Grade 10
Grade 10
Grade 10
Score
Augustinian Recollect Sisters
San Carlos City, Negros Occidental
2020 – 2021
GENERAL INSTRUCTION: Read and understand each direction carefully. Write legibly your answer on your
examination paper.
PART I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
DIRECTION: Read the following statements carefully. Choose the best answer from the choices given below. Write
your answer before the number. Use SMALL letters only.
1. It is characterized by repeated harmonic patterns and a few simple chords in different improvised patterns to let
the people dance for an extended period of time.
a. Afrobeat b. Juju c. Kwassa Kwassa d. Marabi
2. What popular style of music from Nigeria that is derived from traditional Yoruba percussion and it is
characterized by the use of the African talking drums, agogo, sekere, bata, omelet along with other western
instruments such as the guitars, bass, keyboards, and drums that can be performed in any occasion, events, and
concerts?
a. Afrobeat b. Juju c. Kwassa Kwassa d. Marabi
3. What style of music in the late 19th century, originated from African Americans in the Southern US that often
expresses a wide range of emotions. words often mirrors the deep emotion of black Americans from injustices or
a feeling of sadness, longing, and lost?
a. Kwassa Kwassab. Marabi c. Maracatu d. Blues
4. It is a single-headed open goblet drum played with bare hands. It is one of Africa's most functional and popular
instruments because of the unusual range of pitches that it can create. It has a unique and distinctive design carved
and hollowed out of a tree trunk and covered with a goat skin.
a. Djembe b. Shekere c. Talking drum d. Kora
5. What musical instruments produce sounds by a vibrating air?
a. Lamellaphone b. Membranophones c. Chordophones d. Aerophones
6. It is the oldest and widely used string instrument in Africa. It consists of a flexible wooden sticks with strings
attached on both ends similar to a bow and arrow. It can be played by plucking or by striking using a wooden
stick.
a. Kora b. Musical bow c. Kudu Horn d. Trumpets
7. It consists of a hollow gourd or calabash, covered with a net of seeds, beads, shells, or any available materials
from West Africa. It is played in a variety of styles and comes in many shapes and sizes.
a. Djembe b. Shekere c. Talking drum d. Kora
8. What ancient carnival tradition is found in Pernambuco in the Northeastern Brazil that has rooted from the music
and tradition of African slaves who worked in sugar farms and Pernambuco states?
a. Kwassa Kwassab. Marabi c. Maracatu d. Blues
9. A musical instrument played by the thumbs, whose sound is generated by plucking flexible tuned tongues of
metal, wood, cane or any material attached in a board resonator.
a. Lamellaphone b. Membranophones c. Chordophones d. Aerophones
10. What musical instruments produce sounds from the vibration of strings?
a. Lamellaphone b. Membranophones c. Chordophones d. Aerophones
Score Criteria
Focus on the theme from Language is mostly artistic
beginning to end; purpose and imaginative; use of No spelling, grammar and
5
for writing is evident with figures of speech and usage errors detected
the goal in mind imagery is evident.
Focus on the theme is lost at Some language is artistic and One or two spelling,
4-3
some point; purpose for imaginative; there are some grammar and usage errors
writing is evident with the figures of speech and
detected
goal in mind imagery used
Focus on the theme is lost at
some point ; purpose for One or two artistic or Several spelling grammar
2-1
writing is evident with imaginative language used and usage errors detected
unclear target goal
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