English Comprehension - Primary 3 - Exams

SECOND TERM EXAMINATION QUESTIONS 2022/2023 SESSION

CLASS: PRIMARY THREE           SUBJECT: COMPREHENSION & LITERATURE

SECTION A: COMPREHENSION

Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow;

ABDUL VISITS THE DOCTOR

The school had just resumed. Abdul was feeling some pain in the stomach. He told Ike his friend. Ike wanted to give him some tablets. Mrs Udoh, their class teacher, saw them and called them out. Abdul was shivering. He felt sick. The teacher took him to the school clinic where the doctor attended to him.

Mrs Udoh asked Ike, “How did you get the tablets?” “Our family doctor gave them to me when I had stomach ache”, Ike replied. Mrs Udoh told the whole class that “what Ike did was wrong.” “Do not give other people your own medicine,” she said. The children asked, “why ma?” Mrs Udoh said, “it is dangerous. If you are ill, tell me and I will take you to the school clinic. Your illness may be different from that of your friends. The doctor will give you the right medicine.” “We shall only take medicine that the doctor gives us,” the children promised.

Answer these questions

1. When did Abdul begin to feel stomach pain?
2. Why did he tell Ike?
3. Where did the teacher take Abdul?
4. From where did Ike get the tablets?
5. Who attended to Ike?

MR ODEH’S BUSY DAY

Mr Odeh wakes up as early as 5.30 in the morning. At 7 o’clock, he takes his breakfast and goes to work at 7.15am. He comes back from his office at 3.45pm. At 5 o’clock in the evening, he plays tennis game.

Dinner time for Mr Odeh is 7 in the evening. At 9.50pm, he goes to bed after listening to the network news on the television.

Answer these questions

6. When does Mr Odeh wake up?
7. What does he do at 7.15am?
8. When does he go for tennis?
9. Is 7.15am morning or afternoon?
10. What is the last thing Mr Odeh does before going to bed?

IN TROUBLE AGAIN

 It was Akon’s day to wash the plates. She took out all the plates, cups, glasses and pots. While doing the washing-up, a fly came buzzing in her ear. As she tried to hit it with one hand, a plate in the other hand dropped and crashed. It broke into many pieces.

Mrs Bassey, Akon’s mother, came running out of the kitchen. She shouted at Akon, saying, “You bad girl, you have broken a plate again.”

Akon ran off so that her mother would not beat her. Akon tried to tell her that it was an accident but her mother wouldn’t listen. Mrs Bassey sent Akon to bed without supper.

Answer these questions

11. What was Akon to do on the day?
12. Where was she doing the washing-up?
13. Why did she run away when her mother came from the kitchen?
14. What caused Akon to drop the plate?
15. What was Akon’s purnishment?

SECTION B: LITERATURE

1. ) The __________ are the individuals that the story is about.

A.) setting       B. character        C. plot        D. artistry

2. ) The main function of the ___________ is to extend and prolong the plot.

A.) setting       B. character        C. plot         D. time frame.

3. ) A literature devise that allows the writer of a narrative to establish the time, location and environment in which a story takes place is called_________.

A.) setting       B. character        C. plot        D. figures of speech

4. ) _________ focuses attention on the significant parts of the character’s life.

A.) setting,      B. plot,        C. alliteration,      D. simile.

5. ) The ways of describing and explaining things in a non-literal way is called __________.

A.) metaphor B. assonance      C. figures of speech     D. cost

Explain these terms

1. Dialogue
2. Protagonist
3. Cast
4. Antagonist
5. Prologue