2ND PT. English 9
2ND PT. English 9
2ND PT. English 9
4. When Lady Capulet tells Juliet of the plans to marry Paris, How does Juliet feel about
marriage?
a) She is ready to leave the house b) She is not old enough yet
c) She’ll marry only if it’s Romeo d) She is happy to marry a rich, powerful man.
5. Romeo and his friends escape detection at the party because they are wearing
_____________.
a) Costumes b) boots c) masks d) rings
8. When Juliet finds out about Romeo’s last name, she says
a) "My only love sprung from my only hate." b) "To be or not to be? That is the question."
c) "That which we call a nose would still smell." c) "My only hatred is also love."
10. Who asks his uncle to kick Romeo out of the party?
a) Benvolio b) Tybalt c) Mercutio d) Paris
11. What is the name of the woman (girl) who just broke Romeo’s heart at the beginning of the
play?
a) Juliet b) Rosaline c) Susan d) Nurse
12. The Prince tells the fighters, "If you ever disturb our streets again, your lives shall pay the
forfeit of the peace."
a) True b) False
13. When Romeo meets Juliet for the first time, to what does he compare her?
a) A torch b) A dream c) A jewel d) Both a and c
16. In the famous "balcony" scene, when Juliet says "Romeo, Romeo! Wherefore art thou
Romeo?" (Act II, Sc. 2, line 33), what is she asking?
a) Where is Romeo? b) Where is the night?
c) Why don’t you like art? d) Why are you Romeo, a Montague?
20. Why does the Friar finally agree to marry Romeo and Juliet?
a) He believes it will bring the families together again
b) He is about to quit being a priest anyway
c) He can see how much Romeo truly loves Juliet
d) He does not agree to marry them
When I was growing up, one of the places I enjoyed most was the cherry tree in
the back yard. Every summer when the cherries began to ripen, I used to spend hours
high in the tree, picking and eating the sweet, sun-warmed cherries. My mother always
worried about my falling out of the tree, but I never did. But I had some competition for
the cherries — flocks of birds that enjoyed them as much as I did and would perch all
over the tree, devouring the fruit whenever I wasn't there. I used to wonder why the
grown-ups never ate any of the cherries; but actually when the birds and I had finished,
there weren't many left.
A. Competing with birds
B. Enjoying summer
C. Falling from the cherry tree
D. Picking and eating cherries
38. What conclusion can be derived from the following paragraph?
Work and school are very much alike in at least three ways. First, both require an
early start. Going to work requires getting up early to avoid the traffic rush, and going to
school requires getting up early to be assured of a parking space. Second, promptness is
important in both places. Being at work on time pleases the employer; being in class on
time pleases the instructor. Third, both involve quotas. A job imposes various quotas on
a worker to ensure maximum production--for example, a certain amount of boxes must
be filled on an assembly line, or a designated number of calls must be made by a
telephone solicitor. Likewise, school imposes quotas on a student to ensure maximum
effort--for instance, a certain number of essays must be written in an English
composition class or a specific number of books must be read in an American Novel
course.
By the end of the seventeenth century, our punctuation system was in place for
the most part, though sometimes details varied. Just think, though: after only a few
lessons in school – and with lots of practice reading and writing – you can boast that
you’ve mastered a system that took westerners many centuries to develop.
Those that have tenacity will not quit when confronted by obstacles or when failing.
In a game or in life, tenacity wants to win, and tenacity lives by the credo, “Failure is
not an option.”
A. informative
B. journalistic
C. literary
D. technical
VI. LITERATURE
43. What is meant by the author in the following lines of a poem?
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
––A Psalm of Life
A. Become great by emulating great men.
B. Leave footprints on the sands.
C. Make our lives inspiring.
D. Remember the lives of great men.
44. What is the main message of this stanza, from Rudyard Kipling’s “If?”
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: "Hold on!"
A. Always do what is right and just.
B. Be true to oneself.
C. Don’t give up.
D. Know the value of self-worth.
45. Which of the following is NOT characteristic of the “sixth-aged man?”
A. Big manly voice turning again toward childish treble
B. Lean and slippered pantaloons
C. Satchel and shining morning face
D. Spectacles on nose and pouch on side
46. What is the tone of the Mother as she spoke to her Son? (from “Mother To Son” by
Langston Hughes)
“When the others went swimming my son said he was going in, too. He
pulled his dripping trunks from the line where they had hung all through the shower
and wrung them out. Languidly, and with no thought of going in, I watched him, his
hard little body, skinny and bare, saw him wince slightly as he pulled up around his
vitals the small, soggy, icy garment. As he buckled the swollen belt, suddenly my
groin felt the chill of death.”–from E.B.White’s, ‘One More To The Lake.’
A. sight
B. smell
C. sound
D. touch