Contemporary Philippine Literature

The Philippines regained its freedom on ___________ and the Filipino flag was waved joyously alone.

• June 12, 1989

• July 4, 1946

• December 12, 1989

• June 15, 1988

The early post-liberation period was marked by a kind of "struggle of mind and spirit" posed by the sudden emancipation from the enemy, and the wild desire to see print.

• TRUE

• FALSE

The usual themes of poems during the Period of New Society were _________________.

• love and romance

• environment and nature

• patience, culture and beauty of nature

• war and violence

A Filipino novel published in 1946 and was considered as the first work of note that appeared after the second world war is __________.

• Ginto sa Makiling

• Luha ng Buwaya

• Sa Kuko ng Liwanag

• Bayaning Nagpatiwakal

The two novels in English that dealt with the war experience are Stevan Javellana's Without Seeing the Dawn and Edilberto Tiempo's Watch in the Night.

• TRUE

• FALSE

He was a union leader and social activist who wrote novels advocating social change such as Luha ng Buwaya and Mga Ibong Mandaragit.

• Nick Joaquin

• Edilberto Tiempo

• Carlos Palanca

• Amado V. Hernadez

His neo-romantic, poetic and histrionic style, is reminiscent of the dramas of Balagtas and de la Cruz and his dizzying flashbacks are cinematic in effect, ironically quite Hollywood-ish, serving always to beguile and astonish.

• Stevan Javellana

• Edith Tiempo

• Nick Joaquin

• Jose Garca Villa

Post-war poetry and fiction was dominated by the writers in English educated and trained in writers’ workshops in the United States or England.

• TRUE

• FALSE

Edgardo Reyes’ Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (1966) is a critique of urban blight.

• TRUE

• FALSE

It is considered as the most comprehensive compilation of feminist writing in the Philippines written by prize-winning poet-critic Lilia Quindoza Santiago.

• Sa Ngalan Ng Ina (1997)

• The Hand of the Enemy (1972)

• Sa Mga Kuko ng Liwanag (1966)

• Mga Ibong Mandaragit (1969)