Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region IV-A CALABARZON
Schools Division of Batangas
Don Julio Leviste Memorial National High School
BLISS San Andres, Malvar, Batangas

Name:_________________Section:_____________Date:___________Score:____
Directions: Read each test item carefully and choose the letter that best answers the question.
Write your answers on the space provided before each number.

Fragile Egg
Jim

Fragile egg the world has cracked

for oil and gas we’ve all been fracked
gentle fixes won’t get it done
ice melts, water bleeds
nowhere to run
from warming sun

https://allpoetry.com

_____1. What is the main concern being conveyed by the poet in the short poem above?
a. Calamity b. pollution c. deforestation d. global warming

_____2. What is being associated with the word “fragile egg” presented in the short poem?
a. The sun b. the moon c. the universe d. planet Earth

_____3. What does the speaker want to emphasize and imply in the poem?
a. The earth is no longer prone to extinction for damages can be fixed easily.
b. The melting of ice and warming of the sun do not affect all living species.
c. All the species living on earth have somewhere to run aside from the planet earth.
d. The increase of Earth’s average temperature is mainly due to human activities that
cause much damage to the earth and its resources.

“Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is

being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is
not having access to school and not knowing how to
read. Poverty is not having a job, is fear of future, living
one day at a time. Poverty is losing a child to illness
brought about by unclean water. Poverty is
powerlessness, lack of representation and freedom.”

https://www.compassion.com

_____4. What social issue is being discussed in the text above?

a. Poverty b. freedom c. injustice d. corruption

_____5. If you were the government, how would you resolve it?
a. Let the families in rural areas stay and work in provinces.
b. Provide low-end service jobs for workers moving out of agriculture.
c. Create more better jobs and offer more opportunities for the marginalized sector.
d. Ensure that the poor attend school and increase school fees to foster high quality
learning.

_____6. What do you call the group of lines in poetry?

a. Part b. stanza c. section d. paragraph

_____7. What do the lines below tell us about the persona in the poem?
“Once and only I will pass,
If kindness I may show,
If a good deed I may do to a suffering old man,
Let me do it while I can.”
a. The persona shows the kindness only to people who are either suffering or old.
 b. The persona is in hurry so he helps those who are in need in the easiest and
fastest way possible.
c. The persona believes that kindness should not be delayed and should be shown
while one still has time.
d. The persona believes that anyone who is suffering should only be shown
kindness once and never again.
Teenage pregnancy has always been a cause for alarm in the Philippines, despite it being a
country that is almost 80% Catholic. But as of recent, the Philippines had slowly increased its
number of teenage pregnancies, resulting in the Philippines being the top country with the
most teenage pregnancies among the six major Southeast Asian countries. From 1999 to 2009,
there were 195,662. According to the United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA),
the rate of teenage pregnancy is the country is at 3 out of 1,000 Filipino women that ages
between 15-19 years old. The Philippine Information Agency also added that teenage mothers
gave over 11% of the 1.75 love births in the Philippines. A UNFPA 2011 report showed that
there are 53 births per 1,000 women aged 15-19 years old in the Philippines. The 1988
National Demographic and Health Survey (NDHS) said that 3.6 million of our teenagers or 5.2
percent of our population got pregnant. 92% of these teens had unplanned pregnancies and
78% did not even use contraceptives the first time they had sexual intercourse, leading to
unwanted and unplanned pregnancies. Without a robust response from all stakeholders, the
Philippines is on the track toward a full-blown, national teenage pregnancy crisis.

GradesFixer.An excerpt from The Social Problem of Teenage Pregnancy in the Philippines.
(Internet) January 2019

_____8. Which of the following sentences gives the summary of the essay?
a. Many Filipinos do not practice safe-sex at an early age.
b. Teenage pregnancy is one of the problems in the Philippines.
c. Most women in the Philippines get pregnant at the age of 15-19.
d. The increase of teenage pregnancies in the Philippines is alarming.
_____9. Why do you think Filipino women ages 15-19 get pregnant at an early age?
a. They lack information about sex education.
b. Their parents want them to move out early.
c. They are too eager to start a family of their own.
d. They don’t get guidance from parents and teachers.
_____10. What should we do in order to lessen this teenage problem in our country?
a. Parents should educate their children about sex.
b. The DOH should strongly disseminate safe sex among teenagers.
c. Parents and teenagers should be educated about sex education.
d. Teenagers should be prohibited from having boyfriend/girlfriend.

Directions: Choose the word that best completes each sentence below. What word in the first
sentence gives you the clue to the right answer? Choose from the options below. Write the
letter only.

A. absurd C. ceaselessly E. senile

B. meditate D. petty F. healthy

1. There seems to be no end to his work. He _____________ works from morning till night.
2. With all its pitfalls and problems, its twist and ironies, life can become ridiculous. Life
can be so _____________ that some people find it foolish or useless to go on striving.
3. Monks are used to a life of deep and serious thinking. They _____________ so much they
can even find answers to the absurdities of life.
4. Men and women of wisdom are concerned only with the important things in life. They
do not bother themselves with ________ problems.
5. More and more people nowadays reach a pipe old age of seventy or eighty but they do
not become weak in mind or body. They are not ___________.

1 Sunset and evening star,

2 And one clear call for me!
3 And may there be no moaning of the bar
4 When I put out to sea.
5 but such a tide as moving seems asleep,
6 Too full for sound and foam,
7 When that which drew from out the boundless
 Deep
8 Turns again home
9 Twilight and evening bell,
10 And after that dark!
11 And may there be no sadness or farewell
12 When I embark;
13 For though from out our bourne of Time and
Place
14 the flood may bear me far
15 I hope to see my Pilot face to face
16 When I have crossed the bar.

Directions: Read and understand the following literary piece and answer the questions after.
Choose the letter only.
6. What words in the poem suggest old age?
a. Time and place
b. Boundless deep
c. Sunset and every star
d. Twilight and evening bell
7. Which line suggests that the speaker in the poem is not afraid of death?
a. I hope to see my Pilot face to face
b. And may there be no moaning of the bar
c. But such a tide as moving seems asleep
d. For though from out our bourne of Time and Place
8. Line 11 means …
a. No one should give flowers
b. There should be acceptance
c. All should be happy and at peace
d. There should be no feelings of sadness and regret

9. What was the speaker mean when he said “one clear call for me”?
a. He is needed at home
b. He has to travel by sea.
c. He needs to do soul searching.
d. He is very weak and sickly.
10. The last line means…
a. Death
b. Rest
c. Sleep
d. stop

Directions: Identify what is being said in the sentence. Choose your answer from the words in
the box. Write the letter only.

a. Dialogue
b. Internal Conflict
c. Character
d. External Conflict
e. Point of View

11. _________________ is when a character struggles with their own opposing desires or
beliefs.
12. It is a person, animal, being, creature, or thing in a story.
13. Is typically a conversation between two or more people in a narrative work.
14. It is a type of conflict that places characters at odds with forces outside themselves.
15. _____________ of a story is the perspective from which a story is told.
Directions: Below is a short story. Read then answer the questions that follow. Write the letter
only.

The Greedy Dog

Once a dog is very greedy. He went to the butchers
shop and stole a piece of meat. He ran quickly to the
 forest but he had to cross a stream on the way. When
he was passing a bridge he saw a dog’s reflection into
the water which had a piece of meat on his mouth. He
wanted to snatch the piece of meat so he barked and
opened his mouth. The piece of meat fell into the
river. Then he found out that there was no other dog in
the river. It was only his own reflection. It’s too late to
realize that his piece of meat fell into the river because
of his greediness.

16. Which is a character of the story?

a. River c. bridge
b. Dog d. meat
17. What kind of conflict is in the story?
a. External conflict c. Conflict of interest
b. Internal conflict d. Problem
18. What is the author’s point of view?
a. First person point of view
b. Second person point of view
c. Third person point of view, omniscient
d. No point of view
19. What is the moral?
a. Life is a struggle
b. Life is wonderful
c. Greediness is a curse
d. Be kind to animals

20. Which of the statements infer character traits of the dog?

a. The dog is happy
b. The dog is foolish
c. The dog is greedy
d. The dog is angry

Directions: Below are some situations in our VUCA world. Tell whether the statement
expresses volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity. Write the letter only.

A. volatility C. complexity
B. uncertainty D. ambiguity

21. A competitor’s pending product launch muddles the future of the business and the
market.
22. You are doing business in many countries, all with unique regulatory environments,
tariffs and cultural values or provide several products to several customer segments.
23. Many health experts are not sure of the main cause of COVID-19.
24. You decide to move into immature or emerging markets or to launch products outside
your core competencies. You develop and implement new startup business.
25. Price fluctuates after a natural disaster takes supplier off-line.

Directions: Below is a poem of Franklin. Read then answer the questions that follow. Write the
letter only.

A farmer once made a complaint to a judge:

“My bull, if it please you, sir, owning to a grudge
Be like to one of your good Worship’s cattle,
Has slain him upright in mortal battle,
I am sorry at heart because of the action,
And want to know how must be made satisfaction.”

“Why, you must give me your bull, that’s plain,”

Says the judge, or pay me the price of the slain
‘But I have mistaken the case, sir,” says John
“The dead bull that I talk of, and please you,
 Is my own.
And yours the beast that the mischief has done.
The judge soon reply with a serious face:
“Say you so? Then this accident alters the case.”
Use contextual clues
26. The mischief was already made to the helpless creature.
a. Mistake c. injury
b. Payment d. damage
27. The complainant filed a complaint against his neighbor.
a. Document c. request
b. Letter d. formal accusation
28. The beast was slain because of its cruelty.
a. Animal c. Bull
b. Pet d. Insect
Draw Conclusion
29. The judge first decision was that _____________.
a. The killer should be punished
b. The bull should be killed
c. The farmer should pay for the slain animal
d. The farmer should serve judge without pay
Infer Character Traits
30. Franklin’s purpose in writing the poem was __________.
a. To show how easily man can lie
b. To laugh at the tricks people play on others
c. To show how a serious problem can be solved
d. To show the changeability of man