Emilio Aguinaldo College - Cavite Campus

Congressional East Ave, Burol Main,

Dasmariñas, Cavite
Philippines

Name:_________________________ Date: _______

Yr. /Sec: ________ Score: _______
MIDTERM TEST
I. JUMBLED LETTERS
Directions: Read the statements carefully and rearrange the letters to get the answer.
Write your answer in the space provided.
______ 1. Inattentiveness, if not outright SOUIRUC SEDUTITTA
indifference, to saints, patron saints
______ 2. went ashore with Spaniards, OBMOLOC
saw his first tiger skin, stuffed sharks,
sawfish, giant turtles, elephant skeletons,
bronze and golden Buddha’s, and two live
peacocks sporting in the rain
______ 3. “To see him run on the sands, NAIRATINAMUH STNEMITNES
crouching, picking up the pieces of bread,
now and again throwing himself into the
canal to snatch a biscuit from the water,
was enough to sadden the merriest.”
______ 4. “Now suddenly I find myself SELLIESRAM
alone, in a magnificent hotel, but also a
silent one… I thought of going back to my
country…”
______ 5. “What was I to do and was to LAZIR NI EPORUE
become of me?”
______ 6. Got along well with Dutchmen and IEREDARAMAC
Spaniards. Growing fondness for the
pubescent Dutch dames
______ 7. Houses were tall and lovely. NREHTUOS ECNARF
Enthralled by newspaper peddlers and the
flower-girls. Captivated by the picture
galleries
______ 8. Rizal learned that there was an NGITIDE AGROM
enormous mass of historical material on
the Philippines, forgotten, unpublished,
unorganized and scattered
______ 9. Writing of Rizal that is founded on AL DADIRADILOS
15th February 1889
______ 10. The Indolence of the Filipinos CINORHC YDALAM

II. IDENTIFICATION
Directions: Read the statements carefully and identify the correct answer in the box
below. Write the answer in the space provided.

LIFE IN MADRID THE INDOLENCE OF THE FILIPINOS

INDEPENDENT SOMEDAY … PURPOSE OF WRITING A
NOVEL
GOD WILL NOT PUNISH ME LIFE IN PARIS
LIFE IN GERMANY A CHALLENGE AND A MANIFESTO
DIVISION
______ 1. “To picture theOF LABOR
past” and the “realities of TO
myTHE YOUNG
native WOMEN
country”; OFarouse the
“To
feelings of my countrymen”. purpose
 ______ 2. Half of the novel was written in Madrid. One-fourth of it was written in Paris.
The remaining was finished in Germany.
______ 3. He had finished his licentiate degree in philosophy and letters as well as in
medicine but he failed to submit his doctoral thesis. This is a clear indication that:
______ 4. Together with Luna and Hidalgo, they were frequent guests of the Pardo de
Tavera family, whose daughter Paz was being courted by Luna.
______ 5. He began to immerse himself in German culture & tradition which will earn
him the nickname of “the German doctor” back home.
______ 6. For me religion is the holiest of things, the purest, the most intangible which
escapes all human adulterations, and I think I would be recreant to my duty as a
rational being if I were to prostitute my reason and admit what is absurd.
______ 7. A feeling of bitterness as he perceived the difference between the unchecked
freedom of the Mother Country and the theocratic absolutism in his native land.
______ 8. Some twenty of these young women, daughters of principales, had sought
to open a school where they might learn Spanish
______ 9. “ History does not record in its annals any lasting domination of one people
over another when they were different race, of diverse usages and customs, and of
contrary or divergent ideals“
______ 10. ______ is “a chronic malady, not a hereditary one.”
III. CONCEPT MAP
Directions: Map the concept of ‘A Novelist Diagnosis” (5 points).