English placement test (grade 9)

I was very late for school that morning, and I was terribly afraid of being scolded, especially as Monsieur Hamel had told us that he should examine us on participles, and I did not know the first thing about them. For a moment I thought of staying away from school and wandering about the fields. It was such a warm, lovely day.

wandering most probably means

• walk

• run

• relax

• play

Then, as I ran across the square, Wachter the blacksmith, who stood there with his apprentice holding some tools, reading the placard, called out to me:

apprentice most probably means

• boss

• helper

• friend

• costumer

Through the open window I saw my comrades already in their desks, and Monsieur Hamel walking back and forth with the terrible iron ruler under his arm. I had now opened the door and entered, in the midst of that perfect silence. You can imagine whether I blushed and whether I was afraid!

comrades probably means

• genators

• teachers

• farmers

• friends

I stepped over the bench and sat down at once at my desk. Not until then, when I had partly recovered from my fright, did I notice that our teacher had on his handsome blue coat, his plaited ruff, and the black silk embroidered breeches, which he wore only on days of inspection or of distribution of prizes.

fright most probably means

• fear

• regret

• happiness

• loneliness

They all seemed depressed; and Hauser had brought an old spelling-book with gnawed edges, which he held wide-open on his knee, with his great spectacles askew.

gnawed most probably means

• new

• clean

• dim

• old

I was very late for school that morning, and I was terribly afraid of being scolded, especially as Monsieur Hamel had told us that he should examine us on participles, and I did not know the first thing about them. For a moment I thought of staying away from school and wandering about the fields. It was such a warm, lovely day. All that was much more tempting to me than the rules concerning participles; but I had the strength to resist, and I ran as fast as I could to school.

This story belongs to the ………………………..genre.

• realistic fiction

• horror

• historic fiction

• fairytale

I could see that he too was applying himself. His voice shook with emotion, and it was so funny to hear him, that we all longed to laugh and to cry. Ah! I shall remember that last class. Monsieur Hamel rose, pale as death, from his chair. Never had he seemed to me so tall.

“My friends,” he said, “my friends, I—I—”But something suffocated him. He could not finish the sentence.Thereupon he turned to the blackboard, took a piece of chalk, and, bearing on with all his might, he wrote in the largest letters he could: “VIVE LA FRANCE!”

At the end of the story, how does the narrator feel?

• sad

• emotional

• happy

• scared

I heard Monsieur Hamel speaking to me:

“I will not scold you, my little Frantz; you must be punished enough.

The colon here introduces a(n) ……………………………….

• quotation

• pause

• introduction

• break

“ I had now opened the door and entered ” This sentence is in the …………………. Voice.

• Active

• passive

“Those few words overwhelmed me” choose the correct passive voice sentence.

• I was overwhelmed by those few words.

• I am overwhelmed by those few words.

• I have overwhelmed by those few words.

• I will overwhelmed by those few words.