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1. Identify the play from which lines are taken:
Will thou be gone? It is not yet near day.
It was the nightingale, and not the lark The period
the fearful hollow of thine ear; Nightly she sings
on your pomegranate tree; Believe me, love, it was
the nightingale
a. Love’s Labour’s Lost
b. Othello
c. Romeo and Juliet
d. Cymbeline
2. Identify the poem from which the following
line are take: DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE
EYES. AND I WILL PLDGE WITH ME.
OR LEAVE A KISS BUT IN THE CUP. AND I’LL NOT
LOOK FOR WINE.
a. Song to Celia
b. Crossing the Bar
c. Ode to the West Wind
d. She was a Phantom of Delight
3. Identify the poem from the lines are taken:
Have glimpse that would make me less forlorn;
Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea;
Or hear old Triton blow is wreathed horn
a. Auguries of Innocence
b. God Moves in a Mysterious Way
c. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
d. The World is Too Much With Us
4. Identify the author of the poem torn which
the following lines are taken:
O is she rosely loved
is she lovely rosed
O is she lovely sung as sea-shells?
a. Fernando M. Maramag
b. Mauro Mendez
c. Natividad Marquaez
d. Jose Garcia Villa
5. Who said, “These are the times that try
men’s souls?”
a. James Madison
b. Thomas Paine
c. Benjamin Franklin
d. Thomas Jefferson
6. Who wrote the novel WAR AND
PEACE?
a. Spencer
b. Turgenew
c. Shaw
d. Tolstoy
7. Identify the play from which the lines are
take: All that glitters is not gold;
Often you have heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to
behold; Glided tombs do norms enfold.
a. MERCHANT OF VENICE
b. HAMLET
c. AS YOU LIKE IT
d. MACBETH
8. WHO SAID, “Ask not what your country
can do for you, but what you can do for you
country?”
a. Richard M. Nixon
b. John F. Kennedy
c. Dwight D. Eisenhower
d. Lyndon B. Johnson’
9. Identify the poem from which the stanza is
take: Trust no future, howe’er pleasant
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act-act in the living Present Heart within, and God
O’erhead
a. HYMN TO THE NIGHT
b. THE CROSS OF SHOW
c. MY LOST YOUTH
d. A PSALM OF LIFE
13. What does William Norris want you to do in
his ZIP THE LIP?
If your lips would keep from slips. Five things
observe with care;
To whom you speak; of whom you speak And
how, when, and where
a. To be truthful
b. To be sincere
c. To show kindness
d. To observe confidentiality
14. Identify the poem from which the lines are
taken: Oh’ Lift me as a wave a lead, a cloud!
I fall upon the thorns of life! I bleed!
A heavy weight of hours has chan’d and
bow’d One too like thee-tameless, and swift,
and proud.
a. Ode to the West Wind
b. Crossing the Bar
c. Ode to Evening
d. My Last Duchess
15. What figure of speech is used in the lines
below?
His bright eyes rolled, they never seemed to
settle.
And glittered like the flowers beneath a kettle:
Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales
a. Simile
b. Hyperbole
c. Metaphor
d. Personification
16. Which TYPE reading is CHORAL
READING?
a. Buddy
b. Shared
c. Guided
d. Reading aloud to students
17. Of the different principles of effective
teaching of reading, which is IMPROPERLY stated?
a. Effective teachers use the four cueing system to
support students
b. Effective teachers used instructional approaches
on how children learn
c. Effective teachers go out of the structured
classrooms to create community of readers
d. Effective teachers select appropriate reading
materials
18. Which languages system is
focused on VOCABULARY?
a. Syntactic
b. Pragmatic
c. Semantics
d. Phonological
19. Which theory claims that readers have
difficulty in comprehension because they
are focused on WORD IDENTIFICATION?
a. Submersion
b. Automaticity
c. Alphabetic
d. Immersion
20. Which speech is considered of the greatest
speeches for its vision of American democracy
by a U.S political leader?
a. THE GETTYS BURG ADDRESS
b. John F Kennedy’s INAUGURAL SPEECH
c. LINCOLNMEMORIAL ADDRESS
d. Patrick Henry’s speech
21. Which play of Jose M. Hernandez tells
of an artisan who forged cannons for the
use of the Spaniards?
a. THE REAL LEADER
b. PANDAY PIRA
c. THE FILIPINO REBEL
d. THE CRY OF THE PHILIPPINES
22. If Dick’s father is John’s son, what
relation has Dick to John?
a. Nephew
b. Brother
c. Son
d. Grandson
23. Consider these lines from “The Ideal wife”:
FAVOR IS DECEITFUL AND BEAUTY IS VAIN
BUT WOMAN THAT FEARETH THE LORD, SHE
SHALL BE PRAISED
Which word infers the moral of the verse?
a. Praised
b. Feareth
c. Favor
d. Beauty
24. Which novel written by Kerima-Tuvera tells
of the story of Emma Mercene who struggles
for consummation of purse and clean love?
a. THE BARANGAY
b. THE HAND OF THE ENEMY
c. A CHILD OF SORROW
d. THE FILIPINO REBEL
25. William Wordsworth wrote “SHE WAS PHANTOM
OF DELIGHT” from which the lines are taken: SHE
WAS PHANTOM OF DELIGHT WHEN FIRST SHE
GLEAMED UPON SIGHT; A LOVELY APPARITION,
SENT TO BE A MOMENT’S ORNAMENT;
Which figure of speech is used?
a. Hyperbole
b. Personification
c. Metaphor
d. Simile
26. “It is only the heart that one can see nightly; what
is essential is invisible to the eye.” From THE LITTLE
PRINCE BY ANTOINE DE ST. EXUPERY
The aspiration drawn from quote is that
a. Important things are visible to the eye
b. There are things which the eye cannot see.
c. It is better to see things with the heart
d. Only the heart can see the beautiful things in life.
27. Robert Browning wrote” CHILDE ROLAND TO THE DARK
TOWER” from which the lines are taken: NOON STRIKES- HERE
SWEEPS THE PROCESSION OUR LADY BORNE SMILING AND
SMART WITH A PINK GAUZE GOWN ALL SPANGLES, AND
EVEN SWORDS STRUCK IN HER HEART! What do the lines
means?
a. The seven swords represent the attributes
of the Virgin Mary.
b. It talks of the gifts to the Virgin Mary
c. The swords symbolize the Virgin Mary’s sorrows
d. The Lady is Elizabeth Barrett Browning
28. Consider this poem entitled WINGS written
by Victor Hugo. Be like the bird, who Halting in
this flight On limb too slight Feels it give way
beneath him Yet sings Knowing be hain
wings
a. Listen to advices
b. Believe in yourself
c. Be courageous
d. Don’t be over confident
29. Who wrote “HESPERIDES” which
contains lyrics filled with themes about
country life and beauty?
a. Lord Byron
b. Robert Herrick
c. John Milton
d. George Herbert
30. Which sonnet enumerates the reasons
for loving Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
a. SONNET 44
b. SONNET 15
c. SONNET 14
d. SONNET 43
31. How many were going to St. Ives according to
these lines? As I was going to St. Ives I met a man
with seven wives: Every wife had seven sacks; Every
sack had seven cats; Every cat had seven kittens.
a. One
b. Twenty – five
c. Nine
d. Twenty – three
32. Which novel written by E.M. Foster satirizes
the manners of the middle-class English folk with
their provincial class clannishness and
prejudices?
a. WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
b. A ROOM WITH A VIEW
c. THE LONGEST JOURNEY
d. HOWARDS END
33. What is alluded to by these lines? The
man who made it did not want it. The man
who bought it did not use want it The man
who used it did not use it Try to guess just
to call just what to call it.
a. Poison c. Coffin
b. Gun d.
34. What does John Keats in the poem,
BARDS OF PASSION AND OF MIRTH wants
these writers to do?
a. To recognize their souls left on earth
b. To avoid living double life
c. To inspire and teach them
d. To remember their souls in heaven
35. Why is THE NAKED AND THE DEAD written
by Norman Mailer considered as one of the finest
novels written in America since World War II?
a. It portrayed the limitations of radicalism, honor,
virtue in the modem world.
b. It has documentary style, directness, and
reality.
c. It was a true picture of World War II
d. It was from his military experiences.
36. Which poem by William Ernest Henley
answers the question; Do humans control
their own lives?
a. REMEMBER
b. INVICTUS
c. PRECIOUS STONES
d. THE ALDERKING
37. Who wrote TO LUCASTA?
a. Robert Herrick
b. Richard Lovelace
c. Thomas Carew
d. John Sucking
38. Which earned for Joyce Carol Oayes the title
THE DARK LADY OF AMERICAN LETTERS?
a. The beautiful insights imposed on her
characters and settings
b. Her writings have been experiential
c. Her ability to describe and narrate realities
d. The unrelieved sense of death that pervades
her writings
39. Which psalm is a song of joy and
reverence?
a. Psalms 7
b. Psalms 23
c. Psalms 8
d. Psalms 24
40. John Milton wrote “ON HIS BLINDNESS” for
which this lines is taken: THEY ALSO SERVE
WHO ONLY STAND AND WAIT.
Which Filipino Trait is shown?
a. Juan “Tamad” attitude
b. “Pakikisama”
c. “Pakikibahagi”
d. “Karangalan”
41 – 43.
On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King delivered his famous
LINCOLN MEMORIAL ADDRESS from which these paragraphs
are taken: I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the
difficulties and frustration of the moment; I still have a dream. It is
a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream
that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning
of its creed. “We hold these truths to be self-evident; that all men
are created equal.” have a dream that one day on the red hills of
Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave
owners will be able to sit down together at the table of
brotherhood…
41. Which is the dream of Martin Luther
King?
a. Freedom for Jews and gentiles
b. Freedom for all of God’s children
c. Freedom for the black men from
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, and slums
and ghettos of Northern cities.
d. Freedom for America
43. Which difficulties and frustrations are
being referred to:
a. Forced segregation, jobs, housing,
education, and breath
b. Voting, public accommodation and housing
c. Government indifference
d. Religion with its practices
44. Which refers to CREED?
a. My dream is rooted in America
45. What is John F. Kenedy asking
the citizens
b. I have a dream of American and the citizens of the
world?
a. Economic cooperation
c. The truth is evidentb. Cooperation and support against
terrorism
d. All men are created equal
c. High standards of strength and
sacrifice too
safeguard freedom
d. Adherence to democratic ideals,
principles
45. What is John F. Kenedy asking the citizens of
American and the citizens of the world?
a. Economic cooperation
b. Cooperation and support against terrorism
c. High standards of strength and sacrifice to safeguard
freedom
d. Adherence to democratic ideals, principles and
practices
46. What does Shakespeare want to infer in this
Line? The fault, dear BRUTUS, is not in our stars, but in
Ourselves.
a. A statue has never been set up in honor of a critic
b. “Be content with things you have.”
c. Dreams don’t work unless you do
d. A great man is always willing to be little.
47. Which is Chaucer’s collection stories in
verse showing his skill as a story teller in
giving a vivid picture of English society in the
1300’s?
a. THE DIVINE COMEDY
b. THE NEW LIFE
c. THE SONG OF ROLAND
d. THE CANTERBURY TALES
48. Which work of Henry David Thoreau contains civil
disobedience and passive resistance which were practiced
by Mahatma Gandhi of India and Martin Luther King , Jr. in
their protest against their governments?
a. ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
b. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND MERRIMACK
RIVERS
c. WALDEN
d. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN
EMPIRE
49. Raul S. Manglapus once said: I have done this
against the advice of a friend. He felt that since I would
speak of Filipino movies.. I should instead begin by
making you cry.
Which Filipino character is demonstrated in his speech?
a. “Kanya-Kanya” syndrome
b. “Hiya “
c. “Palakasan at pataasan”culture
d. “Utang-na-loob”
50. Which BEST described the READING AND
THE WRITING PROCESSES?
a. The stages occur in sequence
b. The arrangement implies that the different
language arts develop separately
c. The different stages merge and repeat
d. Children different mental process for
reading, listening, talking and writing
3. D 29. B
4. D 30. D
5. B 31. A
6. D 32. D
7. A 33. C
8. B 34. B 50. C
9. D 35. C
10. 36. B
11. 37. B
12. 38. D
13. D 39. C
14. A 40. A
15. A 41. C
16. B 42. C
17. A 43. A
18. C 44. D
19. B 45. D
20. B 46. C
21. B 47. D
22. D 48. A
23. B 49. ?
24. B
25. C
51. Which of the theories of learning, language
and literacy views children as having the ability
relate new information to prior knowledge?
a. Constructivist
b. Interactive
c. Reader response
d. Sociolinguistic
52. What kind of word is TELECAST?
a. Blend
b. Acronym
c. Borrowed
d. Clipped
53. Which word should receive a high
level /3/ in this sentence? SOMEONE IS
LOOKING FOR HER.
a. Look
b. Someone
c. Is looking
54. Which of the theories of learning, language
and literacy emphasizes comprehension as
students read?
a. Reader Response
b. Constructivist
c. Interactive
d. Sociolinguistic
55. Which of the theories of learning, language
and literacy views children as to having the ability
to organize and integrate information is schemata?
a. Constructivist
b. Reader Response
c. Sociolinguistic
d. Interactive
56. Which integrates the other LANGUAGE ARTS?
a. Listening
b. Reading
c. Talking
d. Writing
57. Which reading and writing SKILL is
reading and making graphs?
a. Study
b. Language
c. Reference
d. Decoding
58. What is the taxonomic stage of this
behavior?
MATCH FAMILIAR VOCABULARY WORDS IN
SENTENCES WITH CORRECT DEFINITIONS.
a. Mechanical Skills Perception
b. Communication Comprehension
c. Knowledge Recognition
d. Transfer Reception
59. What system do students use in
capitalization and punctuation rules?
a. Pragmatic
b. Phonological
c. Semantic
d. Syntactic
60. Which gives the television an EDGE
over print media?
a. Proximity
b. Visual
c. Color
d. Motion
61. Which question falls under the LITERAL
COMPREHENSION LEVEL?
a. In the story, who is short?
b. Why is it good to be short?
c. Do you agree the horse when it said that it
is to be what you are?
d. What are the advantages and disadvantages
of being tall and short?
62. What method of paragraph development is
used in this main idea?
THE EXODUS OF FILIPINO WORKERS TO THE
MIDDLE EAST IS A COMPLEX PSYCHO-
ECONOMIC PHENOMENON.
a. Classification
b. Process
c. Analysis
d. Cause-effect
63. Which word contains G pronounced as
/g/ the hard sound?
a. Nation
b. Rescue
c. Gate
d. Giant
64. Which word is accented on the
second
syllable?
a. Nation
b. Rescue
c. Himself
d. Garment
65. An interior monologue is prepared when
one is .
a. Reviewing events
b. Making a decision
c. Planning
d. Arguing
66. Which is the appropriate way to read
REFRAIN in a poem?
a. Put force on the refrain
b. Use normal ton
c. Sing the refrain portion
d. Read in a softer voice than the verse
67. If someone SHRUGS his/her shoulders,
which of the following does he/she manifest?
a. Impatience
b. Despair
c. Puzzlement
d. Indifference
68. Which of the following words does not
rhyme with the rest?
CENT, RANG, TEMPS , LENTE
a. Lente
b. Temps
c. Rang
d. Cent
69. Which words should receive a mid-
pitch
level /2/ in this sentence?
a. Is looking
b. Looking for
c. For me
d. Everybody is
70. What correction should be made to this
sentence?
Our office was moved about fifty blocks from the
7thstreet to 58th Street in New Manila.
a. Change fifty to 50 and 7th to Seventh
b. Change 7th to Seventh
c. Change 7th to seventh
d. Change fifty to 50 and 7th to seventh
71. Which sentence is CORRECTLY written?
a. The S.E.C. has three new members: Dr. Carla
Chang. Professor Marcos Ruso, and Roberto Principe. Esq.
b. The SEC has three new members: Dr. Carla
Chang, Professor Marcos Ruso, and Roberto Principe, Esq.
c. The SEC has three new members: Dr. Carla Chang,
Professor Marcos Ruso and Roberto Principe Esq
d. The SEC has three new members: Dr. Carla Chang,
Professor Marcos Ruso and Roberto Principe Esq
72. What kind of homonyms are these words?
BARK, BAT, BILL, BOX, FAIR
a. Homophones
b. Homographic homophones
c. Homographs
d. Homophonic Homographs
73. What are these line delivered by a TV
host?
“NEXT , OIL PRICES GOING UP.”
“COMING UP: SANDRA CAM UPDATE.”
a. Bumpers
b. Teasers
c. Commercials
d. Station identification
74. What kind of word is AWOL?
a. Borrowed
b. Clipped
c. Acronym
d. Blend
75. Who comes between the station
and the
listeners?
a. News reader
b. Scriptwriter
c. Assignment editor
d. Reporter
77. Which phrase should be used to accept
diversity?
a. Please used ideas that fit in with what I say
in class.
b. That’s not the kind of answer we can accept
around here.
c. That’s not how I see it, but I can understand
how others might see if differently
d. I’ve never heard that expression before, so
let’s not start something new.
78. What comment should be avoided so as
not to discourage learners?
a. Good work
b. You’ve got it
c. You’re being lazy again
d. Good try
79. Which behavior is NOT manifested by
one who has INTERPERSONNAL
INTELLIGENCE?
a. Pursues personal interest
b. Has lots of friends
c. Volunteers help when others need it
d. Enjoys cooperatives game
80. Which approach should be used for
teaching reading?
a. Basal textbook
b. Language process
c. Psycholinguistic
d. Skills monitoring
81. Which phrase should be used to give praise
and encouragement?
a. That was quick
b. You can never pay attention, can you?
c. That’s a dumb answer
d. I can see you never study.
82. If a student thinks in words and uses
language and words in many different forms to
express complex meanings, surely he likes to
a. Ask questions
b. Use body language
c. Dance, act, or mine
d. Tell jokes or riddles
83. Which word is an EXCEPTION to the rule
when two vowels go walking; the first one does
the
talking?
a. Head
b. Each
c. Teach
d. Meat
84. Which error is made when the student
reads FEATHER for FATHER?
a. Graphophonic
b. Pragmatic
c. Semantic
d. Syntactic
85. Which word is an EXCEPTION to the
CVC rule?
a. Cup
b. Land
c. Bat
d. Fork
86. Which should be the cause for poor
comprehension?
a. Limited knowledge
b. Lack automaticity
c. Limited vocabulary
d. Insufficient experiences
87. Which stage of the READING PROCESS
is inferred when students construct projects?
a. Reading
b. Responding
c. Exploring
d. Extending
88. Which errors is made when the student
reads STREAKED for STRETCHED?
a. Syntactic
b. Pragmatic
c. Semantic
d. Graphophonic
89. Which instructional procedure makes use of
CHILDREN ‘S LANGUAGE and EXPERIENCES?
a. Directed-Reading-Thinking Activity
b. Language Experience Approach
c. Mastery Learning
d. Individualized method
90. Which is an informal tool for determining
student READING LEVELS?
a. Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)
b. Double-Reading-Thinking Activity
c. Double-Entry Journal
d. Mastery Learning
91. Which reading takes place when TWO
STUDENTS READ A TEXT TOGETHER?
a. Shared
b. Independent
c. Guided
d. Buddy
92. Which is an ALTERNATIVE to traditional
reading instruction that allows children to choose
books themselves?
a. Reading Workshop
b. In-service Training
c. Writing Workshop
d. Seminar Workshop
93. Which instructional procedure is a BOOK
DISCUSSION in which students explore, make
interpretation and reflect on their feelings?
a. Directed Reading-Thinking Activity
b. Double Entry journal
c. Cloze Procedure
d. Grand Conversation
94. What is the instructional procedure used
when the gather information about reader’s abilities to deal
with the content and structure of
texts read?
a. Cubing
b. Grand Conversation
c. Cloze Procedure
d. K-W-L Chart
95. Which activity makes use of the
ELKONIN
boxes?
a. Sound watching
b. Segmentation
c. Sound Blending
d. Sound Isolation
96. Which is an INTERDISCIPLINARY UNIT
that integrates reading and writing with other
curricular areas like social studies, science,
mathematics and values education?
a. Cluster
b. Collaborative report
c. Theme study
d. Learning log
97. Which assessment tool is used to measure
students’ reading comprehension?
a. Reading Logs
b. Running Record
c. Grand conversation
d. Anecdotal Notes
98. Which activity do a QUICK WRITE or QUICK
DRAW, then crumple, throw, and read these
pieces
of paper?
a. Quaker Reading
b. Snowball Toss
c. Carquset
d. Hot Seat
99. Which are cards to which illustrations and
text from a picture book are attached.
a. Story Boards
b. Story Quilts
c. Word Wall
d. Story Maps
100. Which reading takes place when the lead
leader reads each line then the group repeats
it?
a. Cumulative reading
b. Small-group reading
c. Echo reading
d. Chorus reading
61. A
51. A 62. C
52. A 63. C 91. D
53. C 64. C 76. D 92. A
54. B 65. B 77. C 93. D
55. D 66. A 78. C 94. C
56. D 67. D 79. A 95. B
57. A 68. C 80. A 96. C
58. ? 69. D 81. A 97. B
59. D 70. D 82. A 98. B
60. D 71. B 83. A
72. (no answer) 84. A
73. B 85. B 99. A
74. C 86. C 100. C
75. A 87. D
88. D
89. B
90. A