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LET Reviewer
Afro-Asian Literature
I. Afro-Asian Literature Terms. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
1. A set of hymns that formed the cornerstone of Aryan culture which the Hindus to be the most sacred of all literature for they
believe these to have been revealed to humans directly by the gods.
a. Sanskrit b. Dravidia c. Vedas d. Samsara
2. This is the main literary language of northern India which means ‘perfect speech’ and is considered a sacred language spoken by
the gods and goddesses. 
a. Sanskrit b. Dravidia c. Vedas d. Samsara
3. What are the two major Indian epics which are the literary embodiments of Hinduism?
a. Bhagavad Gita and Ramayana c. Bhagavad Gita and Mahabharata
b. Ramayana and Mahabharata d. Vedas and Samsara
4. This famous epic consists of a mass of legendary and didactic material that tells of the struggle for supremacy between two groups
of cousins, the Kauravas and the Pandavas. It is an exposition on dharma (codes of conduct), including the proper conduct of a king,
of a warrior, of a man living in times of calamity, and of a person seeking to attain emancipation from rebirth.
a. Bhagavad Gita b. Ramayana c. Mahabharata d. Vedas
5. This literally means “The blessed Lord’s Song” is one of the greatest and most beautiful of the Hindu scriptures. It is regarded by
the Hindus in somewhat the same way as the Gospels are by Christians. It is written in the form of a dialogue between the warrior
Prince Arjuna and his friend and charioteer, Krishna, who is also an earthly incarnation of the god Vishnu.
a. Bhagavad Gita b. Ramayana c. Mahabharata d. Vedas
6. This poem is composed in Sanskrit which reflects the Hindu values and forms of social organization, the theory of karma, the ideas
of wifehood, and feelings about caste, honor and promises.
a. Bhagavad Gita b. Ramayana c. Mahabharata d. Vedas
7. The epic Mahabharata is traditionally ascribed to the authorship of ___________?
a. Vsaya b. Valmiki c. Vishnu d. Gautama
8. The epic Ramayana is written by the poet _____________?
a. Vsaya b. Valmiki c. Vishnu d. Gautama
9. He is a Sanskrit poet and dramatist who is probably the greatest Indian writer of all time. As with most classical Indian authors,
little is known about this person or his historical relationships. His poems suggest that he was a priest.
a. Kalidasa b. Rabindranath Tagore c. R.K. Narayan d. Anita Desai
10. He is the son of a Great Sage, and is a Bengali poet and mystic who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.
The death of his wife and two children brought him years to sadness but this also inspired some of his best poetry. He is also gifted
composer and a painter.
a. Kalidasa b. Rabindranath Tagore c. R.K. Narayan d. Anita Desai
11. He is one of the finest Indian authors of his generation writing in English. He briefly worked as a teacher before deciding to
devote himself fulltime to writing. All of his works are set in the fictitious South Indian town of Malgundi. They typically portray the
peculiarities of human relationships and the ironies of Indian daily life, in which modern urban existence clashes with ancient
tradition. His style is graceful, marked by genial humor, elegance, and simplicity.
a. Kalidasa b. Rabindranath Tagore c. R.K. Narayan d. Anita Desai
12. An English-language Indian novelist and author of children’s books, she is considered India’s premier imagist writer. She excelled
in evoking character and mood through visual images. Most of her works reflect her tragic view of life.
a. Kalidasa b. Rabindranath Tagore c. R.K. Narayan d. Anita Desai
13. The Golden Age of Chinese civilization. Fine arts and literature flourished in this period.
a. Chou Dynasty b. Shang Dynasty c. Ch’in Dynasty d. T’ang Dynasty
14. This is one of the four Confucian texts which instructs on moderation in all things through moral education, the building of a
harmonious family life and the development of virtues such as loyalty, obedience and a sense of justice.
a. Chuang Tzu b. The Analects (Lun Yu) c. The Tao-Te Ching (Classic of the Way of Power)
15. It is the philosophical work of Lao Tzu’s most important disciple, Chuan Tzu. Written in a witty, imaginative style, this book
consists of fables and anecdotes that teach the Taoist philosophy and questioned the principles of Confucianism.
a. Chuang Tzu b. The Analects (Lun Yu) c. The Tao-Te Ching (Classic of the Way of Power)
16. This book is compiled around the 6th century B.C. which is the oldest collection of Chinese poetry. This collection consists of 305
poems, many of which were originally folk songs, focusing on such themes as farming, love, and war.
a. The Book of Songs (Shih Ching) b. The Book of Changes (I Ching) c. Dream of the Red Chamber
17. This is a novel by Cao Zhan thought to be semiautobiographical and generally considered to be the greatest of all Chinese novels.
a. The Book of Songs (Shih Ching) b. The Book of Changes (I Ching) c. Dream of the Red Chamber
18. He was the greatest of China’s grand historians who dedicated himself to completing the first history of China the Records of the
Historian. His work covers almost three thousand years of Chinese history in more than half a million written characters etched onto
bamboo tablets.
a. Po Chu-I b. Ssu-ma Ch’ien c. Li Ch’ing-chao d. Chou-Shu-jen
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19. She is regarded as China’s greatest woman poet and was also one of the most liberated women of her day. Many of her poems
composed in the tz’u form celebrate her happy marriage or express her loneliness when her husband was away.
a. Po Chu-I b. Ssu-ma Ch’ien c. Li Ch’ing-chao d. Chou-Shu-jen
20. He has been called the Father of the modern Chinese short story because of his introduction of Western techniques. He is also
known as Lu Hsun whose stories deal with themes of social concern, the problems of the poor, women and intellectuals.
a. Po Chu-I b. Ssu-ma Ch’ien c. Li Ch’ing-chao d. Chou-Shu-jen
21. These are Chinese poems that consist of alternate lines of five and seven syllables with an additional seven-syllable line at the
end. There is no limit to the number of lines which end with envoys, or pithy summations. These envoys consist of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables
that elaborate on or summarize the theme or central idea of the main poem.
a. Haiku b. Tanka c. Choka d. Lyric
22. This is the most prevalent verse form in the traditional Japanese literature. It consists of five lines of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables including
at least one caesura, or pause. This often tells a brief story or express a single thought with the common subjects which are love and
nature.
a. Haiku b. Tanka c. Choka d. Lyric
23. This originally was the opening verse of a renga which developed into a distinct literary form. This consists of 3 lines of 5-7-5
syllable characterized by precision, simplicity, and suggestiveness. This includes a kigo or seasonal words such as snow or cherry
blossom that indicated the time of year being described.
a. Haiku b. Tanka c. Choka d. Lyric
24. He is regarded as the greatest haiku poet. He was born into a samurai family and began writing poems at an early age.
a. Matsuo Basho b. Yosa Buson c. Yasunari Kawabata d. Junichiro Tanizaki
25. He is a major novelist whose writing is characterized by eroticism and ironic wit. He was known as the Asian equivalent of Edgar
Allan Poe.
a. Matsuo Basho b. Yosa Buson c. Yasunari Kawabata d. Junichiro Tanizaki
26. This term which means literally ‘blackness,’ is the literary movement of the 1030s-1950s that began among French-speaking
African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule and the policy of assimilation.
a. Emancipation b. Caucasian c. Negritude d. Afro
27. He is a Nigerian Playwright, poet, novelist, and critic who was the first black African to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature
in 1986.
a. Chinua Achebe b. Wole Soyinka c. Bessie Head
28. He is called the Father of Chinese Renaissance who advocated the creation of a new national literature based upon the living
language of the people.
a. Wing Yek Lum b. Lian Ch’i-Ch’ao c. Amy Tan
29. The thrilling adventures of this story were told by the beautiful and intelligent Queen Scheherazade to escape execution from
her own husband. Her husband, the king, married a new girl every day and had her beheaded the following morning. The queen
would tell the king an unfinished story to postpone the beheading. What story is this?
a. Phantom of Opera b. Arabian Knights c. Ali Baba d. Time Machine
30. A short poem that expresses an intense personal emotion.
a. elegy b. ode c. sonnet d. lyric
II. Identify the author and the title of the given famous passages. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
31. “Let not ambition mock their useful toil; Their homely homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a smile; The
short and simple annals of the poor”
a. Ben Johnson (Song to Celia) c. Thomas Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)
b. William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice) d. Rudyard Kipling (If)
32. “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”
a. Ben Johnson (Song to Celia) c. Thomas Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)
b. William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice) d. Rudyard Kipling (If)
33. “Drink to me only with thine eyes and I will pledge with mine.”
a. Ben Johnson (Song to Celia) c. Thomas Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)
b. William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice) d. Rudyard Kipling (If)
34. “Trust no future, however pleasant; Let the dead past bury its dead”
a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life) c. John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale)
b. Francis Bacon (Of Studies) d. William Shakespeare ( Sonnet 29)
35. “For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings; That then I scorn to change my state with kings”
a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life) c. John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale)
b. Francis Bacon (Of Studies) d. William Shakespeare ( Sonnet 29)
36. “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man”
a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life) c. John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale)
b. Francis Bacon (Of Studies) d. William Shakespeare ( Sonnet 29)
37. “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains; My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk”
a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life) c. John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale)
b. Francis Bacon (Of Studies) d. William Shakespeare ( Sonnet 29)
38. “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul”
a. Rudyard Kipling (If) c. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life)
b. William Ernest Henley (Invictus) d. Alfred Lord Tennyson (Crossing the Bar)
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39. “If these delights thy mind may move, Then live with me and be my love.”
 a. Sir Walter Raleigh (The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) c. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnet XIV)
b. Cristopher Marlowe (The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) d. William Shakespeare ( Sonnet XXIX)
40. “For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings, That then I scorn to change my state with kings.”
a. Sir Walter Raleigh (The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd) c. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (Sonnet XIV)
b. Cristopher Marlowe (The Passionate Shepherd to His Love) d. William Shakespeare ( Sonnet XXIX)

III. Homophones. Write the words that could be pronounced the same as the given words in the blanks provided for. (15 pts.)
1. coward 6. raise 11. idyll
2. cue 7. veil 12. rein
3. vile 8. vain 13. capital
4. grown 9. so 14. baron
5. cents 10. seas 15. gorges
IV. Anagrams. Directions: Find the anagrams of the given word. (15 pts.)
A.
1. Vowels 6. Rentals
2. Unbred 7. Recede
3. Oceanic 8. Finder
4. Infests 9. Tablet
5. Recital 10. Sector
B.
1. I’m a dot in place = a d_ _ _ _ _ _ p_ _ _ _
2. He’ll mesh crooks = S_ _ _ _ _ _ _ H_ _ _ _ _ ( a private detective)
3. Moon starer = a _ _ _ _ n _ _ _ r
5. nine thumps = p _ _ _ s _ _ _ _ t
6. partial men = P _ _ _ _ _ m _ _ t
7. A stew, Sir? = w _ _ _ r _ _ s
8. No wire unsent = W _ _ _ _ _ n U___n
9. Eleven plus two = t _ e _ _ _ p _ _ s o_ e
10. Death, it starts in ice = the T _ _ _ _ _ c D______r
11. Built to Stay Free = S _ a _ _ e of L _ _ e _ _ y
12. End is a car spin = P _ i _ _ _ _ s D_a_a
13. Dirty room = d _ _ _ i _ _ _ y
V. Who am I?
1. I am the only one who knew the identity of the son of Zeus who would dethrone him and drive the gods from
their home in heaven.
a. Epimetheus b. Prometheus c. Agametheus d. Odytheus
2. I am held up to the contempt of Hephaestus, my lover’s husband.
a. Aphrodite b. Helen of Troy c. Ares d. Persephone
3. Without me, there is no loveliness anywhere. I am the irresistible goddess who stole away the wits of the wise.
a. Eris b. Iris c. Persephone d. Aphrodite

4. I am the last frightful offspring of Gaea, a creature more terrible than any that had gone before.
a. Titan b. Typhon c. Cyclops d. Giants
5. My faith for the return of my husband after 20 years of absence has never wavered, not even once.
a. Galatea b. Penelope c. Rhea d. Pandora
6. I have lured men to my castle since the beginning of time and have turned them into something that even
their limited minds could not comprehend. I never thought a man could thwart my seduction and the very
man is the one I fell in love with.
a. Aphrodite b. Medea c. Calypso d. Circe
7. The irony of life is when I have hated women all my life but I happened to fall in love with a woman of stone.
a. Odysseus b. Galatea c. Pygmalion d. Narcissus
8. I never received any award of my works while I was still alive but during my death, I was declared one of
the world’s leading poet and dramatist. My works have a lasting influence in the world of literature.
a. William Shakespeare b. Francisco Petrarch c. Homer d. Socrates
9. I have always accepted the fact that the world would look at me as very eccentric to the point of treason
and my works as sources of mysterious doctrine yet it never stopped me from pursuing the realm of
knowledge and arts.
a. Rafael Santi b. Michelangelo Buonarroti c. Leonardo da Vinci d. Gian Lorenzo Bernini
10. My position forced me to choose that which is beneficial for my people, forcing me to give up on love.
a. Bloody Mary b. Elizabeth Tudor c. Queen Elizabeth II d. Anne Boleyn

VI. Fill in the blanks by giving the correct counterpart or description. (20 pts.)
Description Greek Roman
1. god of fire and fire-based arts Hephaestus Vulcan

2. Apollo Phoebus/ Apollo

3. Persephone Proserpina

4. Hera Juno

5. Artemis Diana

6. goddess of wisdom and warfare

7. god of love

8. Hestia Vesta

9. Demeter Ceres

10. Selene Luna

IV. Complete the figure of the principal gods and deities involved during the creation in Greek mythology.
(10 pts.)

1. Uranus 2. Gaea

1. 2. Cyclops 3. Titans 4. Giants 5. Typhon

1. Cronus 2. Rhea

1. Hades 2. Hestia 3. Poseidon 4. Hera 5. Demeter 6. Zeus

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