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21 CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD
QUIZ 1

I. Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on your answer sheet.
____1. How was the earliest type of literature in the Philippines transmitted from person to person?
A. by writing on tree trunks C. by printing on clay tablets
B. by word of mouth D. by drawing in caves
____2. What are riddles?
A. words of wisdom handed down from one generation to another
B. literary accounts in verse or in prose which have animals as characters
C. songs that express patriotism
D. literary output which call for the audience to guess the thing being described
____3. What are proverbs?
A. words of wisdom handed down from one generation to another
B. literary accounts in verse or in prose which have animals as characters
C. songs that express patriotism
D. literary output which call for the audience to guess the thing being described
____4. What characteristics do proverbs and riddles share in common?
A. both are extremely long C. both are humorous
B. both are short D. both contain moral lessons
____4. Answer the Visayan riddle:
Taas ug putu nga babaye A tall white lady
Nag ka-on sa iyang lawas Eating her own body
A. car B. coconut tree C. white cake D. candle
____5. Which among the riddles uses parallelism?
A. A tall white lady C. Not human nor animal
Eating her own body Yet tears flow from its eyes
B. Who can that lovely lady be D. The one sent to fetch someone
Who eats her own body has not yet returned,
but the one fetched,
has already arrived
____6. Legends are stories that depict …..
A. patriotism among the people living in a place
B. accounts for the creation of something and the origins of its name
C. stories with animals as characters
D. moral lessons
____7. What is the implication of the Philippines being an archipelago (composed of many islands) to the
development of stories such as legends?
A. The legends became very different with one another
B. The legends all involved supernatural beings
C. Some details differ from one legend to another
D. No two legends are the same
____8. What does the Bikolano proverb “Putusan mo man an amo sa bulawan; Amo man giraray” which in
English translates to “Wrap a monkey gold; he will stay a monkey yet” means?
A. Looks do not make a man. C. Gold is not for animals.
B. Humans are just like animals. D. Looks are the most important of all.
____9. Apostrophe is a figure of speech in which an absent person or an abstract entity or thing is addressed.
Who is Rizal addressing in the first stanza of his poem “Mi Ultimo Adios”?
A. his first love B. his mother C. his country D. his countrymen
____10. Why were patriotic songs and verses popular during Rizal’s time?
A. During that time of poverty, people’s basic needs were neglected
B. During that time of war, many people were killed
C. During that time, writing was not fully developed yet
D. During that time of colonialism, the cry for freedom was expressed through songs and verses
____11. What refers to the word choice and the style of expression that a writer employs in a work?
A. contraction B. diction C. enunciation D. figure of speech
____12.Anaphora is a figure of speech characterized by the repetition of a word or expression in two or more
lines. Which among the following uses anaphora?
A. If over my tomb someday, you see blow,
A simple humble flow’r amidst thick grasses
B. And should a bird descend on my cross and alight,
Let the bird intone a song of peace o’er my site.
C. Hail! Cries out the soul to you, that will soon part from thee;
Hail! How sweet ‘tis to fall that fullness you may acquire;
D. Farewell, parents, brothers, beloved by me,
Friends of my childhood, in the home distressed;
____13. Which among the following lines uses personification?
A. Where faith alone does not kill and where God alone does reign
B. And when my grave by all is no more remembered
C. For our poor mothers who in bitterness have cried
D. Let a friend shed tears for my early demise
____14. What is a stanza?
A. a group of lines in a poem C. a line in each poem
B. the rhyme scheme used D. the figure of speech used
____15. What is anastrophe?
A. a figure of speech characterized by the repetition of a word or expression in two or more lines
B. a figure of speech characterized by the inversion of words or phrases
C. a figure of speech in which an absent person or an abstract entity or thing is addressed
D. the figure of speech where animals, things, or ideas are given human qualities
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