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21 CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD
QUIZ 2

I. Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on your answer sheet.
____1. Which among the following uses simile?
A. The wind blew its hardest.
B. Much less has he put them down into a book, like Kant, for example, or Santayana or Confucius.
C. Then the Japanese came like a storm, like a plague of locusts, like a pestilence―rude, relentless
cruel.
D. Everything is as if the Japanese had never been in the Philippines.
____2. Which among the following uses metaphor?
A. Not being able to agree as to which was stronger than the two, they called upon the wind to make the
decision.
B. The Spaniards came and dominated him for more than three hundred years.
C. The bamboo tree was wiser.
D. This may give you the idea that the Filipino is a philosopher.
____3. Which among the following uses personification?
A. They used more subtle means of winning over Filipinos to their mode of living and thinking.
B. When finally the wind got tired blowing, the bamboo tree still stood in all its beauty and grace.
C. And when the Spaniards left, the Filipinos still stood―only much richer in experience an culture.
D. The Filipino had only hate and contempt for the Japanese but he learned to smile sweetly at them
and thank them graciously for their “benevolence and magnanimity.”
____4. What characteristics do Filipinos and a bamboo tree share?
A. Both are very tall.
B. Both know that they are not strong enough to withstand the onslaught of superior forces so they yield
and bend their heads gracefully.
C. Both are escapist in nature when they know they could not fight the enemy.
D. Both are proud and would not yield to anything because they know they are strong and sturdy.
____5. What figure of speech is used in the line: Not yet Rizal, not yet. Sleep not in peace.
A. Anaphora B. Anastrophe C. Apostrophe D. Personification
____6. What figure of speech is used in the lines:
Not you alone, rizal. O souls
And spirits of the martyred brave, arise!
A. Anastrophe B. simile C. metaphor D. personification
____7. What figure of speech is used in the lines:
The land has need
of young blood
A. Anastrophe B. simile C. metaphor D. personification
____8. What figure of speech is used in the lines:
yet the molave will stand
yet the molave monument will rise
and gods walk on brown legs
A. Anaphora B. Anastrophe C. Apostrophe D. Personification
____9. This refers to the relationship between texts. This literary device adds a layer of meaning to the current
text by bringing to the reader’s mind, a different, related work.
A. diction B. situational irony C. parallelism D. intertextuality
____10. What does the figurative expression “Papa, and when will the long table be set?” mean?
A. funeral B. wedding C. christening D. fiesta
____11. What does the figurative expression “Had the final word been said?” mean?
A. problem B. promise C. apology D. decision
____12. In Paz Marquez Benitez’ short story Dead Stars, in his conversation with Julia, Alfredo says, “This is
elsewhere, and yet strange enough, I cannot get rid of the old things.” What does he mean by “old
things?”
A. his memories of his past C. his regrets in his life
B. his life when he was young D. his long standing engagement with Esperanza
____13. How many years must have elapsed between Part Two and Three of Paz Marquez Benitez’ short story
Dead Stars?
A. three B. five C. eight D. ten
____14. In H.O. Santos’ poem Dead Stars, what of these feelings is expressed in all three stanzas?
A. curiosity B. regret C. disappointment D. surprise
____15. What pattern of development is used in this paragraph in I.V. Mallari’s essay “Pliant like a Bamboo?”

The Filipino, in fact, has a way of escaping from the rigorous problems of life. Most of his art is escapist
in nature. His forefathers wallowed in the *moro-moro, the awit, and the kurido. They loved to identify
themselves as gallant knights battling for the favors of fair ladies or the possession of hallowed place. And now
he himself loves to be lost in the throes and modern romance and adventure.

A. comparison and contrast C. reason-result

B. cause and effect D. exemplification