ENGLISH 8 QUARTER 1 DIAGNOSTIC TEST

SURNAME, FIRST NAME MIDDLE INITIAL

LEVEL & SECTION

• 8-Vito Belarmino
• 8-Edilberto Evangelista
• 8-Pascual Poblete

1. What is the story behind Ann Grifalconi's The Village of Round and Square Houses?

• The story was written and published to preserve the culture of Africa in creating houses.
• The literary piece was created to show the Africans the colorful culture they have in literature.
• The story was written to capture the sleeping purple volcano that suddenly erupted and burned a whole village.
• The literary piece was inspired by two houses that remained intact after a volcanic eruption that burned a village.

2. What structure uses elements such as exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution to deepen understanding of the story?

• A. historical context
• B. structural context
• C. biographical context
• D. sociocultural context

3. The literary piece An Inspector Calls which was written 1945 tackles how the norms of society at the time affect how people are treated. During this time, there were clear distinctions between the upper and lower classes. Based on this description, what structure is the most appropriate to analyze the story?

• A. historical context
• B. structural context
• C. biographical context
• D. sociocultural context

4. "I was born in Manchester in 1959. It was a good place to be born... Manchester was the world's first industrial city; its looms and mills transforming itself and the fortunes of Britain." This was an excerpt from Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? written by Jeanette Winterson’s Memoir. What structure is the most appropriate to analyze the story?

• A. historical context
• B. structural context
• C. biographical context
• D. sociocultural context

5. "The novel explores the life of a Korean family that immigrates to Japan during the Japanese colonisation of Korea between 1910-1945." This was an excerpt from Pachinko written in 2017. What structure is the most appropriate to analyze the story?

• A. historical context
• B. structural context
• C. biographical context
• D. sociocultural context

6. Mark bought a brown envelope for his requirements. What is the classification of the underlined word?

• A. adjective
• B. adverb
• C. noun
• D. verb

7. Mark bought a brown envelope for his requirements. What is the classification of the underlined word?

• A. adjective
• B. adverb
• C. noun
• D. verb

8. The dog quickly ran to its food. What is the classification of the underlined word?

• A. adjective
• B. adverb
• C. noun
• D. verb