SEMI-FINAL EXAMINATION IN PHILIPPINE LITERATURE

Prepared by: Michael B. Molina, LPT

INSTRUCTIONS: Read each question/statement comprehensively. Decide to which items you

believe you will earn 30 points. Each item has points specifically corresponding to it. Be guided by
the rubrics below. Note: The more direct, and laconic but substantial your answer is, the more points
you earn.

Criteria Possible Points Total

Substantial Argument 10
Textual Evidence 10
Clarity of ideas, words, grammar 5
Literary terminologies and facts 5
30

1. Enlarge on how Freud’s human psyches apply to Rabutnik’s paedophilic development. (25)
2. How do social classes become a major conflict in Manuel Arguilla’s Rice? (20)
3. What/who should be blamed upon the grave circumstance which befell upon the couple in
Amador Dagiuo’s Wedding Dance? Explain why. (15)
4. To what extent is the impact to Filipinos of the Americans colonizers as demonstrated in F.
Sionil Jose’s The God Stealer? How is this shown in the story? (20)
5. How did Gonzales in Bread of Salt symbolically use pandesal to show young love with
Filipino taste? (pun intended) (10)
6. How is Mayday Eve plot-twistingly written by Quijano de Manila? (5)
7. What does Pete, in the life of Lazaro Corpus, symbolize in Cirilo Bautista’s Resurrection?
How about the other characters? (25)
8. Lift a Filipino manner/practice as stressed in Juan Osong. How is it underscored in the story?
(10)
9. Compare how ‘curiosity’ is presented in the Legend of the Magat River and in Pandora’s
Box. (20)
10. Explain why the student from Manila in Ingbankeru was compared to Lucifer of yore. (15)
11. Compose a two-stanza toast on COVID-19. (10)
12. How realistic are the instances presented by Kristian Cordero in Kamuti on the Philippine
educational system. Explain each. (15)
13. Using any of the approaches in literary criticism e.g. feministic, psychological, biographical,
historical, moral etc., write a formal essay on any of the following: Resurrection, Rice,
Loverboy, Wedding Dance, and The God Stealer. (30)
14. What is Literature? How does this practically help a seafarer? (5)
15. Differentiate Literature of Power from Literature of Knowledge. (5)

BONUS: Give two complete verses from the Bible. (5)