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21ST CENTURY LITERATURE - AYALA

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which literary form involves metaphorical questions that require clever answers?

a)

Proverbs

b)

Riddles

c)

Epics

d)

Myths

2.

What is the ancient writing system used by early Filipinos?

a)

Alibata

b)

Baybayin

c)

Katakana

d)

Roman

3.

Which of the following is an example of a Philippine epic?

a)

Ibong Adarna

b)

Florante at Laura

c)

Hinilawod

d)

Biag ni Lam-ang

4.

The literary form corrido during the Spanish period usually focuses on:

a)

Heroic stories

b)

Romantic dramas

c)

Religious narratives

d)

Daily life issues

5.

Which musical drama portrays the Passion of Christ?

a)

Tibag

b)

Cenaculo

c)

Zarzuela

d)

Duplo

6.

Which type of literature was most prevalent during the American colonial period?

a)

Epics

b)

Short stories

c)

Novels

d)

Chants

7.

Who is considered the “Master of Traditional Tagalog Poetry”?

a)

Jose Rizal

b)

Pedro Paterno

c)

Andres Bonifacio

d)

Francisco Baltazar

8.

What period is known for the rise of nationalistic writings in the Philippines?

a)

Precolonial

b)

Japanese

c)

Spanish Revolutionary

d)

American

9.

Which writer is known for the poem Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa?

a)

Leona Florentino

b)

Andres Bonifacio

c)

Jose Rizal

d)

Zoilo Galang

10.

Who wrote “Dead Stars,” the first short story in English?

a)

Zoilo Galang

b)

N.V.M. Gonzalez

c)

Liwayway Arceo

d)

Paz Marquez Benitez

11.

Which form of precolonial literature teaches values in rhyming format?

a)

Riddles

b)

Epics

c)

Proverbs

d)

Chants

12.

Which period banned the use of English and promoted Tagalog?

a)

Spanish

b)

American

c)

Japanese

d)

Precolonial

13.

The play that involves Christian-Muslim conflict is called:

a)

Cenaculo

b)

Zarzuela

c)

Moro-Moro

d)

Awit

14.

Who is known as the “Mother of Philippine Women’s Literature”?

a)

Paz Benitez

b)

Leona Florentino

c)

Liwayway Arceo

d)

Carmen Guerrero Nakpil

15.

Which genre flourished during the Japanese period?

a)

Novels in Spanish

b)

Tagalog short stories

c)

Corrido

d)

Pasyon

16.

Which region is the epic Hinilawod from?

a)

Luzon

b)

Visayas (Panay)

c)

Mindanao

d)

Palawan

17.

Which of the following is not a form of Spanish colonial literature?

a)

Awit

b)

Pasyon

c)

Kundiman

d)

Duplo

18.

Who wrote Ninay, the first Filipino novel in Spanish?

a)

Jose Rizal

b)

Francisco Baltazar

c)

Pedro Paterno

d)

Juan C. Laya

19.

What kind of literature is Florante at Laura?

a)

Epic

b)

Awit

c)

Corrido

d)

Novel

20.

What is the purpose of folk songs like Harana or Hele?

a)

Teach morals

b)

Express emotions and daily life

c)

Narrate history

d)

Worship gods

21.

This period presented new trends in writing using modern technology.

a)

EDSA I

b)

3rd Republic

c)

21st Century

d)

Japanese

22.

What poetic form from Japan was introduced during the Japanese occupation?

a)

Haiku

b)

Limerick

c)

Ballad

d)

Tanaga

23.

Which genre of literature uses literary techniques to create factual narratives?

a)

Creative Nonfiction

b)

Digi-Fiction

c)

Science Fiction

d)

Illustrated Novel

24.

Which software is designed to create electronic presentations?

a)

Mobile Text Tula

b)

PowerPoint

c)

Excel

d)

Digital Photography

25.

Which genre deals with futuristic concepts like space/time travel?

a)

Science Fiction

b)

Doodle Fiction

c)

Manga

d)

Propaganda

26.

Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal was written during which period?

a)

Revolutionary

b)

American

c)

Autonomy

d)

Spanish

27.

The Precolonial Period primarily featured which form of literature?

a)

Oral

b)

Written

c)

Religious

d)

Newspapers

28.

Which genre combines text and illustrations to tell a story?

a)

Digi-Fiction

b)

Graphic Novel

c)

Manga

d)

Doodle Fiction

29.

Which is considered the earliest major work of Old English Literature?

a)

The Canterbury Tales

b)

Beowulf

c)

Hamlet

d)

Paradise Lost

30.

Who is known as the “Father of English Literature”?

a)

William Blake

b)

William Shakespeare

c)

Geoffrey Chaucer

d)

Christopher Marlowe

31.

Charles Dickens is best associated with which literary period?

a)

Romantic

b)

Elizabethan

c)

Victorian

d)

Modernist

32.

Which novel by Virginia Woolf used the “stream of consciousness” style?

a)

Mrs. Dalloway

b)

Ulysses

c)

Pride and Prejudice

d)

Wuthering Heights

33.

Who wrote “The Raven” and pioneered detective fiction?

a)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

b)

Walt Whitman

c)

Edgar Allan Poe

d)

Washington Irving

34.

Who wrote The Scarlet Letter?

a)

Nathaniel Hawthorne

b)

Edgar Allan Poe

c)

Ernest Hemingway

d)

Anne Sexton

35.

“The Road Not Taken” was written by which American poet?

a)

Emily Dickinson

b)

Robert Frost

c)

Anne Sexton

d)

Allen Ginsberg

36.

Who wrote the Roman epic Aeneid?

a)

Cicero

b)

Virgil

c)

Homer

d)

Ovid

37.

Which Greek tragedian wrote Oedipus the King?

a)

Homer

b)

Sophocles

c)

Aeschylus

d)

Euripides

38.

Which Spanish author is known for Don Quixote?

a)

Miguel de Cervantes

b)

Lope de Vega

c)

Bécquer

d)

Calderón

39.

Which Russian writer wrote War and Peace?

a)

Chekhov

b)

Tolstoy

c)

Dostoevsky

d)

Pushkin

40.

Which Chilean poet wrote Residence on Earth?

a)

Octavio Paz

b)

Huidobro

c)

Neruda

d)

Borges

41.

One Hundred Years of Solitude is by:

a)

Fuentes

b)

Allende

c)

García Márquez

d)

Vargas Llosa

42.

Who is the Chilean author of The House of Spirits?

a)

Isabel Allende

b)

Valenzuela

c)

Eltit

d)

Alegría

43.

Who compiled The Analects?

a)

A. Laozi

b)

B. Confucius

c)

C. Mencius

d)

D. Mo Yan

44.

Which Indian writer won the Nobel Prize for Gitanjali?

a)

Narayan

b)

Rushdie

c)

Tagore

d)

Roy

45.

Which African writer authored Things Fall Apart?

a)

A. Soyinka

b)

B. Achebe

c)

C. Ngũgĩ

d)

D. Adichie

46.

Florante at Laura is an example of a corrido.

a)

True

b)

False

47.

Leona Florentino is known as the “Mother of Philippine Women’s Literature.”

a)

True

b)

False

48.

During the Japanese period, Tagalog was promoted over English.

a)

True

b)

False

49.

Folk songs like Harana or Hele were used to express emotions.

a)

True

b)

False

50.

Haiku and Tanaga were introduced during the American period.

a)

True

b)

False

51.

Magical realism is strongly associated with Latin American Literature.

a)

True

b)

False

52.

Chinua Achebe wrote Half of a Yellow Sun.

a)

True

b)

False

53.

Confucius’ Analects is a Chinese philosophical text.

a)

True

b)

False

54.

William Shakespeare is the author of The Waste Land.

a)

True

b)

False

55.

Robert Frost is known for his poem The Road Not Taken.

a)

True

b)

False

56.

Homer is the Greek author of The Iliad and The Odyssey.

a)

True

b)

False

57.

Wole Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright who won the Nobel Prize.

a)

True

b)

False

58.

Asian literature often reflects philosophy and spirituality.

a)

True

b)

False

59.

Gabriel García Márquez pioneered detective fiction.

a)

True

b)

False

60.

Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo were written in Spanish.

a)

True

b)

False