Claret College of Isabela

Isabela City, Basilan Province

Senior High School Department
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
ST
21 CENTURY LITERATURE OF THE PHILIPPINES

Name:__________________________ Score:_____________
Grade and Strand:___________________________ Date:______________

General Instruction: Before you start with the examination, please do pray and remove all negative
vibes. Please mind your own paper and AVOID ERASURES. Good luck!!!

Test I Multiple Choice

Instruction: Read the questions carefully and write only the letter of the answer of your choice in the
space provided before each number. AGAIN NO ERASURES.

______1. The dominant genres of literature during the Pre-colonial era are listed below, except?
a. Legends c. Myth
b. Epic d. Short Poems

______2. In what form did the literature of the Philippines was before the Spanish colonization?
a. Scriptures c. Oral
b. Stone carvings d. None of the above

______3. What do you think would have had happened to our literature if we were not colonized by the
Spaniards?
a. Our literature would be better off without them.
b. Our literature would flourish even better.
c. Our literature would not even evolve.
d. Our literature would have a slow improvement.

______4. This is a literary genre introduced during the Spanish colonial period that is a play that uses
shadows as its main spectacle.
a. Tibag c. Duplo
b. Carillo d. Zarzuela

______5. Which characteristic best describes Mariang Makiling?

a. She is strong willed and fearless.
b. She is very generous and kind.
c. She is a master of Ghosting.
d. She is very gullible and easily fooled.

______6. Who among the following in not a member of the Propagandist?

a. Graciano Lopez-Jaena c. Andres Bonifacio
b. Jose Rizal d. Marcello H. del Pilar

______7. What do you think is the major reason on as to why the Propagandist movement was formed?
a. To be the voice of the oppressed and the poor.
b. For Filipinos to have equal rights with the Spaniards.
c. To awaken a revolution and fight for freedom.
d. To preserve our cultural heritage.

______8. Which of the following gave birth to the Propagandist and Revolutionary movement?
a. Through the Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo.
b. Because of the Martyrdom of GOMBURZA and exposure to Europe’s liberal idealism.
c. To be the voice of all Filipinos and to fight for freedom.
d. All of the above
______9. Which of the following best describes what had happened to Philippine literature during the
American occupation?
a. Our literature became stagnant.
b. Our literature had little to no improvement.
c. Our literature flourished and new genres were used.
d. Our literature became more advanced than of America’s.

______10. factual information presented in a format which tells a story.

a. Short Story c. Informational

b. Narrative Non-Fiction d. Autobiography

______11. is the kind of poetry pertaining to a hero.

a. Descriptive Poetry c. Lyric Poetry
b. Narrative Poetry d. None of the above

______12. is a selection in which events evoke a feeling of dread in both the characters
and the reader.
a. Mystery c. Fantasy
b. Horror d. Paranormal Activity

______13. is a cell phone novel, or mobile phone novel.

a. Speculative Fiction c. Mobile Phone Text Tula
b. Chick Lit d. Hyper Poetry

______14. What is the genre of the selection titled “Mariang Makiling”?

a. Fable c. Fantasy
b. Legend d. Myth

______15. What is the genre of the selection titled “GABU”?

a. Descriptive Poetry c. Lyric Poetry
b. Narrative Poetry d. None of the above

______16. Meaning is one of the elements of a poem, what best defines the meaning of a poem?
a. The meaning of a poem always has a connotative message.
b. The meaning of a poem is concrete and particular.
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above

_____17. It is the repetition of vowel sounds present in a line or stanza of a piece.

a. Alliteration c. Assonance
b. Consonance d. Onomatopoeia

_____18. What best describes the abstract meaning of a poem?

a. It is complicated and hard to understand.
b. It contains only the literal message of the poem.
c. It is the deeper message of the poem, aside from its literal meaning.
d. It has a lot of definition depending on how the reader looks at it.

_____19. Which type of poetic foot shows one(1) strong syllable followed by two(2) weak syllables?
a. Spondee c. Dactylic
b. Anapestic d. Trochaic

_____20. Listed below are the elements of poetry, except?

a. Form c. Rhyme
b. Figurative language d. Rhythm
For 21-25, identify the figurative language used in the following passages/ sentence.

_____21. “How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,

In the icy air of night!
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells-
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.”

-Edgar Allan Poe, “Bells”

a. Personification c. Metaphor
b. Onomatopoeia d. Litotes

_____22. “Ah, William, we’re weary of weather,”

Said the sunflowers, shining with dew.
“Our travelling habits have tired us.
Can you give us a room with a view?”

-William Blake, “Two Sunflowers

Move in the Yellow Room

a. Personification c. Metaphor
b. Onomatopoeia d. Litotes

_____23. “Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,

And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
O I will love thee still, my dear,
While the sands o’ life shall run.”

-Robert Burns, “A Red, Red Rose”

a. Alliteration c. Oxymoron
b. Synecdoche d. Hyperbole

_____24. “Why, then, O brawling love! O loving

Hate!
O anything, of nothing first create!
O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire,
sick health!
Still-walking sleep, that is not what it is!
This love feel I, that feel no love in this.
Dost thou not laugh?”

- William Shakespeare, “Romeo

And Juliet” Act 1, scene 1

a. Alliteration c. Oxymoron
b. Synecdoche d. Hyperbole

_____25. If you give me your heart, I will then cherish you forever.

a. Metonymy c. Apostrophe
b. Irony d. Synecdoche
For 26-30, read the poem titled “Gabu”, then answer the following questions below.

Gabu
by Carlos A. Angeles

The battering restlessness of the sea

Insists a tidal fury upon the beach
At Gabu, and its pure consistency
Havocs the wasteland hard within its reach.

Brutal the daylong bashing of its heart

Against the seascape where, for miles around,
Farther than sight itself, the rock-stones part
And drop into the elemental wound.

The waste of centuries is grey and dead

And neutral where the sea has beached its brine,
Where the split salt of its heart lies spread
Among the dark habiliments of Time.

The vital splendor misses.  For here, here

At Gabu where the ageless tide recurs
All things forfeited are most loved and dear.
It is the sea pursues a habit of shores

_____26. What is the structure of the poem?

a. FORM: Narrative, STANZA: Cinquain

b. FORM: Descriptive, STANZA: Quatrain
c. FORM: Narrative, STANZA: Quatrain
d. FORM: Lyric, STANZA: Cinquain

_____27. What is Rhyme pattern of the poem?

a. ABBA c. ABAB
b. AABB d. None of the above

_____28. Identify the meter of the last line of the poem.

It is the sea pursues a habit of shores
a. The line is an Anapestic tetrameter varied by one Iambic foot.
b. The line is a Trochaic pentameter varied by one Dactylic and one Iambic foot.
c. The line is an Iambic pentameter varied by one Anapestic and one Trochaic foot.
d. None of the above

_____29. Identify the meter of the first line of the second stanza of the poem.
Brutal the daylong bashing of its heart
a. The line is an Iambic pentameter.
b. The line is an Anapestic and Trochaic tetrameter.
c. The line is an Iambic and Dactylic tetrameter.
d. None of the above

_____30. Identify the meter of the first line of the third stanza of the poem.
The waste of centuries is grey and dead
a. The line is an Iambic pentameter.
b. The line is an Anapestic and Trochaic tetrameter.
c. The line is an Iambic and Dactylic tetrameter.
d. None of the above
Prepared by:
Mr. John Pierre Saed B. Mohamad