21st CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

MODULE 4 ASSESSMENT TASKS

WRITTEN WORK 1
Multiple Choice. Choose the letter of the BEST answer.

1. Beowulf is an example of
A. drama
B. epic poem
C. legend
D. novel
E. sonnet

2. He wrote Great Expectations.

A. Charles Dickens
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. John Keats
D. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
E. William Shakespeare

3. Which of the following characterizes the Romantic Period? This is the golden age of
A. English literature.
B. drama.
C. lyric poetry
D. novel.
E. literary techniques

4. This is a literary technique in which the character’s flow of thoughts is described in words.
A. deus ex machina
B. flashback
C. foreshadowing
D. in medias res
E. stream of consciousness

5. Which of the following is an example of a gothic romance?

A. Thanatopsis by William Cullen Bryant
B. Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving
C. Amontillado’s Cask by Edgar Allan Poe
D. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
E. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

6. He is known for using simple and sparse language and realistic images in writing poetry.
A. E.E. Cummings
B. Edgar Allan Poe
C. Ernest Hemingway
 D. Ezra Pound
E. Robert Frost

7. The following are works of Robert Frost, which is NOT?

A. After Apple Picking
B. Because I Could Not Stop for Death
C. Mending Wall
D. The Death of the Hired Man
E. The Road Not Taken

8. This is known as Western Literature and includes Latin, Greek, Roman, and Russian Literature.
A. American Literature
B. African Literature
C. Asian Literature
D. English Literature
E. European Literature

9. This epic deals with the heroic feats of Achilles, the hero of the Trojan War and the greatest of all
Greek warriors.
A. Aenid
B. Oedipus
C. Pro Cluentio
D. The Iliad
E. The Odyssey

10. One of the major influences of the European poetry was the Italian sonnet (Petrarchan sonnet) which
was named after this Italian poet.
A. Dante Alighieri
B. Francesco Petrarca
C. Giacomo Leopardi
D. Giovanni Boccaccio
E. Pier Paolo Pasolini

11. Boom Novels are known as modernist novels which appeared in the second half of the 20th century.
Among the following, which is NOT an example of a boom novel?
A. The Death of Artemio Cruz by Carlos Fuentes
B. Hopscotch by Julio Cortazar
C. Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio
D. The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa
E. One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

12. This author uses magic realism, a style which draws a realistic view of the modern world using the
elements of fantasy or myth, in his work The Kingdom of this World.
A. Alejo Carpentier
B. Jorge Luis Borges
C. Miguel Angel Asturias
 D. Octavio Paz
E. Pablo Neruda

13. Which of the following is not part of the Latin America?

A. Brazil
B. Dominican Republic
C. India
D. Mexico
E. Peru

14. The whole of time hangs

with the girl in the blue air
between diving board
and shimmering pool, eyes down
arms raised, poised graceful weightless.

This Japanese poetry is characterized by thirty-one syllables, 5-7-5-7-7, as illustrated above.

A. haiku
B. kanshi
C. haibun
D. tanka
E. senryu

15. In Chinese literature, this is considered as the golden age of art and literature.
A. Han Dynasty
B. Tang Dynasty
C. Sung Dynasty
D. Ming Dynasty
E. Yuan Dynasty

16. This is known as the longest poem in history which consists of 100, 000 couplets.
A. Mahabharata
B. Ramayana
C. Panchatantra
D. Puranas
E. Veda

17. This is a collection of Indian animal fables, written in Sanskrit, and are attributed to Vishnusharman, a
learned Brahmin.
A. Mahabharata
B. Ramayana
C. Panchatantra
D. Puranas
E. Veda
 18. The best-known 20th Century African novel written by Chinua Achebe.
A. A Dance of the Forests
B. A World of Strangers
C. Burger’s Daughter
D. Half of a Yellow Sun
E. Things Fall Apart

19. He was the first Black African to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986.
A. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
B. Chinua Achebe
C. Leopold Sedar Senghor (
D. Nadine Gordimer
E. Wole Soyinka

20. Which of the following Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s works talks about a fifteen-year-old girl named
Kambili as she together with her family endured domestic violence in the hands of her father.
A. Americanah
B. Purple Hibiscus
C. Half of a Yellow Sun
D. The Thing Around Your Neck
E. We Should All Be Feminists

WRITTEN WORK 2
True or False. Write T if the statement is correct and F if it is not.

1. African Literature only refers to Afro-Asian and African collection of works.

2. William Shakespeare wrote 154 sonnets.
3. Italian sonnet is also known as Petrarchan sonnet.
4. Boom novels are also known as modernist novels.
5. A lüshi has five lines, each of which has eight or seven syllables following a strict tonal pattern.
6. Bashō introduced the tanka which is composed of three lines with five-seven-five syllable pattern.
7. Apartheid was a system in which people of color had less political and economic rights than that of
the white people, so the former was forced to live separately from the latter.
8. Hitomaro is the oldest anthology of Japanese poetry.
9. Beowulf used kennings or phrases or compound words used to implicitly label individuals, locations,
and things.
10. William Shakespeare, who wrote The Canterbury Tales, was also known as the father of English
literature.

TOTAL - 30 POINTS
ACTIVITY (To be recorded as your Performance Task)

POSTER-MAKING. In Module 4, we have learned that World Literature is very rich and diverse. Through a
poster, present your understanding on how different countries with different literary genres, traditions and
forms made up the literatures of the world. Posting your output in your blog or social media account is NOT
required but be sure to submit your work on Edmodo. Please use a clean sheet of paper or board.

CRITERIA:

Relevance to the Theme - 20 points

Creativity - 15 points
Originality - 10 points
Neatness - 5 points

TOTAL - 50 POINTS

“Literature is one of the most interesting and

significant expressions of humanity.”

P.T. BARNUM