Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
Region VII – CENTRAL VISAYAS
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF BOHOL
BALILIHAN DISTRICT
CONGRESSMAN PABLO MALASARTE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
CABAD, BALILIHAN, BOHOL
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
21 CENTURY LIERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD
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FINAL TEST
Name:__________________________________Year/Section:_______________Date:____________Score:___________
GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:
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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
[Link] 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. What literary genre refers to the story intended to be acted out on a stage? Its critics include pantomime (silent acting),
but others specify that it requires dialogue.
A. Drama B. Poetry C. prose fiction D. Nonfiction Prose
[Link] 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. The idea is to focus on the form and technique used in literature rather than its content, so that literature becomes an
autonomous form of art which may stand on its own-without its content.
A. Formalism B. Post Colonialism C. Biographical Criticism D. New Criticism
14. He was born in North Korea, he became a poet who championed the integration of the experiences of war in poetry.
A. Latiff Mohidin B. Taslima Nasrin C. Chon Ponggon D. Pira Sudham
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. Which of the following is the literary work of Yukio Mishima?
A. One Hundred Years of Solitude C. Island on the Earth
B. One Hundred Years of Solitary D. Swaddling Clothes
17. His works are often interrelated with themes of deep love of nature, rural life and images of poverty, destruction and
death.
A. Partaw Naderi C. Chon Ponggon
B. Taslima Nasrin D. Jorge Luis Borges
18. 8. He is an Afghan-born American writer and who also a professional medical doctor.
A. Khaled Hosseini C. Chon Ponggon
B. Taslima Nasrin D. Jorge Luis Borges
19 10. A Filipino-Chinese writer who was penned award-winning works in Philippine literature._______________.
A. Khaled Hosseini C. Chon Ponggon
B. Taslima Nasrin D. Charleson Ong
20. To whom this line belongs to and from what literary piece that this line can be found?
“My wandering is an old crow
that each dawn
dips its blackened beak
in the holy well of the sun”
A. Chon Ponggon-If you come to a stony place [Link] Mohidin- In the Midst of Hardship
B. Partaw Naderi-Earth D. Gabriel Garcia Marques – Chronicle of A Death Foretold
21. In Pira Sudham’s Monsoon Country what is the name of the character that means joy?
A. José C. Úrsula Iguarán
B. Melquíades D. Prem
22. Which of the following is not belong to South East Asia.
A. China B. Myanmar C. Singapore D. Malaysia
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. Biographical 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. In the story “Swaddling Clothes” what did the doctor wrapped the new born baby?
A. Cloth B. Newspaper C. Rug D. Towel
34. In the story “Motherhood” what is the biggest problem of the protagonist?
A. Poverty B. No child C. Infidelity D. None of these
35. What do you called the first Homo erectus that is found in China?
A. Peking Man B. Java Man C. Beijing Man D. Lucy
36. In the story “A thousand splendid Suns” who is the husband of Laila?
A. Zalamai B. Rasheed C. Zaman D. Taliban
37. Where is the setting of the story Monsoon Country?
A. Napo B. Napa C. Prian D. Payan
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 poem is about finding an albino buffalo in the midst of flood.
A. In the Midst of Hardship C. Earth
B. If you Come to a Stony Place D. Albino Buffalo