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21st-Century Literature from the Philippines

1st Quarter exam

General Directions:
Direction:

1. Read the instructions in

each TEST ITEMS carefully
and choose the letter of your
BEST
choice.
2. NO ERASURES.
3. NO CHEATING.
4. REVIEW YOUR
ANSWERS
General Directions:
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1. Read the instructions in

each TEST ITEMS carefully
and choose the letter of your
BEST
choice.
2. NO ERASURES.
3. NO CHEATING.
4. REVIEW YOUR
ANSWERS
General Directions:
1. Read the instructions in
each TEST ITEMS carefully
and choose the letter of your
BEST
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choice.
2. NO ERASURES.
3. NO CHEATING.
4. REVIEW YOUR
ANSWERS
General Directions:

1. Read the instructions in each TEST item carefully and choose the letter of your BEST choice.
2. NO ERASURES.
3. NO CHEATING.
4. REVIEW YOUR ANSWERS

TEST I. MULTIPLE CHOICE

INSTRUCTIONS: Read the items carefully. Choose and write the letter of the BEST answer in answer sheets
provided.

_______1. It is a body of written works that originated from oral traditions.

a. Folktales c. Fiction
b. Literature d. Narrative

_______2. In this period, the sources of literature are usually the local native town folk.
a. Pre-Colonial Period c. Contemporary Period
b. Spanish Period d. American Period

_______3. These are mystifying statements or questions phrased and rhymed

to require ingenuity in determining its answer.
a. Proverbs c. lullaby
b. Riddles d. Folk songs

_______4. These are forms of folk lyric speak volumes of the typical rural lives and reflect people’s
aspirations and lifestyles.
a. Proverbs c. Songs
b. Riddles d. Folk songs
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_______5. It was the writing system used by the Filipinos in the Pre-Spanish Period.
a. Baybayon c. Baybayin
b. Alibata d. Hieroglyphics

_______6. This is a poetic joust in speaking and reasoning.

a. Proverbs c. Songs
b. Riddles d. Duplo

_______7. This is a type of drama that originated in Spain.It includes singing and dancing on stage with
lyrics alternatively spoken and sung in operatic and popular styles.
a. Sarswela c. Kurido
b. Fables d. Duplo

_______8. These are metrical romances and tales that follow a structure of a poem.
a. Sarswela c. Kurido
b. Fables d. Duplo

________9. these are songs with lines often described as repetitive, didactic, and sonorous.
a. Lullaby c. Kurido
b. Fables d. folk songs/awit sa bayan

_______10. These are courtship songs used by young men to capture the heart of the girl they love.
a. Lullaby c. Serenade/harana
b. Fables d. folk songs/awit sa bayan

_______11. These are used to give respect, excuse, or apology to unseen or other elemental spirits our
ancestors believed in to deliver them from danger or harm.
a. Sarswela c. Kurido
b. Chants d. Duplo

_______12. These are stories that explain the origin of things and phenomena in the surrounding world.
a. Legend c. Tale
b. Fable d. Duplo

EST I. MULTIPLE CHOICE

INSTRUCTIONS: Read the
items carefully. Choose and
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write the letter of the BEST

answer in the
space provided.
_______1. It is a body of written
works which originated from
oral traditions.
a. Folktales c. Fiction
b. Literature d. Narrative
_______2. In this period, the
sources of literature are usually
the local native town folk.
a. Pre-Colonial Period c.
Contemporary Period
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b. Spanish Period d. American

Period
_______3. It is lengthy narrative
that has the role of heroes and
damsel in distress.
a. Legend c. Epic
b. Myth d. Non-Fiction
_______4. It refers to a type of
government with primarily
maritime realms.
a. Maharlika c. Barangay
b. Thalassocracy d.
Municipality
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_______5. It was the writing

system used by the Filipinos in
the Pre-Spanish Period.
a. Baybayon c. Baybayin
b. Alibata d. Hieroglyphics
_______6. It is described as “an
unrhymed verse form of
Japanese origin having three
lines
containing usually five,
seven, and five syllables
respectively.”
a. Poetry c. Essay
b. Haiku d. Poem
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_______7. It is where the plot

often created and a controlling
impulse in a connected pattern
of
causes and effects.
a. Structure c. Setting
b. Conflict d. Character
_______8. It is simply defined
as a product of one’s
imaginative mind. It can be
drama, short story,
novel, myth, folktale and
poetry.
a. Fictional Literature c. Prose
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b. Non-Fictional Literature d.
Poetry
________9. A composition
written in verses having
standard measurements and
written with a
higher intensity of artistic
beauty.
a. Poem c. Prose
b. Essay d. Literature
_______10. It discusses
occurrence on the earth and
how things on earth were
created.
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a. Epic c. Myth
b. Legend d. Story
_______11. A ballad of
unrhymed couplets with a long,
intricate song that is alternately
sung by
soloist and chorus.
a. Ballad c. Siday
b. Ambahan d. Awit
_______12. He is a nationalist,
a freethinker, and is
acknowledged as the “Father of
Cebuano
Literature.”
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a. Vicente Sotto c. Agustin

El Amora
b. Nick Joaquin d. Francisco
Aurillo
_______13. is the cultural knowledge and information that has been passed down through speech from
one generation to the next.
a. Literature c. Communication
b. Oral Tradition d. Oral culture

_______14. These are called sawikain or salawikain in Tagalog or sarsarita in Ilocano.

a. Literature c. Proverbs
b. Oral Tradition d. Oral culture

_______15. This is a poetic vehicle of a socio-religious nature celebrated during the death of a person.
a. Karangayan c. Proverbs
b. Oral Tradition d. Karagatan

II. IDENTIFICATION.
DIRECTION. GIVE WHAT IS ASKED.

1. The Spanish colonizers ruled the country for over how many years.
2. This era a shift of interest from writing about nature to writing about the Christian faith – of
hymns, saints, miracles, and the teaching of the church, took place.
3. These are stories that deal with the power of nature-personified, their submission to a deity
(Bathala), and how the deity is responsible for the blessings and the curses in the form of
calamities.
4. These are long narrative accounts of heroic exploits. Examples of these are Darangen in
Maranaw, Aliguyon at Hudhud in Ifugao,Ibalon in Bicol
5. These are soothing songs often sung to put babies to sleep.
6. These are mystifying statements or questions phrased and rhymed to require ingenuity in
determining its answer.
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7. In this era Filipinos demonstrated rich-lived experiences orally expressed in their folk speeches,
songs, narratives, and indigenous rituals and mimetic dances.
8. These are instructional materials that teach Filipinos proper decorum. Pagsusulatan ng
Dalawang Binibini na si Urbana at Feliza (1864) is an example.
9. These are used to give respect, excuse, or apology to unseen or other elemental spirits our
ancestors believed in to deliver them from danger or harm.
10. These have measures of twelve syllables (dodecasyllabic) and are slowly sung to the
accompaniment of a guitar or banduria.

III. ENUMERATION
Direction: Enumerate what is asked.

VARIOUS DIMENSIONS OF PHILIPPINE LITERARY HISTORY

a. __________________________ (1564 BC)

b. __________________________ (1521-1898 )
c. __________________________ (1900 – 1942 )
d. __________________________ ( 21st )

“Don’t you see how far you’ve come already? You have a lot to be proud of, and every reason to
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Prepared by:
AL KRIMSON MAGUINDA CABUCOS