Name: _______________________ Date:____________________

Section: ______________________ Teacher: Sir Jeffrey De Belen

4th Quarterly Exam on Contemporary Philippine Arts from the Regions

TEST QUESTIONS

I. Multiple Choice

1. Which of these criteria to be considered as the National Artists of the Philippines is NOT correct?

There is excellence in the practice of their art form.

Their art form enriches artistic expression or style.
Must not be a Filipino citizen.
Work has contributed to nation-building.

2. He was a Filipino architect, teacher and a community leader.

Juan Felipe de Jesus Nakpil

Pablo S. Antonio, Sr.
Leandro V. Locsin
Ildefonso Paez Santos Jr.

3. Popularly known simply as "IP Santos", was a Filipino architect who was known for being the
"Father of Philippine Landscape Architecture."

Pablo S. Antonio, Sr.

Leandro V. Locsin
Ildefonso Paez Santos Jr.
Ramón Valera

4. His basic design is grounded on simplicity, no clutter.

Pablo S. Antonio, Sr.

Leandro V. Locsin
Ildefonso Paez Santos Jr.
Ramón Valera
5. An avid collector, he was fond of modern painting and Chinese ceramics.

Pablo S. Antonio, Sr.

Leandro V. Locsin
Ildefonso Paez Santos Jr.
Ramón Valera

6. He was involved in designing several religious buildings such as The Our Lady of the Holy
Rosary in Tala, Caloocan completed in 1950; the Santo Domingo Church in Quezon City and
etc.

Leandro V. Locsin
Ildefonso Paez Santos Jr.
Ramón Valera
José María Zaragoza

7. Her pen name was Cristina Luna and she was known as Trailblazer, Mother of Philippine
Theater Dance and Dean of Filipino Performing Arts Critics.

Leonor Orosa-Goquingco
Lucrecia Faustino Reyes-Urtula
Ramon Arevalo Obusan
Alice Garcia Reyes

8. She served as supervisor of physical education at the Bureau of Education in the 1940s.

Francisca Reyes-Aquino
Leonor Orosa-Goquingco
Lucrecia Faustino Reyes-Urtula
Ramon Arevalo Obusan

9. She is best known for "Bungkos Suite", "Carmen", "Carmina Burana", "Romeo and
Juliet", "Rama Hari", "Cinderella", "Amada", "Itim-Asu", and "Tales of the Manuvu"—
all nuanced with Filipino culture, gesture and grace.

Leonor Orosa-Goquingco
Lucrecia Faustino Reyes-Urtula
Ramon Arevalo Obusan
Alice Garcia Reyes
10. She was the founding director of the Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company and
was named National Artist of the Philippines for dance in 1988.

Leonor Orosa-Goquingco
Lucrecia Faustino Reyes-Urtula
Ramon Arevalo Obusan
Alice Garcia Reyes

11. He was a Filipino dancer, choreographer, stage designer and artistic director. He is credited for
his work in promoting Philippine traditional dance and cultural work.

Leonor Orosa-Goquingco
Lucrecia Faustino Reyes-Urtula
Ramon Arevalo Obusan
Alice Garcia Reyes

12. He is a National Artist of the Philippines for music, and University Professor Emeritus of the
composition and theory department the College of Music of the University of the Philippines
Diliman.

Ernani Potel Cuenco

Andrea Ofilada Veneracion
Francisco Feliciano
Ramón Pagayon Santos

13. His notable works include: Pagsamba for 116 instruments, 100 mixed and 25 male voices
(1968); Cassette 100 for 100 cassette players (1971); Ugnayan for 20 radio stations (1974);
Udlot-Udlot for several hundred to several thousand people (1975); Suling-Suling for 10 flutes,
10 bamboo buzzers and 10 flat gongs (1985).

Lucio D. San Pedro, Sr.

Felipe Padilla de León
Levi Celerio
José Montserrat Maceda

14. He was also known as the Claude Debussy of the Philippines due to his use of impressionist
themes in his music.

Antonio Molina
Jovita Fuentes
Col. Antonino Ramirez Buenaventura
Lucrecia Roces Kasilag
15. In 1936 he composed the accompaniment to the folk dance "Pandanggo sa Ilaw" and
incorporated ethnic melodies and instruments to some of his compositions

Jovita Fuentes
Col. Antonino Ramirez Buenaventura
Lucrecia Roces Kasilag
Lucio D. San Pedro, Sr.

16. Due to her merits and contributions in her field, she was dubbed as The First Lady of Philippine
Music and in 1976 she earned the title of becoming the first national artist in music.

Antonio Molina
Jovita Fuentes
Col. Antonino Ramirez Buenaventura
Lucrecia Roces Kasilag

17. On May 9, 1991, President Corazon C. Aquino proclaimed San Pedro a National Artist of the
Philippines for Music.

Col. Antonino Ramirez Buenaventura

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag
Lucio D. San Pedro, Sr.
Felipe Padilla de León

18. She was a Filipino composer and pianist. She is particularly known for incorporating indigenous
Filipino instruments into orchestral productions.

Col. Antonino Ramirez Buenaventura

Lucrecia Roces Kasilag
Lucio D. San Pedro, Sr.
Felipe Padilla de León

19. Before becoming a musician, he took various odd jobs to support his family, such as a shoe
polisher, carabao herder, carriage driver, and vendor of various items.

Lucio D. San Pedro, Sr.

Felipe Padilla de León
Levi Celerio
José Montserrat Maceda
20. He is also known for using the leaf as a musical instrument which led to being recognized as the
"only man who could play music using a leaf" by the Guinness Book of Records.

Lucio D. San Pedro, Sr.

Felipe Padilla de León
Levi Celerio
José Montserrat Maceda

21. He is the first National Artist in the country and was known for using backlighting technique in
painting, making his creations bright and cheerful.

Fernando Amorsolo y Cueto

Carlos Modesto "Botong" Villaluz Francisco
Guillermo Estrella Tolentino
Napoleon "Billy" Veloso Abueva

22. He was considered to be the Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture. He is skillful in creating both
representational and modern abstract sculptures using a wide variety of materials.

Guillermo Estrella Tolentino

Napoleon "Billy" Veloso Abueva
Victorio C. Edades
Vicente Silva Manansala

23. He was known for his paintings depicting realistic themes using an abstract or a cubist style. He
believed that “the beauty of art is in the process, in the moment of. doing a particular painting,
closely associating it with the act of making love.

Victorio C. Edades
Vicente Silva Manansala
Cesar Torrente Legaspi
Hernando Ruiz Ocampo

24. He was largely known for his abstract paintings. His works featured shapes bounded with curved
lines painted in intense colors.

Vicente Silva Manansala

Cesar Torrente Legaspi
Hernando Ruiz Ocampo
Arturo Rogerio Luz
25. Recognized as the Father of Modern Philippine Painting and was known for using dark somber
colors in his paintings. His works focused on factory workers, laborers or other simple
townspeople.

Guillermo Estrella Tolentino

Napoleon "Billy" Veloso Abueva
Victorio C. Edades
Vicente Silva Manansala

26. Honored as National Artist for Sculpture in 1973 and was known for designing the seal of the
Republic of the Philippines, and the gold and bronze medals for the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
Tolentino’s works include the “UP Oblation”.

Guillermo Estrella Tolentino

Napoleon "Billy" Veloso Abueva
Victorio C. Edades
Vicente Silva Manansala

27. He was known for utilizing and refining cubism, a style involving breaking parts into geometric
shapes, in his paintings.

Vicente Silva Manansala

Cesar Torrente Legaspi
Hernando Ruiz Ocampo
Arturo Rogerio Luz

28. He was known for his hardwood masks reflecting the human and the animal, abstract paintings in
oil and watercolor, and assemblages.

Jerry Navarro Elizalde

Ang Kiukok
José T. Joya
Benedicto Reyes Cabrera

29. He was known for his paintings expressing nationalism and sociological agenda during the 60’s
through vivid cubistic figures. His works include “Geometric landscape,” “Pieta,” and the
“Seated Figure.”

Ang Kiukok
José T. Joya
Benedicto Reyes Cabrera
Abdulmari Asia Imao
30. Imao was instrumental in popularizing the ukil, sarimanok and naga motifs in the country as
original Filipino creations.

José T. Joya
Benedicto Reyes Cabrera
Abdulmari Asia Imao
Federico Aguilar Alcuaz

31. He was mainly known for his oil and acrylic paintings, and sketches in ink, pencil, and
watercolor.

Benedicto Reyes Cabrera

Abdulmari Asia Imao
Federico Aguilar Alcuaz
Francisco V. Coching

32. Tagged as the “Dean of Filipino Illustrators,” Coching is best known for his work on comics and
illustrations which lead to its recognition as popular art.

Benedicto Reyes Cabrera

Abdulmari Asia Imao
Federico Aguilar Alcuaz
Francisco V. Coching

33. He is known for pioneering abstract expressionism in the Philippines. His most notable work is
the Granadean Arabesque (1958). He also represented the Philippines in the 1964 Venice
Biennale.

Ang Kiukok
José T. Joya
Benedicto Reyes Cabrera
Abdulmari Asia Imao

34. He is the first and so far the only National Artist for Historical Literature and was also known for
writing “The Great Malayan,” which considered to be one of the earliest biographies of Jose
Rizal.

Bienvenido Lumbera
Carlos Lozada Quirino
Lázaro Francisco y Angeles
Cirilo F. Bautista
35. He is a writer, poet, essayist, critic, journalist and teacher, who are recognized as one of the
pioneers in writing modern Filipino short stories in English.

Carlos P. Romulo
Francisco "Franz" Arcellana
Néstor Vicente Madali González
Edith L. Tiempo

36. He is a fictionist, essayist, poet and teacher. He earned numerous recognitions including the First
Commonwealth Literary Contest in 1940, the Republic Cultural Heritage Award in 1960 and the
Gawad CCP Para sa Sining in 1990.

Francisco "Franz" Arcellana

Néstor Vicente Madali González
Edith L. Tiempo
Francisco Sionil José

37. He is considered as the most distinguished Filipino writer in English writing. His body of work
extends from short stories to poems to essays which includes journalism and reportage.

Nicomedes "Nick" Márquez Joaquín

Carlos P. Romulo
Francisco "Franz" Arcellana
Néstor Vicente Madali González

38. He is one of the most widely read Filipino writers founded the Philippine chapter of the
international organization PEN.

Néstor Vicente Madali González

Edith L. Tiempo
Francisco Sionil José
Virgilio Senadrin Almario

39. He is known for his comic short stories which includes “My Brother’s Peculiar Chicken.” He also
led the campaign to change the country’s Independence Day from July 4 to June 12.

Alejandro Roces
Bienvenido Lumbera
Lázaro Francisco y Angeles
Cirilo F. Bautista
40. He was tagged as the “The Boy Wonder of Philippine Movies” as early as 1939. Kalderong Pilak
was the first film by a Filipino filmmaker shown in Cannes International Film Festival.

Lamberto Vera Avellana

Honorata de la Rama-Hernandez
Wilfrido Maria Guerrero
Daisy Avellana

41. He organized the Arena Theater Playwriting Contest which became the initial ground for
playwrights to showcase their talents in writing while serving as Dean of Instruction of the
Philippine Normal College.

Wilfrido Maria Guerrero

Daisy Avellana
Severino Montano
Salvador Floro Bernal

42. Honored as National Artist for Theater Design in 2003, he used local materials including
bamboo, abaca, hemp twine, and rattan in theater design for local productions.

Wilfrido Maria Guerrero

Daisy Avellana
Severino Montano
Salvador Floro Bernal

43. He is recognized for his films which explores the lives of people in the marginalized sectors.

Catalino Ortiz Brocka

Ishmael Bernal
Edgar Sinco Romero
Ronald Allan Kelley Poe (Fernando Poe Jr.)

44. He was hailed as Director of the Decade of the 1970s by the Catholic Mass Media Awards; four-
time Best Director by the Urian Awards (1989, 1985, 1983 and 1977); and given the ASEAN
Cultural Award in Communication Arts in 1993.

Gerardo de León, ONA

Catalino Ortiz Brocka
Ishmael Bernal
Edgar Sinco Romero
45. More known as Fernando Poe, Jr. He is an icon in film industry as an actor, director, writer and
producer.

Catalino Ortiz Brocka

Ronald Allan Kelley Poe (Fernando Poe Jr.)
Ishmael Bernal
Edgar Sinco Romero

46. He is known for producing and directing films based on old Filipino tales such as Siete Infantes
de Lara (1950), Si Juan Tamad (1974), Ang Ibong Adarna (1941).

Ishmael Bernal
Manuel Conde
Edgar Sinco Romero
Ronald Allan Kelley Poe (Fernando Poe Jr.)

47. According to him, craftsmanship begins with respect for one’s tools and the medium, and the
only way to improve one’s skills is to immerse oneself, learn the technique, and to practice.

Eduardo Mutuc
Darhata Sawabi
Haja Amina Appi
Federico Caballero

48. He is Magindanaon, who is highly sophisticated in weaving, okir designs, jewelry, metalwork and
brassware which art is Southeast Asian yet distinct in character.

Darhata Sawabi
Haja Amina Appi
Samon Sulaiman
Magdalena Gamayo

49. He is a Hanunoo Mangyan who is considered as a master of the ambahan poetry. He shares old
and new ambahans with his fellow Mangyans and promotes this poetic form in every occasion.

Samon Sulaiman
Magdalena Gamayo
Ginaw Bilog
Federico Caballero

50. She is recognized as a master mat weaver among the Sama indigenous community for her unique
designs, straightness of her edging (tabig), and fineness of her sasa and kima-kima.

Eduardo Mutuc
Darhata Sawabi
Haja Amina Appi
Federico Caballero