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epublic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VII-Central Visayas
Division of Bohol
Balilihan District
CONGRESSMAN PABLO MALSARTE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
FINAL TEST
21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

Name:__________________________________Year/Section:_______________Date:____________Score:___________

I. Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answer beside each number.

1. Which of the following is NOT true about the pre-colonial literature of the Philippines?
A. Precolonial literature includes folktales, mythology, and epics.
B. Precolonial literature includes dramas and novels.
C. Precolonial literature includes chants, proverbs, and songs.
D. Precolonial literature includes literature passed from generation to generation through a word of mouth.
2. Which of the following pertains to the transmission of literary works where stories were passed down by word of
mouth?
A. gossiping B. oral tradition C. storytelling D. kudlit
3. Which of the following is NOT true about Legends?
A. Legends were passed down orally from one generation to another and saw print only in ethnographic studies of
different cultural groups.
B. Legends contain the elements of a narrative, namely the setting (time and place); characters (protagonist and
antagonist); and plot (conflict and resolution of the conflict.
C. Legend contains words of wisdom that are handed down from one generation to another.
D. Legends highlight cause-effect relationships to show how and why things come to be.
4. Which of the following is NOT true during the Spanish Colonial Period?
A. The education system was introduced.
B. Focused on religion and values which became instruments in spreading Christianity and which became
instruments in Spanish- oriented culture.
C. Drama like Karagatan, Pamamanhikan, Senakulo etc. was common literary forms during this period
D. It brought up liberal ideas and a sense of internationalism to the Philippines.
5. Which of the following refers to the 21stliterary form whose genre focused on a story based on truth, an accurate
retelling of the author's life experience?
A. Creative Nonfiction B. Fiction C. Creative Fiction D. Biography
6. It is a literary experience that combines three media: book, movie/video, and Internet websites.
A. MANGA B. DIGI-FICTION C. DOODLE FICTION D. GRAPHIC NOVELS
7.It is used in the English-speaking world as a generic term for all comic books and graphic novels originally published in
Japan.
A. MANGA B. DIGI-FICTION C. DOODLE FICTION D. GRAPHIC NOVELS
8. What literary genre refers to the expression that is written in verse, often with some form of regular rhythm? Its
expression is a heightened sense of perception or consciousness.
A. Poetry B. Drama C. Prose fiction D. Nonfiction Prose
9.n What literary genre refers to the story intended to be acted out on a stage? It's critics include pantomime (silent
acting), but others specify that it requires dialogue.
A. Drama B. Poetry C. prose fiction D. Nonfiction Prose
10.What category of drama shows that it provides a happy ending? Its intention is to make the audience laugh.
A. Tragedy B. Poetry C. Drama D. Comedy
11. What is the most recent literary text done in the Philippines mastered by Frank Rivera?
A. Doodle B. Fiction C. textula D. Flash Fiction
12. This element refers to a person, or sometimes even an animal, who takes part in the action of a short story or
other literary work.
A. conflict B. settings C. plot D. character
13. He was the earliest known English poet and was tasked to take of animals of a monastery in Whitby Abbey.
13. A. Edgar Allan Poe B. Mark Twain C. Walt Whitman D. Caedmon
14. He was an American author, poet, editor, and literary critic who was best known for his tales of mystery and the
macabre.
A. Edgar Allan Poe B. Mark Twain C. Walt Whitman D. Caedmon
15. It is sometimes known to be a science of literature, for it looks at the technical aspects of the vocabulary that is used in
the selection, the sounds, imagery, narrative, point of view, and others that are used in a literary selection.
A. Formalism B. New Criticism C. Formalism D. Modernism
16.What is the literary work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez that falls into magical realism?
A.. One Hundred Years of Solitude C. Island on the Earth
B. One Hundred Years of Solitary D. The Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires
17. His works are often interrelated with themes of dreams, labyrinths, libraries, and fictional writers.
A. Gabriel Garcia Marquez C. Sara de Ibañez
B. Jorge Amado D. Jorge Luis Borges
18. The following examples are the Sara de Ibañez’s works, except ________________.
A. Island on the Earth C. Autumn of the Patriarch
B. Canto a Montevideo D. Canto póstumo
19. Magical realism has opened the door to other writers from Latin America, like to the following, except
_______________.
A.Isabel Allende C. Ruben Dario
B. Mario Vargas Llosa D. Carlos Fuentes
20. To whom this line belongs to and from what literary piece that this line can be found?
“The cart-shed wall was unanimous for Yrigoyen.
Some piano was banging out tangos by Saborido.”
A. Gabriel Garcia Marques – One Hundred Years of Solitude
B. Jorge Luis Borges – The Mythical Founding of Buenos Aires
C. Sara de Ibañez – Island on the Earth
D. Gabriel Garcia Marques – Chronicle of A Death Foretold
21. In Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude, who proclaimed that in a short time, man will be able to see what is
happening in any place in the world without leaving his own house?
A. José Arcadio Buendía C. Úrsula Iguarán
B. Melquíades D. Monk Hermann
22. The capital of Argentina
A. Lima B. Buenos Aires C. Havana D. Rio
23. Refers to the literature that was written over a period of thousand years, in a variety of countries in Asia.
A. European Literature B. Asian Literature C. African Literature D. Latin American Literature
24. Johan Wolfgang von Goethe who coined the term ____________________which literally means “world literature”.
A. weltliteratur B. wetiliture C. wetreture D. weltteliratur
25. It emphasizes on themes of class conflict.
A. Formalism B. Postcolonialism C. Marxism D. Historical Criticism
26. It is a reiteration that for you to understand any given literary text, you need to understand first who the author is, his
or her social background, the concepts that were established during his or her time, and the milieu he or she lived in back
then.
A. Formalism B. Postcolonialism C. Marxism D. Historical Criticism
27. A school of literary criticism and literary theory having mainly to do with structural purposes of a particular text.
A. Formalism B. Postcolonialism C. Marxism D. Historical Criticism
28. It is an era or theory that is developed after a certain colony gains independence from its mother country.
A. Formalism B. Postcolonialism C. Marxism D. Historical Criticism
29. Asian literature can be divided into a host of different labels, categorized according to religion, zone, region, ethnic
group, literary genre, historical perspective or _______________.
A. beliefs B. culture C. language of origin D. traditions
30. Below are all belong to South East Asia EXCEPT:
A. Philippines B. Thailand C. Singapore D. Taiwan
31. Who wrote the essay “World Literature and European Literature”
A. Roberto Dainotto B. Robert Daineto C. Wolfgang von Goethe D. Wolfgang Risotto
32. Asian literature encompasses East Asian literature, Central Asian literature, West Asian Literature, and
__________________.
A. South West Literature C. South East Asian Literature
B. North Western Literature D. Northern Literature
33. It was said that they invented writing during the Bronze Age.
A. Arabs B. Babylonians C. Egyptians D. Greek
34. He is known as “Mandiba” who was a citizen who fiercely fought for Africa’s independence and eventually became the
first black and democratically elected president of south Africa.
A. Chinua Achebe B. Nadine Gordimer C. Nelson Mandela D. Wole Soyinka
35. She was a South African writer and political activist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1991.
A. Chinua Achebe B. Nelson Mandela C. Nadine Gordimer D. Wole Soyinka
36. This short story is like an essay but actually narrates a “great event” that starts changes within the world and ultimately
leads to where human beings are now.
A.The Tell-Tale Heart B. Burger’s Daughter C. Motherhood D. Loot
37. He is the first African to be honored the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1986.
A. Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Babatunde Soyinka C. Nadine Gordimer
B. Chinua Achebe D. Nelson Mandela
38. He is a Nigerian novelist, professor, and critic who rose to critical acclaim when he published his magnum opus,
Things Fall Apart.
A. Akinwande Oluwole “Wole” Babatunde Soyinka C. Nadine Gordimer
B. Chinua Achebe D. Nelson Mandela
39. This novel follows the life of Okonkwo, an Igbo ("Ibo" in the novel) man and local wrestling champion in the fictional
Nigerian clan of Umuofia.
A. A Thousand Splendid Suns C. Burger’s Daughter
B. Things Fall Apart D. Loot
40. The theme of this poem is about war–a topic that harkens back to the chequered historical trail of many African
countries.
A. A Thousand Splendid Suns C. Loot
B. Things Fall Apart D. Civilian and Soldier