Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VI-Western Visayas
Division of Aklan
Ibajay West District
MALOCO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Maloco, Ibajay, Aklan
SECOND QUARTERLY EXAMINATION
ENGLISH 10
SY 2017-2018

NAME:___________________________________________________ SEC.:________________ SCORE:

I. SELECT THE BEST

Directions: Read and answer each item and follow directions as indicated. Encircle the letter of your answer.
1-2. Identify the statements that express conflict in a family.
a. Dwindle in finances and uncertainty about the future causes disharmony among family members.
b. Involvement in brawling and fraternities threaten ones academic status.
c. Teenagers often engage into social networking sites which results to irresponsible use and
sometimes lead to cyber bullying.
d. Rivalry among siblings is inevitable and typically results to siblings competing among one another.
3-7. Identify five statements with affirmative expressions
a. No doubt about that!
b. Pardon me, but I don’t think it is possible.
c. You have a good point; however you forgot to consider one angle of the issue.
d. I have nothing against it.
e. Definitely!
f. That is indeed great!
g. Certainly, you are right.
8. What prominent literary device was used in the story “Arachne”?
a. Deus ex Machina
b. Cliff Hanger
c. Poetic Justice
d. Imagery
9. All are stages in writing an essay except for one. What is it?
a. Prewriting
b. Revising
c. Researching
d. Proofreading
10. In the verse “Comfort” taken from the Koran, the speaker is talking to whom?
a. to himself
b. to Allah
c. to the believers
d. to the lost
11. All are Odin’s personal challenge except for one. What is it?
a. duty to his family
b. duty to his people/creation
c. duty to his foes
d. none of the above
12. All are ways to solve personal challenge except one. What is it?
a. admit mistakes
b. compare oneself to someone more powerful
c. use temporary solution
d. use struggles as opportunities
13. These are characteristic of a persuasive speech except one. What is it?
a. motivates readers
b. changes reader’s mind about a topic
c. purely based on opinions
d. a combination of facts and opinions
14. An argumentative speech is ____________.
a. logical
b. presents and explains the issue or case
 c. refutes opposing arguments
d. all of the above
15. What are the names of the Eagles perching on Odin’s shoulders?
a. Fortitude and Love
b. Prudence and Justice
c. Wisdom and Hope
d. Memory and Thought
II. WORD SETS
Directions: Determine which word does not belong to each set. Write your answer on the blank.
___________ 1. Perch, land, blast off, settle
___________ 2. Snarling, growling, gnashing, intertwined
___________ 3. Crouch, cringe, stand, bend
___________ 4. Late, ancient, primitive, primordial,
___________ 5. Turmoil, spiral, loop, coil
___________ 6. Screech, bellow, howl, shrill
___________ 7. Praise, swear, curse, blaspheme
___________ 8. Chastise, scourge, whip, windfall
___________ 9. Throng, swarm, mob, forlorn
___________ 10. Flaxen, dark, tawny, sandy
III. WHO’S NOT IN?
Directions: Study the set of names below and identify who does not belong to the group. Write your answer
in the box.
1. Mimir, Odin, Balder, Thor
2. Perseus, Medusa, Hercules, Helen of Troy
3. Aphrodite, Zeus, Hades, Athena
4. Virgil, Dante, Beatrice, Charon
5. Cupid, Athena, Aries, Perseus
6. Orpheus, Arachne, Eurydice, Perseus
7. Apollo, Hermes, Poseidon, Diana
8. Harpies, Cerberus, Opportunists, Chimera
9. Danae, Andromeda, Dictys, King Minos
10. Zeus, Hades, Poseidon, Apollo
IV. IDENTIFY & CLASSIFY!
Directions: Identify if the statements have Parenthetical Expressions or a Conjunctive Adverb. Write P. E. for
Parenthetical Expression and C.A. for Conjunctive Adverb. Write your answer on the blank.
___________ 1. Many Asians use chopsticks; however, some use forks.
___________ 2. Students are willing to participate; provided that, the school will shoulder half of their
expenses.
___________ 3. The new restaurant had few costumers; thus, it closed in a few months.
___________ 4. Cobras, although they are essentially moody, like an occasional chuckle.
___________ 5. Strawberry jam, for instance, doesn’t make a good spaghetti sauce.
___________ 6. Uncle Charlie (a former gurgler) met Aunt Min (at the time a mouthwash therapist) at a
poltergeists’ convention.
___________ 7. But, of course, Miss Sorrosa was amused.
___________ 8. Jumbo, it seems, prefers peanuts in soy sauce.
___________ 9. Uncle Charlie, when told about the escaped fleas, broke out in a blush.
___________ 10. Hurry up; otherwise, you will be late for the train.
___________ 11. She didn’t take a bus to work today. Instead, she drove her car.
___________ 12. They returned home. Likewise, I returned home.
___________ 13. We have many different sizes of shirt; however, it comes in only one color.
___________ 14. It rained hard; moreover, lightning flashed and thunder boomed.
___________ 15. Fang, in fact, was furious.
 V. DO YOU FEEL ME?
Directions: Complete the following chart by giving appropriate sensory images.
EXPRESSIONS SENSORY EXPERIENCE
VI. Crab in chilli sauce
Creaking bamboo window frames
Wind blew its hardest
Bent its head gracefully
New fragrance
Sun comes up
Where the worst wind was
Sweet as the nectar of a flower
All is dark
He fumed and charged like an angry bull
Shrills of despair
Though I was on the sheer face of a mountain, the
feeling of swinging through the air was euphoric,
almost like flying without wings.
The birds flapped their wings in excitement, the
promise of food so close.
They sprung out of the tree, one by one, soaring
through the branches and swooping down low to the
pile of berries beneath the tree
Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold
HAVE YOUR SAY!
Directions: The following passages were taken from The Analects. Choose only 3 and discuss your opinion
comprehensively in two to three sentences only. 5 points will be given for each item. Use the back side of
your test paper.
1. The Master said, “Behave in such a way that your father and mother have no anxiety about you, except
concerning your health.”
2. The Master said, “In the presence of a good man, think all the time how you may learn to equal him. In
the presence of a bad man, turn your gaze within!”
3. The Master said, “In old days, men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study to
impress other people.”
4. The Master said, “He who will not worry what is far off will soon find something worse than worry close
at hand.”
5. The Master said, “A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias. The small man is biased
and can see a question only from one side.”

”Our aspirations are our possibilities.”

Good Luck!

Prepared by:
Mrs. Jean Carla M. Alag
English Teacher