First Preliminary Examination in English 11

November 24-25, 2016

General Direction: Read the questions carefully and choose the BEST answer. Write the letter of your choice on
your answer booklet in CAPS. *Decide carefully. If you chose the wrong answer, do not insist. You will end up hurting
yourself.
PART I.
SONNET 130
My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun;
Coral is far more red than her lips' red;
If snow be white, why then her breasts are dun;
If hairs be wires, black wires grow on her head.
I have seen roses damask'd, red and white,
But no such roses see I in her cheeks;
And in some perfumes is there more delight
Than in the breath that from my mistress reeks.
I love to hear her speak, yet well I know
That music hath a far more pleasing sound;
I grant I never saw a goddess go;
My mistress, when she walks, treads on the ground:
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare
As any she belied with false compare.
1. Shakespeares sonnet 130 is a (an)
a. belittling of a loved one for the amusement of friends
c. playful expression of faults to irritate the lady
b. confession of love for a harlot
d. comment on the uniqueness and beauty of the speakers mistress
2. The last two lines of the sonnet
a. express the true feeling of the speaker
c. express a love for someone whose beauty is of the spirit
b. seem out of place in the poem
d. are an illustration of hyperbole
3. The first 12 lines of the sonnet are a (an)
a. ironic comment of female adornment
c. parody of love sonnet
b. angry description
d. a play on metaphors
4. Seemingly, all of the following are criticisms of the mistress EXCEPT
a. Coral is more red than her lips.
c. She treads the ground.
b. I love to hear her speak.
d. There are no roses on her cheeks.
5. By false compare the speaker states that
a. the conventional praise of mistresses by poets are romantic lies
b. to win love, one must compare the charms of mistresses with the beauties in nature
c. love poetry must abound in hyperbole
d. the women whom men love must be worshipped as goddesses
6. The speaker in Shakespeares sonnet
a. is a complainer
c. raises the readers suspicions about his feelings and then tells honestly how he feels
b. is an arrogant and egotistic lover
d. engages in a poetic exercise for fun
7. The true intent of the speaker in the sonnet is revealed most by
a. the outrageousness of his metaphors
d. his sense of fun
b. the rare words of praise that creep into his statement
c. the contrast between the first twelve lines and the last two
8. The reader of the sonnet must know that the criticism of the mistress is indeed a form of praise because
a. the progress of fault-finding leads to the wrong conclusion

b. the fault-finding is imaginative and humorous

c. the sequence of fault-finding eases in lines 9-12
d. there are paradoxical hints in the metaphors
9. All of the following are metaphors EXCEPT
a. Her eyes are not the sun.
c. No roses are her cheeks.
b. The hairs on her head are black ones.
d. The lady I love is rare.
10. An essential element of this sonnet is
a. praise of a mistress
c. a lovers compromise with reality
b. finding the blemishes in a loved one
d. mockery of a convention in love poetry
11. Love poetry of the age frequently contains the Petrarchan ideal, that is, the beautiful, blond, blue-eyed goddess all

12.
13.
14.
15.

men desire. Shakespeare implies that this ideal is

a. more to be desired than his mistress
c. foolish to contemplate
b. less to be desired than his mistress
d. the impossible dream of every man
The tone of the sonnet is
a. happy
b. sad
c. satirical
d. pessimistic
A device in which one uses unusual, exaggerated comparisons is a(an)
a. allegory
b. conceit
c. metaphor
d. apostrophe
The speakers mistress, based on his own description, can best be described as
a. beautiful
b. ugly
c. ordinary
d. intellectual
The poetic device in line 1 is a(an)
a. simile
b. metaphor
c. synecdoche
d. apostrophe

PART II.Choose the best answer.

16. When beginning his fourth voyage, what position did Gulliver have on the ship "Adventure"?
a. Surgeon b. Captain
c. Cabbin-boy
d. Cook
17. How did Gulliver come to be in the land of the Houyhnhnms?
a. A storm caused the ship to smash on the shore of a distant land.
b. His crew mutinied and set him ashore on unknown land.
c. He stopped to explore a new land and was separated from his crew.
d. Pirates attacked his ship, took him prisoner to the island.
18. The first creatures that Gulliver saw on this land were Yahoos. How were Yahoos described?
a. Goat-like, nimble tree-climbing squirrels
c. Three-legged humanoids
b. Talking cows
d. Hairy, dirty, deformed humans

19. Gulliver lived with the Houyhnhnms. How were Houyhnhnms described?
a. Hairy, dirty, deformed humans
c. Giants
b. Fairies
d Talking horses
20. How did Gulliver describe the Houyhnhnms and their society?
a. Paranoid, aggressive, provoking
c. Rational, wise, virtuous
b. Proud, corrupt
d. Superstitious, fanciful
21. How did Gulliver leave the land of the Houyhnhnms?
a. He builds a boat and puts to sea
b. A giant eagle carried him away
c. While fishing with the Houyhnhnms, he was thrown overboard in a storm
d. He fell into a deep hole and tunnelled to the underworld
22. After leaving the Houyhnhnms, in what land was Gulliver wounded by an arrow?
a. New Holland
b. Japan
c. China
d. Lisbon, Portugal
23. Gulliver's famous travels began on May 4th, 1699. After all four of his voyages, in what year did Gulliver conclude his
travels?
a. 1715
b. 1749
c. 1700
d. 1799
24. How did the author feel about his wife and children upon returning home?
a. He hugged his wife and children dearly and often
b. He could not endure their smell or presence
c. He longed to take his family back to sea with him on his next voyage
d. He neither loved nor was bothered by their presence
25. After returning home to England, with what race from all his travels did Gulliver equate Englishmen?
a. Houyhnhnms
b. Yahoos
c. The people of Lilliput
d. The people of Glubbdubdrib
PART III. Write the letter of the approach referred to or described in each statement:

A) Biographical
F) Historical

B) Psychological

C) Reader-response

G) Marxism

H) Formalism

D) Feminism

E) Deconstruction

26. What approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the author's life and times?
27. One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make readings too subjective.
28. One of the potential disadvantages of this approach to literature is that it can reduce meaning to a certain time frame,
rather than making it universal throughout the ages.
29. This explores new or controversial areas like wish-fulfillment, sexuality, the unconscious, and repression.
30. All about the power struggle: rich versus poor, owners versus workers, cats versus dogs.
31. This disagrees on the traditional assumption that language can accurately represent reality.
32. It seeks to understand a literary work by investigating the social, cultural, and intellectual context that produced it.
33. It focuses on explicating the literary work by using the insight provided by knowledge of the authors life.
34. This sees all the elements necessary for understanding the work are contained within the work itself.
35. This examines how the images of men and women in imaginative literature reflect or reject the social forces that have
historically kept the sexes from achieving total equality.
36. This emphasizes how religious, cultural, and social values affect readings.
37. Its interests are in how the lower or working classes are oppressed in literature.
38. This looks at the power relationships between men and women in literature.
39. It questions traditional assumptions about certainty, identity, and truth.
40. It attempts to describe what happens in the readers mind while interpreting a text.

He who is wise accepts correction.

_TeacherRachel

First Preliminary Examination in English 2

November 24-25, 2016

TEST I: COMPETENCE. Write verum if the statement is true and falsum if the statement is false.
1. An individual who has grammatical competence has sufficient knowledge on vocabulary, morphology, syntax and
phonology.
2. Communicative competence can be achieved by simply studying grammar.
3. A compound sentence consists of two or more dependent clauses joined by coordinating conjunctions.
4. And, but and since are examples of coordinating conjunctions.
5. A sentence can consist of only one word.
6. Having a clear purpose or goal in mind will help one in delivering a spoken or written discourse.
7. Discourse competence is the ability to express oneself therefore it is alright if you cannot be understood by others.
8. Sociolinguistic competence is the ability to interpret the social meaning of the choice of linguistic varieties.
9. If one has sensitivity to dialect then he is grammatically competent.
10. Discourse competence can only be shown by speaking.
TEST II: GRAMMAR. Write the correct verb form for the following sentences.
11.
12.
13.
14.
15.
16.

Annie and her brothers (is, are) at school.

Either my shoes or your coat (is, are) always on the floor.
Nikki and Christine (doesn't, don't) want to see that movie.
One hundred forty pesos (is, are) the price of a movie these days.
The committee (leads, lead) very different lives in private.
Mathematics (is, are) Joemel's favorite subject.

17. On the sidewalk (is, are) many little lizards sunning themselves on the hot concrete.
18. Each of these women (wishes, wish) that she had read the care instructions before washing the delicate and
expensive dresses.
19. No one (wants, want) to eat a spoiled pie.
20. Four years (is , are) a long time to spend away from your friends and family.
21. The famous singer and composer (has, have) arrived.
22. The poor (is , are) suffering.
23. The price of these jeans ( is, are) reasonable.
24. The books I borrowed from the library (has, have) been stolen.
25. Somebody (hopes, hope) to be your friend.
TEST III: Look at the picture. Then read and identify the following statements as inference or observation.
1. There are 5 fishes in the picture.
2. There are 2 snails at the bottom of the aquarium.
3. The small fishes are the babies of the big fish. The
big fish are looking for food.
4. Three fishes are facing the same direction (to the
right)
5. There are 2 plants in the aquarium.
6. The snails like to eat seaweed.

7. You observe that someone is sweating, what could you infer from this observation?

Look at the picture below and write 3 good observations about it.

8. ___________________________________________________________________
9. ___________________________________________________________________
10. __________________________________________________________________

Read the following observations. Then make one inference that explains each observation. Remember to keep
your inferences simple. There may be more than one logical explanation for each observation.(2 pts. each)
EXAMPLE:
Observation: A substitute teacher is teaching your class.
Inference: Our teacher is absent.

11. Observation 1: You observe that the sky at noon is darkening.

Your inference: ________________________________________________________
12. Observation 2: The principal interrupts class and calls a student from the room.
Your inference: ________________________________________________________
13. Observation 3: All middle school students are bringing a lunch from home.
Your inference: ________________________________________________________
14. Observation 4: You leave a movie theater and see that the street is wet.
Your inference: ________________________________________________________
15. Observation 5: The classroom lights are off.
Your inference: ________________________________________________________

TEST IV: Answer only one of the following questions in not less than 4 sentences and not more than 7 sentences.

What would you like to become 5 years from now?

What is your view of an ideal life?
What is your point of view about faith?

Criteria:
Content

-5

Organization

-5
10

He who is wise accepts correction.

_TeacherRachel