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  • 1. Julian Barnes, author of "The Sense of an ending" is known for literary works that include____.
A) Explorations of Jewish-American identity and pop culture.
B) Explorations of modern love, relationships, and social class.
C) Explorations of race, history and injustice.
D) Explorations of memory, identity, and subjectivity of truth.
  • 2. Among the following, which best describes the difference of the three canticles from the Divine Comedy?
A) In Inferno, they become more surreal as Dante descends into lower circles.
B) In Paradiso, they have neither bodies nor images but simply light; in Purgatorio, they have corporeal shape but not corporeal substance; and in inferno, they become more corporeal as Dante descends into lower circles.
C) In Purgatorio, they have corporeal shape but not corporeal.
D) In Paradiso, they have neither bodies nor images and not corporeal substances.
  • 3. What is the best symbolism of "wedding bed" in Homer's Odyssey?
A) Virginity
B) Constancy of their love
C) Fertility
D) Telemachus' life
  • 4. Who is the father of Tagalog Short Stories?
A) Jose Garcia Villa
B) Deogracias Rosario
C) Nick Joaquin
D) Bienvenido Santos
  • 5. In Paz Latorena's short story, what did Soledad find in the chest when she opened it with a small key?
A) weapons
B) a smaller box
C) a skull
D) old clothes
  • 6. Along the miles of steel
    that span my land
    threadbare children stand
    knees ostrich bulbous on their
    reedy legs, their empty hungry
    hands
    lifted as if in prayer.

    What does the poem mean?
A) Lack of trains in the land
B) Scarcity of industrial materials for the train
C) Children's survival from hunger
D) Poverty amidst industrial progress
  • 7. _________is a victorious 10-year series of battles of the Olympian gods against the Titans in Thessaly.
A) Ragnarok
B) Titanomachy
C) Battle of Olympus
D) Valkyrie
  • 8. What is the story of The Carabao and the Shell?
A) A carabao and a shell compete in a race, with the carabao using its strength to overcome obstacles and win.
B) A carabao and a shell engage in a battle of wits, with each trying to outsmart the other to prove their superiority.
C) A carabao discovers a magical shell that grants wishes, leading to a series of adventures and misadventures.
D) A carabao and a shell make unlikely friends, learning valuable lessons about cooperation and friendship.
  • 9. What information can be inferred from the passage?

    To the ancient Egyptians, their ruler was both god and king, a descendant of the sun god, Ra. His power was absolute, and no one could question his decisions or repeal his judgments. Because the ruler was a god, no one was allowed to address him directly or to talk about him. Instead people called him pharaoh, meaning, "the Great House."
A) A god has no name.
B) A name demystifies a god.
C) A god has no address.
D) Ra is both god and human.
  • 10. In The Fall of the House of Usher, Edgar Allan Poe uses simile in comparing Usher to what kind of addict?
A) opium
B) coffee
C) meth
D) cocaine
  • 11. ______is a body of stories, legends, myths, ballads, songs, riddles, sayings, and other works arising out of the oral traditions of the peoples around the world.
A) Folk Literature
B) Literature
C) Mythology
D) Folk tales
  • 12. Which of the following best describes the central theme of Virgil's “The Aeneid”?
A) The futility of war and the loss it brings to humanity
B) The conflict between gods and mortals over free will
C) he hero’s journey in fulfilling destiny and founding a nation
D) The destructive power of romantic love over reason
  • 13. ________ is a king who saw the emptiness of his life and turned his back on it, becoming a wanderer, sadhu and refusing to go home.
A) Ramayana
B) Alladin
C) Muchukunda
D) Rma
  • 14. In Alexander Pope's "An Essay on Man", what central philosophical idea does the poet symbolize?
A) Man should accept his place in the divine order of the universe.
B) Knowledge and reason are undeniable tools for understanding life.
C) The pursuit of wealth and power leads to true happiness.
D) Man is the supreme being capable of mastering the universe.
  • 15. According to the speaker in Sandburg's “Chicago,” how would most others describe the city?
    They tell me you are wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.
A) immoral
B) vibrant
C) admirable
D) amusing
  • 16. In Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, which tale talks about friends who killed each other for the chest filled with treasure?
A) The Nuns Priest's Tale
B) The Miller's Tale
C) The Pardoner's Tale
D) The Knight's Tale
  • 17. What technique was exemplified in Shakespeare's use of equivocation in "Macbeth"?
A) irony and paradox
B) prediction
C) mirroring
D) ambiguity
  • 18. Which of the following is a bitter pamphlet that ironically suggests that the Irish babies fattened and sold as meat?
A) A Modest Proposal
B) Vanity Fair
C) Scarlet Letter
D) The Rape of the Lock
  • 19. In Kerima Tuvera's "The Virgin", why did Miss Mijares fail to find a man to marry?
A) She loved the carpenter secretly.
B) She took care of her sick mother.
C) She was sick
D) She was picky with men.
  • 20. Who thought of the stratagem of the wooden horse that is often alluded to have caused the Trojans’ defeat against the Greeks?
A) Aenes
B) Menaleus
C) Achilles
D) Odysseus
  • 21. In "The Fall of the House Usher" (short story by EA Poe), the name of the woman who is entombed alive is______.
A) Marina
B) Maria
C) Madeline
D) Marites
  • 22. What major historical event serves as the central backdrop in Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace?
A) The Russian Revolution of 1917
B) The Napoleonic Wars
C) The French Revolution
D) The Crimean War
  • 23. Which of these phrases appears on William Shakespeare's gravestone?
A) "... curst be he that moves my bones"
B) "He wrote so much that man will take years to understand everything."
C) "May the great author rest in peace"
D) "He arrived on this earth with nothing. When he died, he left everything to us."
  • 24. Who wrote The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe?
A) Theodor Seuss Geisel
B) JM Barrie
C) CS Lewis
D) Maurice Sendak
  • 25. Which character set sail with the Argonauts to find the Golden Fleece?
A) Hercules
B) Jason
C) Orphues
D) Pelias
  • 26. Widely acclaimed as the Father of Free Verses, he revealed his experience about miracles nurturing the idea that life is a big miracle through his poem Miracles.
A) William Shakespeare
B) Walt Whitman
C) Sir Walter Scott
D) William Wordsworth
  • 27. What is the conflict in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone?
A) Harry, Ron, and Hermione face trouble as they are chased by the Death Eaters.
B) Harry rejects help from the Ministry of Magic and Order of the Phoenix.
C) Voldemort has to stop Harry from stealing the stone.
D) Harry has to stop Voldemort from stealing the stone.
  • 28. Which mythical creature is represented as a shape-shifter who could transform into a huge dog, a cat or a pig, and also likes to eat people?
A) tikbalang
B) kapre
C) tiyanak
D) aswang
  • 29. Which of the following best describes the lines from the poem, "Annabel Lee" by EA Poe?
    "But our love it was stronger by far than the love Nor those who were older than we-Of many far wiser than we-And neither the angels in Heaven above Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee..."
A) Immense love
B) Forbidden love
C) Unrequited love
D) Consummate love
  • 30. In Hindu mythology, who is traditionally depicted with four heads, four faces, and four arms? He also symbolizes the supreme eternal deity whose essence pervades the entire universe.
A) Sarasvati
B) Brahma
C) Shiva
D) Vishnu
  • 31. ______ is a story about hunting a white whale using Pequod.
A) Animal Farm
B) Moby Dick
C) 20 000 Leagues Under the Sea
D) Captain Courageous
  • 32. Which of the following words is parallel to the novel 1984?
A) The Hunger Games
B) Fahrenheit 451
C) Animal Farm
D) IQ84
  • 33. What is the tone of the father's statement in this line from Florentino's The Dancers?
    "FATHER: (mimicking her) She's still a baby! I'm telling you she's old enough to have a baby!"
A) sarcastic
B) hopeful
C) bitter
D) thrilled
  • 34. Which of the following writers of the Victorian Era was widely recognized as a master of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture?
A) Oscar Wilde
B) George Eliot
C) Robert Browning
D) Lewis Carroll
  • 35. Which story is a satire?
A) The Virgin
B) The Harvest
C) The Visitation of the Gods
D) The Wedding Dance
  • 36. Which of the following is the climax of "Flowers of May"?
A) none of the above
B) When Peping says, "Enough of this, I have had enough", his mother confronts him about what it his that he has had enough of.
C) " The flowers are gone. The flowers of May are gone. I saw that Victoria did not want to die. There was nothing I could do. There was nothing one could do", Father says helplessly.
D) Oh, Pepeng!" Mother cries. Father proclaims, "Victoria did not want to die! Victoria did not want to die! I saw that she did not want to die."
  • 37. Which of the following literary periods did Gertrude Stein call the "period of the lost generation"?
A) Victorian
B) Romantic
C) Realist
D) Modern
  • 38. Which titan was punished for stealing fire?
A) Hercules
B) Apollo
C) Prometheus
D) Orpheus
  • 39. The Poor Christ of Bomba by Mongo Beti is an example of
A) allegory
B) deus ex machina
C) in medias res
D) satire
  • 40. On what day does the Philippines celebrate National Children's Book Day?
A) Third Tuesday of July
B) Second Tuesday of June
C) First Tuesday of July
D) Fourth Tuesday of June
  • 41. What does Hephaestus represent?
A) strength of gods
B) corruption of humans
C) foolishness of gods
D) lameness of humans
  • 42. Who is the playwright who used alienation effect to educate the audience and not rely upon their emotion?
A) Hugo
B) Dumas
C) Brecht
D) de Maupassant
  • 43. If you are teaching the works of EA Poe, you should focus on
A) characters
B) plot
C) atmosphere
D) POV
  • 44. Which of the following is an example of an adolescent literary text that deals with social issues?
A) The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (CS Lewis)
B) The Hunger Games (Suzanne Collins)
C) Where the Wild Things Are (Maurice Sendak)
D) Goodnight Moon (Margaret Brown)
  • 45. Which theme is most prominently explored in Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist?
A) The romantic ideal of love and destiny
B) The triumph of science over superstition
C) The impact of industrialization on rural life
D) The struggle of innocence against social injustice
  • 46. Which of the following best describes the themes of Philippine pre-colonial literature?
A) Sad and melancholic
B) Nonchalant and imaginative
C) Communal and functional
D) Playful and entertaining
  • 47. "The Story of the Aged Mother" talks about all the following EXCEPT
A) wisdom in old age
B) disobedience to oppressive power ends in tragedy
C) fate of the common people under the despot is grim
D) the daimyo's unreasonable order is a boast of his power
  • 48. In literary history, the period of Contemporary Literature is generally considered to have begun in what year?
A) 1900
B) 1920
C) 1942
D) 1945
  • 49. The novel-like stories, Sinuhe and The Predestined Prince were written around 1200 BC in___.
A) Japan
B) Philippines
C) Israel
D) Egypt (CORRECT
  • 50. Who is the Filipino author known to be the "William Shakespeare of the Philippines"?
A) Severino Reyes
B) Jose Rizal
C) Francisco Balagtas
D) Nicomedes "Nick" Joaquin
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