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QUARTERLY ASSESSMENT 1.2

ENGLISH 8
Name: Score:
Section: Date:
Direction: Shade the circle of the letter of your best answer.
Death of a Tsotsi
1. What is the true name of the main character in the start of the story?
a. Abraham Collins d. Abraham Lincoln
b. Abraham Moletisane c. Moletisane Collins
2. Why the gang won’t allow Spike to leave?
a. He has the brain and courage.
b. He is the head of the gang.
c. He knows everything about funny business.
d. The secret of the gang will reveal.
3. In what ways did his life change drastically after his release?
a. He married and back being a Tsotsi.
b. He leave the gang be a good person.
c. He becomes the leader of the gang.
d. He married and had a good job in a factory.
4. What present did they give to Spike after he leaves the reformatory?
a. Knife c. Book
b. Badge d. Watch
5. Who is the author of the story, The Death of a Tsotsi?
a. Wole Soyinka c. Abraham Moletisane
b. Alan Paton d. None of the above
6. What insult in the reformatory precipitated Walter’s and Spike’s fight?
a. Walter called him colored.
b. His friend called him weak.
c. Walter called Spike a reformed.
d. He called him he was a child
7. “You are going forward to being a man” the Principal insists. What
does he mean?
a. He took responsibilities as a father.
b. He become self-reliant and mature
c. He forces Spike to act as a man.
d. He wants to change Spike as a good man.
8. Who probably murdered Spike?
a. The Principal c. George
b. The Meneer d. Walter
9. What Walter feels about Spike’s death?
a. He shows no sign of emotion but he care.
b. He is both upset and angry.
c. He cried.
d. He ignores about the death of his friend.

Africa
10. Who is the author of the poem?
a. Solomon Northup c. Alan Paton
b. David Diop d. Wole Soyinka
11. Which of the following statement best explain these lines?
On the banks of the distant river
I have never known you
But your blood flows in my veins
a. The person of the poem wasn’t born in his ancestral
place.
b. According to his blood he knows that he belongs to
unfamiliar place.
c. He feels that there is an incomplete piece in his life.
d. According to him he wants to go back to his ancestral
place.
12. What figure of speech is used in these lines of the poem?
Africa, tell me Africa
Is this your back that is unbent
a. Synecdoche c. Metonymy
b. Apostrophe d. Irony
13. According to the poem, to who he hears about Africa?
a. Soldiers c. Mother
b. Slaves d. Grandmother
14. In what movement does the poet of the poem known for his
contribution?
a. Romantic Movement c. Feminist Movement
b. Negritude Movement d. Formalism Movement
15. What is the tone of the writer in these lines?
The blood of your sweat
The sweat of your work
The work of your slavery
a. angry and accusatory c. proud and brave
b. sad d. Happy
 16. Who is symbolizing the tree in the poem?
a. People of Africa
b. The person in the poem
c. Young people of Africa
d. None of the above
17. What is the writer convey about these lines of his poem?
Whose fruit bit by bit acquires
The bitter taste of liberty
a. They can achieve freedom but there are a lot of
sacrifices.
b. They never achieve the rights and freedom that they
want.
c. They will revenge to the white colonist who treat them
as a slaves.
d. All of the above
18. What did the poet urge Black people to do according to his poem?
a. He wanted to revenge for his ancestral people.
b. Do their work properly and peacefully.
c. Be a loyal servant to gain freedom.
d. He wanted his people to hope and dream big for Africa.
Direction: Identify the sentence with a parallel structure. Write the letter of
your answer on the space provided.
19. a. The nurse took my temperature, blood pressure and I was weighed.
b. The nurse took my temperature and blood pressure and was
weighed me.
c. The nurse took my temperature, blood pressure and weight.
d. The nurse took my temperature, my blood pressure and she
weighed me.

20. a. My music teacher plays piano, sings, and can teach me very well.
b. My music teacher can play piano, sings, and teaches very well.
c. My music teacher plays piano, she sings, and teaches very well.
d. My music teacher plays piano, sings, and teaches very well.

21. a. Yesterday, my dog ran away, my car broke down, and I spent my
money.
b. Yesterday, my dog ran away, my car broke down, and my money
ran out.
c. Yesterday, my dog ran away, my car broke down, and I am out of
money.
d. Yesterday, my dog ran away, car broke down, and I spent my
money.
22. a. The eggs splattered across the table, dripped down the wall, and on
the floor.
 b. The eggs splattered across the table, down the wall, and went on
the floor.
c. The eggs splattered across the table, down the wall, and on the
floor.
d. The eggs splattered across the table, down the wall, and ended up
on the floor.

23. a. I am tired, cranky, and sick.

b. I am tired, cranky and I have a sickness.
c. I am tired, feel cranky, and sick.
d. I am tired, cranky and sickly.

24. a. How big the dog was, how old it was, and its temperament made
the dog and ideal pet.
b. The dog’s size, age, and temperament made it the ideal pet.
c. The dog’s size , how old it was, and its temperament made it the
ideal pet.
d. The dog’s size, how old it was, and its temperament made it an ideal
pet.

25. a. Leslie is the nicest, friendliest person and she is the kindest person I
know
b. Leslie is very nice and is the kindest, friendliest person I know.
c. Leslie is the nicest, kindest person I know, and she makes friends.
d. Leslie is the nicest, kindest, friendliest person I know.

Direction: Rewrite to correct the following underline words or phrases in the

sentence to make the ideas become parallel.

26. She is mad about watching TV more than to read a book.

27. She was known for her beauty and generous
28. After Neil ran home, he thought he would either play basketball or he
might also study his piano lessons.
29. Joshua sometimes wrote poorly researched essays that were sloppy,
and they were not well organized.
30. Miranda’s flowers are neither red, nor are they orange.
Direction: Choose in the box the correct figure of speech used in the sentence.
Write your answer on the space provided.

Metaphor Synecdoche
Oxymoron Onomatopoeia
Personification
Metonymy
31. The silence is deafening.
32. The man is a diamond in the rough.
33. The daffodils are tossing their head in sprightly dance.
34. The phone awakened with a mighty ring
35. . The pen is mightier than the sword
36. Life is a rollercoaster.
37. . I ordered online proofreading services with the click of a mouse.
38. Living dead
39. .Listen, you’ve got to come take a look my new set of wheels.

Direction: Identify the following elements of the poem according to the given
statement. Write your answer on the space provided on your answer sheet.

40. It is word or sequence of words representing a sensory experience.

41. It is a form of a poem which are the lines with no prescribed pattern or
structure.
42. It is the purposeful re-use of words and phrases for an effect.
43. It is a figure of speech which a combination of two words that appear
to contradict each other
44. It is the substitution of a word naming an object for another word
closely associated with it.
45. It is one single line of a poem arranged in a metrical pattern.
46. It is a division of a poem created by arranging the lines into a unit.
47. It is a poet attitudes and feelings, in the style of language or
expression of thought used to develop the subject.
48. It is the substitution in which part is used to represent the whole.

Direction: On your answer sheet, write CS if each of the following sentences is

complete sentence, write SF if it is a sentence fragment.

49. Fashionable ladies and prominent men attended the reception

50. A piece of paper and a pen
51. Fish is bought and sold in the market
52. The doctor, an old friend of Danny’s father
53. They shared a meal
54. Abraham Molestine used humor to turn down
 55. Around the twin graves
56. Not being a winner or a loser
57. Smoke was clearly visible
58. A person without a sense of humor
59. We do not know where he is at this time
60. Sweat itself odorless

READING COMPREHENSION
Direction: Read the selection carefully and choose the letter of the
correct answer.
It Matters Not
Catalina Velasquez-Ty

They sleep beneath the crosses white

That might all be free
They gave their lives to shed the light
Of Right and Liberty
Unknown their names—it matters not
As long as they are not forgot
In different times and throughout the world
Men have fought and bled and died;
For country and for flag unfurled
Their love can’t be denied.
Brown, black or white—it matters not.
As long as they are not forgot.
Some men have lived to tell the tale
Of how they fought in vain;
Some men are maimed beyond the pale.
Of hope to be whole again
Dead or live—it matters not
As long as they are not forgot.

61. As used in the poem, what does “crosses white” symbolize?

a. Goals b. life
b. War d. death
62. What is the meaning of the word “maimed” as used in line 15?
a. Hurt c. Battered
b. Wounded d. Crippled
63. What does the phrase “flag unfurled” suggest?
a. To set free c. to have
 b. To give d. to render
64. To what do the words “brown black or white” refer?
a. Men c. Races
b. Countries d. soldiers
65. Who are being referred to as men who fought and died for the
country?
a. Soldiers
b. Government Officials
c. Educators
d. Doctors
66. What is the value underscored by the writer?
a. Remembering the soldiers who fought and died for
their country.
b. Enlightening people to be proud of their races.
c. Seeing ourselves through the soldiers
d. Overcoming war is tough task
67. What is the predominant sensory image in line 3?
a. Sight b. Smell
b. Touch c. Hear
68. What is the purpose of the writer in writing the poem?
a. To inform the readers of her sentiments about soldiers.
b. To entertain the readers about the soldiers arrogance
c. To express hers appreciation of how soldiers fought and
died for their country’s freedom.
d. To criticize the soldiers’ undying love for their country.
69. What human value is not underscored in the poem?
a. Chastity c. Gratitude
b. Sacrifice d. independence
70. What does the line “gave their lives to shed the light” imply?
a. An offering c. A symbol
b. A sacrifice d. A legacy