REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

DEPARMENT OF EDUCATION
TANJAY CITY DIVISION
PAMPLONA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
MAPEH 8 Quarter 3 EXAM - SY: 2023 – 2024

NAME: ______________________________ Section:_________________ Score:__________

I. Multiple Choices: Choose the correct answer from the given choices below and encircle it.
1. Which of the following scrabble tiles have a value of five points?
A. D B. X C. K
2. What particular color of the cells on the scrabble board
Corresponds to a triple word score?
A. Light Blue B. Dark Red C. Dark Blue
3. How many bonus points will be given to a player who is able to
place all seven tiles on the board at the same time?
A. 50 B. 100 C. 150
4. Which of the following scrabble terms is used to stop
the opponent from making a potentially large score?
A. Bluffing B. Blocking C. Challenge
5. When a rack has more than one of a given letter, it is called as?
A. Dumping B. Hold C. Duplication
6. This piece can move over the other pieces.
A. Knight C. Pawn C. Bishop
7. The most important piece, but it is one of the weakest.
A. Queen C. Bishop C. King
8. Moves to any square as far as it wants, but only forward, backward, and to the sides.
A. Pawn C. Rook C. King
9. Moves and captures along the diagonals.
A. Knight C. Pawn C. Bishop
10. The most powerful piece.
A. Queen C. Bishop C. King

II. Please read the statement in each number and write your answer in the space provided.
_____________1. A board game for two players, each beginning with 16 pieces of six kinds that are
moved according to individual rules, with the objective of checkmating the opposing king.
_____________2. A move of the king and / or either rook of the same color along the player's first row.
On a player's turn, he may move his king two squares over to one side and then move the rook from
that side's corner on the square next to the king.
_____________3. a chess game where nobody ends as a winner.
_____________4. refers to the middle line dividing the two squares of a domino tile
_____________5. refers to the spots of a bone.
_____________6. occurs when neither player has tiles that they cannot play.
_____________7. Is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from
individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15 by 15 grid.
_____________8. an opponent calls this term if when he/she thinks a play is not acceptable.
_____________9. any word played that uses all seven letters on the rack earning bonus of 50 points.
____________10. the act of playing a word on the board that stops the opponent from making a
potentially large score.
____________11. also known as the domino tiles.
____________12. The word “domino” is most likely derived from the latin, dominus which means?
____________13. Is the result of a move that places the opposing kind under an immediate threat of
captureby one or sometimes two of the opponent’s pieces?
____________14. a special ability of a pawn wherein if it reaches the last row of the other side of the
board.
____________15. Players often count tiles at two different times. This is crucial for the astute player.
____________16. Game equipment consisting of a flat thin piece marked with characters and used in
board games like Mah-Jong, Scrabble, etc.
____________17. Is a special pawn capture which can occur immediately after a player moves a pawn two
squares forward from its starting position and an enemy pawn could have captured it had it moved only one
square.
____________18. A letter that will spell a new word when it is played with in the front of or at the end
of a word already on the board.
____________19. Is a term in scrabble wherein a player may pass his/her turn by not exchanging tiles
and not making a play on the board.
____________20. Is a situation in which one player’s king is threatened with capture having no move
to avoid threat, thus, ending the game.

III. Complete the table below.

Points Value Scrabble Letters

0
1 A,E,I,_____, _____, ____,R,S, ____ & ____
2
3
4
5
8
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