ENGLISH 10 – Module 5 & 7 Summative Test 3

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Multiple Choice
Directions: Write the letter of the correct answer in your answer paper.
1. It deals with one’s ability to carefully listen, examine messages, and provide significant feedback or response.
a. Problem b. analytical listening c. solution d. understanding
2. It deals with the main issue or concern that must be addressed in a particular text.
a. solution b. problem c. responding d. remembering
3. It serves as one’s response to the identified problem which can be determined by asking the questions who, what, how,
when, where, and why.
a. solution b. responding c. receiving d. evaluating
4. This also allows him/her to record in his/her system the information listened to for future access and use.
a. responding b. evaluating c. understanding d. remembering
5. This allows the listeners to provide verbal and/or non-verbal feedback and responses based on the listening contexts.
a. remembering b. evaluating c. receiving d. responding
6. This allows the listener to critically examine the details of the information heard. This provides the time for information
segregation.
a. understanding b. evaluating c. remembering d. responding
7. This constitutes the idea that the understanding of the speaker must be the same with the listener.
a. evaluating b. remembering c. understanding d. responding
8. This allows the listener to check him/herself if he/she can hear clearly the sounds and other sound points.
a. evaluating b. remembering c. receiving d. responding
9. It refers to feelings or emotions the speaker portrays in a listening text or material.
a. Tone b. pitch c. cohesion d. fluency
10. It refers to the organization of words, phrases, and concepts.
a. word choice b. correctness c. cohesion d. fluency
11. It refers to a story spoken to an audience.
a. gossip b. hearsay c. oral recitation d. oral stories
12. It is the ability to clearly pronounce words with appropriate speed, accuracy, and expression.
a. word choice b. correctness c. cohesion d. fluency
13. It is a speech given by a single character in a story.
a. dialogue b. monologue c, interview d. oral report
14. It is a conversation that occurs between two or more characters.
a. dialogue b. monologue c, interview d. oral report
15. It is a procedure designed to obtain information from a person through oral responses to oral inquiries.
a. Dialogue b. interview c. oral report d. monologue
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Part – I STORY ANALYSIS

The Aged Mother by Matsuo Basho

Long, long ago there lived at the foot of the mountain a poor farmer and his aged, widowed mother. They owned a bit of land which supplied
them with food, and they were humble, peaceful, and happy.

Shining was governed by a despotic leader who though a warrior, had a great and cowardly shrinking from anything suggestive of failing health
and strength. This caused him to send out a cruel proclamation. The entire province was given strict orders to immediately put to death all
aged people. Those were barbarous days, and the custom of abandoning old people to die was not uncommon. The poor farmer loved his
aged mother with tender reverence, and the order filled his heart with sorrow. But no one ever thought twice about obeying the mandate of
the governor, so with many deep and hopeless sighs, the youth prepared for what at that time was considered the kindest mode of death.

Just at sundown, when his day’s work was ended, he took a quantity of unwhitened rice which was the principal food for the poor, and he
cooked, dried it, and tied it in a square cloth, which he swung in a bundle around his neck along with a gourd filled with cool, sweet water.
Then he lifted his helpless old mother to his back and started on his painful journey up the mountain. The road was long and steep; the narrow
road was crossed and re-crossed by many paths made by the hunters and woodcutters. In some place, they lost and confuse, but he gave no
heed. One path or another, it mattered not. On he went, climbing blindly upward -- ever upward towards the high bare summit of what is
known as Obatsuyama, the mountain of the “abandoning of the aged.”

The eyes of the old mother were not so dim but that they noted the reckless hastening from one path to another, and her loving heart grew
anxious. Her son did not know the mountain’s many paths and his return might be one of danger, so she stretched forth her hand and
snapping the twigs from brushes as they passed, she quietly dropped a handful every few steps of the way so that as they climbed, the narrow
path behind them was dotted at frequent intervals with tiny piles of twigs. At last the summit was reached. Weary and heart sick, the youth
gently released his burden and silently prepared a place of comfort as his last duty to the loved one. Gathering fallen pine needles, he made a
soft cushion and tenderly lifted his old mother onto it. Hew rapped her padded coat more closely about the stooping shoulders and with
tearful eyes and an aching heart he said farewell.

The trembling mother’s voice was full of unselfish love as she gave her last injunction. “Let not thine eyes be blinded, my son.” She said. “The
mountain road is full of dangers. LOOK carefully and follow the path which holds the piles of twigs. They will guide you to the familiar path
farther down.” The son’s surprised eyes looked back over the path, then at the poor old, shriveled hands all scratched and soiled by their work
of love. His heart broke within and bowing to the ground, he cried aloud: “oh, Honorable mother, your kindness breaks my heart! I will not
leave you. Together we will follow the path of twigs, and together we will die!”

Once more he shouldered his burden (how light it seemed now) and hastened down the path, through the shadows and the moonlight, to the
little hut in the valley. Beneath the kitchen floor was a walled closet for food, which was covered and hidden from view. There the son hid his
mother, supplying her with everything she needed, continually watching and fearing she would be discovered. Time passed, and he was
beginning to feel safe when again the governor sent forth heralds bearing an unreasonable order, seemingly as a boast of his power. His
demand was that his subjects should present him with a rope of ashes.

The entire province trembled with dread. The order must be obeyed yet who in all Shining could make a rope of ashes? One night, in great
distress, the son whispered the news to his hidden mother. “Wait!” she said. “I will think. I will think” On the second day she told him what to
do. “Make rope of twisted straw,” she said. “Then stretch it upon a row of flat stones and burn it on a windless night.” He called the people
together and did as she said and when the blaze died down, there upon the stones, with every twist and fiber showing perfectly, lay a rope of
ashes.

The governor was pleased at the wit of the youth and praised greatly, but he demanded to know where he had obtained his wisdom. “Alas!
Alas!” cried the farmer, “the truth must be told!” and with deep bows he related his story. The governor listened and then meditated in
silence. Finally he lifted his head. “Shining needs more than strength of youth,” he said gravely. “Ah, that I should have forgotten the well-
known saying, “with the crown of snow, there cometh wisdom!” That very hour the cruel law was abolished, and custom drifted into as far a
past that only legends remain.

1. What is the conflict of the story?

a. Man vs. Man b. Man vs. Nature c. Man vs. himself d. Man vs. society
2. What is the theme?
a. Mother knows best b. Mother is forgiving c. Mother’s love is immeasurable d. Mother’s helping
hand
3. Which of the following statements indicates resolution?
a. The entire province trembled with dread on who could make a rope of ashes.
 b. “Oh, Honorable mother, your kindness breaks my heart! I will not leave you. Together we will follow the path of
twigs, and together we will die!”
c. The governor listened and then meditated in silence.
d. All of the above
4. Which of the following statements is the turning point of event?
a. That very hour the cruel law was abolished, and custom drifted into as far a past that only legends remain.
b. LOOK carefully and follow the path which holds the piles of twigs. They will guide you to the familiar path farther
down.
c. The eyes of the old mother were not so dim but that they noted the reckless hastening from one path to another,
and her loving heart grew anxious.
d. . Gathering fallen pine needles, he made a soft cushion and tenderly lifted his old mother onto it.
5. Which of the following statements indicate the rise of conflict?
a. Shining was governed by a despotic leader who though a warrior, had a great and cowardly shrinking from
anything suggestive of failing health and strength.
b. The trembling mother’s voice was full of unselfish love as she gave her last injunction. “Let not thine eyes be
blinded, my son.”
c. The entire province was given strict orders to immediately put to death all aged people.
d. All of the above

Part – II POETRY ANALYSIS The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And both that morning equally lay
And sorry I could not travel both In leaves no step had trodden black.
And be one traveler, long I stood Oh, I marked the first for another day!
And looked down one as far as I could Yet knowing how way leads on to way
To where it bent in the undergrowth; I doubted if I should ever come back.
Then took the other, as just as fair, I shall be telling this with a sigh
And having perhaps the better claim Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Two roads diverged in a wood, and I,
Though as for that the passing there I took the one less traveled by,
Had worn them really about the same, And that has made all the difference.
6. Theme:
a. uncertainty and perplexing situation of the minds of people on the verge of making choices.
b. how confusing it is to walk on two roads
c. life is like a road
d. certainty and perplexing situation of the minds of people on the verge of making choices.
7. Mood:
a. Happy
b. Sad
c. Excited
d. Confused
8. Subject:
a. Life and dilemma of making choices
b. Life and the path we choose
c. Life is like a road
d. Life in the road
9. What literary device is used in this line, “two roads diverging in a yellow wood”?
a. Metaphor
b. Alliteration
c. Consonance
d. Assonance
10. What literary device is used in this line, “Somewhere ages and ages hence.”?
a. Assonance
b. Consonance
c. Alliteration
d. Metaphor
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