Final Exam in 21st Century Literature

S.Y.: 2021 - 2022

Grade 11- GAS Emerald
Name: __________________________________________ Date: __________________
Name of the Teacher: _______________________________ Parent’s Signature: _______

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read the question carefully and encircle the best and correct answer.

1. This period in European literature was mostly influenced by Greco-Roman culture.

a. Ancient b. Medieval c. Renaissance d. Romantic
2. The _________ narrates the Trojan War and the siege of Troy.
a. Iliad b. Odyssey c. Beowulf d. The Song of Roland
3. What kind of literature refers to works produced during the Middle Ages (500 AD–1500)?
a. medieval literature b. ancient literature c. modern literature d. realistic literature
4. Which of the following was not a dominant culture in the Middle Ages?
a. Realism b. Christianity c. Islam d. Germanic invaders
5. Which of the following is not true about Nibelungenlied?
a. Siegfried avenges the death of Kriemhild.
b. Kriemhild and Siegfried’s tragic destiny was revealed in Kriemhild’s dream in her youth.
c. It has themes of murder and revenge.
d. The story has disparate elements because of its long history.
6. They are classical scholars who revived and translated ancient texts.
a. Humanists b. Romantics c. Veterans d. Simpletons
7. Humanism was rampant among what group of people?
a. Intellectuals b. romantics c. realists d. veterans
8. What literary period produced many great thinkers?
a. Enlightenment b. Realism c. Romanticism d. Ancient
9. The Enlightenment was caused by which of the following literary periods?
a. Renaissance b. Ancient period c. Medieval period d. Romanticism
10. Upheavals such as the French Revolution was a result of the people’s idea that collectively the public can create
change. This is a result of what kind of belief?
a. Humanism b. Christianity c. realism d. patronage
11. What literary movement is against the aristocratic culture that started in the late 18th century?
a. Romanticism b. Realism c. Humanism d. Modernism
12. What literary movement draws on the commonplace and the daily struggles of the common man?
a. Realism b. Postmodernism c. Humanism d. Romanticism
13. What genre of literature was prevalent during the period of Romanticism?
a. Poetry b. Novel c. Short Story d. Play
14. Realism was considered a reaction to romanticism because of what reason?
a. People wanted to document the reality around them instead of beautifying it.
b. People wanted to appreciate the industrial revolution.
c. People wanted to write about emotion and imagination.
d. People wanted to beautify the ugly reality that they are in.
15. What did the poems during the Romantic period focus on?
a. the individual's innermost thoughts and dreams
b. the individual's logical and reasonable thinking
c. the individual's creativity and art
d. the individual's romantic and artistic pursuits
16. What literary movement was marked by sudden changes in man’s perspective of the world?
a. Modernism b. Postmodernism c. Realism d. Humanism
17. What do you call the technique in point of view in which the speaker may or may not know that his or her
version of events is not entirely true?
a. unreliable narrator b. imagism c. stream of consciousness d. pastiche
18. Which of the following shows a crisis of identity of the human being in ethnicity and sexuality as well as the
struggle for social and cultural acceptance in a hypocritical society?
a. Postmodernism b. modernism c. imagism d. stream of consciousness
19. Which of the following is seen in Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway? Throughout the story, Clarissa Dalloway
narrates what she is thinking and what she observes around her. This is an example of _________?
a. stream of consciousness b. an unreliable narrator c. postmodernism d. modernism
20. Old English literature could be described as _________.
a. Religious b. agnostic c. undeveloped d. basic
21. Which of the following is not true?
a. All records of Old English poetry were lost.
b. Old English literature may be described as religious
c. St. Bede is responsible for penning the ecclesiastical history of England.
d. Old English literature also includes Anglo-Latin works.
22. Which of the following cannot be used to describe Old English poetry?
a. It was innovative and radical. c. It was formulaic.
b. It was created using a stock of phrase patterns. d. It made use of kennings.
23. Which of the following is not a focus of prose written during the Old English period?
a. Fiction b. laws c. wills d. charters
24. Which of the following influenced Middle English poetry?
a. the French b. the Greeks c. the Spanish d. the Americans
25. _________, along with the blank verse, were introduced to England by Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard,
Earl of Surrey
a. Sonnets b. Elegies c. Odes d. Ballads
26. Who among the following was considered the patroness of literature in the United Kingdom?
a. Queen Elizabeth I b. Queen Victoria c. William Shakespeare d. Sir Thomas Wyatt
27. Which of the following rhyme schemes is used in the Shakespearean sonnet?
a. abab cdcd efef gg b. abab cdcd efef gh c. aabb ccdd eeff gg d. abab cdcd efge gg
28. Which of the following can be said about the church during the Elizabethan era?
a. They wanted the plays to be religious.
b. They were highly appreciative of the plays produced during that time.
c. They were not concerned with any form of literature produced during that period.
 d. They had members of the congregation who were esteemed playwrights.
29. In the Victorian period, _________ and complicated plots are used to challenge readers.
a. Irony b. sarcasm c. paradox d. oxymoron
30. Which of the following was not done by the Romantics?
a. use realism b. show originality c. show authority d. focus on nature
31. Which of the following did the writers of the Victorian period write about?
a. everyday struggles b. religious matters c. nature d. supernatural elements
32. Twentieth century literature was a response to the restrictions of _________ literature.
a. Victorian b. Old English c. Elizabethan d. Middle English
33. Which of the following would the novelists of 20th century English literature have believed?
a. Writing could create positive developments in society.
b. Writing is meant to be an escape from reality.
c. There is nothing that writing can do to bring about change.
d. The most important goal of writing is to entertain.
34. After World War II, literature was hugely influenced by _________.
a. Religion b. paganism c. aestheticism d. the supernatural
35. Many of the writers of the _________ era continued the realism of the previous century.
a. Edwardian b. Modern c. Elizabethan d. Victorian

II. IDENTIFICATION: Read the question carefully and write the correct answer in the space provided.

_____________1. What literary technique focused on clarity and conciseness by using specific images?
_____________2. Queen Elizabeth I of England reigned from 1558 to 1603. The literary works during her time were
called _________ literature.

_____________3. The _________ stanza has eight iambic pentameter lines and ends with a ninth line with six iambic
feet
_____________4. A_________, which was considered to have taken place from 1770 to 1830, was a reaction against the
industrial revolution.
_____________5. The _________ period started in the reign of Queen Victoria, which lasted from 1837 to 1901.

III. ESSAY. Answer the following question below. (10 pts)

Criteria:
Content – 5
Grammar – 5
Total: 10 points
As a 21st century learner, how can you show appreciation for literature and how will you help promote the literature in
society?

Prepared by: Evaluated by:

Jeneses B. Escabas 11-Maria Menie Racho

Teacher Year Level Coordinator

Checked by: Approved by:

Alona A. Piquinto Arneda S. Quisel

Assistant Principal OIC-School Principal