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Villagers Montessori CollegeGRAMMAR: LITERATURE:

First Quarterly Examination
English 9 I - __/5 I - __/5
II - __/6 II -
__/5
Name: ______________________________________________________
III - __/4 III - __/5
Section: _____________________________________________________
IV - __/5 IV - __/5
V - __/5 V - __/5
GRAMMAR
VI - __/5 VI - __/5

I. Modified True or False. TOTAL: ___/55

Direction: Tell whether if it is True or False. Write T if the statement is
correct. If it is false, change the underlined word with correct answer.

_______________1. Prepositions are words that expresses emotion and are

most often used in speech than in writing.

________________2. Conjunctions are words pairs that join sentence

elements with the same grammatical value.

________________3. Adverbs are substitute words for noun.

________________4. Adjective modifies noun and pronoun. It is also

describes the noun.

________________5. Pronoun is a name of a person, place, thing, ideas and

events.

II. Direct and Indirect Speech

A. Direction: Change the following sentences in indirect speech to direct
speech

1. He told me to write carefully.

2. Something must be done about it she added.

3. Janice states youngsters are unable to testify competently because

they are frightened.
 B. Direction: Change the following sentences in direct speech to indirect
speech

1. How old are you? a student asked.

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2. Where can I go to buy some milk? Zyrus asked Matthew.

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3. Do you have money? my wife asked me.

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III. Matching Type

Direction: Combine the sentence in COLUMN 1 with one adjective in
COLUMN 2. Write the correct answer on the space provided.

COLUMN 1
1. Rita Garcia is a good
actress ____
2. Sir Arthur Doyle was a
doctor ____
3. The father of the
modern short story is
Edgar Allan Poe ____
4. Ma. Ceres Doyo was
our speaker in the
Press Conference ____
COLUMN 2
A. who is also a fashion model.
B. who created the detective Sherlock
Holmes.
C. who witnessed the crime.
D. whose investigative reports brought
has several awards.
E. who is known only as a poet by
some people.

IV. Adjectives
A. Direction: Give a proper adjective based on the proper nouns given.
Then construct a sentence using the proper adjectives.
Proper Nouns Proper Adjectives Sentences
1. Shakespeare ___________________ ________________________________
2. Montessori ___________________ ________________________________
3. Korean ___________________
________________________________
4. Caesar ___________________
________________________________
5. Germany ___________________ ________________________________
 B. Direction: Arrange the following sets of words according to the proper
order of adjectives.

1. dark, vast, scary (surface)

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2. short, meaningful, English (poems)
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3. silk, purple, long (dress)
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4. cement, long, white (road)
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5. Filipino, elegant, wedding (gown)
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V. Pronouns
Direction: Construct meaningful sentences for each given pronoun below.

1. themselves (reflexive) -
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2. themselves (intensive) -
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3. these (demonstrative) -
_____________________________________________
4. everybody - _____________________________________________
5. both - _____________________________________________

VI. Conditional Clauses

Direction: Encircle the correct conditional clause in each item.

1. If it rains, the boys (wont play, wouldnt play, would have not
played) hockey.
2. If he (grow, grew, had grown) his own vegetables, he wouldn't have
to buy them.
3. Jim (will see, would see, would have seen) whisky distilleries if he
travelled to Scotland.
4. Would you go out more often if you (dont have to do, didnt have
to do, hadnt had to do) so much in the house?
5. She wouldn't have yawned the whole day if she (doesnt stay up,
didnt stay up, hadnt stayed) up late last night.

LITERATURE

I. Word Pool
Direction: Fill in the blanks using the answers provided on the box.

Hygelac Hrothgar Grendel Geatland Beowulf Arthur

The Old English epic poem _______ tells the story of a young Geatish warrior who
comes to the aid of _______, the King of the Danes, whose kingdom is being
terrorized by a monster named _______. Beowulf uses his epic strength and bravery
to slay Grendel in Hrothgars mead hall, Heorot, and then to slay Grendels vengeful
mother in her underwater lair. Beowulfs fame spreads, and he returns home to
_______ laden with treasure for his king, _______. Beowulf later becomes the king of
the Geats and rules for a peaceful fifty years. When a dragon begins to pose a
threat to Geatland, Beowulf and his servant Wiglaf set off to defeat it. Beowulf
succeeds in slaying the dragon, but dies in the process.
II. Sequencing of Events
Direction: Arrange the story chronologically.

One day, she decides to put butter on the bread, which makes the man
upset when he realizes it.
An elderly woman owns a bakery. A few times a week, an older man
comes in and buys two stale loaves of bread.
After seeing paint marks on the hands of the man, the elderly woman
also assumed that she is a painter.
Come to find out, he uses the stale bread crumbs to erase pencil lines
on his architectural drawings.
The woman assumes that the middle-aged man is poor and cannot
afford anything other than stale loaves of bread.

1. ________________________________________________________________________
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2. ________________________________________________________________________
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3. ________________________________________________________________________
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4. ________________________________________________________________________
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5. ________________________________________________________________________
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III. Cause and Effect

Direction: Assume the closest outcome of the following scenarios given.

1. Cause: Miss Martha spread butter on the stale loaves without the man
knowing.
Effect: ____________________________________________________________
2. Cause: The man used the stale bread with butter to erase the pencil
marks on his architectural work.
Effect: ____________________________________________________________
3. Cause: Miss Martha deceived the middle-aged man.
Effect: ____________________________________________________________
4. Cause: The middle-aged man got angry at miss Martha.
Effect: ____________________________________________________________
5. Cause: Miss Martha sarcastically complemented the painting of the
man.
Effect: ____________________________________________________________
 IV. Story Mapping
Direction: Provide the necessary information in complete sentences.

Characters

Setting

Plot

Conflict

Denouement

V. Character Analysis
A. Direction: Using the chart below as your guide, present the analysis of
a character in the selection you have read.

Character: Miss Martha

Questions General Answer Examples/Proofs
Key Traits
What are the characters
key traits based on her
appearance, speech,
thoughts, and feelings?
Personality
Does the character tend
to be emotional or
rational? Talented or
clumsy?
Background
Where has the character
grown up? What
experiences has she had?
What is her social status?
Motivation
What makes the
character do what she
does? What does she
like/dislike? What are her
wishes, goals, desires,
dreams, and needs?
Relationship
How is the character
related to other
characters in the story?
How does she interact
with other characters?
Conflict
Is the character involved
in some struggle? If so,
what kind of conflict has
she encountered? Is the
conflict ever resolved? If
so, how?
Change
Does the character
change in the course of
the story? Does she learn
or grow?
Overall impression of the character : _____________True to life ________ Not
true to life

B. Direction: Compete the Venn Diagram. Write their different traits on

their respective circles and their similarities in the middle.

Martha Middle-aged Man

VI. Essay Question
Direction: Answer the following question briefly.

1. What was the impression of miss Martha to the middle-aged man?

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2. Why do you think the title of the story is "Witches' Loaves"? Expound.
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3. What was the moral of the story?
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4. If you were miss Martha, would you make the same judgement based
on the man's appearance? Why or why not?
___________________________________________________________________________
___________________________________________________________________________
5. Put yourself in the perspective of the middle-aged man, how would you
handle the situation when you discovered the butter on the loaves of
bread?
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Good luck and God Bless

Prepared by:
T. Julie Rose Motos
S. David Pancratius Meneses
S. Jenzen Verosil
S. Juanito Medoza
Witches Loaves

By O. Henry

Miss Martha Meacham kept the little bakery on the corner (the one where you go up three steps, and
the bell tinkles when you open the door).

Miss Martha was forty, her bank-book showed a credit of two thousand dollars, and she possessed two
false teeth and a sympathetic heart. Many people have married whose chances to do so were much
inferior to Miss Martha's.

Two or three times a week a customer came in in whom she began to take an interest. He was a
middle-aged man, wearing spectacles and a brown beard trimmed to a careful point.

He spoke English with a strong German accent. His clothes were worn and darned in places, and
wrinkled and baggy in others. But he looked neat, and had very good manners.

He always bought two loaves of stale bread. Fresh bread was five cents a loaf. Stale ones were two for
five. Never did he call for anything but stale bread.

Once Miss Martha saw a red and brown stain on his fingers. She was sure then that he was an artist
and very poor. No doubt he lived in a garret, where he painted pictures and ate stale bread and
thought of the good things to eat in Miss Martha's bakery.

Often when Miss Martha sat down to her chops and light rolls and jam and tea she would sigh, and
wish that the gentle-mannered artist might share her tasty meal instead of eating his dry crust in that
draughty attic. Miss Martha's heart, as you have been told, was a sympathetic one.

In order to test her theory as to his occupation, she brought from her room one day a painting that she
had bought at a sale, and set it against the shelves behind the bread counter.

It was a Venetian scene. A splendid marble palazzio (so it said on the picture) stood in the foreground
-- or rather forewater. For the rest there were gondolas (with the lady trailing her hand in the water),
clouds, sky, and chiaro-oscuro in plenty. No artist could fail to notice it.

Two days afterward the customer came in.

"Two loafs of stale bread, if you blease.

"You haf here a fine bicture, madame," he said while she was wrapping up the bread.

"Yes?" says Miss Martha, reveling in her own cunning. "I do so admire art and" (no, it would not do to
say "artists" thus early) "and paintings," she substituted. "You think it is a good picture?"

"Der balance," said the customer, is not in good drawing. Der bairspective of it is not true. Goot
morning, madame."

He took his bread, bowed, and hurried out.

Yes, he must be an artist. Miss Martha took the picture back to her room.

How gentle and kindly his eyes shone behind his spectacles! What a broad brow he had! To be able to
judge perspective at a glance -- and to live on stale bread! But genius often has to struggle before it is
recognized.
What a thing it would be for art and perspective if genius were backed by two thousand dollars in
bank, a bakery, and a sympathetic heart to -- But these were day-dreams, Miss Martha.

Often now when he came he would chat for a while across the showcase. He seemed to crave Miss
Martha's cheerful words.

He kept on buying stale bread. Never a cake, never a pie, never one of her delicious Sally Lunns.

She thought he began to look thinner and discouraged. Her heart ached to add something good to eat
to his meagre purchase, but her courage failed at the act. She did not dare affront him. She knew the
pride of artists.

Miss Martha took to wearing her blue-dotted silk waist behind the counter. In the back room she
cooked a mysterious compound of quince seeds and borax. Ever so many people use it for the
complexion.

One day the customer came in as usual, laid his nickel on the showcase, and called for his stale loaves.
While Miss Martha was reaching for them there was a great tooting and clanging, and a fire-engine
came lumbering past.

The customer hurried to the door to look, as any one will. Suddenly inspired, Miss Martha seized the
opportunity.

On the bottom shelf behind the counter was a pound of fresh butter that the dairyman had left ten
minutes before. With a bread knife Miss Martha made a deep slash in each of the stale loaves, inserted
a generous quantity of butter, and pressed the loaves tight again.

When the customer turned once more she was tying the paper around them.

When he had gone, after an unusually pleasant little chat, Miss Martha smiled to herself, but not
without a slight fluttering of the heart.

Had she been too bold? Would he take offense? But surely not. There was no language of edibles.
Butter was no emblem of unmaidenly forwardness.

For a long time that day her mind dwelt on the subject. She imagined the scene when he should
discover her little deception.

He would lay down his brushes and palette. There would stand his easel with the picture he was
painting in which the perspective was beyond criticism.

He would prepare for his luncheon of dry bread and water. He would slice into a loaf -- ah!

Miss Martha blushed. Would he think of the hand that placed it there as he ate? Would he --

The front door bell jangled viciously. Somebody was coming in, making a great deal of noise.

Miss Martha hurried to the front. Two men were there. One was a young man smoking a pipe -- a man
she had never seen before. The other was her artist.

His face was very red, his hat was on the back of his head, his hair was wildly rumpled. He clinched his
two fists and shook them ferociously at Miss Martha. At Miss Martha.
"Dummkopf!" he shouted with extreme loudness; and then "Tausendonfer!" or something like it in
German.

The young man tried to draw him away.

"I vill not go," he said angrily, "else I shall told her."

He made a bass drum of Miss Martha's counter.

"You haf shpoilt me," he cried, his blue eyes blazing behind his spectacles. "I vill tell you. You vas von
meddingsome old cat!"

Miss Martha leaned weakly against the shelves and laid one hand on her blue-dotted silk waist. The
young man took the other by the collar.

"Come on," he said, "you've said enough." He dragged the angry one out at the door to the sidewalk,
and then came back.

"Guess you ought to be told, ma'am," he said, "what the row is about. That's Blumberger. He's an
architectural draftsman. I work in the same office with him.

"He's been working hard for three months drawing a plan for a new city hall. It was a prize competition.
He finished inking the lines yesterday. You know, a draftsman always makes his drawing in pencil first.
When it's done he rubs out the pencil lines with handfuls of stale bread crumbs. That's better than
India rubber.

"Blumberger's been buying the bread here. Well, to-day -- well, you know, ma'am, that butter isn't --
well, Blumberger's plan isn't good for anything now except to cut up into railroad sandwiches."

Miss Martha went into the back room. She took off the blue-dotted silk waist and put on the old brown
serge she used to wear. Then she poured the quince seed and borax mixture out of the window into
the ash can.