Second Monthly Examination in ENGLISH 9

St. Rita & St. Ezekiel

SY: 2020-2021
Name: Date of Examination:

Grade Year Level & Section: Score/s:

PLEASE DO NOT FORGET TO WRITE YOUR NAME

Pray before you take the Examination. Be guided always with the Holy Spirit 

Good luck and God bless you!

Read the following statements/questions carefully then choose the letter

of the correct answer.

Write the letter of the correct answer inside the box.

1. 8. 15. 22. 29.

2. 9. 16. 23. 30.
3. 10. 17. 24.
4. 11. 18. 25.
5. 12. 19. 26.
6. 13. 20. 27.
7. 14. 21. 28.

I. KNOWLEDGE

1. Which of the following BEST describes the Transcendentalists?

a. Anarchic b. Nonchalant c. Naïve d. Nonconformist

2. How did Thoreau's Civil Disobedience encourage Americans to oppose immoral government spending?

a. Voting against it b. Staging protest c. Stop paying taxes d. Writing essays

3. According to the Transcendentalists, what is the 'eternal ONE'?

a. The universal soul b. God c. A flash of intuition d. The fountain of youth

4. Which Transcendentalist is considered the father of free verse poetry?

a. Ralph Waldo Emerson b. Henry David Thoreau c. Walt Whitman d. Amos Bronson Alcott

5. The following questions are about "A Psalm of Life."  According to lines this line, “Footprints that perhaps another;
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main” the speaker would most likely describe life as:

A ocean b. A dream c. A shipwreck d. A journey

6. What is the speaker saying in lines?

“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end of way
But to act, that each tomorrow, finds us farther than .today.”
a. Dreams are harmful c. Try to avoid struggle and hardship
b. Life is about making progress d. The most important thing is to be happy
7. The speaker highlights life's difficulties when he says life is like:
a. A field of battle c. Dust in a grave
b. An empty vision d. Muffled drums
8. What does the speaker say you should do in lines, “Act,-act in the living present!, Heart within and God o’erhead!”
from the Psalm of life?
a. Always live your life with the future in mind
b. Try to remember the lessons of the past
c. Wonder about what tomorrow will bring you
d. Act in the present instead of the past or future
9. Reread the stanza.  What two things does the speaker say you need to live life fully?
a. Heart and God c. The future and the past
 b. Acts and thoughts d. The living and the dead
10. What is the basic meaning of stanza 8?
“Footprints that perhaps another; Sailing o’er life’s solemn main
A forlorn and shipwreck brother; Seeing shall take heart again”
a. Footprints can tell you a lot about history.
b. People who survive shipwrecks learn from others.
c. Leave behind acts from which others will learn.
d. Leave behind acts from which others will not learn.

II. PROCESS

11. Which of the following states the point of view the speaker expresses in this line, If you can talk with crowds and
keep your virtue; Or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch”?
a. It is important to befriend kings and other important people .
b. Do not spend time with people who are rich and powerful.
c. It is important to be able to relate to people from all levels of society.
d. Kings are to be despised and avoided whenever possible.
12. Which of the following best sums up what makes someone a “Man”, or mature person, according to the speaker?
a. Acting in moderation and being in control of oneself
b. Being able to make a lot of money and having many friends
c. Being able to talk to many different kinds of people
d. Being willing to take big risks
13. If people hate you, what does the author think you should do?
a. Not hate them back. c. Hate them too
b. Pretend you don't hear them d. Ignore them
14. What does this mean? "If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue".
a. Don't share your opinions with others who might disagree.
b.Make sure you are loyal.
c. Listen to what others say
d.Keep your morals even if you might be influenced by others
15. Want does the speaker say about dream?
a. They shouldn't be one's master c. They don’t exist
b.One should always follow one's dreams d. They're really cool
16. What does the speaker have to say about hearts, nerves, and sinews?
a. They should serve the listener c. They should be sinuous
b. They should desert him d. They should be removed
17. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest the listener keep?
a. Nothing c. His money
b. The earth and everything in it d. His head
18. What if the listener is hated?
a. He should give way to hating c. He shouldn't give way to hating
b. The word "hating" isn't in this poem d. Hate doesn't exist
19. Which is the correct spelling of the adjective ‘angry’ when it becomes an adverb?
a. angrily b. angry c. angrier d. angriest

20. Which sentence has the adverb in the correct position?

a. I get often headaches. b. He forgot always my birthday. c. I regularly visit my mum. d. She speaks fluently
Spanish.
21. Complete the following sentence:
I ________ tidied up the flat.
a. Quickly b. accidentally c. warmly d. yesterday
22. Which sentence has the adverb in the correct position?
a. We went last year to Morocco on holiday.
b. The team played brilliantly.
c. She played softly the piano.
d. I'm going to carry carefully the eggs.

23. Which is the correct spelling of the adjective ‘heavy’ when it becomes an adverb?
a. heavily b. heavily c. heaviely d. heavelly

24. Which is the correct spelling of the adjective ‘pleasant’ when it becomes an adverb?
a. pleasantely b. pleasantelly c. pleasantly d. pleasantiely

25. Which is the correct spelling of the adjective ‘gentle’ when it becomes an adverb?
a. gently b. gentley c. gentliey d. gentlely
 26. Which of these words is an adverb?
a. elderly b. lonely c. early d. costly

27. Which sentence has the adverb in the wrong position?

a. Suddenly I felt sick. b. I suddenly felt sick. c. I felt suddenly sick. d. I felt sick suddenly

28. Which of these words in the following sentence is an adverb?

Kylie looked longingly into Jason's lovely blue eyes.
a. Looked b. longingly c. lovely d. eyes

29. Which of these sentences contains an adverb?

a. Tim greedily ate the chocolate cake. b. The dog bit Colin. c. The car broke down. d. EastEnders is a soap opera.

30. Which of these adverbs can be used to complete this sentence? The sun shone ________ .
a. loudly b. brightly c. awkwardly d. luckily

31-40. Directions: Read each sentence below. Then, add the adverb in parentheses. Your answers on the line should be
the complete thought of the sentence, placing the adverb properly.

31-32. The manager of the restaurant interviewed lots of people for the job of waiter. (aggressively)

33-34.The dog barked. (continuously)

35-36.The rocket blasted off. (loudly)

37-38.The surgeon operated on the patient. (nervously)

39-40. I have studied Russian. (diligently)

41 – 60. As an Augustinian, do you process the character of valuing others and in understanding the various situations
they faced in daily life?
Note: I would highly appreciate it if you will elaborate your essay using your own ideas. Write you essay at the back part of the Test Paper

Traits 5 4 3 2

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Organization
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in grammar, vivid words and phrases. grammar, mechanics, grammar, mechanics,
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vivid words and that communicate writer uses a limited
phrases. clearly, but the vocabulary. Jargon
writing lacks variety. or clichés may be
present and detract
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