ENGLISH 9 SECOND QUARTER SUMMATIVE TEST

Write the letter of the correct answer.

1. Which is NOT one of the basic characteristics of an adverb?
A. It modifies a verb or another adverb.
B. It tells when, where, or how an action is done.
C. Time, place, and manner are some of its types.
D. It modifies a noun or pronoun.
2. Manny Pacquiao is an epitome of a man worth emulating
because he helps his constituents ceaselessly especially
during this time of global pandemic. Which is true about the
sentence?
A. The word ceaselessly does not tell how an action is done.
B. The word ceaselessly is used as an adjective in the
sentence.
C. The word ceaselessly in the sentence is an adverb of
manner.
 D. The word ceaselessly is merely for Manny.

3. Which of the following sentences contain an adverb of

time?
A. I had a nightmare last night about this global pandemic.
B. I had a vision that this pandemic will vanish immediately.
C. I had a dream of helping humanity globally.
D. I had high hopes that it will disappear quickly as a bubble.

4. Which of the following sentences depict an adverb of

place?
A. In the hospital the doctors and nurses serve with a wide
smile.
B. They serve all their patients cheerfully and patiently.
C. They only rest for few minutes.
D. They quickly run to meet the president.

5. Which of the following sentences expresses an adverb of

manner?
 A. The policemen and soldiers greatly suffer from lack of
sleep.
B. The policemen and soldiers stayed the whole night on their
post.
C. The policemen and soldiers work day and night.
D. The policemen and soldiers cannot stay in their own
homes.
6. Which of the following is a characteristic of poetry?
A. It is written in stanza form that uses special kind of
language and figurative devices.
B. It is usually conventional and ordinary.
c. It strictly observes grammatical rules and structure.
d. It uses sentences and paragraphs.
7. Which of these lines from the poem contains an example of
onomatopoeia?
a. “With death and Morning on the silver horns”
b. “Or foxlike in the vine; nor cares to walk”
 c. “The moan of doves in immemorial elms”
d. “ And find him; by the happy threshold, he”
8. What is a sonnet?
(A) A poem where each line rhymes
(B) A sixteen line poem broken into four quatrains
(C) All poems made up of tercets
(D Any fourteen-line poem

9. What is the rhyme scheme of this sonnet poem?

My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damasked, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the
ground.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
a. ABAB CDCD EFEF GG C. ABAB ABAB EFEF GG
B. ABCD CDCD EFEF GG D. ABAB BAAB EEFF GG

10. Which of the following is the author’s purpose when he wants

to amuse you to enjoy writing?
A. To entertain B. To explain C. To persuade D. To
inform
11. What is the purpose of advertisements?
A. To inform B. To persuade C. To explain D. To point out

12. Tone can be best described as _____________.

A. The overall mood or feeling in the story
B. The feelings of the readers after reading
C. Attitude of the reader toward what he/she is reading about
D. Author’s attitude toward the subject he/she is writing about
13. Read the following poem:
"A Birthday"
by Christina Rossetti

My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is a weathered shoot;

My heart is like an apple-tree

Whose boughs are bent with thick-set fruit;

My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon [peaceful]

sea;

My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is come to me.

What tone do the details of the poem convey?
a. excitement c. sorrow
b. happiness d. turmoil

14. Which of the following would be considered the best usage

of parallelism?
A. He ate, read, and slept.
B. They swarmed like ants
C. She is the meanest person I’ve ever met.
D. I really like people who talk a lot and girls with dyed hair.
15. Stephen wrote a letter to his parents explaining why he
needs a new car.” The statement aims:
A. To entertain C. To persuade
B. To inform D. To point out
16. Colleen held her stomach and headed back to bed. She coiled
and grabbed a blanket. She thought about the cold meal she ate
from the fridge this morning. Colleen probably:
A. Feels hungry again.
B. Wishes to eat some more.
C. Wants to go back to sleep.
D. Gets a stomach ache from eating the cold meal.
17. What do you look for when you are making a comparison?
A. Differences of two subjects
B. Similarities of two subjects
C. Both differences and similarities of two subjects
D. Overwhelming similarities and differences of two subjects
18Which of the following is the use of Venn Diagram?
A. to organize ideas
B. to summarize content
C. to compare and contrast
D. to write vocabulary terms
19. The play “A Raisin in the Sun” is set in _________ in the _______.
A. Atlanta (in the) 1890s
B. New York (in the) 1910s
C. Los Angeles (in the) 1930s
D. Chicago (in the) 1950s

20. What does Walter Lee want to do with the money from the life
insurance policy?
A. Start a business
B. Buy a car
C. Move to another city
D. Give it to charity
21. In the play “A Raisin in the Sun”, what was Mama’s greatest dream?
a. a liquor business
b. a brand new car
c. a house and a yard
d. a new job

22. Which component of VUCA represents unexpected or rapid change?

a. Complexity b. Volatility C. chaos d. Ambiguity
23. It is a category, in the VUCA world that refers to the
lack of clarity or awareness about situations.
a.volatile b. uncertain c. complex d. ambiguous

24. Which of these words is associated to the word

"complex" as another element in the VUCA world?
a. clear
b. aware
c. confused
d. natural

25. The first sentence of the paragraph is called as __________.

(a) An Introduction Sentence
(b) The Exclusive Sentence
(c) The Topic Sentence
(d) The First Sentence

26. How do we use supporting details or supporting sentences?

(a) Before the first sentence at the introduction

(b) After the last sentence because it helps to summarize the paragraph
(c) Never use it
(d) After the topic sentence and before the closing sentence
27. What is the topic sentence of this paragraph?
There are many different positions in soccer. Defenders are players who try
to stop the other team from scoring. Midfielders play both offense and
defense, while the job of the forward is to score goals. Last, but not least,
the goalie protects the net from the other team's shots.
a.Defenders are players who try to stop the other team from
scoring.
 b. There are many different positions in soccer.
c. Midfielders play both offense and defense, while the job of
the forward is to score goals.
d. Last, but not least, the goalie protects the net from the
other team's shots.

28. What does the speaker mean in the line below?

“America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has
come back marked "insufficient funds."
a. All the opportunities are given to white people only.
b. There is no bias in the distribution of opportunities among Americans.
c. Equal opportunities are given only to those who praise the government.
d. The opportunities given to the black people are not enough for them to
experience equality.
29. “Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of
segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice.”
The speaker’s tone in this line is _____________.
a. confused and divided
b. relax and indifferent
c. positive and determined
d. melancholic and afraid
30. The speech ‘I Have a Dream’ is clearly a ____________.
a. plea to the white people of America to finally put a stop to the
discrimination of colored people
b. campaign against government rules on business and law
c. advertisement about the contribution of black people in nation
building
d. movement against all white Americans