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The document is a daily test for 9th-grade English students, consisting of questions related to various texts including 'The Origin of Cool', 'Burning Books', 'A Clockwork Orange', 'A Ghost Story', and 'Sherlock Holmes'. Each section contains specific questions that require students to extract information from the texts. The test is designed to assess comprehension and analytical skills.

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English 9

The document is a daily test for 9th-grade English students, consisting of questions related to various texts including 'The Origin of Cool', 'Burning Books', 'A Clockwork Orange', 'A Ghost Story', and 'Sherlock Holmes'. Each section contains specific questions that require students to extract information from the texts. The test is designed to assess comprehension and analytical skills.

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DAILY TEST

Subject : English

Grade : 9

Read the texts below and answer the questions


A. From the text “The Origin of Cool”
1. In what month of the year is the Museum Days/Remembering James Dean festival held?
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2. In what places (mention 3) does the Museum Days/Remembering James Dean festival
take place?
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3. For how many years has the festival been held?


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4. How many people are likely to visit the show over the weekend?
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5. How, and in what year, did James Dean die?


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6. Why does the article describe James Dean’s style of acting as “Unorthodox”?
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7. Give two examplesof James Dean memorabilia that cost good deal of money.
Quote from the articles to support your answer.
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B. From the text “ Burning Books”


8. Why did the Chinese Emperor burn ‘all the books by the phylosopherConfucius’?
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9. Why did Friar Diego de Landa burn the writings of the Mayans?
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10. Why did the German burn books?


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11. Why, in the opinion of Jack Brock, are the Potter books ‘ in abomination to God’?
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12. What does the author warn often accompanies the destruction of books?
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13. What were the ‘far more horrible pyres...at places like Auschwitz, Sobibor and
Treblinka’?
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14. Why does the writer see the Harry Potter books and ‘the classic movie “The Wizard of
Oz”’ as necessary for children?
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C. From the text “A Clockwork Orange”


15. What were the names of the four youths in the extract?
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16. Who did the youths assault?


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17. Where had the youths’ victim been, before the assault?
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18. Name the three books that the victim was caarying.
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19. Name three things that the victim had in his possesion, apart from the books.
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D. From the text “ ‘A Ghost Story’ – Part 1”


20. Give three details from paragraph one that tell you that the narrator feels uneasy in his
new lodgings.
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21. What makes the narrator feel more comfortable once he reaches his room?
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22. How does the narrator pass the time in his room before going to bed?
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23. From paragraph 2 and 3, exlain how the descriptions of the room and the world outside
the room help to reinforce the narrator’s mood.
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24. Use your own words to explain what the narrator experiences when he wakes up from
his profound sleep in paragraph 4.
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E. From the text “Sherlock Holmes”
25. What made the woman shiver?
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26. How did Sherlock Holmes know that the woman has come by train?
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27. How did Sherlock Holmes know that the woman had ridden a dog-cart?
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28. How did the woman know about Detective Holmes?


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29. How did the woman would pay to Detective Holmes?


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30. What did Mr. Holmes said as the reward of what he did?
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Head of English Dept. Teacher

Asidah J. Purba, S. Pd Agnes Magda Dewi, S. Pd.

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