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PAASCU ACCREDITED Level II

Senior High School

G12 GA/ HUMMS

Creative Nonfiction – Quiz 1

Directions: Clear your area and close all other tabs not related to the class. This quiz is
covers three topics: Elements of Fiction/Nonfiction, Morning in Nagrebcan, and Barrio
boy. Make sure to read the instructions carefully and analyze each item. You have a
time limit of 50 minutes.
A. True or False.
1. The setting creates the mood of the story.
2. Conflict is the reason of the protagonist and antagonist of the story.
3. The theme is the underlying truths and realities of life consciously and
unconsciously created by the author and realized by the readers.
4. Local color focuses primarily on the specific features unique to a particular region
such as the customs, dialect, and topography.
5. The point of view does not take the angle of how the story is narrated.
6. The objective point of view is employed when the writer tells what happens
without stating more than what can it be inferred from the story's action and
dialogue and never discloses anything about what the characters think or feel.
7. A character that changes during the story is defined as round or dynamic, and a
character that stays the same is defined as static or flat.

B. Multiple Choice.
1. Where is the setting of the story written by Manuel Arguilla?
a) Nagrebcan, La Union
b) Negrebcan, La Union

2. What does this line mean, "The main reason I was graduated with honors from
the first grade was that I had fallen in love with Miss Ryan"?
a) Ernesto had a crush on Miss Ryan.
b) Ernesto is the favorite student of Miss Ryan.
c) Miss Ryan inspired Ernesto to excel in school.
d) Miss Ryan treated Ernesto with love and care.

3. Which character is being portrayed in this line," She was, too skinny, somewhat
runty, of a withering height when she patrolled the class"?
a) Miss Hopley
b) Miss Ryan
c) Mrs. Dodson
d) Mrs. Matti

4. What does the author imply in the following line, "At Lincoln, making us into
Americans did not mean scrubbing away what made us originally foreign"?
a) Migrants can embrace the customs of America without forgetting theirs.
b) Migrating to America makes the people forget their heritage.
c) America promises  good life and opportunties for migrants.
d) America is the most superior country in the world.
 5. What is the similarity of Ernesto's class in school and his neighborhood?
a) They both have active children.
b) They are both culturally diverse.
c) Racial discrimination happens in both.
d) They are both populated by Americans.

6. What is evident in Lincoln School based on this paragraph?  "The teachers

called us as our parents did, or as close as they could pronounce our names in
Spanish or Japanese. No one was ever scolded or punished for speaking in his
native tongue on the playground. Matti told the class about his mother's down
quilt, which she had made in Italy with the fine feathers of a thousand geese.
Encarnacion acted out how boys learned to fish in the Philippines."
a) Americanized students
b) Acceptance of cultural diversity
c) Kind and compassionate teachers
d) Inquisitive American and foreign students

7. Which of the following is a central idea of the story?

a) Cultural diversity should be celebrated.
b) Migrants wants to be Americanized.
c) America despises foreign cultural heritage.
d) Migrants are products of their foreign heritage.

C. Constructed Response.
Directions: Answer the following questions in three to five sentences
comprehensively but succinctly. Please be guided by the scoring rubric given.

Content – 2 points
Organization – 1 point
Mechanics – 1 point
Total – 4 points each

1. If you were Baldo (Morning in Nagrebcan), how would you manage the kind of
treatment of Tang Ciaco towards you and your brother and your pet dog?
2. Morning in Nagrebcan was written several decades ago. In what ways does it
ring a chord with contemporary readers? What social issues are suggested in the
story which are considered "contemporary"?
3. How crucial was the role of the teachers (Miss Hopley, Miss Ryan) in making the
main character become comfortable and excel in school?
4. How does the school become a "melting pot of culture"?  Cite pieces of evidence
from the story, "Barrio Boy".