SECOND GRADING EXAMINATION IN ENGLISH 9

Directions: Choose the letter that best answers the question or completes the statement.

1. Describe how the village looks on the day of the lottery.

A. Very metropolitan with shiny glass commercial buildings
B. Neat houses, green lawns and flowers everywhere
C. Gloomy and cold with gray houses
D. Dusty, dry with paint peeling off the houses
2. How many people live in the village?
A. About 300
B. Less than 100
C. 3,446
D. Just under a thousand
3. What are people gathering in the town square?
A. There is a band concert in the morning.
B. They are voting on whether to discontinue the lottery.
C. The mayor is making a speech.
D. It is the annual lottery day.
4. What is the traditional job of the village boys on Lottery Day?
A. They play an exhibition football game before the lottery.
B. They collect stones and bring them to the town square.
C. They form an honor guard for the lottery box.
D. They keep the younger children off of the grass.
5. What is the date of the lottery?
A. July 4th
B. February 2nd
C. June 27th
D. April 1st
6. What are the men doing before it is time for the lottery to begin?
A. Standing together and talking politics.
B. Standing together and talking about women.
C. Standing in a group but not talking.
D. Standing in a group talking about tractors and rain.
7. What are the women doing before the lottery?
A. Standing together and gossiping.
B. Putting up the bunting.
C. Avoiding each other’s eyes.
D. Running around looking for their children.
8. How do they assemble when it is time to begin the ceremony?
A. In double file lines.
B. Making a huge circle in the town square.
C. Crowding forward to try to be first to draw,.
D. Coming together in family groups.
9. What is Jackson's main theme in this short story?
A. The foolishness of blindly following tradition
B. The value of human life
C. The need for tradition in small towns
D. The need for change in a community
10. What is the tone as the story begins?
A. Dry like a newspaper article
B. An average day with overcast sky
C. Dreary and ominous
D. Cheerful, bright and colorful

11. 'Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the _______________?'
A. Bill of Rights
B. Constitution
C. Civil Rights Act
D. Emancipation Proclamation
12. 'When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of
Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise
that all men would be guaranteed the inalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of _____________'?
A. Wealth
B. Happiness
C. Education
D. religious freedoms
13. He mentioned that he has a dream for his children. How many children does Dr. King say he has?
A. 5
B. 9
C. 7
D. 4
14. Towards the end of his speech, Dr. King quotes a well known American song. What song does he recite parts of?
A. 'My Country 'Tis Of Thee'
B. 'The Star Spangled Banner'
C. 'America The Beautiful'
D. 'God Bless the USA'
15. At the end of the next paragraph, Dr. King is talking about dealing with the racial injustice. It goes on to say... 'Now is
the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the ______________'?
A. solid rock of brotherhood
B. main street of 'One Nation Under God'
C. high rises of equality in America
D. peaceful tranquility of fairness and liberty
16. Dr King also says, 'But there is something that I must say to my people who stand on the warm threshold which leads
into the palace of justice. In the process of gaining our rightful place we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not
seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of _______________.'?
A. selfishness and evil
B. segregation
C. black and white
D. bitterness and hatred
17. Numerous states are mentioned in Dr. King's speech. Which state below is NOT mentioned?
A. Louisiana
B. Ohio
C. Mississippi
D. New York

TEST II. MATCHING TYPE TEST. Choose the letter that best answers the question s in Column A.

COLUMN A
___1. When and where was Ida Wells born?
___2. Why do you think it was illegal to teach slaves?
What was interesting about the schooling of Ida? How
did the freed African-Americans feel about education?
Why?
___3. What were the conditions for African-Americans
after the Civil War?
___4.Why was it known as a period of great optimism?
___5. How did the KKK affect African-Americans in
Memphis?
___6.What was the first crisis Ida faced? What happened
to her parents? Her siblings? Why did her childhood end
as it did?
___7.Why did Ida go to the big city? What were the
conditions like in Memphis?
COLUMN B
a. 1862; Holly Springs, Mississippi
b. African-Americans believed that it was a time for them
to become full-fledged citizens of the country with
opportunities to work hard and get ahead.
c. Family hit by yellow fever; Ida's mother and father both
died. She was oldest and her family was going to be split
up. Ida took over. Got a teaching job
d. Get a better paying job teaching. Many blacks moved
for same reason.
e. Black shopkeepers, doctors, lawyers, landowners.
f. Freed men were rounded up and sent back to farms to
pick cotton.
g. It would help them get ahead and make them
politically powerful. She had very little. They saw
education as a way to learn all they could. She read
newspapers to her father.
h. A cultural group of citizens who met to discuss
philosophy, literature, and other democratic ideas.

TEST III. Identify and choose the correct sound of diphthongs in the following words.
a.[ai] b.[Ɔi] c.[au]

____ 1. coil ____ 6. Guide ____ 11. dye

____ 2. Height ____ 7. Moist ____ 12. bough
____3. Now ____ 8. Join ____ 13. fire
____4. Brown ____ 9. blouse
____5. Rhyme ____ 10. hoist

III.A Identify and choose the correct vowel sounds of the following words.

____ 1. Soon [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ] ____7. Rule [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ]

____2. Bet [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ] ____8. Led [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ]
____3. Late [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ] ____9. Ray [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ]
____4. Moon [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ] ____10. Head [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ]
____5. Book [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ] ____11. Sure [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ]
____6. Blue [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ] ____13. Suit [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ]
____12. Could [u],[uw],[ey],[Ɛ]

B R E A K A L E G! 

Prepared by: Checked by: Approved by:

NANCY A. OLIVERIO LUZ A. MAHINAY BALTAZAR B. BULOSAN

TEACHER-I LANGUAGES DEPARTMENT HEAD SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL IV