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Department of Education
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Schools Division Office
San Carlos City, Pangasinan

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2nd Quarter Examination in 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and
the World
January 22-23, 2024

Directions: Read the following sentences carefully. Then write the letter of the
best answer on the blank. STRICTLY NO ERASURES

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read the following sentences carefully. Then, write the letter of the best answer.

_____1. It is an activity to read shorter texts to extract a. “Taylor Swift” b. "Unnecessary

accurate detailed information. Things”
a. reading approach b. extensive reading c. “Angels and Blueberries” d. “I remember her
c. skimming d. scanning fifty years later.”
_____2. Alyssa wants to answer questions quickly, so _____7. Which is NOT a common characteristic of flash
she looked for key words in the selection. She used fiction?
________. a. brief b. has complete plot
a. scanning b. reading approach c. uses speech bubbles d. presents twist in the
c. extensive reading d. skimming ending
_____3. Sir Allan emphasized that this approach is _____8. “The Barn Owl’s Wondrous Capers” of Sarnath
important for students to read effectively. He is talking Banerjee that portrays 18th century Calcutta is a
about _________. a. manga b. flash fiction
a. extensive reading b. scanning c. graphic novel d. digi-fiсtion
c. reading approach d. skimming _____9. How do flash fictions commonly end the story?
_____4. It is reading a longer text, usually for pleasure. a. The story ends with a twist.
a. extensive reading b. scanning c. It usually ends happily and merrily.
c. skimming d. reading approach b. It presents a painful ending.
_____5. This technique is useful when the students are d. Readers have the liberty to give their own ending.
seeking specific information rather than reading for _____10. The following are 21st literary genres
comprehension. EXCEPT__________________.
a. reading approach b. scanning a. Manga b. Flash fiction
c. skimming d. extensive reading c. Graphic fiction d. Korean telenovela
_____6. It is a flash fiction story that centers on human _____11. Parables and fables are very interesting to
interaction. read because you will learn lessons from them.
a. topic b. moral

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c. review d. immoral a. exposition b. falling action

_____12. Videos, animation, text, images, and audio are c. climax d. rising action
all multimedia ________. _____21. A ___________ is a narrative work in which
a. formats b. presentations the story is conveyed to the reader using comic form.
c. uses d. components a. Illustrated Poetry b. Graphic Novels
c. Graphic Poetry d. none of the choices
_____13. To make our multimedia presentation
______22. The following are three literary media in
creative, we can import images, audio, and video clips Digi-Fiction EXCEPT:
to unique output, but we have to _____, to avoid a. book b. movie/video
plagiarism. c. internet website d. graphic design
a. cite sources b. screenshot the ______23. This incorporates doddle drawings and hand
images c. ignore the links d. leave the webpages written graphics in place of traditional font.
_____14. Using interactive digital tools to tell a story is a. Doodle Fiction b. Doodle Graphic
c. Illustrated Graphic d. Both b and c
called digital _________.
______24. ___________ is the Japanese word for
a. story browsing b. story mapping comics.
c. storytelling d. story keeping a. Manga b. Mangga
_____15. Information Technology (IT) is the use of c. Ameri-Manga d. Ameri-Mangga
__________ to store, retrieve, transmit, and manipulate ______25. He is a proponent of flash fiction in the 21st
data, or information. century.
a. printer b. projector a. Neil Patrick Gaiman b. Patrick Gaiman
c. Neil Gaiman d. Neil Guzman
c. computer d. scanner
______26. What is the other term of “Flash Fiction”?
_____16. What plot structure component is presented a. six-word b. two-word
at the final part of the story? c. twelve-letters d. none of the choices
a. resolution b. exposition ______27. Mina wants to answer questions quickly so
c. theme d. climax she looked for specific titles in the selection. She used
_____17. What element creates the tone, presents the a. skimming b. scanning
c. extensive reading d. reading approach
characters and other important facts to introduce the
______28. Randie quickly understood the main idea of
story? the poem he is reading. He used ___________.
a. setting b. exposition a. extensive reading b. reading approach
c. theme d. climax c. scanning d. skimming
_____18. It is a genre of fiction that is basically a short ______29. Princess loves reading novels and short
story with much lesser words. stories. It improves her vocabulary a lot. She is using
a. novel b. parable a. reading approach b. scanning
c. skimming d. extensive reading
c. flash fiction d. fable
______30. Ma’am Karen encouraged her students to
_____19. What is also known as the plot complication? read a lot and use techniques in understanding the text
a. exposition b. falling action and improving their knowledge. She is talking about
c. climax d. rising action a. extensive reading b. scanning
_____20. What plot structure component shows when c. reading approach d. skimming
excitement decreases as the conflict is resolved?

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______31. The line of the poem by Maya Angelou, “take back to prehistoric times. In Asia, the very first ropes
the binders from your vision”, means that the ever made were twisted from hemp fibers. Hemp rope
__________ was used during the age of sailing ships. Which
a. author has placed the binders to someone’s ears statement must be false?
b. author has a poor vision a. Ropes have many uses.
c. author is persuading the people to see their real b. Ropes can be made out of hemp
situation c. Ropes were used long time ago.
d. author is crying d. Ropes are only found in Asia.
______32. “Take the padding from your ears, and ______37. Racism is the belief that a particular race is
confess you’ve heard me crying,” this line wants the superior or inferior to another. It may be defined as the
readers to______. hatred of one person to another because of skin color,
a. listen to their pleas language, or customs. Therefore, _____
b. see what they see a. Someone who believed that there is a superior race
c. cry with their difficulty over the other, that person is a racist.
d. feel what they feel b. If people speak a different language, they are not
______33. Equality and I will be free. If this happens, racist.
people will_____ c. If all the people have the same color, no one is racist.
a. put things in place to support people achieve similar d. All people are racist.
outcomes ______38. ICT skills are about understanding and
b. Give similar materials to all people who need it applying a range of computer programs,
c. Lend things to people who are deprived of material _____________ and other applications.
things
d. Allow someone to get what he wants. a. hardware b. software
______34. In another world I want my children to tame c. peripheral d. hard drive
grasshoppers in the field, to play with their dolls in the ______39. It generates slides for presentation; design
living room, to inhale the fragrance of flowers waving as professional presentations
wind blows, to see the birds measure the sky with their a. Microsoft (MS) Word b. MS PowerPoint
wings. These lines expressed the earnest wish of a c. MS Excel d. MS Publisher
father. What do you think these wishes mean?
______40. To Copy, press (Ctrl+C); to Paste, press
a. The family is living in a peaceful village.
b. The family is suffering from war. ________ on the computer keyboard.
c. The family is well- accepted by society a. (Shift+V) b. (Shift+P)
d. The family has the sickness. c. (Ctrl+P) d.(Ctrl+V)
_____35. In another world I want to be a father without
passing through the eternal insanity of mourning my TO A LOST ONE
children, without experiencing the ritual of watching my Angela Manalang-Gloria
children return home as bodies folded like a prayer mat, I shall haunt you, O my lost one, as the twilight
Haunts a grieving bamboo trail,
without spending my nights telling them the stories of a
And your dreams will linger strangely with the music
hometown where natives become aliens searching for a Of a phantom lover’s tale
shelter. What is the tone of the poem? You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting
a. Hopeful b. Mournful I shall come to you again
c. Peaceful d. Hopeless With the starlight and the scent of wild champacas
______36. The use of ropes for hunting, puling, And the melody of rain.
fastening, attaching, carrying, lifting and climbing dates You shall not forget. Dusk will peer into your

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Window, tragic-eyed and still, c. romantic

And unbidden startle you into remembrance d. commanding
With its hand upon the still.
_____41. What is the poem “To a Lost One” about? _____46. “Lost One” may be pertained to __________.
a. An appeal to be remembered by a lover a. lost feeling
b. A threat to a lover b. past lover
c. Beautiful memories of a dead person c. abandoned person
d. A ghost that haunts a fastidious lover d. ghost
_____42. What virtue of the writer is depicted in the _____47. A characteristic of flash fiction where writers
poem? cant use too much backstory because of limited space.
a. forgiving a. Story Structure
b. honest b. Setting
c. romantic c. Characters and Backstory
d. faithful d. Description
_____43. What does this line “I shall come to you again _____48. This characteristic of flash fiction refers to the
with the starlight, and the scent of champacas”? beginning, middle and end of the story.
a. The speaker with champacas will visit his lover at a. Story Structure
night. b. Setting
b. The speaker wants his lover to keep and cherish their c. Characters and Backstory
memories in her heart. d. Description
c. The speaker will rise from death to remind his lover _____49. This part of a plot structure is considered as
of their sweet moments. the most exciting part of a story.
d. The speaker wants to give his lover fresh champacas. a. Climax
_____44. This line “You shall not forget, for I am past b. Plot
forgetting” means __________. c. Exposition
a. The speaker wants to be left unforgotten. d. Rising Action
b. The speaker wants his lover to forget her past. _____50. This component of a plot structure refers to
c. The speaker wants his past not to be discussed. the story where the problems start to work out.
d. The speaker wants his past no to be forgotten. a. Exposition
_____45. The line “I shall haunt you” has a/an ______ b. Rising Action
tone. c. Falling Action
a. begging d. Climax
b. appealing

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