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ARTS-Festivals in the Philippines.

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 8mins

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Class
Date
1.

Philippine festivals are famous for their colorful and artistic costumes, masks, and props. It is divided into religious festivals and non-religious festivals.

a)

TRUE

b)

FALSE

2.

A fiesta in Kalikbo, Aklan held every Third Sunday of January. The march of the early Aetas of Aklan while performing the upbeat tune of traditional dances and music.

a)

Ati-atihan

b)

Sinulog

3.

A festival in Cebu City held every Third Sunday of January. The Cebuano’s transition from paganism to Catholicism

a)

Ati-atihan

b)

Sinulog

4.

A festival in Iloilo City held every Fourth week of January, The Ilonggo’s conversion to Catholicism from paganism; dancing the ancestors’ upbeat dance using modern choreography

a)

Dinagyang

b)

Moriones

5.

A festival in Marinduque held every Holy Week March or April Tribute to Saint Longinus a commander of the centurions in the Roman army, who was blind in one eye. The Marinduquenons wear masks to appear like the Roman soldiers of the biblical times

a)

Dinagyang

b)

Moriones

6.

A festival in Lucban, Quezon held on May 15. Asking for intercession when praying to Saint Isidore for a bountiful harvest

a)

Carabao

b)

Pahiyas

7.

A festival in Angono, Rizal held on November 23. Celebrating bountiful marine harvest by means of enlarging the image of Saint Clement, the fisherman’s patron saint. Male devotees carry the image during a procession accompanied by “pahadores” (devotees dressed in colorful local costumes, wooden shoes and carrying boat paddles.

a)

Pahiyas

b)

Higantes

8.

A religious parade by the Catholics devotees of St. Helena. It is held every month of May and at the end of the month is the Flores De Mayo. It is a procession where the Reyna Elena, escorted by a little boy representing Emperor Constantine and the sagala or the court of the queen walk under arches decorated with colorful flowers and decorations.

a)

Moriones

b)

Santacruzan

9.

An annual festival in the city of Davao in the Philippines. Its name derives from the friendly greeting “Madayaw”, from the Dabawenyo word “dayaw”, meaning good, valuable, superior or beautiful.

a)

Pintados

b)

Penafrancia Fluvial

c)

Kadayawan

d)

MassKara

10.

A month-long annual flower festival occurring in Baguio. The festival, held during the month of February, was created as a tribute to the city’s flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake.

a)

Sinulog

b)

Ati-atihan

c)

Panagbenga

d)

Dinagyang

11.

A religious and cultural festival in Iloilo City, Philippines held on the fourth Sunday of January. It is held both to honor the Santo Niño and to celebrate the arrival on Panay of Malay settlers and the subsequent selling of the island to them by the Atis.

a)

Dinagyang

b)

Ati-atihan

c)

Panagbenga

d)

Sinulog

12.

An annual festival held on the third Sunday of January in Cebu City, Philippines. The festival honors the child Jesus, known as the Santo Niño (Holy Child), patron of the city of Cebu.

a)

Ati-Atihan

b)

Dinagyang

c)

Panagbenga

d)

Sinulog

13.

The Festival which coincides with the Feast of Saint Clement, the Patron Saint of Angono. These are made of paper-mache and measures four to five feet in diameter and ten to twelve feet in height. Traditionally, it began in the last century when Angono was a Spanish hacienda.

a)

Giant Lanterns

b)

Higantes

c)

Turumba

d)

Carabao

14.

In Moriones festival, what does the word "morion" means?

a)

Holy Week

b)

Mask/Visor

c)

Like water current movement

d)

Roman Soldier

15.

The dance movements of the Sinulog festival resembles the water current movement. What is the word it is derived from?

a)

Sulog

b)

Subsob

c)

Hala, bira!

d)

Morion

16.

Every what time of the year do Sinulog festivals are being celebrated?

a)

3rd Week of August

b)

3rd Sunday of June

c)

3rd Sunday of January

d)

2nd Sunday of January

17.

What festival does the images show?

a)

Kadayawan

b)

Sinulog

c)

Ati-atihan

d)

Moriones

18.

What festival does the images show?

a)

Ibalong

b)

Sublian

c)

Ati-atihan

d)

Moriones

19.

What festival does the images show?

a)

Moriones

b)

Sublian

c)

Sinulog

d)

Kadayawan

20.

The following are examples of religious festivals:


I. Panagbenga

II. Sinulog

III. Pahiyas

IV. Dinagyang

a)

I, II, & III

b)

II, III, & IV

c)

I, III, & IV

d)

I, II, III, & IV

21.

The following are examples of nonreligious festivals:


I. Panagbenga

II. Moriones

III. Kadayawan

a)

I & II

b)

II & III

c)

I & III

d)

I, II, & III

22.

Where did the Higantes festival originate?

a)

San Isidro

b)

Angono, Rizal

c)

Lucban, Laguna

d)

Marinduque

23.

A month-long annual flower festival occurring in Baguio. The festival, held during the month of February, was created as a tribute to the city’s flowers and as a way to rise up from the devastation of the 1990 Luzon earthquake.

a)

Sinulog

b)

Ati-atihan

c)

Panagbenga

d)

Dinagyang

24.

A week-long festival held each year in Bacolod City, the capital of Negros Occidental province. The festival features a street dance competition where people from all walks of life troop to the streets to see colorfully-masked dancers gyrating to the rhythm of Latin musical beats in a display of mastery, gaiety, coordination and stamina.

a)

Penafrancia Fluvial

b)

Pahiyas

c)

Higantes

d)

MassKara

25.

The Festival which coincides with the Feast of Saint Clement, the Patron Saint of Angono. These are made of paper-mache and measures four to five feet in diameter and ten to twelve feet in height. Traditionally, it began in the last century when Angono was a Spanish hacienda.

a)

Giant Lanterns

b)

Higantes

c)

Turumba

d)

Carabao