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Sample Item
Selected Response Item for Grade 8

Standard 3.0 Comprehension of Literary Text

Topic A. Comprehension of Literary Text

Indicator 3. Analyze and evaluate elements of narrative texts to facilitate understanding and interpretation

Objective d. Analyze characterization

Assessment limits:

  • Character's traits based on what character says, does, and thinks and what other characters or the narrator says
  • Character's motivations
  • Character's personal growth and development
Read the poem 'Grandmother'. Then answer the following.


Grandmother's actions show that she is mostly a

  1. good storyteller
  2. strict grandparent
  3. sorrowful individual
  4. hard working woman

Correct Answer
D. hard working woman
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