PLIANT LIKE A BAMBOO

Which of the following literary forms does "Pliant Like the Bamboo" belong to?

• essay

• novel

• poem

• short story

This character at the beginning of the essay was described as strong and sturdy.

• Bamboo plant

• Colonizer

• Filipino

• mango tree

These colonizers dominated the Philippines for more than three hundred years but left the Filipinos much richer in experience and culture.

• Americans

• Japanese

• Spaniards

• Spaniards

These colonizers came like a storm, like a plague of locusts, like a pestilence – rude, relentless, and cruel; but the Filipinos learned to cooperate with them.

• Americans

• Japanese

• Spaniards

• Indians

What are the trees being compared in the story?

• Mango and Narra

• Mango and Bamboo

• Molave and Bamboo

• Molave and Narra

It is what we called the study of past events, particularly in human affairs; the whole series of past events connected with someone or something.

• environment

• setting

• history

• culture

Following are the descriptions in the mango tree as the wind blew its hardest EXCEPT for

• It would not sway

• It was too proud.

• It was not too sure of itself.

• it stood fast.

Following are Filipino's description when it comes to romantic role except for

• Slender and wiry

• nimble and graceful in his movement

• voice is soft

• gift of love

Which literary figures of speech is this example: “He has a saying that life is like a wheel.”

• Simile

• Personification

• Metaphor

• Paradox

What is the meaning of pliant?

• stiff

• firm

• sly

• flexible