JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL (JSS 1) ENGLISH LANGUAGE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL (JSS 1) ENGLISH LANGUAGE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
INSTRUCTIONS:
- Read each question carefully and choose the correct answer from the options (A, B, C, or D).
- Indicate the correct answer clearly.
SECTION A: READING AND COMPREHENSION
Passage 1 (Read the passage below and answer questions 1-5)
Mary woke up early in the morning and hurried to the river. She loved watching the birds fly over the water. As she stood by the riverbank, she saw a fisherman pulling out a big fish. She smiled and ran back home to tell her mother about it.
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Where did Mary go in the morning?
A) To the market
B) To the river
C) To the farm
D) To school
Correct Answer: B) To the river -
What did Mary love watching?
A) Fishermen working
B) Trees growing
C) Birds flying
D) Cars passing
Correct Answer: C) Birds flying -
What did Mary see the fisherman doing?
A) Cooking food
B) Pulling out a big fish
C) Selling fish
D) Cleaning his boat
Correct Answer: B) Pulling out a big fish -
How did Mary feel when she saw the fisherman’s catch?
A) Angry
B) Excited
C) Scared
D) Sad
Correct Answer: B) Excited -
Who did Mary run home to tell?
A) Her brother
B) Her teacher
C) Her mother
D) Her friend
Correct Answer: C) Her mother
Passage 2 (Read the passage below and answer questions 6-10)
There was a farmer who had a lazy son. The farmer worked hard on the farm every day, but his son always slept. One day, the farmer pretended to be sick and told his son that there was gold buried in the farm. The son immediately started digging, hoping to find gold. He did not find gold, but he learned to work hard.
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What type of person was the farmer’s son?
A) Hardworking
B) Lazy
C) Honest
D) Brave
Correct Answer: B) Lazy -
What did the farmer pretend to be?
A) Sick
B) Happy
C) Angry
D) Strong
Correct Answer: A) Sick -
What did the son start doing after hearing about the gold?
A) Sleeping
B) Eating
C) Digging
D) Running
Correct Answer: C) Digging -
What lesson did the son learn?
A) To be kind
B) To be hardworking
C) To be lazy
D) To be greedy
Correct Answer: B) To be hardworking -
Did the son find any gold?
A) Yes
B) No
C) Maybe
D) Not mentioned
Correct Answer: B) No
SECTION B: GRAMMAR AND VOCABULARY
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Choose the correct synonym for “happy.”
A) Sad
B) Angry
C) Joyful
D) Weak
Correct Answer: C) Joyful -
The plural of “child” is ____.
A) Childs
B) Childes
C) Children
D) Childies
Correct Answer: C) Children -
What is the opposite of “beautiful”?
A) Pretty
B) Ugly
C) Bright
D) Wonderful
Correct Answer: B) Ugly -
Identify the adjective in this sentence: “The small cat is sleeping.”
A) Small
B) Cat
C) Sleeping
D) Is
Correct Answer: A) Small -
Which of these is a preposition?
A) Run
B) After
C) Eat
D) Big
Correct Answer: B) After -
Select the correct spelling.
A) Suprise
B) Surprise
C) Surprize
D) Suprize
Correct Answer: B) Surprise -
The opposite of “early” is ____.
A) Late
B) Fast
C) Slow
D) Bright
Correct Answer: A) Late -
The word “quickly” is an example of ____.
A) A noun
B) A verb
C) An adverb
D) An adjective
Correct Answer: C) An adverb -
What is the past tense of “write”?
A) Writed
B) Written
C) Wrote
D) Writ
Correct Answer: C) Wrote -
Which of these is a pronoun?
A) Dog
B) They
C) House
D) Chair
Correct Answer: B) They
SECTION C: WRITING SKILLS AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE
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Which sentence is correct?
A) I goes to school.
B) She go to school.
C) We goes to school.
D) He goes to school.
Correct Answer: D) He goes to school. -
Which punctuation mark is used at the end of a question?
A) .
B) ,
C) ?
D) !
Correct Answer: C) ? -
What is the correct way to begin a letter?
A) Dear Sir/Madam,
B) Hello friend,
C) Hey you,
D) Good morning!
Correct Answer: A) Dear Sir/Madam, -
The word “beautiful” is a ____.
A) Noun
B) Verb
C) Adjective
D) Adverb
Correct Answer: C) Adjective -
The past tense of “run” is ____.
A) Runs
B) Running
C) Ran
D) Runned
Correct Answer: C) Ran -
SECTION C: WRITING SKILLS AND SENTENCE STRUCTURE (CONTINUED)
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Choose the correct sentence:
A) The boy is plays football.
B) The boy playing football.
C) The boy is playing football.
D) The boy are playing football.
Correct Answer: C) The boy is playing football. -
A sentence that expresses strong emotions ends with a ____.
A) Period (.)
B) Comma (,)
C) Question mark (?)
D) Exclamation mark (!)
Correct Answer: D) Exclamation mark (!) -
What type of sentence is this? “What a beautiful day!”
A) Question
B) Exclamation
C) Statement
D) Command
Correct Answer: B) Exclamation -
The correct order of words in a sentence is called ____.
A) Grammar
B) Syntax
C) Tense
D) Alphabet
Correct Answer: B) Syntax -
Which of the following is a compound sentence?
A) I love reading books.
B) She went to the market and bought some fruits.
C) He plays football.
D) The dog barked.
Correct Answer: B) She went to the market and bought some fruits. - JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL (JSS 1) ENGLISH LANGUAGE MULTIPLE-CHOICE QUESTIONS
SECTION D: LITERATURE
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What is a story that teaches a lesson called?
A) Fable
B) Poem
C) Drama
D) Essay
Correct Answer: A) Fable -
A long written story is called a ____.
A) Poem
B) Novel
C) Play
D) Short story
Correct Answer: B) Novel -
A play that is meant to be performed on stage is called ____.
A) Drama
B) Poetry
C) Novel
D) Essay
Correct Answer: A) Drama -
What is the name of the person who writes a book?
A) Painter
B) Author
C) Editor
D) Singer
Correct Answer: B) Author -
A poem is written in ____.
A) Sentences
B) Lines and stanzas
C) Paragraphs
D) Chapters
Correct Answer: B) Lines and stanzas
SECTION E: PARTS OF SPEECH
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Which of the following is a verb?
A) Chair
B) Run
C) Quickly
D) Happy
Correct Answer: B) Run -
What is the comparative form of “big”?
A) Bigest
B) Bigger
C) More big
D) Most big
Correct Answer: B) Bigger -
The plural of “tooth” is ____.
A) Tooths
B) Teet
C) Teeth
D) Teeths
Correct Answer: C) Teeth -
Choose the correct past tense of “eat”.
A) Eat
B) Eated
C) Ate
D) Eaten
Correct Answer: C) Ate -
A word that describes a noun is called ____.
A) A verb
B) An adjective
C) A pronoun
D) An adverb
Correct Answer: B) An adjective
SECTION F: COMPOSITION AND LETTER WRITING
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A formal letter should begin with ____.
A) Hi!
B) Dear friend,
C) Dear Sir/Madam,
D) Hey!
Correct Answer: C) Dear Sir/Madam, -
The part of a letter that contains the address and date is called ____.
A) Salutation
B) Introduction
C) Heading
D) Conclusion
Correct Answer: C) Heading -
Which of the following is used to join two sentences?
A) And
B) The
C) Very
D) At
Correct Answer: A) And -
“I will visit you tomorrow.” Which tense is this sentence in?
A) Present tense
B) Past tense
C) Future tense
D) Continuous tense
Correct Answer: C) Future tense -
Which of these is NOT a type of essay?
A) Narrative
B) Descriptive
C) Persuasive
D) Musical
Correct Answer: D) Musical
SECTION G: FIGURES OF SPEECH
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“The sun smiled at me.” What figure of speech is this?
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Personification
D) Hyperbole
Correct Answer: C) Personification -
“As fast as a cheetah” is an example of ____.
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Hyperbole
D) Alliteration
Correct Answer: B) Simile -
“He was a lion in the fight.” What figure of speech is this?
A) Metaphor
B) Simile
C) Irony
D) Hyperbole
Correct Answer: A) Metaphor -
“The old man has seen a thousand winters.” This is an example of ____.
A) Simile
B) Hyperbole
C) Personification
D) Metaphor
Correct Answer: B) Hyperbole -
Which of the following is an example of alliteration?
A) The birds are singing.
B) She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
C) The dog is barking.
D) The sky is blue.
Correct Answer: B) She sells sea shells by the sea shore.
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