Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VI – Western Visayas
Division of Iloilo
SARA FUNDAMENTAL BAPTIST ACADEMY, INC.
S.Y. 2020-2021

JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

FIRST QUARTER EXAMINATION
ENGLISH - 10
Name:__________________________________________Date:_________________ Score:_______________

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Direction: Read each statement carefully and choose the letter of the correct answer. Write the letter on the blanks provided
before the number.

________1. are different perspectives we consider when looking at a piece of literature.

A. Critical approach B. practical approach C. literal approach D. none of the above
_________2. asserts that a great deal of meaning in a text lies with how the reader responds to it.
A. Reader-Response Criticism B. Formalist Criticism C. Psychological Criticism D. Sociological
criticism
_________3. This style emphasizes the form of a literary work to determine its meaning, focusing on literary elements
and how they
A. Reader-Response Criticism B. Formalist Criticism C. Psychological Criticism D. Sociological
criticism
________4. Views a text as a revelation of its author’s mind and personality. It is based on the work of Sigmund Freud.
A. Reader-Response Criticism B. Formalist Criticism C. Psychological Criticism D. Sociological
criticism
_________5. Argues that social contexts (the social environment) must be considered when analyzing a text.
A. Reader-Response Criticism B. Formalist Criticism C. Psychological Criticism D. Sociological
Criticism
_________6. Concerned with understanding the role of power, politics, and money in literary texts.
A. Marxist Criticism B. Feminist Criticism C. Biographical Criticism D. New Historicist Criticism
_________7. It is concerned with the role, position, and influence of women in a literary text.
A. Marxist Criticism B. Feminist Criticism C. Biographical Criticism D. New Historicist Criticism
_________8. Argues that we must take an author’s life and background into account when we study a text.
A. Marxist Criticism B. Feminist Criticism C. Biographical Criticism D. New Historicist Criticism
_________9. Argues that every literary work is a product of its time and its world.
A. Marxist Criticism B. Feminist Criticism C. Biographical Criticism D. New Historicist Criticism
________.10. Which is true about reader response criticism?
A. Focuses on the act of reading and how it affects our perception of meaning in a text (how we feel at the
beginning vs. the end)
B. An individual reader’s interpretation usually changes over time.
C. Readers from different generations and different time periods interpret texts differently.
D. All of the above
II. TRUE OR FALSE.Write T if the statement is correct and F if it is wrong.
________11. The text is a living thing that lives in the reader’s
Imagination base on Reader Response Criticism.
________12 Readers from different generations and different time periods interpret texts differently.
________ Examines a text as independent from its time period, social setting, and author’s background. A text is an
independent entity in formalist criticism.
________14. The greatest literary texts are “timeless” and “universal.”
________15. Psychological criticism looks at literary characters as a reflection of the writer
________16. Literature is a reflection of its society according for formalist criticism.
________17. Marxist criticism is concerned with understanding the role of power, politics, and money in literary texts
_______18. Feminist Criticism examines the way that the female consciousness is depicted by both male and female
Writer.
_______19. We will never look at a text STRICTLY from one standpoint or another, ignoring all other views. That is
antithetical to what we are trying to do.
_______20. We should always keep our focus on the text and use these critical approaches to clarify our understanding
of a text and develop an interpretation of it.
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Department of Education
Region VI – Western Visayas
Division of Iloilo
SARA FUNDAMENTAL BAPTIST ACADEMY, INC.
S.Y. 2020-2021
_______21. People, animals, or other creatures in a story.
A. Characters B. Text C. Setting D. Resolution
_______22. It is the way in which an author shows the personality of a character
A. Characterization B. Grammar C. Setting D. Resolution
_______22. It is obvious to the reader and “spells” it right out.
A. direct characterization B. indirect characterization C. Setting D. Resolution
_______23. It shows things that reveal the personality of the character.
A. direct characterization B. indirect characterization C. Setting D. Resolution
_______24. It is the driving force behind why the character does what he/she does.
A. motivation B. characterization C. climax D. Resolution
_______25. The events that take place in a story.
A. motivation B. summary C. climax D.plot

II. ESSAY
1. Which of the following approach you like the most? Explain clearly.

2. What are the things that you need to consider in writing a compare and contrast essay?.

Psalm 145:18
The LORD is near to all them that call on him, to all that call on him in truth.

Prepared by: ALEXIS JOHN B. BENEDICTO

Subject Teacher