PRELIM EXAMINATION

Teaching and Assessment of Literature Studies

Name: ____________________________________________________ Score: __________________________
Year & Level: _____________________________________________ Date: ___________________________
Test I. What is Literature
Direction: Essay. Answer the question briefly. Write legibly.
1-5. In your own words, what is literature? (5 pts.)
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Test II. A. Literature as a Significant Human Experience: Purposes, Values and Benefits of Teaching Literature
Direction: Multiple Choice. Choose the best answer for the following questions. Write the letter on the space provided
for.
_______ 1. Which is not an aim in literature teaching?
a. To be exposed to the values inherent in literature
b. To enhance creativity and resourcefulness
c. To develop thinking skills including specific reading and reasoning skills
d. To discover that literature is an enjoyable means of gaining vicarious experiences.
_______ 2. Why do we use literature in ESL/EFL classes?
a. Because literature demonstrated for the learner the importance of form in achieving specific communicative
goals.
b. Using literature as content in L2 classrooms provides an ideal basis for integrating the four skills.
c. In an era when English is uses in a great variety of cross-cultural encounters, literary texts are valuable in
raising students’ and teachers’ cross-cultural awareness.
d. All of the above.
_______ 3. Readers find pleasure in the form, technique and style of writing a well – constructed plot, vivid
characterization, unusual imagery, expressive language, etc. In other words, all elements are combined to create an over-
all order or coherence. What does this show about literature?
a. Literature is true. c. Literature is aesthetic.
b. Literature is expressive. d. Literature is language.
_______ 4. Which function is illustrated when aside from its natural gift of pleasure to the reader, it provides illumination
that enables us to see, interpret and transform our world?
a. Literature as a form of pleasure c. Literature as a form of escape
b. Literature as a form of engagement d. literature provides aesthetic satisfaction.
_______ 5. Why is literature said to be fictional?
I. Literature can be re-ordering of the real world in which people and experience, though drawn upon from actual
life, and re-shaped l, altered, given new psychological insights.
II. The lack of factuality is strengthened by writer's artistic control in the literary work.
III. The writer's artistic control has the effect of stylizing the materials of the work, setting it apart from the
context of the real: nevertheless, making the reader enjoy and contemplate on it, reject it, even show aesthetic
distance.
a. I, II, and III b. III only c. II and III only d. I and II only
_______ 6. What is the most innovative way of teaching literature?
a. Students explain difficult words orally.
b. Students are asked to read a literary piece at home.
c. Students create a collage of their experiences in relation to story read in class.
d. Students memorize the stanzas of a poem.
_______ 7. Which is the best way prepare in teaching of literature?
a. Plan for an output that learners can create based on the literary piece.
b. Memorize the essentials of the piece to be read in class.
c. Enjoy the literature.
d. Choose a literary genre that appeal to the nature of your learners.
_______ 8. The use of literary approaches and theories in interpreting literature serves for:
a. Comparing and contrasting texts c. General reading comprehension
b. Direction or guidelines to the interpretation d. The reader’s response to the text
_______ 9. What is the role of reading comprehension in the assessment of literature?
a. It is not relevant when assessing literature.
b. It is essential for understanding literary texts.
c. It is only important for poetry, not other forms of literature.
d. It is only important for writing about literature, not reading it.
______ 10. Which of the following is not a linguistic goal in studying literature?
a. Literary texts touch on themes to which learners can bring a personal response from their own experience.
 b. Exposure to literature and literature studies provide eclectic opportunities for improving writing and oral
communication skills.
c. Literature provides relevant content for the new vocabulary and language structures.
d. Literary texts expose learners to various linguistic and rhetorical structures.

Test II. B. Literary Elements

_______1. Which of the following is a common example of prose?
a. lyrics b. novels c. news article d. encyclopedia entry
_______2. Among the choices, in what aspect does prose most evidently differ from poetry?
a. theme b. tone c. structure d. descriptive language
_______3. Which of the following is not true about poetry?
a. A poem has a tone and uses figurative language to create an impression.
b. Poetry follows a conversational style of writing.
c. A poem follows a form to create an impression.
d. Poetry is the most compact form of literature.
_______4. Which of the following is not true?
a. Drama is always supposed to be serious.
b. An aside is a remark that a character makes that is meant only for the audience to hear.
c. Some dramas are nonsensical.
d. A drama may contain song and dance performances.
_______5. Which of the following phrases best explains the concept of genre in literature?
a. An author’s style of writing c. Classification of texts
b. A guide to a word d. Like a map
_______6. Which literary element is the most apparent in this text?
It was a cold, rainy December evening. As Dani's hands cupped around the warm mug of chocolate, she
couldn’t explain the coldness that enveloped her own heart. It was the first Christmas she will be celebrating
without her dog, Chibi that recently died in an accident.
a. point of view b. characterization c. plot d. atmosphere
_______7. Which of the following is an example of an exposition?
a. Aaron’s eyes were filled with tears after learning about his aunt’s demise.
b. Aaron was excited for his aunt’s visit. He would often tell me that his favorite aunt always bakes him
the best brownies in town.
c. Ten years later, Aaron called me up and invited me to the opening of his bakeshop. To my surprise, it
was a restaurant frequented by famous personalities.
d. It was April 12, 1984. Aaron and I were watching our favorite TV episode in our living room when
we received a telephone call from his mother
_______8. During the day, John encountered several problems, and his friend Greg helped him solve these problems.
Which of the following sentences in John’s journal entry help characterize Greg?
a. It’s a good thing that Greg is around to cheer me up.
b. Greg visited the Guidance Office that afternoon.
c. I was a little bit down today, and I needed a friend.
d. I had low grades in my exam, and I didn’t want my parents to know.
_______9. Plot refers to the sequence of events that make up the story, told in either ______ or ______ order.
a. a chronological, a logical c. a chronological, a non-chronological
b. a logical, an illogical d. a non-chronological, an illogical
_______10. As John was writing his journal entry, he realized that he was daydreaming on the bus while on his way to
school, thinking of how everything used to be last year. He wanted to include that particular part of the day in his journal
entry. What should he do?
a. Use foreshadowing and point out what will happen on the bus.
b. Use flashback in the part where he is riding the bus.
c. Use the man vs. himself conflict in writing the part where he’s riding the bus.
d. Set a gloomy atmosphere on the part where he is riding the bus.
_______11. On Sundays, she got into his car in the basement garage and they drove to the county and picnicked away up
in the Magaliesberg, where there was no one. He read or poked about among the rocks; they climbed together, to the
mountain pools. He taught her to swim. She had never seen the sea. She squealed and shrieked in the water, showing the
gap between her teeth, as – it crossed his mind – she must do when among her own people. The limited omniscient point
of view in the passage above is used to suggest the
a. woman’s wish to recapture her innocence
b. man’s unwitting condescension toward the woman
c. couple’s dissatisfaction with city life
d. narrator’s approval of the relationship

Questions 12-13 are based on the following passage from Rudyard Kipling’s Puck of Pook’s Hill
As he worked, and the rain fell on the tiles, he talked – now clearly, now muttering, now breaking off
to frown or smile at his work. He told them he was born at Little Lindfens Farm, and his father used to beat
him from drawing things instead of doing things, till an old priest called Father Roger, who drew illuminated
letters in rich people’s books, coaxed the parents to let him take the boy as a sort of printer’s apprentice. Then
 he went with Father Roger to Oxford, where he cleaned plates and carried cloaks and shoes for the scholars of a
College called Merton.
_______12. Which of the following is true of the passage?
a. It criticizes those who are naïve and powerless. c. It illustrates British class distinctions.
b. It idealizes the lived of ordinary workingmen. d. It endorses capitalist values.
_______13. The last sentence suggests that ..
a. The boy’s days at Oxford were among his happiest.
b. The boy’s father loved his son very much.
c. Father Roger abandoned the boy at Oxford.
d. Father Roger failed to nurture the boy’s promising talents.
Questions 14-15 are based on story, The Wedding Dance by Amador T. Daguio
________14. “her hair flowed down in cascades of gleaming darkness.” The underlined word, in its noun form is closely
synonymous to _______?
a. caliginous b. luminescence c. shade d. gloom
________15. What is the climax of the story the wedding dance?
a. Outside, the villagers are dancing in celebration of the wedding. Awiyao leaves to try and comfort
Lumnay. He offers her many items of the life that they built together.
b. Lumnay sits on the side of the mountain overlooking the blazing fire and dancing women, thinking
about how her life has changed.
c. Awiyao finally leaves to re-join the wedding and Lumnay runs into the hills.
d. The reader is left not knowing what will become of Lumnay.

Test III. Literature: Genres

Direction: Complete the Literature Concept Map with the correct genres and terms in their appropriate boxes. A literature
bank is provided.

speeches folktales myths narrative ballads

utilitarian creative short stories metrical romances metrical tales
drama news reports novels sonnets autobiographies
comedy non – fiction biographies songs tragedy
memoranda poetry journals odes tragicomedies

Test IV. Essay.

Direction: Answer each question with brevity. You may use the blank back portion of this test paper. (10 pts. each)
1. The English K–12 curriculum has a distinct emphasis on the instruction and examination of literature from many
regions worldwide, including World, Anglo American, Afro-Asian, and Philippine literature. In your perspective,
what is the rationale for the inclusion and breadth of this topic within the curriculum?

2. Literary merit is one of the factors that influence one’s interest in studying literature. What makes it significant in
choosing books and reading materials, especially in the field of teaching literature?

Prepared by: Miss Faith Lanie Q. Lumayag, MAEd

School of Education