10. Dita can play the guitar and piano.
___11. Students must pay attention to the teacher. ___12. I should visit my parents more often. ___13. She could be at home today. ___14. May I use your bike, please? ___15. You should talk to her about the issue. III. INTENSIVE AND REFLEXIVE PRONOUNS Directions: Determine whether each underlined word is used as an intensive or reflexive pronoun. Write IN if it is intensive and RE if it is reflexive. ___16. When we ourselves are careless, we put ourselves and others in danger. ___17. I enrolled myself in a dance class last summer. ___18. The president himself promised to stop the territorial dispute between two nations. ___19. The visitors had to cook for themselves. ___20. The queen herself gave the knight the award. IV. READING COMPREHENSION AND LITERATURE Directions: Read the following passages carefully and write the letter of the word or phrase that best completes each numbered item. (Items no. 21-22) “When the world look hopeless, ___21. The passage appeals more to the sense of _____________. And life is not fair A. feeling B. sight C. sound D. taste Throw back your shoulders ___22. The expression to “throw back your shoulders” means_________. And do not despair.” A. exercise your shoulders C. forget your responsibilities B. ignore your problems D. show your feelings (Items no. 23-25) If you have endured a great despair; ___23. The feeling that the writer intends us to have toward life is ___. Then you did it alone. A. contentment C. fear Getting a transfusion from a fire, B. courage D. hopelessness Picking the scabs off your heart, ___24. The figures of speech used in the poem is _____________. Then wringing it out like a sock. A. alliteration C. personification -from: Courage by Anne Sexton B. metaphor D. simile ___25. The last two lines of the poem express_________. A. arrogance B. courage C. optimism D. warning ---END OF EXAM---
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(Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies) Chris Ferns - Narrating Utopia - Ideology, Gender, Form in Utopian Literature-Liverpool University Press (1999)