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DIRECTION: Analyze the given questions below. Shade the letter of the correct answer.
1. Finding the main idea, sequencing events, finding details and creative and critical reading
are examples of:
a. word recognition skills c. study skills
b. utilization skills d. comprehension skills
2. Reading house as home in a sentence, “God bless our home,” the student clearly made:
a. a reversal b. an error c. a substitution d. a mispronunciation
3. A student read the word “ball” as “party” in the sentence, “We attended the ball.” This case
shows that:
a. did not understand the sentence
b. substitute a word with the same meaning
c. thought party and ball with the same meaning
d. was not reading
4. Which can a teacher use to teach the idea that there is range of meaning between two
opposite words?
a. cline b. matching c. context clues d. pictures
5. One important tenet of miscue analysis is:

a. deviations from the texts are errors
b. readers without deviations in oral reading are good in comprehension
c. readers who commit errors in oral reading are poor in comprehension
d. deviations reflect comprehension or the lack of it
6. A reader who gets 8 out of 10 items in comprehension test in Informal Reading Inventory
belongs to which level?
a. capacity reading level c. frustration reading level
b. independent reading level d. instructional reading level
7. Which of the following is a sign of possible learning disability in reading?

a. Significantly better performance in arithmetic than reading.
b. Inability to concentrate on what is inheriting to him.
c. Inability to sit still.
d. All of the above.
8. Which of the following is NOT a retarded reader?

a. Those who have slow mental development. c. Those whose reading is poor.
b. Those who read well below his grade. d. Those that can read but will
not.
9. Which statement is NOT correct?
a. The span of recognition can be evidenced through phrase reading.
b. A person who makes fewer fixations is a good reader.
c. One who makes many regressions is a good reader.
d. One should read ideas not words.
10. It is a process of gaining thorough knowledge of a person’s reading performance, skills and
instructional need for modifying instruction.
a. Exotropia b. diagnosis c. dyslexia d. Diagnostic-Prescriptive-Technique
11. ______________ is a reversal in which the reader is interchanging the words in a phrase or
sentence.
a. Refusal b. aphasia c. transposing reversal d. kinetic reversal
12. Which reading takes place when the reader read each line, then the group repeats it?
a. Small group reading b. echo reading c. cumulative reading d. chorus reading
13. An instrument based upon the prediction aspects of reading is the :

a. Think-aloud b. Cloze test c. Retelling d. Inventory
14. the aspect of reading program which provides for the development of interest in literature,
literary material appreciation and taste in the selection and enjoyment of reading matter is:
a. developmental reading c. functional reading
b. decretory reading d. remedial reading
15. A strategy that allows students to tell back what they have read is called:
a. Introspection b. Cloze test c. Retelling d. Inventory
16. While reading the Dolch Basic Sight Words, a student made 7 errors out of 30 words. One
interpretation of this could be that the reader has difficulty in:
a. Reading words in isolation c. analyzing printed symbols
b. Reading the words in context d. comprehending words read
17. An assessment device which reads a series of selection that gradually increase in difficulty
is called:
a. Cloze test b. Informal Reading Inventory c. Retelling d. Miscue Analysis
18. Reading is a complex process that includes print skill, vocabulary knowledge and
comprehension strategies. Print skill is manifested when the students:
a. memorize lines of a poem c. segment each sound of a word
b. give meaning to printed symbols d. pronounce correctly each word
19. Reading is very important because:

a. Nobody succeeds without reading
b. 80% of the things we do daily involves reading
c. it provides pleasure for everyone
d. a person who cannot read cannot vote
20. The following are objectives of a remedial program EXCEPT:

a. address language skills deficits c. acquire self-confidence
b. enhance special abilities d. face and overcome weaknesses
21. What is to be done prior to a conduct of any remedial program?

a. acquire self-help strategies c. give assessments to students
b. monitor teachers daily d. formulate objectives for the program
22. Ben has weaknesses in his vocabulary, abstract reasoning and logical thinking. What type
of reading disability can he possibly have?
a. Language comprehension c. phonological deficit
b. Processing speed d. accuracy
23. Which is NOT a characteristic of a poor reader?

a. Rarely prepares before reading. c. Unaware of text organization.
b. Difficulty in encoding. d. reading to slowly.
24. A writing disability which affects a person’s handwriting ability and fine motor skills.
a. Dyslexia b. aphasia c. dysgraphia d. dyscalculia
25. The following are signs of a learner with sequential ordering problem EXCEPT:
a. Poor letter formation c. transposed letter and spelling omissions
b. Poor vocabulary d. poor narrative sequence
26. What kind of deviation is linked with the splitting of verb and subject over the line division?
a. Graphological b. repetition c. inversion d. semantic
27. This happens when some features are held constant (usually structural) while others
(usually lexical items) are varied.
a. Phonological b. morphological c. discourse d. parallelism
28. This kind of deviation has something to do with meaning relations which are logically
inconsistent or paradoxical in some ways.
a. Paradoxical b. functional c. semantic d. Discoursal
29. What do we call those words made up by the writers which did not previously existed?
a. Coined words b. neologism c. clichés d. hackneyed
30. This kind of deviation happens when there is an adding to the ending of a word which does
not normally added.
a. Graphological b. morphological c. phonological d. grammatical
31. This is an intentional deviation where a word is pronounced or stressed oddly to conform to
the rhyme scheme.
a. Phonological b. parallelism c. functional d. graphological
32. “That time of year thou mayst in me behold” – Sonnet 13 by William Shakespeare
a. Graphological b. syntactic c. morphological d. functional conversion
33. “The stream swirl. The wind moans in the pines.” – Jade Flowers by Tu Fu
a. parallelism b. grammatical c. graphological d. lexical
34. But he was wounded for our transgressions,

He was bruised for our iniquities”
a. Repetition b. conversion c. inversion d. parallelism
35. “Come hither, come hither, come hither”

a. Repetition b. conversion c. inversion d. lexical
36. What is alliteration?

a. repetition of the same vowel c. repetition of vowel sounds
b. repetition of the same consonant d. repetition of phonemes
37. A type of deviation where the meaning relations of words are logically inconsistent or
contradicting in some way.
a. Graphological b. semantic c. syntactic d. grammatical
38. Which of the following pair of words utilizes half-rhyme?

a. five/dive b. five/fife c. better/butter d. live/alive
39. What do we call a rhyme which occurs in positions other than at the end of the line?
a. Male rhyme b. internal rhyme c. strict rhyme d. double rhyme
40. Yes, I am tired to my own existence.

a. Morphological deviation c. discourse deviation
b. grammatical deviation d. semantic deviation
41. George Bernard Shaw once said:

You see things; and you say “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say,
“Why not?”
The author’s attitude toward dreaming is one that is ________________.
a. Humorous
b. Tongue-in-cheek
c. Straightforward
d. Serious
42. Which if the following is alluded to in this old English riddle?

From heaven I fall, though from earth I begin;
No lady alive can show such a skin.
‘m bright as an angel, and like as a feather,
But heavy and dark when you squeeze me together.
a. snow
b. storm
c. rain
d. star
43. From the statement, “To trifle with the most vocabulary is to tamper with the currency of
human intelligence,” Samuel Johnson most likely means that...
a. if we did not have puns we would not be intelligent.
b. people who make puns are not intelligent.
c. punning is a frivolous and transgressive use of language.
d. people should be wary of making puns that are to playful.
44. Which of the following statements, if true, would most weaken the author’s contention that
“the world of the fiction writer is full of matter”?
a. Books about theoretical principles are not usually popular.
b. Some writers are able to write abstractly in a way that engages the senses of the average
reader.
c. Emotional writing tends to have more significance for the writer.
d. Most people are more comfortable expressing ideas than feelings.
45. Lao-Tzu once said

“A journey of a thousand leagues begins in a single step.”
Which of these would follow from Lao-Tzu’s statement?
a. Finish ahead of schedule.
b. Act with a sense of urgency.
c. Make good of time.
d. Start on time.
46. Saint Thomas Aquinas once wrote

“When you want to convert someone to your view, you go over to where he is
standing, take him by the hand, and guide him. You don’t stand across the room and
shout at him; you don’t call him a dummy; you don’t order him to come over to where
you are. You start where he is and work from that position. That’s the only way to get
him to budge.”
What value was he trying to impart?
a. Forgiveness
b. Acceptance
c. Encouragement
d. Understanding
47. Which of the following best summarizes the content of this passage?
“The world is too much for us.”
a. Love for the philosophical ideas
b. Love for nature
c. Love for logic

d. Love for the material world
48. What virtue does the passage below want to bring out?
HISTORICAL
While visiting with a friend over coffee one morning, a young woman
complained, “Every time my husband and I get into an argument he gets historical!”
The friend interrupted, “Don’t you mean hysterical?” “No, I mean historical,” the lady
replied. “He always brings up the past.”
a. Forgiving requires people not to keep score.
b. Never refuse to forgive; you will need to pass over.
c. Asking forgiveness has a far-reaching effect.
d. Forgiveness is on command. Judgement is not.
49. The stanza is taken from the poem, “If You Think” by Walter D. White:
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t!
If you want to win, but think you can’t,
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.
The author’s attitude toward the power of the mind is ____________.
a. optimistic
b. serious
c. hopeful
d. sympathetic
50. Read the verse below.

Not often in the story of mankind does a man arrive on earth who is both steel
and velvet, who is as hard as a rock and as soft as drifting fog, who holds in his heart
and mind the paradox of terrible storm and peace unspeakable and perfect.
In the above lines, the poet Carl Sandburg mentions Abraham Lincoln’s ______________.
a. achieve
b. leadership
c. discipline
d. enthusiasm
51. Which among the following options DOES NOT describe the idealism’s concept of ultimate
reality?
a. The ultimate reality resides in the realm which is composed of forms or absolutes that
exist whether or not any mind speculates their existence or reflects their attributes.
b. The ideal forms give shape to our physical world.
c. The spiritual world replicates that of the material world.
d. Ultimate reality is imitated two folds when poets write about it.
52. Which among the following describes an absolutist critic?

a. Rolanda insists that there is only one best literary theory and that is the theory that
acknowledges the reader as the most important aspect in literary criticism.
b. Rolando insists that one literary theory that can be used in understanding The Divine
Comedy is Archetypal.
c. Nino believes that it is right to use multiple perspectives in analyzing a literary text.
d. Nina just reads the literary text and enjoys the contents of the story.
53. Complete the following statement: Without ___________, practical criticism could not exist.
a. Literary Genre
b. Literary Theory
c. Literary Analysis
d. Literature reading
54. How is defamiliarization defined by Russian Formalists?

a. It is the process of oversimplifying complex subject matter in literature.
b. b. It is the process of manipulating readers’ perspectives of the unknown.
c. It is the process of making strange the familiar.
d. It is simply reading the literary piece as if you are not familiar with any of its concepts.
55. To study poetry is to engage oneself in what New Critics call as a/an _______________.
a. Pragmatic endeavor
b. Aesthetic didacticism
c. Aesthetic experience
d. Aesthetic Distancing
56. This fallacy, according to New Criticism, confuses what a poem is from what a poem does.
a. Intentional Fallacy
b. Ad Hominem
c. Comical Fallacy
d. Affective Fallacy
57. Amerigo felt that the novel Noli Me Tangere has a very dark and negative connotation to
society. He doesn’t like the way he feels when he is reading the book. What fallacy is
demonstrated in the situation?
a. Intentional Fallacy
b. Ad Hominem
c. Comical Fallacy
d. Affective Fallacy
58. According to him, a novel is characterized by dialogized heteroglossia.

a. Plato
b. Mikhail Bakhtin
c. Aristotle
d. Dante Alighieri
59. Who among the following options asserted that the language spoken by the people is
appropriate and beautiful language for writing.
a. Plato
b. Mikhail Bakhtin
c. Aristotle
d. Dante Alighieri
60. For him, watching a play could arouse the passions of the audience that they would forget
rationality and lean towards feelings and emotions in judging the piece.
a. Aristotle
b. Horace
c. Plato
d. Joseph Addison
61. Which equation best characterizes the meaning making of reader-oriented criticism?
a. Text + Reader = Poem
b. Sign X Signified = meaning
c. Text + Poem = Meaning
d. Sign + Reader= Poem
62. Mimetic theory of language is the dominant notion during the pre-Saussurean linguistics.
Which among the following best equates with the theory?
a. Symbol = Thing
b. Symbol + Object= Meaning
c. Symbol + Word = Thing
d. Symbol + Concept= Thing
63. Structuralists believe that all languages are composed of basic units called
_____________.
a. Grapheme
b. Emes
c. Phoneme
d. Mytheme
64. Which among the following best describes Saussure’s redefinition of a word?
a. Word is composed of two basic parts, the signifier (word) and the signified (concept)
b. Sign is composed of two parts, the signifier (word) and the signified (concept)
c. Sign is composed of two parts, the signified (word) and the signifier (concept)
d. Object is represented by a sign which is composed of two parts, the signifier (concept)
and the signified (word)
65. What is the critic’s primary task in literary criticism through the lens of structuralism?
a. To study the individual styles of writers in delivering the content
b. To study the system of rules that govern literary interpretation
c. To study the life of the authors in relation to the text
d. To study the differences of one author to another
66. According to Levi-Strauss, Myth possesses a structure like _____________.

a. Society
b. Language
c. Culture
d. Phonemes
67. According to Propp, a narrative always occurs in a five-point order. Which among the
following options is not included in his division?
a. A lack of something exists
b. The hero encounter’s a magical helper
c. The lack motivates the hero to find a helper
d. After passing the test, a hero is rewarded
68. The disguised truths and desires inevitably make themselves known through what Freud
calls _______.
a. Parapraxes
b. Periphrasis
c. Freudian Convergence
d. Libido
69. If a child’s sexual development is to proceed normally, Freud maintains each must then
pass though the _________.
a. Unconscious
b. Castration Stage
c. Phallic Stage
d. Electra Stage
70. This part of Jung human psych houses the cumulative knowledge, experiences, and
images of the entire human race.
a. Collective conscious
b. Collective Unconscious
c. Unconscious
d. Collective Superego
71. Which best describes archetypes?

a. It is the reality principle of the model
b. It checks and balances the pleasure and the morality of an individual
c. These are patterns or images of repeated human experiences
d. These are symbols about the structure and system of the society
72. The____________ is the ultimate symbol of power.

a. Yonus
b. Blue
c. Phallus
d. Cavern
73. Why do deconstructors search for the binary oppositions?

a. The oppositions provide a framework by which deconstructors use to decide the
meaning of the text
b. The hierarchies presuppose a fixed and a biased way of viewing the world by which
deconstructs wish to challenge
c. It does not reveal anything in the text
d. It provides an hierarchy as a guide to the reader in their interpretation

74. Who is the very proponent of Deconstruction?
a. Ferdinand De Saussure
b. Jacques Lacan
c. Jacques Derrida
d. Sigmund Freud
75. This is the belief that an ultimate reality or center of truth exist and can serve as the basis
for all our thoughts and actions.
a. Transcendental Signified
b. Phonocentrism
c. Logocentrism
d. Arche-writing
76. Phonocentrism is described as ________________.

a. The privileging of writing over speech
b. The privileging of public speaking over conversational speaking
c. The privileging of speech over writing
d. The privileging of phonemes over morphemes and other structural element of a
language
77. When the binary oppositions and misspeaks have been identified by the critic,
deconstructors will be able to demonstrate what they call _________________ of a text’s
meaning.
a. Unreliability
b. Undecidability
c. Uniqueness
d. Unfamiliarity
78. What literary theory has deconstructionism founded its concepts?

a. American New Criticism
b. Formalism
c. Marxism
d. Structuralism
79. Why can’t a signified orient or make permanent the meaning of the signifier?
a. Because the relationship between the two is permanent in essence
b. Because the relationship of the two is arbitrary and conventional
c. Because the relationship between the two concepts is relational and dependent on
difference
d. Because the relationship between the two is too socially constructed to be fixed
80. The first major published work that acknowledges an awareness of women's struggles for
equal rights.
a. Frankenstein
b. A Vindication of the Rights of Women
c. A Modest Proposal
d. Little Women
81. During this stage of feminism, writers accepted the prevailing social constructs that defined
women.
a. Feminist
b. Female
c. Feminism
d. Feminine
82. This model of feminism studies how society shapes women’s goals, responses, and points
of view.
a. Biological Model
b. Linguistic Model
c. Societal Model
d. Cultural Model
83. Education, Religion, Politics, Media and the likes are all under what hierarchy according to
Marxism?
a. Base
b. Superstructure
c. Superordinate
d. Economy
84. Which among the following is an example of a metalanguage?

a. Concept
b. Idioms
c. Ideas
d. Notions
85. He believes that to be able to understand a literary piece, we must examine the
environmental causes that combine together in its creation.
a. Horace
b. Joseph Addison
c. Longinus
d. Hippolyte Adolphe Taine
86. This philosopher believes that the tragedy must have an emotional effect on its audience
and through pity and fear effect what is called catharsis.
a. Horace
b. Aristotle
c. Longinus
d. Plato
87. This writer focused on novels as a genre and as a text to be critiqued. He also posited that
a novel is in its broadest definition a personal, a direct impression of life.
a. Henry James
b. Alexander Pope
c. Joseph Addison
d. William Wordsworth
88. For him, watching a play could arouse the passions of the audience that they would forget
rationality and lean towards feelings and emotions in judging the piece.
a. Aristotle
b. Horace
c. Plato
d. Joseph Addison
89. What role does the reader assume in the reader-oriented criticism?
a. An active reader
b. A learned reader
c. A passive reader
d. A reader for all seasons
90. Which among the following options is NOT considered as an adherent of the reader-
oriented theory and practice?
a. Structuralism
b. Phenomenology
c. Subjective Criticism
d. Two-Step Methodology
91. For these critics and adherents to reader-oriented criticism, the text and the reader has
somewhat an equal part in the interpretative process of a literary text.
a. Structuralism
b. Phenomenology
c. Subjective Criticism
92. This is a modern philosophical tendency that emphasizes the perceiver.

a. Reader-oriented
b. Phenomenology
c. Reader-response
93. According to Saussurean Linguistics, which among the options represents the object?
a. Word
b. Sign
c. Signifier
d. Signified
94. This concept roughly means one text refers a reader to another text.
a. Post-modernism
b. Dual Meaning
c. Intertextuality
d. Binary oppositions
95. What is the study of how transformation takes place from a mental state in which the child
does not possess a grammar to a mental state in which the child does?
a. Language Learning
b. Language Curriculum
c. Language Acquisition
d. Language Interaction
96. According to the proponent of behaviorism, language learning is a result of four processes.
These processes are the following EXCEPT:
a. Imitation
b. Habit formation
c. Practice
d. Behavior
97. According to Eric Lenneberg, there is a specific and limited time period for the LAD of a
child to work successfully. He calls this period as _________________.
a. Critical Period Hypoanalysis
b. Critical Period Hypothesis
c. Critical Period Theory
d. Critical Period Honorary
98. The following statements are true of Schumann’s Acculturation model EXCEPT:
a. The greater the social distance between second language group (2LL) and the target
language group (TL), the more difficult it is for members of 2LL to acquire the language
of the TL group.
b. If the group tends to be always together to such an extent is separates itself from the
other group, then its cohesion will make the language learning difficult, since it will give
rise to social distance between the groups.
c. If the language of the two groups belong to the same language family, there will
probably be close similarity between their language structures; hence easier language
acquisition.
d. If the 2LL group intends to stay longer in the TL area, this fact will tend to increase
social distance and increase motivation to learn the target language.
99. The following are conditions of monitor use EXCEPT:
a. Sufficient time
b. Mastery of rules
c. Focus on form
d. Readiness in utterance
100. These are sentences with no function words or grammatical morphemes.
a. Holophrastic Sentences
b. Telephrastic Sentences
c. Telegraphic Sentences
d. Dactylic Sentences
101. The main character generally has attributes that make him the hero or the
good one. However, there are stories which portray the protagonist as something
opposite than what is expected. What do you call the character?
a. Antagonist c. Tragic Flaw
b. Antihero d. Ironical Character

102. This is the point of view where the narrator is telling a story of someone as
the main character. The narrator acts an inside yet minor character in the story.
a. First Person
b. Second Person
c. Third Person Limited
d. Third Person Omniscient
103. In the English verse, a poetic foot having one stressed syllable followed by
the one unstressed syllable.
a. Iambic
b. Dactylic
c. Anapestic
d. Trochaic
104. In Aeneid, though Aeneas suffers an unhappy life and miserable death, what
is his greatest consolation?
a. His protection by the gods
b. The future glory of his sons
c. His love affair with Dido
d. His being compared with Achilles and Odysseus
105. The middle ages reflected these mythological creatures as symbol of purity.
They are shown even in modern films as representation of love and beauty.
A. Dove
B. Dragons
C. kappa
D. Unicorns
106. The literary awards started in 1950 is the _________________.
A. Commonwealth Literary Awards
B. Republic Cultural Heritage Awards
C. Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary Awards
D. Stonehill Awards
107. The first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.
A. Yasunari Kawabata C. Wole Soyinka

B. Rabindranath Tagore D. Po Chu-I
108. In the book' The Lord of the Rings', who or what is Bilbo?
A. Dwarf c. wizard
B. Troll d. hobbit
109. If the tale of Romeo and Juliet was not a tragedy the following event should
take place:
A. Paris wins his duel with Romeo.
B. Friar Lawrence refuses to have Romeo and Juliet marry.
C. Juliet wakes up before Romeo arrives.
D. Mercutio does not die.
110. Who wrote “HESPERIDES” which contains lyrics filled with themes about
country life and beauty?
a. Lord Byron c. John Milton
b. Robert Herrick d. George Herbert
111. Alice sits on a riverbank on a warm summer day, drowsily reading over her
sister’s shoulder, when she catches sight of a White Rabbit in a waistcoat running
by her. – Alice in Wonderland. The excerpt is most probably taken from what part
of the plot?
a. Climax c. Exposition
b. Falling Action d. Rising action
112. Identify what figure of speech is used in the following statement.
To yield is to be preserved whole.
a. Metaphor c. metonymy
b. Paradox d. irony
113. It carries the sense of one line of verse over the next line without a pause.
A. enjambment
B. denouement
C. catalexis
D. antecedent
114. Which is an olfactory image?

a. The sun had sunk and down from the wooded sides of the Katayagan hills
shadows were stealing into the fields.
b. He swallowed and brought up to his mouth more cud and the sound of his
insides was like a drum.
c. The thick unpleasant smell of dangla bushes and cooling sun-heated earth
mingled with the clean, sharp scent of arrais roots exposed to the night air
and of the hay inside the cart.
d. The wind whistled against my cheeks and the rattling of the wheels on the
pebbly road echoed in my ears.
115. The character in the novel Noli was described by Rizal as a laundry woman
before her marriage to the officer of the Guardia Civil. She was known as the “Muse
of the Guardia Civil.” She pretended to have forgotten Tagalog already but her use
Spanish was awful. Who was the woman?
a. Dona Consolacion
b. Dona Victorina de los Reyes Espadaña
c. Sisa
d. Paulita Gomez
116. He is one of the most widely translated of all Japanese writers, and a number
of his stories have been made into films such as Rashomon.
A. Yasunari Kawabata C. Oe Kenzaburo
B. Junichiro Tanizaki D. Ryunosuke Akutagawa
117. The Rubaiyat has the theme:
A. Always looking forward to a new day
B. Never giving into debt easily
C. Grasping pleasure while you can
D. Creating your own world and beautify it
118. The following are metaphysical poets except:
A. George Herbert
B. John Donne
C. Andrew Marvell
D. Robert Burns
119. Which of the following is NOT an example of Gothic literature?
A. Dracula C. Frankenstein
B. Lord of the Rings D. Tell Tale Heart
120. The world’s first known novel, The Tale of Genji was written by __________.
A. Lady Murasaki B. Wu Chengan C. SeiShōnagon D. Valmiki
121. What is the theme of this African proverb: On the way to one’s beloved there
are no hills.
A. Real love knows no boundaries. C. Obstacles make a relationship strong.
B. Sacrifice is the gauge of true love. D. True love is tested by difficulties
122. All are Nobel Prize winners except _____________________.
A. William Faulkner C. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
B. Rabindranath Tagore D. Chinua Achebe
123. Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “Innermost One” is taken from the collection of
devotional song titled_______.
a. Gitanjali c. Ramayana
b. Shakuntala d. Mahabharata
124. The following titles belong to the book “The Arabian Nights” except-
a. Ali Baba c. Sinbad
b. Aladdin d. Bhagavad Gita
125. This Filipino writer is known as the Edgar Allan Poe of the Philippines
because he writes well while drinking beer.
a. NVM Gonzales b. Nick Joaquin c. Jose Palma d. Jose Garcia Villa
126. Jose Rizal’s novel Noli Me Tangere is inspired by the novel written by Harriet
Beecher Stowe titled ________.
a. Uncle Tom’s Cabin c. Tom Sawyer
b. Les Miserables d. War and Peace
127. Which of the following plays was not written by Sophocles?

a. Ajax
b. Agamemnon
c. Antigone
d. Oedipus at Colonus
128. In Homer’s epic, who kept Odysseus on her island for seven years?
a. Circe
b. Calypso
c. Helen
d. Penelope
129. What is the reason why Achilles is vulnerable on his heel?

a. It is where her mother held him when she dipped Achilles on the Styx.
b. A demigod is always vulnerable on his heel.
c. Her mother wasn’t able to prevent him immediately when he dipped his heel on
the Styx.
d. None of the above.
130. English Sonnet: Shakespeare, Italian Sonnet:

a. Alighieri c. Boccaccio
b. Petrarch d. Dante
131. John Keats believed that true happiness was to be found in _____ and
_____.
a) Art and natural beauty
b) Poem and drama
c) Joy and emotions
d) Problems and physical appearance
132. “Great Expectations” is written by?

a) Emily Dickinson
b) Anthony Trollope
c) Herman Melville
d) Charles Dickens
133. “Through the Looking Glass” by Lewis Caroll describes the escapades of the
character that moves through a mirror into another unreal world of illogical behavior.
This is a sequel to __________.
a. Snow White
b. Rapunzel
c. Little Red Riding Hood
d. Alice in Wonderland
134. Identify the play from which the lines are taken:
All that glitters is not gold;
Often you have heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold
But my outside to behold;
Glided tombs do norms enfold.
A. MECHANT OF VENICE c. AS YOU LIKE IT
b. HAMLET d. MACBETH
135. Which of the following terms describes the subject matter, style, tone and
attitude of the literature of ancient Greek and Rome?
a. Romanticism
b. Realism
c. Classicism
d. Naturalism
136. Who wrote the novel “The Little Prince”?

a. Niccolo Machiavelli c. Martin Luther King

b. Antoine De Saint Exupery d.Robert Frost
137. What literary movement in American literature examines life as it is?

a. Romanticism
b. Realism
c. Puritanism
d. Naturalism
138. In a Lewis Carroll masterpiece, how did Alice enter Wonderland?

a. She fell down the well c. She went through a mirror
b. She fell down the rabbit hole d. She went through many doors
139. Which of the following is a work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens

a. Animal Farm c. The Scarlet Letter
b. Uncle Tom’s Cabin d. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
140. Which is not true about indirect characterization?
A. The author describes the looks of the character objectively, without giving his
biased opinion on the physical appearance of the latter.
B. The reader examines the personality of the character through his thoughts and
actions.
C. The author exposes the personality of the character straightforwardly, especially

during the first exposure of the character in the story.
D. The reader infers the characteristics of the character through the other
characters present in the story.
141. Which refers to the use of a word whose sound in some degree imitates or
suggests its meaning? Example: "Keeping time, time, time; A sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, from the Bells, bells, bells."
A. Rhyme C. Rhythm
B. Alliteration D. Onomatopoeia
142. Identify what figure of speech is used in the following statement.
Let the man acknowledge his obligations to himself, his family, his country, and his God.
a. Anti-Climax c. Anadiplosis
b. Climax d. Oxymoron
143. What type of sonnet is exemplified in the following lines?
When I consider how my light is spent

Ere half my days, in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide

Lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent
a. Elizabethan
b. English
c. Petrarchan
d. Spenserian
144. What does the presence of these three divinities: Clotho, Lachesis, and
Atropos in Greek myth symbolize?
A. Immortals play a great part in mortals' life
B. Destiny cannot be controlled by anyone
C. Power of immortals over mortals
D. Mortal's fate depends on the gods
145. Who wrote the short story “The Wedding Dance” which is about the ill fated
love of Awiyao and Luminay?
A. Paz Latorena
B. EstrellaAlfon
C. Manuel Arguilla
D. Amador Daguio
146. "Awake for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And lo! The Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan's Turrent in a Noose of Light."
The above stanza is taken from the famous poem of
A. Rabindranath Tagore C. Khalil Gibran
B. Omar Khayyam D. Nelson Mandela
147. The following are the works of Euripides, EXCEPT:
A. Antigone
B. Alcestis
C. Medea
D. Hippolytus
148. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by whose author?
a. Oscar Wilde c. John Steinbeck
b. Edgar Allan Poe d. Rudyard Kipling
149. All of the following are books written in first person point of view except one.
Which one is it?
A. The Hunger Games
B. Twilight
C. Percy Jackson and the Olympians
D. Harry Potter
150. This is a term which refers to the act of determining and graphically
representing the metrical character of a line of verse in poetry.
a. Scansion c. BardoramicVersology
b. Metrical Analysis d. Stylistics

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5. One important tenet of miscue analysis is:

7. Which of the following is a sign of possible learning disability in reading?

8. Which of the following is NOT a retarded reader?

13. An instrument based upon the prediction aspects of reading is the :

19. Reading is very important because:

20. The following are objectives of a remedial program EXCEPT:

21. What is to be done prior to a conduct of any remedial program?

23. Which is NOT a characteristic of a poor reader?

34. But he was wounded for our transgressions,

35. “Come hither, come hither, come hither”

36. What is alliteration?

38. Which of the following pair of words utilizes half-rhyme?

40. Yes, I am tired to my own existence.

41. George Bernard Shaw once said:

42. Which if the following is alluded to in this old English riddle?

45. Lao-Tzu once said

46. Saint Thomas Aquinas once wrote

c. Love for logic

50. Read the verse below.

52. Which among the following describes an absolutist critic?

54. How is defamiliarization defined by Russian Formalists?

58. According to him, a novel is characterized by dialogized heteroglossia.

66. According to Levi-Strauss, Myth possesses a structure like _____________.

71. Which best describes archetypes?

72. The____________ is the ultimate symbol of power.

73. Why do deconstructors search for the binary oppositions?

d. It provides an hierarchy as a guide to the reader in their interpretation

76. Phonocentrism is described as ________________.

78. What literary theory has deconstructionism founded its concepts?

84. Which among the following is an example of a metalanguage?

92. This is a modern philosophical tendency that emphasizes the perceiver.

a. Antagonist c. Tragic Flaw

b. Antihero d. Ironical Character

c. Third Person Limited

d. Third Person Omniscient

a. His protection by the gods

b. The future glory of his sons

c. His love affair with Dido

d. His being compared with Achilles and Odysseus

106. The literary awards started in 1950 is the _________________.

A. Commonwealth Literary Awards

B. Republic Cultural Heritage Awards

C. Don Carlos Palanca Memorial Literary Awards

A. Yasunari Kawabata C. Wole Soyinka

B. Rabindranath Tagore D. Po Chu-I

A. Paris wins his duel with Romeo.

B. Friar Lawrence refuses to have Romeo and Juliet marry.

C. Juliet wakes up before Romeo arrives.

D. Mercutio does not die.

a. Lord Byron c. John Milton

b. Robert Herrick d. George Herbert

b. Falling Action d. Rising action

112. Identify what figure of speech is used in the following statement.

To yield is to be preserved whole.

114. Which is an olfactory image?

b. Dona Victorina de los Reyes Espadaña