Banna National High School
Second Quarter
LONG QUIZ # 1
ENGLISH 8
I. Identification. Read the following questions and write the correct answer.
1. A story that is written to be performed or acted out.
2. They are the people acting in play.
3. Speech between characters in a play.
4. He/she is the main character in a drama.
5. The character against the protagonist in a drama is called ________.
6. A message or insight about life
7. A problem between two characters or forces.
8. It introduces the characters, setting, and the basic situation.
9. It tells how the play ends/the final act.
10. Moment of greatest interest or suspense; the turning point.
II. TRUE/FALSE. Read the following statements about the drama, “The Injustice Done to Tou
Ngo.” Write TRUE if the statement is correct, and FALSE if it is wrong.
11. Tou Ngo was also known as, Tuan Yun.
12. Tou Tien Chang, the father of Tou Ngo, trained to be a Confucian but failed to pass the
imperial examination.
13. Tou Tien Chang arrested Dr. Lu and Donkey Chang.
14. Dr. Lu owed Mother Tsai 40 taels and he can’t pay her.
15. Sixteen years later, Tou Ngo’s father is promoted as Inspector General.
16. Tou Ngo requested to Mother Tsai that they will let Donkey Chang and Old Chang to stay in
their house.
17. When the sword strikes and Tou Ngo’s head falls, a snow will fall three feet deep to her corpse.
18. Mother Tsai wished to make Tou Ngo his slave so Tou Tien Chang left her daughter to Mother
Tsai.
19. Donkey Chang asked Dr. Lu for a love potion.
20. Mother Tsai got ill so Donkey Chang asked Tou Ngo to make a soup.
III. Read the following sentences and determine what type of irony is it. Choose your answer
below. Write the letter only.
A – Verbal Irony B – Situational Irony C – Dramatic Irony
21. You work all afternoon cooking a fancy dinner for your boyfriend. When he takes his first bite,
he spits it out into the his napkin without you seeing and says to you, “Oh Sweetie, this is
wonderful!”
22. A movie you are watching shows a woman jogging in the woods. The next scene shows a
mountain lion lying in wait down the path where the woman is jogging.
23. The student in class who had the highest grades in middle school drops out of high school.
24. If you call someone who has failed in math test “Einstein” you are using a form of what type of
irony?
25. She met the man of her dreams and then met his gorgeous wife.
26. An old woman won 100 million dollars in a lottery and then died the following day.
27. In the children’s story “Little Red Riding Hood” we know that the wolf has eaten the
grandmother, but Little Red Riding Hood does not know that.
28. A patient is at the dentist and just as the dentist is about to give him a shot in the mouth to
numb him, the patient says, “Wow, this is going to be fun!”
29. In the Truman show, the viewer is aware that Truman is on a television show, but Truman
himself only gradually learns this.
30. A girl standing at a bus stop in the pouring rain says, “Isn’t it great?”
Prepared by: Ma. Kristell Ann P. Encarnacion
