English 7 Division Achievement Test

For items 1 and 2, read the poem and answer the questions that would follow:


Text Box: For the Young Yearning a Song of Green
By Arnold Molina Azurin
Never tell the children trees are numb
They hold secrets
Of soil or sun: they lisp their quiet
Melodies of green
Exuberance to passersby. Twigs trip the wind
So leaves may flutter
Their fragrant salutes, griefless goodbyes.

Within their trunks, rings are ingrained,
Telling of refrains
Of lush rain or blooming: Times pilgrimage
But upon the bark
Tender passages are etched: Jun loves Ester
Complete with the year,
Arrow and heart border, despite the order
“Defacing Trees is Punishable.