Schools Division of Iloilo Senior High School

21st Century Literature from the Philippines and World

2nd Quarterly Assessment

Name: __________________________________Grade & Section: ________________ Score: ______

Directions: Read each question carefully and blacken the letter of the best answer.

1. He is a Greek writer who is known for The Iliad and The Odyssey which are about the heroic
achievements of the characters respectively. Who is this?
Ⓐ Sophocles Ⓑ Homer ⒸPlato Ⓓ Virgil
2. Which of these works is written by Geoffrey Chaucer in Middle English?
Ⓐ The Canterbury Tales Ⓑ The Importance of Being Earnest
Ⓒ The Merchant of Venice Ⓓ Songs of Innocence and of Experience
3. Which of these writers wrote symbolical tales during 19th Century?
Ⓐ Sherwood Anderson Ⓑ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Ⓒ Ernest Hemingway Ⓓ Washington Irving
4. Which of the following situations is similar to the characteristics of Don Quixote by Miguel de
Cervantes?
Ⓐ Kristina adores male Filipino artists and often tells she will marry them all.
Ⓑ Bob speaks the truth whenever he is asked.
Ⓒ Lisa believes that we cannot control all things in the world.
Ⓓ Pipo says that we should love and obey our parents.
5. This refers to an Indian epic written in Sanskrit and is considered as the longest poem in history with
about 100,000 couplets.
Ⓐ The Ramayana Ⓑ The Mahabharata
Ⓒ The Panchatantra Ⓓ The Jagannatha Vijaya
6. This author is known for his novels “War and Peace” and “Anna Karenina”. Who is he?
Ⓐ Lope de Vega Ⓑ Guy de Maupassant
Ⓒ Leo Tolstoy Ⓓ Anton Chekhov
7. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1930- May 15, 1886) was an American poet. Dickinson was
born in Amherst, Massachusetts. Although part of a prominent family with strong ties to its community,
Dickinson lived much of her life highly introverted.

The underlined word is implied in which of the following situations?

Ⓐ Lita trembling ran as fast as she could upon seeing the askal.
Ⓑ Mario hid inside his room upon the arrival of the guests during fiesta.
Ⓒ Juana blushed upon seeing her crush eating banana cue in the plaza.
Ⓓ Pedro was dumbfounded upon seeing the festival mascot, Dagoy.

8-14. Identify the literary technique used in the given excerpts. Choose your answer from the
choices inside the box. Write the letter of the correct answer before the number.

A. Anaphora B. Antihero C. Cliff-hanger D. Juxtaposition

E. Foreshadowing F. Catharsis G. Stream of Consciousness

8. 'Tis a fault to heaven, A fault against the dead, a fault to nature To reason most absurd. . . .
- Hamlet by Shakespeare, Act 1 Scene 2

9. Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herselF. . . . For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The
doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer's men were cominG. And then, thought Clarissa
Dalloway, what a morning--fresh as if issued to children on a beach.
What a lark! What a plunge! For so it had always seemed to her, when, with a little squeak of the hinges,
which she could hear now, she had burst open the French windows and plunged at Bourton into the open
air.
-Mrs. Dalloway (An Excerpt) by Virginia Woolf

10. It was about dusk, one evening during the supreme madness of the carnival season, that I [Montresor]
encountered my friend [Fortunato]. He accosted me with excessive warmth, for he had been drinking
much. The man wore motley. He had on a tightfitting parti-striped dress, and his head was surmounted by
the conical cap and bells. I was so pleased to see him, that I thought I should never have done wringing
his hanD. . . .
- The Cask of Amontillado (An Excerpt) by Edgar Allan Poe

11. Then Thetis spake unto him, shedding tears the while: “Doomed then to a speedy death, my child,
shalt thou be, that thou spakest thus; for straightway after Hector is thine own death ready at hand."
-The Iliad (An Excerpt) by Homer

12. Second Messenger: (. . . .) Guided his footsteps; with a terrible shriek, As though one beckoned him,
he crashed against The folding doors, and from their staples forced The wrenched bolts and hurled
himself within. Then we beheld the woman hanging there,
A running noose entwined about her neck. But when he saw her, with a maddened roar He loosed the
cord; and when her wretched corpse Lay stretched on earth, what followed—O 'twas dread! He tore the
golden brooches that upheld Her queenly robes, upraised them high and smote Full on his eye-balls,
uttering words like these: "No more shall ye behold such sights of woe, Deeds I have suffered and myself
have wrought; Henceforward quenched in darkness shall ye see Those ye should ne'er have seen; now
blind to those Whom, when I saw, I vainly yearned to know."
- Oedipus the King (An Excerpt) by Sophocles

13. One of those, however, that stood near him, fancying he was mocking them, lifted up a long staff he
had in his hand and smote him such a blow with it that Sancho dropped helpless to the ground.
Don Quixote, seeing him so roughly handled, attacked the man who had struck him lance in hand, but so
many thrust themselves between them that he could not avenge him. Far from it, finding a shower of
stones rained upon him, and crossbows and muskets unnumbered levelled at him, he wheeled Rocinante
round and, as fast as his best gallop could take him, fled from the midst of them, commending himself to
God with all his heart to deliver him out of this peril, in dread every step of some ball coming in at his
back and coming out at his breast, and every minute drawing his breath to see whether it had gone from
him.
-Don Quixote (An Excerpt) by Miguel Cervantes

14. I turn the gun in my hands and press it into Tobias’s palm.
He pushes the barrel into my foreheaD. My tears have stopped and the air feels cold as it touches my
cheeks. I reach out and rest my hand on his chest so I can feel his heartbeat. At least his heartbeat is still
him.
The bullet clicks into the chamber. Maybe it will be as easy to let him shoot me as it was in the fear
landscape, as it is in my dreams. Maybe it will be just a bang, and the lights will lift, and I will find
myself in another worlD. I stand still and wait.
- Divergent (An Excerpt) by Veronica Roth

15-17. Read the poem and answer the given questions. Blacken the letter of your answer.

Slow Dance
by David L. Weatherford

Have you ever watched kids on a merry-goround, or listened to rain slapping the ground? Ever
followed a butterfly's erratic flight, or gazed at the sun fading into the night? You better slow down, don't
dance so fast, time is short, the music won't last.
Do you run through each day on the fly, when you ask "How are you?", do you hear the reply? When the
day is done, do you lie in your bed, with the next hundred chores running through your head? You better
slow down, don't dance so fast, time is short, the music won't last.
Ever told your child, we'll do it tomorrow, and in your haste, not see his sorrow? Ever lost touch, let a
friendship die, 'cause you never had time to call and say hi? You better slow down, don't dance so fast,
time is short, the music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere, you miss half the fun of getting therE. When you worry and
hurry through your day, it's like an unopened gift thrown away. Life isn't a race, so take it slower, hear the
music before your song is over.

15. What is life compared to in the text?

Ⓐ race Ⓑ flower Ⓒ dance Ⓓ hourglass
16. What does the underlined expression mean?
Ⓐ You have memorized the dance steps.
Ⓑ You are done with the daily activities.
Ⓒ You have witnessed a sunset.
Ⓓ You are worn out after a long day.
17. What best advice is given in the poem on how we should live our life?
Ⓐ Do your best in everything you do.
Ⓑ Do not rush things; take some time to rest.
Ⓒ Live your life the way you want to be remembered.
Ⓓ Take time to catch up with the people you miss.
18. When do we best say something is “running through our head”?
Ⓐ When we have problems that we cannot solve.
Ⓑ When we feel burnt out from work and play.
Ⓒ When we have a lot of concerns to be addressed.
Ⓓ When we got sick and got bedridden.

19-22. Read the poem and answer the given questions. Blacken the letter of your answer.

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and
wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another
day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—

I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference.

19. What image of the terrain is referred to in the poem as a “yellow wood”?
Ⓐ leaves fell off the trees onto the paths below
Ⓑ cold air covers the whole environment
Ⓒ plants begin to grow and mature again
Ⓓ the entire flora is covered with snowflakes
20. What do you think does the “road” stands for?
Ⓐ the plans that we must think of while we are still young
Ⓑ the journey of life and the decisions we make on that journey
Ⓒ the kind of future that awaits each one of us
Ⓓ the beauty of the world in the next century
21. How does one feel about a choice he made when he “tells it with a sigh”?
Ⓐ He is contented with the decision he made.
 Ⓑ He is happy about the thought he acted on.
Ⓒ He is regretful for what he has done.
Ⓓ He wants to go back to the past.
22. When do we claim that our choice between two options “made a difference”?
Ⓐ When we are happy of the decisions we make.
Ⓑ When we have shared our happiness to others.
Ⓒ When life is at its beautiful moments.
Ⓓ When we learned from our mistake.
23. Which of the following figures of speech is used in the passage below?

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their
entrances, –from As You Like It by William Shakespeare

Ⓐ simile Ⓑ metaphor Ⓒ hyperbole Ⓓ synecdoche

24. Which of the following figures of speech is used in the sentence below?
The bubbly baby babbled busily as Bobby bustled about his bassinet.
Ⓐ alliteration Ⓑ onomatopoeia Ⓒ hyperbole Ⓓ synecdoche
25. Marikit is writing a poem, and she wants it to have auditory imagery so that the reader could imagine
hearing every twang and noise referred to in the poem. Which of the following should she use in her
poem?
Ⓐ onomatopoeia Ⓑ alliteration Ⓒ metonymy Ⓓ simile
26. His eye met hers as she sat there paler and whiter than anyone in the vast ocean of anxious faces about
her. –from "The Lady, or the Tiger?" by Frank Stockton
What figure of speech is described in the text above?
Ⓐ synecdoche Ⓑ paradox Ⓒ hyperbole Ⓓ metonymy
27. In analyzing a text based on its biographical context, a reader __________.
Ⓐ identifies the images used by the author
Ⓑ gathers relevant facts about the author’s life
Ⓒ examines the style and techniques used by the author
Ⓓ compares the literary work to other works
28. Which of these statements tells the effects of English being the official medium of instruction in
public schools during the American Colonial Period?
ⒶFilipinos easily embraced the new language.
ⒷFilipinos wrote original and interesting stories using the new language.
ⒸFilipinos were exposed to the Anglo-American culture and ways of thinking.
ⒹFilipinos saw that Anglo-American literature was superior to their native and Spanish colonial
literatures.
29. In the story “Immigration Blues,” Antonietta was working on Alipio for her sister Monica. She was
dropping hints during their conversation. The most obvious one was when Alipio was telling the two
women how he and Carlito had impressed women before with their gallantry and that they were “fools on
firE.” Antonietta responded with less subtlety by saying, “I’m sure you still got some of that fire.”
What does this reveal about Antonietta’s character based on the passage?
Ⓐ She was desperate.
Ⓑ She was candid.
Ⓒ She was a little vulgar.
Ⓓ She was genuinely fond of Alipio.
30. What is the subject of the short story “Immigrant Blues” by Bienvenido Santos?
Ⓐ the challenges of losing someone’s spouse
Ⓑ the loss of identity of old men as they age
Ⓒ the culture shock of immigrants in America
 Ⓓ the hardships that Filipino immigrants face abroad.
31. What is the subject of the short story “The Tomato Game”?
Ⓐ a man who arranges marriage for others for a fee
Ⓑ a man who deceives his fellow countrymen for money
Ⓒ a man who takes advantage of the mail order bride industry
Ⓓ a man who makes a living out of unmarried men’s desires
32. How do I love thee? Let me?
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of being and ideal grace-
-from “Anna Karenina” by Leo Tolstoy

Which of the following situations is the implied application of the poem above?
Ⓐ Daryl is willing to sacrifice everything for love.
Ⓑ Mario is very vocal in his love for Martha.
Ⓒ Beth and John are very much in love from foot to head.
Ⓓ Jay is passionately into liking someone.
33. “Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be. But if you don’t love me, it
would be better and more honest to say so.”
What can be inferred from the lines taken in Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina?
Ⓐ If you love a person, you should respect him or her too.
Ⓑ Love wholeheartedly and with no regrets.
Ⓒ Respect and love is both a bargain and compromise.
Ⓓ Be honest in telling a person that you don’t love him or her anymore.

34. A snowy morning-- by myself, chewing on dried salmon.

Which statements can be said about the image portrayed in A Haiku by Basho?
Ⓐ It shows a solitary man.
Ⓑ It shows a very poor man.
Ⓒ It shows a very cold morning.
Ⓓ It shows a moment during summertime.
35. The river's blue, the bird a perfect white, The mountain green with flowers about to blaze. I've
watched the spring pass away again, When will I be able to return?
In a poem by Du Fu, what does the persona likely feel about his situation?
Ⓐ contentment Ⓑ excitement Ⓒ fear Ⓓ weariness
36. O my Luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June; -from “A Red, Red Rose” by Robert Burns

Why is the poem considered as simile?

Ⓐ The persona in the poem likes to give roses every June of the year.
Ⓑ The author wishes to convey that the persona plants roses.
Ⓒ The persona compares his love to a red rose that blooms in springtime.
Ⓓ The author tells that the persona is as blooming as the red rose.
37. Which of the following correctly states why literary writers use figures of speech?
Ⓐ Literary writers use figures of speech to puzzle the readers.
Ⓑ Literary writers use figures of speech to make their works popular.
Ⓒ Literary writers use figures of speech to enhance the artistic quality of their works.
Ⓓ Literary writers use figures of speech to lengthen their works.
38. Among the following sentences, which does not use a figure of relationship?
Ⓐ I died of fright when, as I was walking along the dark hallway, he suddenly appeared in front
of me.
 Ⓑ She walked onto the stage and found a hundred pairs of eyes staring at her, waiting for her to
speak.
Ⓒ Would you please lend me a hand so that we could finish this task right away?
Ⓓ Rachel's tears were like waterfalls as she wished her parents good-bye at the airport.
39. Which of the following is not the purpose of critical reading?
Ⓐ Readers read texts critically for better understanding of their meaning.
Ⓑ Readers read texts critically to learn new information.
Ⓒ Readers read texts critically for amusement.
Ⓓ Readers read texts critically to learn more about culture and society.
40. This critical reading strategy involves the examination of the reader’s personal responses to the text.
What is this strategy?
Ⓐmaking an outline Ⓑreflecting on a text
Ⓒasking questions about a text Ⓓevaluating the argument made in a text
41. Andie preferred to attend the Sepak Takraw try-out over his Math remedial class. Which of the
following lines from Robert Frosts’ “The Road Not Taken” relates to the given situation?
Ⓐ And looked down one as far as I could
Ⓑ I doubted if I should ever come back
Ⓒ I shall be telling this with a sigh
Ⓓ I took the one less travelled by
42. Below is a line taken from the poem “Trees” by Joyce Kilmer.

I think that I shall never see

A poem lovely as a tree.

Which of the following scenarios is related to the poem above?

Ⓐ Nestor jumped to the sky after hearing the announcement.
Ⓑ Manang Marta appreciated the echoing voices of the bamboo trees.
Ⓒ Michelle smiles like a blooming Sampaguita when she is happy.
Ⓓ Ruby likes to listen to loud lullabies.
43. In the short story ”Coffee for the Road” by Alex La Guma, the mother had been driving all night and
she was fatigued, her eyes red, with the feeling of sand under the lids, irritating the eyeballs. What
imagery is depicted?
ⒶVisual ⒷAuditory ⒸTactile ⒹOlfactory

44.-48. Read the passage below and answer the following questions.

The Facebook Sonnet

By Sherman Alexie

Welcome to the endless high-school

Reunion. Welcome to past friends
And lovers, however kind or cruel.
Let’s undervalue and unmend

The present. Why can’t we pretend

Every stage of life is the same?
Let’s exhume, resume, and extend
ChildhooD. Let’s all play the games

That occupy the younG. Let fame

And shame intertwinE. Let one’s search
For God become public domain.
Let church.com become our church.
 Let’s sign up, sign in, and confess
Here at the altar of loneliness.

44. What mood is being set on the poem above?

Ⓐ happiness Ⓑ fear Ⓒ anger Ⓓ delight
45. The word “exhume” in the second stanza in the poem means?
Ⓐ bring back Ⓑ collect Ⓒ play Ⓓ rely
46. To what place is the reader being welcomed in the poem?
Ⓐ physical world Ⓑ virtual world Ⓒ alternate world Ⓓ imaginary world
47. Which of the following words could support the answer on the previous question?
Ⓐ reunion Ⓑ games Ⓒ church Ⓓ domain
48. What is being referred to as alter of loneliness in the poem?
Ⓐ church Ⓑ social media Ⓒ school Ⓓ stage
49. The line “Let’s sign up, sign in, and confess, Here at the altar of loneliness” means?
Ⓐ Let’s express our feelings in Facebook.
Ⓑ Let’s confess our sins in the altar.
Ⓒ Let’s be happy and sign up in the use of Internet.
Ⓓ Let’s join in the room of lonely people.
50. What is the speaker trying to achieve by using “church.com” in the poem?
Ⓐ The speaker wants to signify that we are interested in websites.
Ⓑ The speaker wants to signify that we can go to church on-line.
Ⓒ The speaker wants to signify that the web is our new religion.
Ⓓ The speaker wants to signify that the internet helps us find churches.

Prepared by:
Colleen Hyacinth B. Cabayao Dueñas GCHS
Pilar O. Corcino Maasin NCHS
Michael D. Elisteria Miag-ao NHS
Agustin T. Estoque Oton NHS
Marjorie P. Ledesma Janiuay NCHS
Cherry Claire A. Parochelin Oton NHS
Leopoldo Quiñon, Jr. Janiuay NCHS
Arlene A. Salvante Zarraga NHS