PHILIPPINE LITERATURE
REVIEW FOR PRELIM
(C.)1. What is the idea of Tagbanua Myth?
a. Is part of the religious beliefs and
superstitions that has shaped the Tagbanua way of
life.
b. It shares certain similarities with that of
other ethnic groups in the Philippines, such as in the
belief in heaven, hell and the human soul.
c. Both a and b
(C.)2. What is the Culture of Tagbanua?
a. Tagbanua maintain their own spiritual
religion and devotion to their deities through ritual,
dance, and music
b. they maintain sovereignty over their own
lands, many spiritual landmarks in Coron island are
protected from tourists
c. Both a and b
(A.)3. What is Tagbanua Ritual?
a. The ritual involves the drinking of rice
wine from Chinese stoneware jars through bamboo
straws
b. The rice is a ritual food and a divine gift
from which the ritual wine is fermented.
c. Both a and b
(D.)4. What is the story of the bread salt all about?
a. The story is all about a teenage boy who
buys pan de sal or 'bread of salt' because of it's
wonderful flavour.
b. Everyday, he walks by the house of the
old Spaniard's niece, Aida, whom the boy liked. He
would follow her everyday to school.
c. He would also think about how he would
confess his feelings for her during classes.
d. All of the above
(D.)5. What is the meaning of the story the bread of
salt?
a. This challenged the theme of the story, the
painful coming of age that resulted to the loss of
innocence
b. This means there was no loss of
innocence but a preservation of maturity
c. The preservation of maturity is evident in
the imagery presented in the story.
d. All of the above
(A.)6. The bread of Salt gives us a lesson of what?
a. to face reality and accept the fact that not
all dreams will come true, because God already
planned your life and you could do NOTHING to
change that.
b. to face reality and accept the fact that not
all dreams will come true, because God already
planned your life and you could have something to
do to change that.
c. to face reality and accept the fact that all
dreams will come true, because God already
planned your life and you could do NOTHING to
change that.
d. None of the above
(D.)7. What is the theme of bread of salt?
a. This regards the conflict between what
exists in the real world and what physically or
actually exists
b. This regards the conflict between what
exists in the mind and what physically or actually
exists
c. This regards the conflict between what
exists in the mind and what physically or actually
exists in the real worth
d. All of the above
(B.)8. What is the Climax of the Bread of Salt?
a. When the boy realized that like a pandesal
he is still not yet ready to face reality.
b. When Aida caught him packing some of
the food in the party. Falling action: When the
fourteen year old throw away the food that he
packed.
c. When the fourteen year old boy started to
learn and master playing violin
(B.)9. What is the Resolution of the Bread of Salt?
a. When the fourteen year old boy started to
learn and master playing violin
b. When the boy realized that like a pandesal
he is still not yet ready to face reality
c. When how differences make gaps
between individuals where there are poor and rich
(A.)10. What is the rising action of the story Bread
of salt?
a. When the fourteen year old boy started to
learn and master playing violin.
b. When the fourteen year old throw away
the food that he packed.
c. When he was probably thinking that
because of what he had done, there is no chance for
Aida to like him back
(A.)11. What is the falling action of the story Bread
of salt?
a. When the fourteen year old throw away
the food that he packed.
b. When the fourteen year old boy started to
learn and master playing violin.
c. When he was probably thinking that
because of what he had done, there is no chance for
Aida to like him back
(A.)12. Is an old-style Filipino folk song from
Central Luzon, the Philippines in Kapampangan
crooned by grown-ups and children.
a. Atin Cu Pung Singsing
b. The Slave Woman of Tarlac
c. Alamat ng Batangas
d. Tagbanua Myth
(A.)13. It has a meter (time signature) of that
specifies the number of beats in each bar.
a. Atin Cu Pung Singsing
b. The Slave Woman of Tarlac
c. Alamat ng Batangas
d. Tagbanua Myth
(A.)14. How many beats has Atin Cu Pung a. Ilonggo
Singsing? b. Cebuano
a. 93 Beats per Minute c. Tagalog
b. 94 Beats per Minute (B.)26. Considered as the “keeper of the fires”.
c. 93 Beats per Second a. Tabiacoud
d. 94 Beats per Second b. Anggugru 
c. Polo
(A.)27. An interesting blend of traditional and
(B.)15. What is Atin Cu Pung Singsing all about? Christian belief was found in another creation myth
a. The woman in the song was looking for a missing as told by
ring given by her mother and offers her love as a a. Tagbanuwa
prize for the man who could find it. b. Masikampu Clemente
b. The woman in the song was looking for a missing c. Maguindusa
ring given by her mother (C.)28. It is significantly the Tagbanuwa’s
c. The woman in the song was looking for a missing definition of the cosmos.
ring given by her father and offers her love as a a. sidean and langut 
prize for the man who could find it. b. sidpan
d. All of the above c. Kiyabusan looms
(C.)16. It is considered as to be the biggest land (C.)29. The highest ranking deity.
around region III. a. Maguindiwa
a. Western Luzon b. Diwata
b. Eastern Luzon c. Magindusa
c. Central Luzon (A.)30. The benevolent god of the sea.
(C.)17. The Capital City of the Philippines. a. Polo
a. Mandaluyong City b. Nagabacaban
b. Caloocan City c. Taliyakad
c. Manila (A.)31. The wife of Mangindusa
(B.)18. It is the second biggest region and typhoons a. Bugawasin 
b. Tumangkuyun
are frequent.
c. Tungkuyanin
a. Region I (A.)32. The flying deities who roam the region of
b. Region II the clouds.
c. Region III a. Bulalakaw
(B.)19. It is also as the Southern Tagalog Mainland. b. Diwata
a. MIMAROPA c. Both a and b
b. CALABARZON (C.)33. They wash the trunks of the trees that hold
c. Region III up the Langit.
(A.)20. This area is rich in history. a. Tungkuyanin
b. Bugawasin 
a. CALABARZON c. Tumangkuyun
b. MIMAROPA (B.)34. Formally known as Southern Tagalog
c. Region III Islands
(A.)21. Year when the Philippine Independence a. Region IV
declare. b. Region IV-A
c. Region IV-B
a. 1898 (C.)35. A hereditary leader.
b. 1897 a. Abala
c. 1987 b. Rinson
(C.)22. The regional capital of CALABARZON. c. Dunglad
a. Batangas City
b. Quezon City
c. Calamba City
(C.)23. It is the administrative region of the
Philippines.
a. Region III
b. CALABARZON
c. MIMAROPA
(B.)24. This region is also more formally known as
Southern Tagalog Island.
a. Region III
b. CALABARZON
c. MIMAROPA
(C.)25. The main language spoken in Cavite.