Grade 9 ENGLISHPRE TEST

NAME:________________________________________ DATE: __________________________ YEAR & SECTION:_______________________________ TEACHER: _______________________

PART I: READING AND LITERATURERead the poem very carefully. Copy the letter of the word or group of words that best

completes each numbered item.

SONG OF THE SKY LOOMBy TEWA group of Pueblo American Indian

1 Oh our Mother the Earth, Oh our Father the SkyYour children are we, and with tired backsWe bring you gifts that you love.

4 Then weave for us garments of brightness,May the warp be the white light of morning,May the weft be the red light of eveningMay the border be the standing rainbows.

8 Then weave for us garments of brightnessThat we may walk fittingly where birds sing,That we may walk fittingly where grass is green,Oh our Mother the Earth, Oh our Father the Sky!

1. The pronoun we in the song refers to the ________________. A. birds B. garments C. rainbows D. singers2. The word in the song that refers to threads that run lengthwise in the woven fabric is the ___________________. A. border B. warp C. weave D. weft3. The word in the song that refers to threads that are interlaced at the right angle through the warp thread in the woven fabric is the __________________. A. border B. garments C. warp D. weft4. In the song, the antonym of the word “withdraw or move away” is ___________________. A. bring B. loom C. love D. weave5. The opposite of the word “evening” that is used in the poem is __________________. A. brightness B. border C.morning D. standing6. A synonym for the word “fittingly” is __________________. A. appropriately B. briskly C. carefully D. suddenly7. The children’s feelings for nature can be best described as ____________________. A. fondness B. intimacy C. kindness D. sympathy8. Line 2 appeals to the sense of _________________. A. feeling B. hearing C. sight D. smell9. Lines 5 and 8 appeal primarily to the sense of _____________________. A. feeling B. hearing C. sight D. smell10. Line 9 best appeals to the sense of ______________________. A. feeling B. hearing C. sight D. smell11. The predominant sensory impression in the song is the sense of ____________________. A. feeling B. hearing C. sight D. smell12. Line 4 is an example of ____________________.

A. hyperbole B. metaphor C. personification D. simile13. The figure of speech used in line 9 is __________________. A. apostrophe B. metaphor C. personification D. simile14. The last line of the song is an example of ____________________. A. alliteration B. connotation C. denotation D. interjection15. The rhyming words in the poem are _________________. A. backs-rainbowsB. morning-evening C. love-Sky D. sing-green16. The predominant poetic device used in the poem is __________________. A. alliteration B. onomatopoeia C. repetition D. symbolism17. The different colors of the rainbow symbolize ___________________. A. bravery B.happiness C. misfortune D. peace18. The phrase “white light of morning” connotes __________________. A. freshness B. order C. perfection D. sadness19. The connector used in line 2 is ________________. A. and B. children C. with D. your20. Another sequence signal/ marker that is used in the poem is __________________. A. for B. may C. that D. then21. The examples of inverted order of words in the song can be found in lines ______________. A. 2 and 3 B. 2 and 5 C. 3 and 4 D. 10 and 1122. The “Song of the Sky Loom” tells us about the importance of ___________________. A. intimacy to God C. reverence to nature B. intimacy to nature D. reverence and intimacy to God through nature

PART II: USING CAPITALIZATION AND PUNCTUATION MARKS CORRECTLYRead the mini-dialogue carefully. Choose from the following word pool the most

appropriate punctuation mark for each numbered blank. Then on the spaces provided, rewrite two words from the dialogue that are written incorrectly.

A. comma (,) B. dash (-) C. ellipsis (…)D. exclamation point (!) E. period (.) F. quotation mark (“)

“Yes _23__ now somebody give me an example of a person_ 24_ you, vick rush.”“Teresa,” Vick said automatically.“What if__25__never mind.”ben shouted, Bingo_26__ you really had a crush on her.”“Ok, I had enough.__27__Vick whispered, “Quit shouting too much__28_I’m tired of it.”

29. _________________________________ 30. _________________________________

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