
Second Quarter Pretest in English for Grade 10
Quiz by Ma. Victoria Ambas
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Read each of the following questions carefully and choose the letter of your answer from the given choices.
__________refers to any written works that communicate human experiences, feelings, insights, beliefs, ideas in excellent form and structure.
_____is one of the ways to identify the theme of a literary text.
The words spoken by a character in a play is ____________.
The process by which the character is revealed through his actions, utterances, and direct description.
It is a brief fictional work that can be read in one sitting with the intent ofevoking a single effect or mood.
It refers to the time and place the story happens.
This refers to the person or sometimes animal that takes part in the action of short story or other literary work.
It is the sequence of events or incidents that happen in a play or story. Under Freytag’s Pyramid, it consists of five parts.
It is the central idea of a story, or the lesson or message the author wants to convey to the reader. It is usually an abstract, universal idea about human condition, society, or life.
This refers to the words spoken by the characters which helps move the action of the story or play. The words used, the accent, the pronunciation, pauses, and tone say something about the character not just his traits but also his status in life.
1Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
2And sorry I could not travel both
3And be one traveler, long I stood
4And looked down one as far as I could
5To where it bent in the undergrowth;
“The Road Not Taken”
The word “diverged” in line 1 most likely mean ______
1Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
2And sorry I could not travel both
3And be one traveler, long I stood
4And looked down one as far as I could
5To where it bent in the undergrowth;
“The Road Not Taken”
What is the setting of the poem?
1Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
2And sorry I could not travel both
3And be one traveler, long I stood
4And looked down one as far as I could
5To where it bent in the undergrowth;
“The Road Not Taken”
What decision does the speaker face on line 1?
1Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
2And sorry I could not travel both
3And be one traveler, long I stood
4And looked down one as far as I could
5To where it bent in the undergrowth;
“The Road Not Taken”
What do lines 1 and 2 mean?
6Then took the other, as just as fair,
7And having perhaps the better claim,
8Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
9Though as for that the passing there
10Had worn them really about the same,
11And both that morning equally lay
12In leaves no step had trodden black.
13Oh, I kept the first for another day!
14Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
15I doubted if I should ever come back.
“The Road Not Taken”
How does the two roads differ according to the poem?
6Then took the other, as just as fair,
7And having perhaps the better claim,
8Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
9Though as for that the passing there
10Had worn them really about the same,
11And both that morning equally lay
12In leaves no step had trodden black.
13Oh, I kept the first for another day!
14Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
15I doubted if I should ever come back.
“The Road Not Taken”
 Which lines of the poem tells that the speaker will not return to go down the other road after choosing the first road?
6Then took the other, as just as fair,
7And having perhaps the better claim,
8Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
9Though as for that the passing there
10Had worn them really about the same,
11And both that morning equally lay
12In leaves no step had trodden black.
13Oh, I kept the first for another day!
14Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
15I doubted if I should ever come back.
“The Road Not Taken”
What best describes the speaker in the poem?
16I shall be telling this with a sigh
17Somewhere ages and ages hence:
18Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
19I took the one less traveled by,
20And that has made all the difference.
What attitude is revealed of the speaker in line 19?
What do the “two roads” symbolize in the poem?
What is the poem, “The Road Not Taken” about?
Read the given passage and answer the questions below. Choose from the given options.
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In the beginning was the earth. It was beautiful.
And man lived upon the earth.
And man said: “Let us build skyscrapers and expressways”.
And man covered the earth with steel and concrete.
And man said: “It was good”. - Anon
Which word best describes the passage? Â
In the beginning was the earth. It was beautiful.
And man lived upon the earth.
And man said: “Let us build skyscrapers and expressways”.
And man covered the earth with steel and concrete.
And man said: “It was good”. - Anon
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Which social issue or concern is shown in the stanza?
A relic cloud of gas, orphaned after the Big Bang, has been discovered in the distant universe by astronomers using the world's most powerful optical telescope, the W. M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaii.
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The discovery of such a rare fossil, led by PhD student Fred Robert and Professor Michael Murphy at Swinburne University of Technology, offers new information about how the first galaxies in the universe formed. - W. M. Keck Observatory.
What is the text all about?
_____________ is an issue which is the state of being extremely poor. Example of poverty is when a person is homeless and has no money.
_____________is the unequal opportunities and rewards for different social groups in society. Example: Unfair treatment between rich and poor.
Society is the group of people living in a particular country or region and having shared customs, laws, and organizations. The underlined word in this sentence most likely means___________
Daisy studies cases of social inequality in her country such as racial discrimination and gender bias. The underlined word in this sentence most likely means__________________.
Acts of terrorism have killed Filipino citizens and damaged property across the country. The underlined word in this sentence most likely means_______________.
 Prejudice is the act of unfairness between human beings based on the groups, classes, or other categories to which they belong. The underlined word in this sentence most likely means______________.
Majority of the seminar participants have experienced some type of online harassment such as posting an embarrassing photograph. The underlined word in this sentence most likely means__________________.