English Major Practice Exam - 10 Items

1) Mrs. Isabella wants to know the thinking process of her Grade 8 class after reading Mark Twain's The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. What is the best type of activity for this purpose?

2) A high school is getting thousands of applications from new Grade 7 students. They are only accepting the top 100 students. What type of test would help them find qualified students?

3) This type of character opposes the protagonist in their goals and actions. Their opposition to the character leads to the crisis of the story.

4) This form of poetry emphasizes the practice of not following any verse length or rhyming pattern.

5) This refers to the periods wherein the director and the actors practice to polish their performance during the play.

6) In theater, what do you call the signal used by actors and actresses to indicate what actions and events should happen next?

7) Among the characters in a play, this type is the primary figure in the story. Often, the story is told from their point of view.

8) 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?

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) 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?