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MIDTERM EXAMINATION
S.Y. 2019-2020
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT
21ST CENTURY LITEARTURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES TO THE WORLD

NAME: _______________________________________________________________ RATING: ______________

GRADE and SECTION: __________________________________________ INSTRUCTOR: Mr. Jerome
Bautista
General Directions
1. Read the directions carefully before answering the test. No point will be given for answer/s which
doesn’t comply with the given instruction.
2. DO NOT CHEAT. If caught cheating (in any form), your examination for this subject will be void
automatically.
TEST I. Facts about speculative fiction. Write True if the statement is about S.F. and False if
not.

_____________1. it takes place in the contemporary world but adds fantastic or speculative elements
_____________2. it takes place in a past that is different from what is generally accepted
_____________3. it takes place or could take place today, in the “real” world as we know it
_____________4. it takes place or could take place in the historical past as generally accepted
_____________5. it contains elements that initially seem strange or supernatural but turn out to have a
logical, scientific explanation
_____________6. it includes fairy, mythical creatures, or invented species/races
_____________7. it explores future technology or alternate technology
_____________8. it takes an existing scientific fact and extrapolates it beyond what is known
_____________9. it takes place on another planet or world
_____________10. it includes characters with actual paranormal abilities such as telepathy

TEST II. FANTASY vs. SCI-FI

_____________11. contains elements that are not realistic

_____________12. Stories featuring wizards and sorcery, unicorns and dragons
_____________13. stories that often tell about technology of the future
_____________14. what might happen if humans encounter other life forms
_____________15. protagonists can glimpse the future or change events in the past.
_____________16. dystopia set sometime in the future
_____________17. protagonist and supporting characters set out to conquer this evil
_____________18. gives voice to the concerns of the society in which they are conceived
_____________19. the conflict is of good versus evil
_____________20. the reader’s ability to transport themselves into a different world

TEST III. IDENTIFICATION. Write your answer at the end of every sentence.

21. Narrative in comic book formats.

22. Story through text and illustrated images.
23. Genre of fiction which addresses issues of modern womanhood.
24. Oral art that focuses on the aesthetics of word play and intonation and voice inflection.
25. Style of fictional literature of extreme brevity

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TEST IV. Arrange the following events according to their chronological order. Write letters
from A to O.

THE HOUSING PROJECT

_________26. Once in a while, I do this: find a friendly bar, have a couple of beers and just vegetate. It’s
important that I’m alone.
_________27. After I pay for my drinks, I take another cab. The dark streets offer no traffic, glistening with
the dull sheen left behind by the superficial rain.
_________28. I wake up from a troubling dream and realize my wife has left again without telling me.
_________29. Afterwards, I go up to the bar in my robe and have a glass of Shiraz, mellow and with a hint of
tartness, and look beyond the glass walls and out into the street below.
_________30. My wife arrives in a rustle of wings. I look up from my early breakfast and she is there, framed
by the bedroom doorway, flushed and glowing with perspiration.
_________31. In the light of dawn, she turns away to hide her tears.
_________ 32. Unable to return to sleep, I decide to go out for a drink and a massage, leaving at just past
midnight. I lock up, walk a bit in the gentle drizzle, and wait for a cab.
_________ 33. Before 5AM, I ride a third cab home to the condo. I check to see if my wife is back but she
isn’t.
_________ 34. Later in bed, after she showers, I lean over and kiss her.
_________35. I realize that I am desperately hungry, that everything in my system since midnight has been
smoke and alcohol.
_________36. At the Korean bathhouse I frequent, I check in, strip and take a bath while sitting on a small
wooden stool.
_________37. “You want to try again?” I ask, tracing the contours of her face with my fingers.
_________38. Then I go for my massage, hoping that the lady I like is present.
_________39. I wear a mask of stupidity, of being unable to comprehend complicated sentences, and radiate
a zone of general antipathy in the blue cloud of my cigarette smoke.
_________ 40. I make scrambled eggs the way I like them.

TEST V. SIX-WORD STORY

Make a flash fiction by interpreting the six word story below. Don’t forget to add the different
element of a short story. Use separate paper for your answer.

41-45.“What’s your return policy on rings?”

46.50. “Passengers, this isn’t your captain speaking.”