PHILLIT

Philippine Literatures

Introductory Quiz

Instructions

In this ungraded quiz, I will check if you still remember many Philippine literary concepts, characters, ideas, symbols, and themes. This quiz will be about Philippine Literary History.

Multiple Choice

When did the "Filipinos" call themselves "Filipinos"?

• 1989

• 1898

• 1521

• 1986

Multiple Choice

Most of Philippine literature before 1565 was

• printed

• carved in stone

• written in bamboo

• oral

Multiple Choice

The pasyon, the awit, the corrido and the poems of Rizal were influenced by

• traditional Tagalog poetry

• European romance

• German folktales

• Persian verses

Multiple Choice

During the American colonial period, what literature flourished?

• the novel

• the drama

• poetry

• the short story

Multiple Choice

When did we call the national language as Filipino?

• 1935

• 1959

• 1972

• 1987

Multiple Choice

According to National Artist for Literature Rio Alma, modernism in Philippine poetry began in the 1960s from what university?

• Ateneo de Manila

• De La Salle University

• University of the East

• Far Eastern University

• University of Santo Tomas

Multiple Choice

What did National Artist Bienvenido Lumbera call the period in literary history from 1946 to 1985?

• Literature under Spanish Colonialism

• Literature under US Colonialism

• Literature under the Republic

• Literature after EDSA People Power

Multiple Choice

Among these names, who is the National Artists for Literature in DLSU?

• Marjorie Evasco

• Cirilo Bautista

• Nick Joaquin

• Bienvenido Lumbera

Multiple Choice

She is a prolific Ilongga novelist that almost made it as National Artist for Literature. She was born during the time of Rizal and wrote stories and novels during the American colonial period.

• Deogracias A. Rosario

• Leona Florentino

• Magdalena Jalandoni

• Genoveva Edroza Matute

• Liway

Multiple Choice

The first published short story writer in English.

• Jose Dalisay Jr.

• Paz Marquez Benitez

• Paz Latorena

• Evangeline Guerrero

Multiple Choice

Philippine Literature is weaved from the ____________ of the Filipino writers and artists.

• imaginations

• ramblings

• confusions

• distortions