Second Grading Examination in English 9 Directions: Choose The Letter That Best Answers The Question or Completes The Statement
Second Grading Examination in English 9 Directions: Choose The Letter That Best Answers The Question or Completes The Statement
Second Grading Examination in English 9 Directions: Choose The Letter That Best Answers The Question or Completes The Statement
Directions: Choose the letter that best answers the question or completes the statement.
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 COLUMN B
___1. When and where was Ida Wells born? a. 1862; Holly Springs, Mississippi
b. African-Americans believed that it was a time for them
___2. Why do you think it was illegal to teach slaves? to become full-fledged citizens of the country with
What was interesting about the schooling of Ida? How
opportunities to work hard and get ahead.
did the freed African-Americans feel about education?
Why? c. Family hit by yellow fever; Ida's mother and father both
died. She was oldest and her family was going to be split
___3. What were the conditions for African-Americans up. Ida took over. Got a teaching job
after the Civil War? d. Get a better paying job teaching. Many blacks moved
for same reason.
___4.Why was it known as a period of great optimism? e. Black shopkeepers, doctors, lawyers, landowners.
f. Freed men were rounded up and sent back to farms to
___5. How did the KKK affect African-Americans in
Memphis? pick cotton.
___6.What was the first crisis Ida faced? What happened g. It would help them get ahead and make them
to her parents? Her siblings? Why did her childhood end politically powerful. She had very little. They saw
as it did? education as a way to learn all they could. She read
newspapers to her father.
___7.Why did Ida go to the big city? What were the h. A cultural group of citizens who met to discuss
conditions like in Memphis?
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]
III.A Identify and choose the correct vowel sounds of the following words.
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