21st Century Literature Diagnostic Test

In which type of literature do legends, folktales, short stories, and novels belong?

• Art

• Fiction

• Non-fiction

• Poetry

What is most likely the theme of literary text during the early Spanish period?

• Equality

• Nationalism

• Nature

• Religion and morality

What is the best definition of literature?

Who wrote poems with traditional stanzas and a blank verse in iambic pentameter with no rhyme. His poems portray ordinary people in everyday situations like "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," and "After Apple Picking," both of which were published in 1914.

• Robert Frost

• Allen Ginsberg

• Ernest Hemingway

• Edgar Allan Poe

Who is the author of the "Legend of the Sleepy Hollow"?

• Edgar Allan Poe

• Washington Irving

• Emily Dickinson

• Walt Whitman

Which is NOT a description of literature?

In which period did chants, proverbs, songs, and folk narratives first emerge?

• American Period

• Post-colonial Period

• Pre-colonial Period

• Spanish Period

Who brought Protestantism to the Philippines?

• American

• Chinese

• Japanese

• Spanish

It is quickly reading a text to get a summary of it.

• skimming

• reading approach

• extensive reading

• scanning

It is an activity to read shorter texts to extract accurate detailed information.

• reading approach

• skimming

• extensive reading

• scanning