ST. JOSEPH SCHOOL – HIJAS DE JESUS, INC.

San Miguel, Jordan, Guimaras

School ID: 403991
SY 2022 – 2023
TATAK FI: KAPATID SA KAPWA

FIRST HALF EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH 8

Name: ________________________________ Year/Section: _________________ Date: ______________ Score:

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Directions: Read and analyze each item carefully. Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided before the number.

1. It is a comprehension strategy that uses visual representations or graphic organizers to help readers determine the elements
of the story.
a. Sentences b. Story Map c. Storytelling d. Making Predictions
2. The following are examples of a sentence. Which one is not?
a. The toy was under the bed.
b. The man in that house lives alone
c. He continued to run for president despite the allegations thrown at him.
d. The completing vice-presidential candidates
3. Antonia maintained a poker face at the party. She’s mad that she was forced by her mom to attend but didn’t want to show it
to the visitors. What is meant by the underlined phrase?
a. saying things repeatedly b. a state of too much happiness
c. Expressionless and without emotion c. anger caused by a broken happiness
4. Making predictions is a strategy that readers normally use to guess what might happen next in the story. The following clues
are involved, except one.
a. pictures b. titles and headings c. facial expressions d. personal experience
5. It is a category of narrator’s points of view that provide firsthand information with directness and immediacy and it uses the
pronoun “I” in telling the story.
a. First person b. second person c. Fourth Person d. third person

II. FILL IN THE BLANKS

Directions: Fill in each blank with the correct idiomatic expression from the list given below.

1. “His wife and children were very pleased when they heard this and asked the tortoise to get food at once, as they were all
hungry. This, the tortoise was only too pleased to do, as he wished ________________ his newly acquired wealth.
2. I will always be ready to help you ______________________.
3. That won’t work. Let’s _____________________________.
4. That phone may be good, but it will ____________________________.
5. It looked nice, but it was a ___________________ the house where she was born.
Go back to the drawing board far cry from to show off
cost an arm and a leg at the drop of a hat
III. Directions: Give the appropriate prefixes of the following root words at the left side as determined by the meaning indicated after
each number at the right side.
____Christ 1. Against Christ
_________respect 2. Not to respect
_________ arrange 3. To arrange it again
_________ meter 4. One thousand meters
_________pod 5. A two-legged stand

IV. Directions: Analyze the parts of the story “The King’s Magic Drum”. Use the story excerpts and letter clues below to help you find
out the answer.

1. A long time ago, in the Kingdom of Calabar, there was an ancient King named Efriam Duke.

E I

2. When he woke up in the morning, the tortoise begun to feel hungry, and as his wife and children were calling out for food, he
beat the drum, but instead of food, Egbo men filled the house and beat the tortoise, his wife and his children badly.
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San Miguel, Jordan, Guimaras
School ID: 403991
SY 2022 – 2023
TATAK FI: KAPATID SA KAPWA

3. So they made their home underneath the prickly tree, and from that day you will always find tortoises living under the prickly
tie-tie palm, as they have nowhere else to go to for food.
E L I

4. In order to get rid of the tortoise the king said, “very well, take the drum”, but he never told the tortoise about the bad things
that would happen to him if he stepped over a fallen tree or walked over a stick on the road.

E L I
5. Efriam Duke was a rich man. He had many farms and hundreds of slaves a large store of kernels on the beach and many
puncheons of palm oil.
H E
V. ENUMERATION
Directions: Enumerate what are being asked on each of the following item.

1-3 Three types of the third person narrator’s point of view

4-5 Two ways to add sufffixes
6-10 Elements of a Narrative

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