English Major Practice Exam - 10 Items

1) Which of the following is an American novel about a boy who lived with his aunt in a town in Missouri, where together with his friends, ran away to a nearby island and pretended to be pirates?

2) The IELTS is a standardized test of English language mastery for non-native English language speakers. What type of test is it?

3) In a proficiency test, the students will be asked to listen to a recording of two native English speakers. While listening, they will be asked to answer 20 single-response questions related to the conversation in the recording. The entire exam has a time constraint. Which of the following strategies would help your students fare well in this exam?

4) Alma got a 78% on a 100-item multiple-choice language test 2 weeks ago. Without any intervention, she took the same test again today and got a 58%. What could be the reason for the discrepancy in the results?

5) Mrs. Basco made her students read a story in 10 minutes. After which, she took the story away and provided them with a list of events from the text they just read. The list is not arranged properly. It is the students' task to assign a number to each event according to the order in which they happened in the story. What skill is Mrs. Basco testing?

6) It is the phrase coined by William Wordsworth which refers to the act of foregoing reason and logic for the sake of the enjoyment of fictional prose and stories in literature.

7) Mr. Soliman needs to know the reading and writing skill levels of 200 incoming Grade 7 students. What type of test will best suit his needs?

8) His magnum opus, a collection of 24 stories in over 17,000 lines, tells of a storytelling contest among a group of pilgrims traveling to the Holy Land.

9) In his English test, Bobby was asked to read the paragraph with blanks in them. His task is to write the appropriate nouns on the blank spaces to complete the sentences in the paragraph. What type of test did Bobby take?

10) In a play's plot, what do you call the period wherein the dramatic tension caused by the conflict is at its highest? It is the turning point where the rising action ends.