Polo National High School

English 9
2nd Quarter
1st Long Quiz
NAME: _______________________________GR.&SECTION: _________________ SCORE: _________ P.S. ________

I. Identify the underlined adverbs in the passage. Write whether the underlined adverb is an adverb of time place or
manner.
My relatives from Canada 1. excitedly visits me 2.in Polo. 3.During their visit, I 4. proudly serve him a box of
Putong Pulo one of the best delicacies in Valenzuela. 5.While eating, we plan to go to Luneta and meet our other relatives
6. there. As we get together, we chat 7. unstoppably and laugh 8. loudly. The momentum 9. suddenly stops when we
hear the supporters of Senator Win Gatchalian. He arrives 10. just in time, for I want my relative to meet the first man
behind the success of Valenzuela City. 11.Personally, I brag about the improvements that takes place in our beloved city.
Different infrastructures such as hospitals, schools, and commercial buildings were not just built 12. modernly but also
13. intelligently 14. during his term. 15.Finally, we decided to go home after the tiring stroll.
1 6 11
2 7 12
3 8 13
4 9 14
5 10 15

II. Identify the rhyme scheme and tell what kind of sonnet it is then do the task given below the sonnet.

When I consider how my light is spent, _____ Two households, both alike in dignity, ______
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, _____ In fair Verona, where we lay our scene, ______
And that one talent which is death to hide _____ From ancient grudge break to new mutiny, ______
Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent _____ Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. ______
To serve therewith my Maker, and present _____ From forth the fatal loins of these two foes ______
My true account, lest He returning chide; _____ A pair of star-cross’d lovers take their life; ______
“Doth God exact day-labor, light denied?” _____ Whose misadventured piteous overthrows ______
I fondly ask. But Patience, to prevent _____ Do with their death bury their parents’ strife. ______
That murmur, soon replies, “God doth not need _____ The fearful passage of their death-mark’d love, ______
Either man’s work or His own gifts. Who best _____ And the continuance of their parents’ rage, ______
Bear His mild yoke, they serve Him best. His state _____ Which, but their children’s end, nought could remove, ______
Is kingly: thousands at His bidding speed, _____ Is now the two hours’ traffic of our stage; ______
And post o’er land and ocean without rest; _____ The which if you with patient ears attend, ______
They also serve who only stand and wait.” _____ What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend ______

II. Identify the word being described in the statement. Choose your answer on the box below.
DRAMATIC POETRY, BALLAD, LYRIC POETRY ,EPIC, ELEGY, ODE , NARRATIVE POETRY,

___________1. A 14 lined poem written in iambic pentameter.

___________2. A long, majestic narrative poem which tells the adventures of a traditional hero and the
development of a nation.
___________3. A poetry that tells a story following an order of events.
___________4. A kind of poetry that is meant to be sung with the accompaniment of lyre.
___________5. A poetry has the elements that are closely related to drama because it is written in dramatic
form or makes use of a dramatic technique.