Fourth Quarter Test in Grade 9 English

GENERAL DIRECTIONS: Read and analyze each item. Write the letter of your answer on
the sheet provided.

Identify the technical vocabulary used in theater and drama.

1. The clothing and accessories actors’ wears are known as __________________.

a. costumes b. lighting c. special effects d. sound effect
2. What are painted scenes, backdrops, or other materials meant to show the setting of a play?
a. props b. scenery c. acts d. script
3. A story told through characters played by actors is called ________________
a. narrative b. drama c. poem d. speech
4. What do you call the audio or visual elements used in a play ?
a. setting b. special effects c. act d. scene
5. When you are standing looking out at the audience, stage right is your
a. Right b. Left c. both a and b d. None of these
6. What is a script?
a. A prescription used as a props in a drama
b. The written text of a stage play, screenplay, or broadcast
c. Cursive writing used to embellish a drama
d. Counterfeit money used as a props in a drama
7. Where and when the play takes place is known as _________________.
a. set b. setting c. script d. scene
8. When writing a play, a playwright uses primarily which of the following tools to reveal a
character?
a. plot structure b. setting c. stage directions d. dialogue
9. How is drama different from other literary works?
a. It has a plot.
b. It has characters.
c. The setting is important.
d. It is meant to be performed.
10. Feeling projected by a story or its elements-- happy, romantic, scary, sad, etc.
a. drama b. stage directions c. script d. mood
11. Notes included in a play to describe how something should look, sound or be performed
are called___
a. effects b. cue c. properties d. stage directions
12. Items that can be carried on and off the stage are known as _______________.
a. stage props b. costumes c. stage directions d. lighting
13. Which play is intended for broadcast over the radio?
a. movie b. theater c. news d. radio play
14. What do posture and movement convey to the audience?
a. ideas b. the characters c. speaking d. the meaning of the dialogue
15. What are constructions indicating where the drama takes place?
a. stage b. costumes c. sets d. platforms

Analyze the given words and identify the relationship.

16. Dialogue: two or more people ; ________: solo part
a. travelogue b. monologue c. epilogue d. trialog
17. Book: Chapters ; Drama: ________.
a. verse b. unit c. sub topic d. act
18. School: handbook of rules and regulations ; Script: _________
a. stage directions b. manual c. instruction d. user guide
19. Chapters: Lesson ; Acts: ______.
a. verse b. scene c. sub topic d. unit
20. Protagonist: Main character; ________ : character who is against the main character
a. enemy b. fiend c. antagonist d. rival
21. Teacher: Class ; _______: Play/Theater
a. director b. actors c. playwright d. props men
22. Poet: Poem ; ________: Play
a. director b. actors c. playwright d. props men
23. Comedy: humorous ; __________: tragic.
a. drama b. tragedy c. tableau d. Pantomime
24. Student: school supplies ; Actor: _________:
a. stage b. lights c. props d. scenery
25. Story: read ; drama: ________.
a. write b. perform c. print d. copy

Analyze the given play script and answer the questions that follow.

26. Walter laughs when Travis says he want to be a bus driver because Walter-
a. suggested the idea c. approves of the idea
b. is amused by the idea d. is surprised by the idea
27. Based on the excerpt, Travis is
a. 7 years old b. 8 years old c. 9 years old d. ten years old
28. In lines30-31, Walter refers to “secretaries getting things wrong the way they do “in order to_
a. make a joke about the incompetence of other people
b. pretend he knows more about being an executive than he really does
c. distract Travis from worrying about what he wants to be when he grows up
d. all of the above
29. As Walter describes his imaginary future, he pulls away from his son because he-
a. is talking to himself rather than to his son
b. Is looking for his wife so he can tells her his plans
c. knows it is time to take care of his business transaction
d. is tired from holding his ten-year old son
30. Read lines 37-40 from Walter’s

And I’ll come up the steps to the house

And the gardener will be clipping away at
He hedges and he’ll say’ “good evening,
Mr. Younger.- And I’ll say, Hello’
Jefferson, how are you this evening?”

Walter imagines greeting the gardener as “Jefferson “rather than “Mr. Jefferson” because his
dreams –

a. He and Jefferson are close friends c. He is in higher social class than Jefferson
b. He does not know Jefferson’s first name d. “Jefferson” is the gardener’s first name

31. The same lines 37- 40 is a form of

a. dialog b. monologue c. epilogue d. Soliloquy

32. As the except ends, the author communicates Walter’s high hopes for his son by having
Walter-
a. send his son to college c. reveal the details of his plan
b. order college catalogues d. Lift his son above his head

33. In the final stage directions in line 52, the word hysterical means
a. uncontrolled b. energetic c. panicky d. Weeping

34. What line indicates that the characters are African American?
a. Son, I feel like talking to you tonight.
b. Why not?
c. ‘Cause, man-it ain’t big enough-you know.
d. A bus driver.
35.The play revolves around
a. dreams b. ambitions c. aspirations d. all of these

Read and reflect on this poem by Langston Hughes and answer the questions that
follow.

DREAMS DEFERRED
Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
Like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore –
And then run?
Does it stink like a rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over –
Like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe just sags
Like a heavy load,
Or does it explode?

36. The poet reveals the speaker’s feelings mainly by using _______________
a. personification to show the characteristics of a dream.
b. similes to describe what happens to dreams.
c. metaphors to describe what happens to dreams.
d. synecdoche to show what dreams mean.
37. The repetition of the word “like” emphasizes the speaker’s desire to _______________
 a. find out what happens to dreams. c. understand what dream is.
b. see how dreams disappear. d. both A and B

38. The poet helps the reader understand how it felt to _______________
a. forget about a dream. c. run away from the dream.
b. be a dried up raisin. d. have a dream.

39. Based on the first stanza, the reader can conclude that the speaker ______________
a. hates having a dream. c. curious of what happens to dreams.
b. remembers all his dreams. d. loves dreaming.
40. The imagery in lines 1 through 8 helps the reader understand what ______________
a. the reader thinks happens to a dream deferred. c. the dreams do.
b. a dream looks like. d. a dream should be made of.

GRAMMAR. Make these active sentences passive. Choose your answers from the given
options.

41. Are you writing a letter?

a. Is a letter being written by you? c. Is a letter was written by you?
b. She is writing a letter . d. You wrote a letter.

42. The workers were digging a canal.

a. A canal is being dug. c. The workers dig a canal.
b. A canal was being dug by the workers d. A canal was dug by the worker.

43. The boy killed the spider.

a. The spider killed by the boy. c. The spider killed.
b. The boy is killed by the spider d. The spider was killed by the boy

44.The students donated some goods.

a. Some goods were donated by the students. c. Some goods are donated by the
students
b. students are donating their goods. d. Students were donating their goods.

45.Farmers sow corn in the rainy season.

a. Corn is sown in the rainy season by the farmers. c. Corn is sown by him.
b. Farmers sown a corn d. Corn was sown.

46. I will finish the job by the end of this week.

a. The job was finished. c. The job will be finished by the end of this week
b. I will be finishing the job. d. The job will be finished.

47. The old woman scolded the driver.

a. The driver was scolded by the old woman. c. The old woman scolds the man.

b. The driver is scolded. d. The driver were scolded.

48.They have informed him of his mother’s death.

a. They informed of his mother’s death. c. He has been inform of his mother’s death.
b. He had been informed. d. He has been informed of his mother’s
death.

49.They took all the necessary precautions.

a. All the necessary precautions was taken by them.

b. They taken all the necessary precautions.
c. They all taken the necessary precaution
d. All the necessary precautions were taken by them.

50. I ate a slice of chocolate cake.

a. A slice of chocolate cake was eaten by me. c. We were eaten the slice of chocolate cake.
b. I have eaten the chocolate cake. d. I am eating a slice of chocolate cake.