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The senators will have been passing the

Subject : GENERAL EDUCATION( ENGLISH ) 4.2 Reproductive Bill when the session ended. What
made the statement wrong?
1. “I will take the road less travelled by and be a. Will c. have been
condemned if necessary.” Said one politician. b. Passing d. ended
His decision shows ______________? 13. The rice tastes like hell , and so I
a. regrets come before decision ________________.
b. decisions are made despite difference from a. complain c. am complain
the majority b. Will complain d. will be complaining
c. decisions are made on the crossroads 14. It is a collection of religious poetry written by
d. regrets come after decisions Rabindranath Tagore.
2. What word is not properly spelled and used in a. Mahabharata c. The Ramayana
these sentences? b. Gitanjali d. Bhayavad Gita
a. There were commissions on the fare 15. If she ________________ eating much, she would
b. There were confusions on admissions be that fat.
c. There was confusion on the plane a. Was c. weren’t
d. There was confusion of directions b. Were d. wasn’t
3. You should be more _____________ instead of 16. She come like a thief in the night! The statement
being ____________ in order to avoid committing given uses what figure of speech?
mistakes. a. Paradox c. Oxymoron
a. literate . . . . . erudite c. cautious . . . . . b. Simile d. Metaphor
impetuous 17. I suggest that he _______________ in the room
b. intelligent . . . . . smart d. for one week.
practical . . . . . passive a. Stay c. staying
4. Inly world-class athletes win medals at the b. Stayed d. stays
Olympic Games. Michael Phelps won several 18. What can be an assumption in the sentence? “I
gold medals in swimming at the 2008 Beijing have been teaching for two years now.”
Olympic Games. Therefore: a. And she hates it
a. Michael Phelps is an all-time American b. And she plans to quit teaching
swimmer c. and she has no plans of quitting
b. Australia won the most number of gold d. and she plans to stop teaching soon
medals in swimming 19. The policeman ______________ recited the
c. Michael Phelps is a world-class athlete and an Miranda Rights before he arrested the criminal.
Olympian a. Is c. was
d. Michael Phelps is a swimmer b. Have d. Had
5. i. Treasury bills have an interest rate of 6.85% 20. “Only the heart can see rightly.” This statement
per annum is lifted from what particular novel?
ii. Savings accounts have interest rate of only a. The Heart c. The Little Prince
2.0% per annum b. The Prince d. The Right One
iii. Treasury bills used to have 9-10% interest 21. Identify the author of this literary work : MEN
rate per annum WITHOUT WOMEN
Therefore, it is better to invest in Treasury bills a. Ernrest Hemingway b. Benjamin Disraeli
than to just out your money in regular savings c. Louis-Ferdinand Celine d. E.M Forster
account. 22. PILGRIMS PROGRESS was written by:
a. definitely true c. most likely false a. John Bunyan c. Henry Fielding
b. most likely true d. definitely false b. Jack London d. Stendhal
6. “She was a Phantom of delight … When first she 23. DON QUIXOTE
gleamed upon my sight.” William Wordsworth a. Gustave Flaubert c. Miguel de Cervantes
a. metaphor b. simile c. apostrophe b. Joseph Condrad d. D.H Lawrence
d.hyperbole 24. Which of the following works by DANIEL DEFOE
7. Which of the following words are misspelled? features a castaway who spends 28 years on a
1. transgression 2. transcent 3. Immunity remote tropical near Venezuela, encountering
4. Percieve Native American, captives, and mutineers before
a. 2&3 b. 2, 3 & 4 c. 1, 3 &4 d. 1, 2 & 3 being rescued?
8. This is the first skill a student must have before a. Memoirs of the Cavalier c. Moll Flanders
he/she can read. b. Robinson Crusoe d. captain Singleton
a. Vocabulary c. Fluency 25. VANITY FAIR is a novel satirizing society in early
b. Phonics d. Phonemic Awareness 19th-century Britain. Who wrote this classic?
9. The man looks ______________ at the food on a. Daniel Defoe c. Herman Melville
the table. b. Wikie Collins d. William
a. Strangest c. stranger Makepeace Thackeray
b. Strange d. strangely 26. JOURNEY TO THE END OF THE NIGHT
10. This pertains to the relationship between the a. William Faulkner c. Erskine Childrers
sound and the symbol. b. Jerome K. Jerome d. George Grosmith
a. Syntax c. semantics 27. AS I LAY DYING
b. Morphology d. graphophonemic a. William Faulkner c. Erskine Childers
11. What made the sentence wrong? “ I had turned b. Jerome K. Jerome d. George Grosmith
off the light”
a. Had c. turned
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28. THE TRIAL is a novel which tells story of a man 39. THE CALL OF THE WIND is known for its dog
arrested and prosecuted by a remote, protagonist. It is sometimes classified as a
inaccessible authority, with the nature of his juvenile novel, suitable for children, but it is dark
crime never revealed either to him or the reader. in tone and contains numerous scenes of cruelty
Who is the writer of this novel? and violence. Who wrote this novel?
a. Henry James c. Thomas Hardy a. Oscar Wilde b. Jack London
b. Franz Kafka d. Fyodor Dostoevsky c. Henry James d. Kenneth Grahame
29. THE GREAT GATSBY
a. Ford MadoxFod c. D.H Lawrence 40. THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS is an early example
b. Scott Fitzgerald d. Joseph Condrad of the espionage novel, with a strong underlying
30. A PASSAGE TO INDIA is about the racial theme of militarism, it has been made a film and
tensions and prejudices between indigenous TV film, who wrote this novel?
Indians and the British colonist who rule India. a. Erskine Childers
Who wrote this novel? b. William Faulkner
a. Virginia Woolf c. Jack London c. Jerome K. Jerome
b. Oscar Wilde d. E.M Forster d. Honore De Balzac
31. MRS. DALLOWAY is a novel that details a day in 41. JUDE THE OBSCURE, include themes such as
the life of Clarissa Dalloway in post-World War I class, scholarship, religion, marriage, and the
England, Who is its author? modernization of thought and society. Name its
a. Virginia Woolf c. Mary Shelley author.
b. Charlotte Bronte d. Emily Bronte a. Samuel Richardson b. Franz Kafka
32. ULYSSES chronicles the passage of Leopold c. Thomas Hardy d. Joseph
Bloom Dublin during an ordinary day, 16 June Condrad
1904. The title alludes to Odysseus, the hero of 42. THE DIARY OF NOBODY has spawned the word
Homer’s Odyssey. Name the author of Ulysses. “Pooterish” to describe a tendency to take
a. Anthony Trollope b. Kenneth Grahame oneself excessively seriously. Who is the author
c. Laurence Strene of this novel?
d. James Joyce a. John Buchan b. Oscar Wilde
33. THE THIRTY-NINE STEPS features the adventure c. Anthony Trollope d. Samuel
of Richard Hannay, an all-action hero with a stiff Richardson
upper lip. Who wrote this novel? 43. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY is about a
a. Honore De Balzac c. John Buchan young man who sold his soul to the devil to
b. Samuel Richardso d. Thomas Love ensure his portrait would age rather than
Peacock himself. Which of the following is its author?
34. THE GOOD SOLDIER’s original title was The a. Herman Melville b. Oscar Wilde
Saddest Story, but after the onset of World War I, c. Jonathan Swift d. Wikie Collins
the publisher asked its author for a new title. 44. THREE MEN IN A BOAT was initially intended to
What is the name of its author? be serious travel guide with accounts of local
a. Gustave Flaubert history along the route. Who wrote this novel?
b. Henry Fielding a. Benjamin Disraeli b. Jerome K.
c. Ford madox Ford Jerome
d. Samuel Richardson c. Laurence Stem d. Wikie Proust
35. THE RAINBOW is a novel with a frank treatment 45. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE is about a London
of sexual desire and the power it plays wuthin lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who
relationships as a natural and even spiritual investigates strange occurrences between his
force of life. Who is its author? old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic
a. D.H Lawrence Edward Hyde. Who is its author?
b. Jonathan Swift a. James Joyce b. Jack London
c. Jack London c. Robert Louis Stevenson d. Stendhal
d. Thomas Hardy 46. Which of the following is a work of SAMUEL
36. IN THE SEARCH OF LOST TIME LANGHORNE CLEMENS?
a. Laurence Sterne a. Animal Farm b. Uncle Tom’s
b. Marcel Proust Cabin
c. Jack London c. The Scarlet Letter d. Adventures of
d. Thomas Hardy Huckleberry Finn
37. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS is a classic of 47. Which is a HENRY JAMES masterpiece?
children’s literature which was adapted partly on a. Vanity Fair b. The Portrait of
stage as Toad of Toad Hall in 1929. Name its Dorian Gray
author. c. The Portrait of a Lady d. Davis
a. Kenneth Grahame Copperfield
b. E.M Foster 48. Which novel features JOSEPHINE “JO” MARCH?
c. Thomas Hardy a. Wuthering Heights b. Little Women
d. Erskine Childers c. Sense and Sensibility d. Scarlet Letter
38. NOSTROMO features Señor Gould, a native 49. Which is an HONORE DE BALZAC novel?
Costaguanero of English descent who owns the a. The Black sheep b. The
silver-mining concession in Sulaco. Name the Charterhouse of Parma
author of this novel. c. The Count of Monte Cristo d. Scarlet
a. Joseph Condrad Letter
b.Samuel Richardson 50. Which of the following gothic authors wrote the
c. George Elliot THE INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE?
d. Thomas Hardly a. Anne Rice b. Mary Shelley
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51. Helen of Troy is the face who launched a 59. The poem has how many beats per line?
thousand ships. What figure of speech is used in a. Six c.Eight
the given sentences? b. Four d. Five
a. ellipsis c. alliteration 60. The last line of the given poem above presents
c. synecdoche d. irony the determination of an individual who is
52. “The rusting trees during winter” inspired Robert ______________.
Frost in writing most of his inspirational poems. a. brave c. fearful
What figure of speech is used in the given b. lonely d. boastful
phrase? 61. The Greek goddess Aphrodite is an
a. metonymy c. asyndeton exemplification of feminine PULCHRITUDE in the
b. apostrophe d. onomatopoeia antiquity.
53. What figure of speech is used in the given lines The capitalized word means
that follow.Deep into that darkness peering, long _______________.
I stood there wondering, fearing Doubting, a. homeliness c. plain
dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream b. loveliness d. ugliness
before 62. Emily Dickinson is known for her CANDOR about
a. euphemism c. personification somes issues on poetic freedom. The word
b. alliteration d. oxymoron CANDOR means.
54. The lines given in item number 73 are from what a. appeal c. opinions
canonical and widely read poem? b. frankness d. tact
a. Annabel lee c. The Raven 63. Which of the statements below best described
b. The Cask of Amontillado d. The Mask of EPISTOLARY LITERATURE?
the Red Death a. A story that is created through exchanges of
letters
The lines below are taken from the ode b. A story that is based on history
“Intimations of the Immorality from Recollection c. A story that is created based on the epistles
of Early Childhood.” d. A story that exhibits the adventures of the
Though nothing can bring back crusaders against the jihads
The hour of splendour in the grass 64. Most experts agree that the climate change is an
Of glory in the flower APOCALYPTIC event that must be feared by the
We will grieve not inhabitants of this planet. Apocalyptic means.
Rather find strength in what remains a. encouraging c. attractive
behind b. climacteric d. careless

55. The given stanza above is an example of
__________________.
a. Haiku c. Sonnet
b. Free Verse d. Rhyme
Verse
56. The ode “Intimations of Immortality from
Recollection of Early Childhood” is authored by
__________________.
a. William Shakespeare c. William
Wordsworth
b. Robert Frost d. Willa Cather
Out of the light that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul,
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud,
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid
It matters not how strait the gate,
How changed with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate
I am the captain of my soul
57. Who wrote the given above?
a. William Ernest Henley c. Robert Frost
b. Walt Whitman d. John Milton
58. What is the title of the poem?
a. The Captain c. invictus
b. The Brave and the Free d. The Brave
Four score and seven years ago our fathers
brought forth on this continent a new nation,
conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition
that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing
whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and
so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great
battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place for those
who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It
is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we
can not consecrate – we can not hallow – this ground.
The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here,
have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add
or detract. The world will little note, nor long
remember what we say here, but it can never forget
what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be
dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who
fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is
rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task
remaining before us – that from these honoured dead
we take increased devotion to that cause for which
they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we
here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died
in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new
birth of freedom – and that government of the people,
by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth.
65. What is being said on the first paragraph of this
widely known oratorical piece?
a. The speaker states that America is only for the
early colonizers from
Europe.
b. The speaker posits that America belongs to
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 c. The speaker asserts that America is a nation And it must kneel like a rose
of people from different It must be able to hear
origins. The luminance of dove and deer
d. The speaker argues that America is a nation It must be able to hide
where all the citizens are What it seeks, like a bride
equal And over all I would like to hover
66. What is the intention of the second paragraph? God, smiling from the poem’s cover
a. The speaker is trying to convince the listeners 73. What is the title of the given poem above?
to forget about war and a. Poem 10 c. Poem 15
just give in to the demands of the opponents. b. Poem 11 d. Poem 17
b. The speaker wants to persuade the listeners 74. Who is the given poem?
to stand and fight for equality and justice a. Amodor Daguio c. Paz Latorena
c. The speaker wants the listeners to appreciate b. Jose Garcia Villa d. Paz Marquez
the efforts done by the Benitez
heroes of the past 75. What figure of speech was used extensively in
d. The speaker wants the listeners to remember the given poem?
the sacrifices done by the a. hyperbole c. metaphor
heroes who fought for the American’s freedom b. personification d. simile
in the past. 76. William Shakespeare showed composure in front
67. Which part of the third paragraph summarizes of his critics amidst countless derision. The
the entire oratorical piece? underlines word means:
a. That this nation, under God, shall have a new a. agitation c. aplomb
birth of freedom – and b. fear d. nervousness
that government of the people, by the people, for 77. There are times when we are forced to do things
the people, shall not against our own volitions. The underlined eord
perish from the earth. means:
b. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – a. opinion c. will
we can not consecrate – b. intuition d. fate
we can not hallow – this ground.
c. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled The apparition of these faces in the crowd;
here, have consecrated Petals on a wet, black bough
it, far above our poor power to add or detract.
d. The world will little note, nor long remember 78. What is the title of the given poem above?
what we say here, but it a. The Apparition and the Bought c. The Crowd
can never forget what they did here. and the Petals
68. The given piece entitled: b. In a Station of the Metro d. The
a. The JFK Speech c. The Lincoln Memorial Crowded Metro Situation
Address 79. Who wrote this poem?
b. The Gettysburg Address d. The state of a. Ezra Pound c. ee
liberty Equality Cummings
Address b. Robert Frost d. T.S Eliot
69. Who wrote the given oratorical piece? 80. The given poem above is an example of
a. Victor Hugo c. John F. modernist poetry, particularly
Kennedy ____________________.
b. Abraham Lincoln d. Carl a. stream of consciousness c.
Sandburg imagism
70. Agamemnon, the leader of Acheans has b free verse d. pointillism
fondness for women, the underlined word has 81. More than one friendly whale has nudged a boat
the synonym: with such ___________ that passengers have
a. aversion c. defiance been knocked overboard.
b. penchant d. dislike a. enthusiasm b. animosity
71. Edgar Allan Poe fells like a fish out of water c. lethargy d. serenity
upon arriving in a foreign land. The italicized 82. Readers were so bored with the verbose and
phrase means: redundant style of the Victorian novelists that
a. One who is outside his usual environment they welcomed the change to the ___________
b. A fish that was taken out of the sea style of Hemingway.
c. One who feels that he/she is not needed a. prolix b. consistent
d. One who feels that he/she is not weel c. florid d. terse
appreciated 83. Fossils may be set in stone, but their
72. He is Filipino poet who is using punctuation interpretation is not, a new find may necessitate
marks extensively in his pieces - most especially the ____________ of a traditional theory.
“commas” a. assertion b. revision
a. Paz Marquez Benitez c. Jose Garcia Villa c. formulation d. validation
b. Nick Joaquin d. Edilberto Tiempo 84. The linguistic _______________ of the refugee
children is reflected in their readiness to adopt
First, a poem must be magical, the language of their homeland.
Then musical as a seagull. a. conservatism b. inadequacy
It must be a brightness moving c. adaptability d. philosophy
And hold a secret a birds’ flowering 85. Lucille is too much ____________ in her wings:
It must be slender as a bell, she writes a page when a sentence should
And it must hold fire as well. suffice.
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 c. verbose d. efficient 98. Although Tagalog’s often use the terms Bisaya
86. It is remarkable that a man so in the public eye, and Cebuano ____________, people coming from
so highly praised and imitated, can retain his the Southern part of the Philippines are
________________. profoundly aware of the _______________ the
a. idiosyncrasies b. dogmas two.
c. humility d. magniloquence a. unerringly . . . significance of
87. Breaking with established artistic and social b. confidently . . . origins of
conventions, Picasso was ___________ genius c. deprecatingly . . . controversies about
whose heterodox works infuriated the d. interchangeably . . . dissimilarities between
traditionalists of his day. 99. There is nothing _____________ or provisional
a. a venerated b. a trite about Bronte’s early critical pronouncements;
c. an iconoclastic d. an uncontroversial she deals ______________ with what then radical
88. new developments in poetry.
89. A tapeworm is an example of a _____________ a. tentative . . . confidently
organism, one that lives within or on another b. dogmatic . . . arbitrary
creature, deriving some or all of its nutrient from c. imprecise . . . inconclusively
its host. d. shallow . . . superficially
a. a protozoan b. a parasitic
c. an exemplary d. an autonomous 100. This well-documented history is of
90. dThe mob lost confidence of him because he importance because it carefully ___________ the
never _______________ the grandiose promises ____________ accomplishments of the Filipino
he had made. artists who are all too little known to the public
a. tired of b. renegade on at large.
c. delivered on d. retreated from a. recognizes . . . negligible
91. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson, received little honor b. scrutinizes . . . illusory
in her lifetime but her poetic legacy has gained c. substantiates . . . considerable
considerable fame ______________ d. distorts . . . noteworthy
a. anonymously b. posthumously 101. An experienced politician who knew better
c. prematurely d. previously than to launch a campaign in troubled political
92. Unlike the highly ____________ Romantic poets waters, he intended to wait for a more
of the previous century, Rudyard Kipling and his _____________ occasion before he announced
fellow Victorian poets were ___________ and his plans.
interested in moralizing. a. provocative c. questionable
a. emotional . . . didactic c. dramatic . . . warped b. unseemly d. propitious
b. sensitive . . . strange d. rhapsodic . . . lyrical
93. Ana is an interesting _____________, an
infinitely shy person who, in apparent
contradiction, possesses an enormously
intuitive ____________ for understanding people.
a. phenomenon . . . disinclination
b. caricature . . . talent
c. paradox . . . gift
d. aberration . . . disdain
94. Truculent in defending their rights of sovereignty
under the Articles of the Confederation, the
newly formed states _______________
constantly.
a. apologized c. digressed
b. squabbled d. acquiesced
95. No real life hero of ancient or modern days can
surpass James Bond with his nonchalant
____________ of death and the _____________
which he bears torture.
a. veneration . . . guile
b. concept . . . terror
c. disregard . . . fortitude
d. impatience . . . fickleness
96. Surrounded by sycophants who invariably
______________ in her singing, Zsa Zsa wearied
of the constant adulation and longed for honest
criticism.
a. assailed c. reciprocated
b. thwarted d. extolled
97. Despite the growing ___________ of the Party
list Representative in the Philippine Congress,
many political experts fell that the NGOs are still
_______________ in the government.
a. decrease . . . inappropriate
b. prominence . . . underrepresented
c. skill . . . alienated
d. number . . . misdirected

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