Pilar High School

Kisolon, Sumilao Bukidnon

8701, Philippines
Second Quarter Periodical Examination
English Communication Arts and Skills through World Literature 10

Name: ________________________________________________Date: ____________________

Section: ______________________________________ Score: ____________________

TEST I. IDENTIFICATION

DIRECTION: Choose the correct conjunction in the sentence. Write you answers on the space provided.
_____________1. It’s snowing outside, (yet, so) it’s the middle of the summer.
_____________2. I tried out for the basketball team, (yet, but) I didn’t make it.
_____________3. James (and, so) Andrew were playing their gadgets while the teacher is talking.
_____________4. My best friend (and, so) I went to the beach to play with the sand.
_____________5. I work quickly (and, yet) careful.
_____________6. Sophie is clearly exhausted, (yet, so) she insists on dancing till dawn.
_____________7. I’d like a bike (for, so) commuting to work.
_____________8. He went to college (but, and) returned soon.
_____________9. Work hard (or, so) you will fail.
_____________10. She behaved (as, for) his brother did.

11-24 MULTIPLE CHOICE

11. He was called a modern playwright and wrote merely serious plays.
a. Aristophanes b. Euripides c. Sophocles d. Aeschylus
12. He is known as the father of tragedy.
a. Aristophanes b. Euripides c. Sophocles d. Aeschylus
13. He was born in Colonnus. He enjoyed the comforts of being a rich merchant’s son.
a. Aristophanes b. Euripides c. Sophocles d. Aeschylus
14. He was the master of Comedy and he typically belonged to his people and to his age.
a. Aristophanes b. Euripides c. Sophocles d. Aeschylus
15. He was the greatest writer that Rome produced and his childhood was spent among the fields and woods,
springs and pools.
a. Virgil b. Horace c. Epictetus d. Aeschylus
16. He write his poems shortly and meditative in nature.
a. Virgil b. Horace c. Epictetus d. Aeschylus
17. What is the definition of a cause?
a. the cause always follows the effect c. the cause is what happens
b. the cause never has an effect d. the cause is the reason why something happens
18. What is the definition of an effect?
a. the effect is the reason why something happens c. the effect is never caused by something
b. the effect is what happens d. the effect always come before the cause
19. Read the cause in this situation and choose the effect. A child stretched a balloon, put it to his lips, and
pursed his lips around the balloon’s neck.
 a. the balloon had birthday written on it c. the child blew up the balloon
b. the balloon deflated d. the balloon popped
20. Read the cause and choose the effect. I awoke in the morning and ate breakfast. I could feel the food stuck
in my teeth.
a. I brushed my teeth c. I took a shower
b. I combed my hair d. I left for the bus stop
21. Read the cause and choose an effect. I ran as fast as I could, passing all the other runners in the race.
a. I came in last place in the race c. I decided to run the last lap of the race again.
b. I won the race d. I stopped at the store for a snack, since I was ahead of everyone else
22. The boy hit the dog with a stick and ___________________.
a. the dog played fetch with him c. the dog bit him
b. the dog was excited d. the dog licked his hand
23. The music next door was blaring so loud_______________________.
a. I couldn’t study c. I went and took a long nap
b. I wished it were louder d. I went next door and asked them to turn it up louder
24. If you eat a lot of food, and you never exercise, you will ____________________.
a. gain weight and be out of shape c. want to drink only sugary drinks like juices
b. feels good about your health d. be able to run long races
25.He will not do it _________ you ask him.
a. until b. although c. when d. since
26. I am feeling better ________ taking a medicine.
a. until b. although c. after d. since
27. My friend studies Computer Science __________ I study English Literature.
a. until b. while c. since d. after
28. Do not leave the place _________ he comeback.
a. until b. while c. since d. after
29. He was drowned _________ no one came to save him.
a. since b. until c. after d. while
30. The great number of his poems are violent satires attacking the loose morals of is time.
a. Sophocles b. Virgil c. Euripides d. Aeschylus
31. He was one of the earliest of the Greek lyricists.
a. Sophocles b. Virgil c. Sappho d. Aeschylus
32. He was born in Asia Minor but grew up in Rome where he acquired his education.
a. Sophocles b. Virgil c. Sappho d. Epictetus
33. The greatest work of Aeschylus was _________________________?
a. Prometheus b. Oedipus the King c. Agamemnon d. Cheophori
34. The greatest play of Sophocles was ___________________?
a. Prometheus b. Oedipus the King c. Agamemnon d. Cheophori
35. Where did Virgil born?
a. Greece b. Italy c. Mantua d. Spain
36. _________________ so dad gave us some money for the movies.
a. we were not getting along c. we argued with grandmother all day
b. we worked on our chores all day d. we broke the basement window
37. Jose drank two glasses of ice-cold water. What is the cause?
a. because he had nothing else to do c. because he was feeling cold
 b. because he was extremely hot and thirsty d. because he was going out with his friends

38. Melissa was promoted to a better-paying position. What is the cause?

a. because she was an excellent worker c. because she went on vacation to Europe
b. because she was often late or absent d. because she asked for help so often
39. People ran for their cars. What is the cause?
a. because the sun just came out c. because everyone liked their car
b. because it had suddenly begun to rain heavily d. because it was time for dinner
40. Angela worked hard all day at her job so __________. What is the effect?
a. she had nothing to do at home c. she like to work long hours
b. she worked in a law office d. she was very tired in the evening.

TEST II. TRUE or FALSE

Direction: Write T if the statement is true and F if the statement is false.
______1. Coordinating conjunctions are used to connect words. phrases, and even clauses.
______2. Coordinating conjunction "for "explains a reason.
______3. Subordinating conjunction "while" to state to actions at the same time.
______4. When a subordinate or dependent clause begins a sentence, it is followed by a comma (, ).
______5. Sentence is a group of that contains a subject and verb while a phrase is a small group of words which
may contain a subject or predicate.
______6. Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides were three tragic writers of Athenian age.
______7. Aristophanes was the greatest writer of comedy the world has ever produced.
______8. Virgil was one of the major writers in Rome.
______9. Oedipus the King as Martial’s greatest work.
______10. Sappho was the master of Greek Comedy.
______11. Identifying cause should be asked what happen first.
______12. Identifying effect should be based on what happen first.
______13. Persuasive text doesn’t have necessary information.
______14. Writing persuasion is just a free flow essay.
______15. Metaphor is part of Persuasion.
______16. Hyperbole is part of Persuasion.

TEST III. SENTENCE RECONSTRUCTION

Direction: Reconstruct the sentences given below, write your answers below the sentences. (1pt.each)

1. Always we together eat dinner.

2. Drink want anything I don’t to.

3. Tomorrow morning I go first to early walk morning.

4. Them every see week we.

Test IV. COMPLETE THE PARAGRAPH
Direction: complete the paragraph with the correct conjunction.
1. ________ I was young, my favorite toys reflect the places I lived in. My favorite toy 2. _______ a
child of seven years old was the dried fallen branches in the woods. There was a small one behind our house 3.
________ it provided endless fun for me and my brothers and sisters. Collected sticks and branches became our
castle, our fort, and our play home. Wood pieces gave us play swords, fishing rods, umbrellas, 4. __________
jungle gyms. They were my best childhood toy
5. _______ they contained so many other toys. What I most loved to play with at eight years old was dirt
marbles. We lived in a neighborhood where there was an eternal pit of mud on the strip of grass in front of our
apartment. My brothers 6. ________ I would mix the smooth mud with sand from the side of the road, roll it
into balls and leave them to dry in the hot afternoon sun. We would hit them against each other to gain points
and arm our slingshots with them. The toy of my last year of elementary school that I obsessed about was
stickers. 7.___________ we lived in a narrow alley with shophouses all long it and we children would buy from
there stickers and products that included free stickers of robots, cartoon characters, and spaceships that we
would collect, trade, or compete for in sticker flipping games. My cherished toy as a new teenager was my
bicycle. We lived in a soil with lots of pavement and no cars. I was head of the bike gang and we would set up
ramps for jumps 8. ________ design obstacle courses for racing. Now I have started university and am no
longer a child but I think happily of these toys of childhood which show a history of where I have been 9.
__________ what Bangkok used to be, thankful for the young adult that I am 10. ____________ of them.

TEST V. SENTENCE CONSTRUCTION

Direction: Construct sentences using these Subordinating Conjunction. Write your sentences beside the specific
conjunction given. (2pts. each)
Until

Because

Before

If

Since
ANSWER KEY:

11. B

12. D

13. C

14. A

15. A

16. B

17. D

18.

19. C

20. A

21. B

22. C

23. A

24. A

25.