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WorksheetsPhilippine Literature Quiz
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 18mins
Tagalog versifiers fluent in Spanish during the Spanish colonial period.
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First Filipino novel, written in Spanish by Pedro Paterno.
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Underground newspaper considered the mouthpiece of the Reform Movement.
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Known as the "Master of Traditional Tagalog Poetry" and author of Florante at Laura.
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First short story written in English by a Filipino author, Paz Marquez Benitez.
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Poet known as the “Mother of Philippine Women’s Literature.”
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Poetic performance during the Spanish period depicting the passion of Christ.
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Japanese form of poetry consisting of 17 syllables in a 5-7-5 pattern.
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Political party approved by the Japanese during the Japanese colonial period.
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Guerilla army unified against Japanese invasion.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning Filipino author of I Saw the Fall of the Philippines.
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Magazine that compiled Ang Pinakamabuting Maikling Kathang Pilipino ng 1943.
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American general who promised “I shall return” and fulfilled it in 1944.
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The first book printed in the Philippines in 1593 by Fr. Juan de Placencia and Fr. Domingo Nieva.
Urbana at Felisa
Doctrina Cristiana
Sampaguitas y poesías varias
Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Novel by Jose Rizal that exposed the abuses of Spanish friars.
Florante at Laura
Noli Me Tangere
Ninay
Urbana at Felisa
Author of the novel El Filibusterismo and considered the Philippines’ national hero.
Andres Bonifacio
Jose Rizal
Marcelo del Pilar
Pedro Paterno
Author of Urbana at Felisa, considered the 'Father of Classic Prose in Tagalog'.
Zoilo Galang
Modesto de Castro
Fernando Bagongbanta
Tomas Pinpin
Author of Sampaguitas y poesías varias, the first poetry collection in Spanish by a Filipino.
Pedro Paterno
Francisco Baltazar
Leona Florentino
Jose Rizal
Founder of the Katipunan and writer of 'Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa'.
Emilio Aguinaldo
Andres Bonifacio
Mariano Ponce
Graciano Lopez Jaena
Known as the 'Mother of Philippine Women’s Literature,' a poet in both Ilocano and Spanish.
Leona Florentino
Angela Manalang-Gloria
Paz Marquez Benitez
Edith Tiempo
This novel by Macario Pineda (1947) was the first notable post-war work.
Daluyong
Ginto sa Makiling
Watch in the Night
Without Seeing the Dawn
War novel written in 1947 by Stevan Javellana, depicting Japanese occupation.
Daluyong
Without Seeing the Dawn
Watch in the Night
Maganda pa ang Daigdig
Novel by Lazaro Francisco noted for Rizal-like themes of nationalism.
Maganda pa ang Daigdig
Sugat sa Alaala
Daluyong
All of the above
President who changed Philippine Independence Day from July 4 to June 12.
Ramon Magsaysay
Diosdado Macapagal
Carlos P. Garcia
Ferdinand Marcos
This 1986 bloodless revolution ousted Ferdinand Marcos.
EDSA People Power Revolution
Hukbalahap Revolt
Cry of Pugadlawin
Katipunan Uprising
First short story in English written by Paz Marquez Benitez.
A Child of Sorrow
Dead Stars
Without Seeing the Dawn
His Native Soil
First National Artist for Literature.
Edith Tiempo
Nick Joaquin
Jose Garcia Villa
Amado V. Hernandez
Filipino literature during the Spanish period was mainly religious and moral.
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FALSE
Short stories became a very popular literary form during the American period.
TRUE
FALSE
Doctrina Cristiana was the first book printed in the Philippines.
TRUE
FALSE
Corazon Aquino became president through a snap election in 1986.
TRUE
FALSE
The 21st-century literature is from the year 2000 to the present.
TRUE
FALSE
Ninay, the first Filipino novel, was written in Tagalog.
TRUE
FALSE
The American colonizers used a democratic approach in governing the Philippines.
TRUE
FALSE
Equipment introduced by the Dominicans that enabled the publication of early religious materials and books.
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