3RD TERM EXAM QUESTIONS PRIMARY 6 ENGLISH LANGUAGE

THIRD TERM PROMOTIONAL EXAMINATION 2021 / 2022

CLASS: PRIMARY 6 SUBJECT: ENGLISH LANGUAGE

NAME:……………………………………………………………………………………

COMPREHENSION

One year there had been no rain in the forest. Everything was so dry that there was no food in Kanu’s village. He and his family went hungry: they searched in vain, for something to eat.

Kanu’s son, Okon, was big enough to go and hunt for himself. One day, wandering far from the village, he came upon a big hole in the ground. Lying near it were three large nuts, Okon was very hungry. He knew that if he took the nuts home he would have to share them with his family. He decided to eat it himself.

He cracked the first nut hard on the stone. The nut shot out of the shell and bounced into the hole. He tried the second one, being more careful. Somehow the nut eluded him and rolled down the hole. Angrily he took the third nut and swore that if he lost it, he would go down into the hole himself.

Sure enough, when the shell split, the nut shot into the air, over Okon’s shoulder and into the hole. He scramble down the hole after it, and was never seen again. 

Answer the following questions:

1. Once okon went down the hole _____________ (a) he could not find the nuts (b) he disappeared for ever (c) he was killed by lion (d) the hole disappeared (e) the last nut shot into the air
2. Okon cracked the nuts by _______ (a) biting them (b) hitting them with hammer (c) rolling them down (d) striking them on a stone (e) throwing them down the hole
3. Okon did not take the three nuts home because he ___________ (a) decided to hide them in the hole (b) did not want them hems (c) knew that his family not want them  (d) wanted them all for himself  (e) wanted to share them with his family
4. The big hole which Okon found was ______ the village (a) a long way from (b) a short was from (c) inside the boundaries (d) just outside (e) not far from 
5. What lesson can we learn from the passage?  (a) it is bad to be too hungry  (b) it is dangerous to scramble down a big hole alone  (c) it is not good to be selfish (d) we should always crack nut carefully (e) we should not wander far from the village alone