MIDTERM EXAM (70 items)

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21 CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

NAME ________________________________ SECTION__________ DATE ___________

I. Fill in the blanks. Choose the correct answer from the box below.

ACCOUTREMENTS CULPABILITY GARGANTUAN LOOPHOLES SIMILE

HYPOTHERMIA
IMPARTIALITY PRELUDE DERISION SALN

________________1. A figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another
thing of a different kind.
________________2. An annual document that all government workers in the Philippines must
complete and submit.

________________3. A contemptuous ridicule or mockery

________________4. An inadequacy in the law or a set of rules.

________________5. An action or event serving as an introduction to something more

important.

________________6. Additional items of dress or equipments, or other items carried or worn

by a person.

________________7. An equal treatment of all rivals or disputants; fairness

________________8. Means huge or enormous.

________________9. A medical condition where the body loses heat faster than it can produce
heat.
_______________10. Responsibility for a fault or wrong.

Match column A with column B. Write the letter of the correct answer. No erasures.

Answer Column A Column B

1. Juez a. Daryll Delgado
b. J. Elizalde Navarro
2. R. Zamora Linmark
3. Ralph Semino Galan c. Roman Goddess
4. Justitia d. Thot
5. Concubinage e. Justice
f. When a man commits
6. Feather
adultery.
g. When a woman commits a
7. Preludes
crime of unfaithfulness
8. Dried purple leaves h. Magistrate
9. Is this Philippine Justice? i. Mt. Banahaw
10. Adultery j. Turban Legend
Match the meaning of the following symbolisms. No erasures.

Answer Column A Column B

a. Delay of justice to the point
of fading and becoming
1. Golden pair of scales
invisible like the rest of other
cases.
b. A humorous or horrific story
2. Thot’s Feather of Truth or piece of information
circulated as true.
3. Blindfold c. Pampalubag Loob
d. This suggests judgement or
4. Face the music of derision
justice of the highest order
5. Urban Legend e. Love of the sender
f. Determines the worthiness
6. Double edge sword
of one’s soul.
g. Impartiality of justice; justice
7. Airport
has no favorites
h. Acceptance of responsibility
for something that you have
8. Turban Legend
done wrong and be prepared
to be criticized or punished.
i. Meaning justice can have
9. Balikbayan boxes favorable and unfavorable
consequences
10. “Is this Philippine Justice painting with j. Warehouse
Justitia fading into the air…”cloudy as
doubts…”

ESSAY: (5 points each)

Justice

1. Why are symbols important in a poem??

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2. Why are symbols important in the life of a nation? What do people get from the symbols of a
nation?

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3. What does the simile, ‘right or wrong can be shuffled like cards” mean? What does this mean
when it comes to any of the following; politics and politicians, the police and justice system?

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Turban Legend

4. When the narrator notes the Filipino-ness of the balikbayan boxes, what does he fell toward
his fellow Filipinos?

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5. The title “Turban Legend” is a play on words on the phrase ‘Urban Legend”. What does
‘urban legend mean? Why was it changed to “turban legend”?

Preludes:

6. What does Nenita feel for her husband? Why do you think she feels that way?

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7. What is the importance of the dried purple leaves? Do you think that these this were used in
the story? How?

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8. Who killed Nenita’s husband? Justify and explain your answer.

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