Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
REGION XI
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF DAVAO ORIENTAL
MAYLAYA INTEGRATED SCHOOL
MAYLAYA, MALIBAGO, CATEEL, DAVAO ORIENTAL

2nd Quarter
21st Century Literature from the Philippines & the World
Weekly Test
Name: ______________________________________ Subject: _______________________

Direction: Write True if the statement is correct and False if it is wrong.

_______1. The language of the Rom, or Gypsy, people comes from India.

_______2. English is related to German.

_______3. The poet W. B. Yeats was from England.

_______4. Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o always writes in English.

_______5. The Sound and the Fury is a sonnet by William Shakespeare.

_______6. No South African has won a Nobel Prize in literature.

_______7. The words chortle and galumph were both invented by Lewis Carroll.

_______8. The Brothers Grimm, authors of fairy tales such as “Hansel and Gretel,” were from Germany.

_______9. Jeppe Aakjær was a noted Danish explorer.

_______10.Agatha Christie wrote only novels.

Test II. Instruction: Match the descriptions in Column A with the corresponding author in Column B. Write only the
letter of the correct answer on the space provided.

Column A

_____1. One of the apartheid era’s most prolific writers whose

works include “Burger’s Daughter”. a. Isabel Allende
_____2. Name one of the best young Spanish-language novelists
by Granta in 2010 whose latest novel, “My Fathers’ Ghost Is b. Aminatta Forna
Climbing in the Rain”.
_____3. Award winning author whose novels, have pushed the
boundaries of distortion between the real and the imagined. c. Patricio Pron
Works such as “Faces in The Crowd” (2012) and “The Story of My
Teeth” (2015). d. Alain Mabanckou
_____4. A critically acclaimed Pakistani author whose novel
"Between Clay and Dust" was shortlisted for The Man Asian e. Gabriel García Márquez
Literary Prize 2012 and longlisted for the 2013 DSC Prize for South
Asian Literature. f. Valerie Luiselli
_____5. First drew attention for the memoir “The Devil That
Danced on Water” (2003), an extraordinarily brave account of g. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie h.
family’s experiences living in war-torn Sierra Leone.
_____6. The author of the novels “Purple Hibiscus”, which won the
Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Margaret Atwood
Award.
_____7. Best known for feminist and dystopian political themes, i. Musharraf Ali Farooqi
whose best-selling works include “Oryx andCrake” (2003) and “The
Blind Assassin” (2000). j. Nadine Gordimer
_____8. Won the Nobel prize for literature in 1982, for a body of
work that included novels such as "100 Years of Solitude" and k. Mario Vargas Llosa
"Love in the Time of Cholera".
_____9. Best known for works such as the novels “The House of
the Spirits” and “City of the Beasts”.
_____10. Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010
Nobel Prize in Literature whose many distinguished works include
“The Storyteller” and “The Feast of the Goat”.
ANSWER KEY:

1. TRUE
2. TRUE
3. FALSE
4. FALSE
5. TRUE
6. TRUE
7. TRUE
8. TRUE
9. FALSE
10. FALSE
11. J
12. C
13. F
14. I
15. B
16. G
17. H
18. E
19. A
20. K