ENGLISH 8 – QUIZ

NAME:_____________________________ GRADE & SECTION:_____________SCORE:_____

I.ELEMENTS OF A NARRATIVE: Identify the following.
_________________1. A character who changes over time, usually as a result of resolving the
central conflict or facing a major crisis.
_________________2. The time and place in which the events of the story takes place.
_________________3. The character who opposes the hero, or protagonist.
_________________4. The character who does not change over time; his or her personality
does not transform or evolve.
_________________5. It is the opposition of forces which ties one incident to another and
makes the plot moves.
_________________6. Refer to people, animals, robots, etc., who play part in the action of the
story.
_________________7. A character struggles against Gods, ghosts, monsters, spirits, aliens, etc.
_________________8. This literary personality is notable for one kind of personality trait or
characteristic.
_________________9. The leading character struggles his physical strength against other men,
forces of nature, or animals.
_________________10. A character who has a complex personality; he or she is often
portrayed as a conflicted or contradictory person.
_________________11. A plan, logical series of events having a beginning, middle, and end.
_________________12. A characters struggles against computers, machines, etc.
_________________13. The beginning of the story where the characters and the settings
revealed.
_________________14. The central person in the story, and is often referred to as the story’s
main character.
_________________15. This is where the events of the story become complicated and the
confliction of the story revealed.
_________________16. The angle form which the story is told.
_________________17. A character struggles with a force of nature (natural disaster).
_________________18. The events and complications begin to resolve
_________________19. The leading character struggles against ideas, practices, or customs of
other people.
_________________20. The story is told through the eyes of a child (his/her judgment being
different from that of an adult).
_________________21. The leading character struggles with himself/herself; with his/her soul,
ideas of right or wrong, physical limitations, choices, etc.
_________________22. This is the final outcome or untangling of events in the story.
_________________23. Identify the type of conflict which refers to struggle with one’s self.
_________________24. This is the highest point of interest and the turning point of the story.
_________________25. Main idea or an underlying meaning of literary work that may be
stated directly or indirectly.
II. Arrange the following events in sequential order by numbering them 1-5.

_____ Ko-Ngai leaped into the white flood of metal; and the lava of the furnace roared to
receive her, and spattered monstrous flakes of flames to the roof, and burst over the verge of
the earthen crater, and cast up a whirling mountain of many coloured fires, and subsided
quakingly, with lightning’s and with thunder and with mutterings.
_____ Nearly 500 years ago the Celestially August, the son of Heaven, Yong-Lo, of the
“Illustrious” or Ming dynasty, commanded the worthy official, Kouan-Yu that he should have a
bell made of such size that the sound thereof might be heard for 100 hundred li.
_____ Then the father of Ko-Ngai. Wild with his grief, would have leaped in after her; but that
strong men held him back and kept firm grasp upon him until he had fainted away, and they
could bear him like one did to his home.
_____ A second time the bell has cast, and the result was even worse. Still the metals
obstinately refused to blend one with the other; cracked and fissured, and the lips of it were
slogged and split asunder.
_____ When the metal had become cool, it was found that the bell was beautiful to look upon
and perfect in form, and wonderful in colour above all other bells.

III. Write your own ending of the story.