WorksheetsAssessment of Reading Comprehension
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 18mins
Who is the main character of the story?
Vincent
Vince
Victor
Vivian
Where is the setting of the story?
Airport
Fish port
School
Park
What are the things that Filipino most likely to receive in the story?
Balikbayan Box
Jewelry
Cellphone
House and Lot
What is inside the balikbayan box?
Libby's Vienna Sausage
Folgers and SPAM
Travel sized bottles of shampoo and conditioner
All of the above
What detail from the story tells that the Filipino wants to receive balikbayan boxes?
Philippine Airlines departures terminal, it is already bustling with restless souls who, with their balikbayan boxes.
Boxes blocking the Mabuhay Express Lane for first and business class passenger.
Boxes secured by electrical tape and ropes.
He simply dismissed it as a 'Turban Legend'.
What can you infer with this line 'Vince tells himself as he navigates his cartload of Louis Vuitton bags in and out of the maze'?
Vince is a Filipino.
Vince is a rich man.
Vince had a culture shock when it comes to balikbayan box that he saw.
Vince loves to travel.
What is the meaning of 'He simply dismissed it as turban legend'?
It is a legend.
Turban is a legend.
People create such stories.
It has something to do with urban.
What does balikbayan box signify?
The love and sacrifice of the OFW's.
People are so materialistic.
To give happiness in every member of the family.
OFW's were concern with their family.
How do you compare OFW's balikbayan boxes with other country's boxes?
OFW's were practical unlike other country.
OFW's were thrifty unlike other country.
OFW's were practical like other country.
OFW's were thrifty like other country.
Does sending balikbayan boxes a common practice nowadays?
Yes, because it can bring happiness to the members of the family
Yes, because it is much convenient.
No, because they send money instead of boxes.
No, because it is not easy to manage.
At what age that the girl determined to be true to herself?
at the age of seven
at the age of eight
at the age of nine
at the age of ten
What is the subject in the story?
extra finger
allergy on the Face
fungi on feet
warts on skin
Who disagreed with the grandmother's plan?
Mother
Father
Sister
Brother
What details from the story tell us that the girl loves herself?
It made me fearful that people could change part of me.
They took me home with all fingers in place.
I needed to protect, the whole of which I named scientifically "My Pure Self-Being".
Mother and father were freethinkers.
What characteristic Mr. Maubert has when he was convincing the parent to turn the unusual hands into ordinary ones?
He was an optimistic person.
He was a rich man.
He was a strict parent.
He was the father of the girl.
Do you think the girl did the right thing to love herself?
Yes, because despite of our differences, we still have a unique personality that differs from other.
Yes, because we have to love ourselves.
No, because she should let her mom to cut her fingers when she was young.
No, because no one will love her because of her condition.
Do you think that the girl is matured enough? Why?
Yes, because she can decide for herself.
Yes, because in life we should accept the reality whether it is good or bad just like the way she did.
No, because she overthinks all the time.
No, because she cannot accept her situation.
What does her excess fingers symbolize?
It symbolizes acceptance.
It symbolizes purity.
It symbolizes maturity.
It symbolizes independence.
How do you compare the girl in the story with the girls of her age at the present?
The girl in the story accepted the reality but girls nowadays were being sensitive.
The girl in the story is optimistic just like girls nowadays.
The girl in the story was understanding just like girls nowadays.
The girl in the story is the same as girls nowadays.
What is the contemporary youth's attitude towards appreciating self-worth?
Teenagers were getting more complex when it comes on accepting themselves.
Teenagers were getting more understanding and appreciative.
Teenagers were getting more open with themselves.
Teenagers were getting more secretive on what are they actually feels.
What is the general tone of the poem?
amused
humorous
serious
sad
What does the first stanza (Chorus) mean?
Filipino people are willing to protect and die for their country
Filipino people are hardworking
Filipino people are loving
Filipino people have different role in the society
What does the stanza about men explain?
They work from sunrise to sunset because they are the ones who sustains the need for their family, home and country
They always get tire everyday just to provide for their family
They have long hours working in the field.
What does the stanza for wives confer?
Women symbolize light in their home.
Men make the family stronger and serves as the protector.
Women encourage the men to work hard and not to worry about their children for they will teach them good values.
Children must obey their parents at all times
What is the message of the stanza for maiden mean?
Maiden encourages men to work and serve the country.
Maiden will choose men who are hardworking to be their husband.
Maiden urges the children to be like men in the poem
Maiden wanted to be like the wives in the poem.
What does the children want to state in their stanza of the poem?
They were thinking of what their future will be if their fathers continue to have a long hour of work.
They just like to play and enjoy their childhood.
They wanted to be with their mother helping with household chores.
They were inspired by the men and wish to be like them who will fulfill their laborious work in the future.
What feelings do the children portray in their stanza?
Eagerness to grow and learn to work.
Longing to their father to be at home.
They pity their mother for they cannot help them always in their chores.
They wanted to have a bonding and fun with their family members
What is the central message of the poem?
Men should work hard for their family.
Women must do their household chores properly.
Children should help their mother in their household chores
Everyone has a role in life to fulfill
What do you think Rizal’s purpose of the poem?
To ask the people especially children to work hard
To inspire maiden and live life like the women in the poem
To reshape the moral and ethical values of a Filipino society
To make a confusion of who must be the best in the society
Turban Legend
[Excerpt from Leche] by R. Zamora Linmark (Fiction)
(Reference: 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World Textbook p. 37)
By the time Vince arrives at the Philippines Airlines departures terminal, it is already bustling with restless souls who, with their balikbayan boxes, have transformed the terminal into a warehouse, as if they’re returning to the motherland on a cargo ship rather that Asia’s first airline carrier. Comedians use these durable cardboard boxes as materials for their Filipino-flavored jokes. “How is the balikbayan box like American Express to Filipinos? Because they never leave home without it.”
Everywhere Vince turns are boxes, boxes, and more boxes. Boxes secured by electrical tape and ropes. Boxes with drawstring covers made from canvas or tarp. Boxes lined up like a fortified wall behind check-in counters or convoying on squeaky conveyor belts of x-ray machines. Boxes blocking Mabuhay Express Lane for first-and business-class passengers. Boxes stacked up on carts right beside coach passengers standing in queues that are straight only their starting points before branching out to form more—or converge with other—lines, bottlenecking as they near the ticket counter.
Boxes that ought to be the Philippines’ exhibit at the next World’s Fair, Vince tells himself as he navigates his cartload of Louis Vuitton bags in and out of the maze. An exhibit that should take place none other than here, at the Honolulu International Airport, he laughs, as he imagines an entire terminal buried in the Filipinos’ most popular— and preferred—pieces of luggage.
With a balikbayan box, Filipinos can pack cans of Hormel corned beef, Libby‘s Vienna sausage, Folgers, and SPAM; perfume samples; new or hand-me-down designer jeans; travel-sized bottles of shampoo, conditioner, and body lotion gleaned from Las Vegas hotels; and appliances marked with first-world labels that, as anyone who‘s been to the Philippines knows, can easily purchase at Duty Free right outside the airport, or from any of the cryptlike malls that are so gargantuan they‘re metropolis unto themselves. Filipinos will even throw themselves into these boxes, as was the case of the overseas contract worker in Dubai. The man, an engineer, was so homesick that, unable to afford the ticket—most of his earnings went to cover his living expenses and the rest to his wife and children—he talked his roommate, who was homebound for the holidays, into checking him in. He paid for the excess baggage fee, which still came out cheaper than a round-trip airfare. En route to Manila, he died from hypothermia.
Vince, who had heard the story from his older sister Jing, didn’t buy it. There were too many loopholes, too many unanswered questions, like wouldn’t an x-ray machine in the Middle East detect a Filipino man curled up inside a box? He simply dismissed it as a “turban legend.”
“You’re missing the point, brother,” Jing said. “It’s not the mechanics that matter. It’s about drama. The extremes a Filipino will go to just to be back home for Christmas with his family.”
