Department of Education

Division of Cebu Province

BOLJOON district
SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

Summative Test in 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE

Quarter 2 (FINAL)

Name: __________________________________ Grade/Sec: __________________ Date: ______________

School: __________________________________ Score: _____________

I. WRITTEN WORKS (1 point each + 2 points total score for Written Works)

A. Matching type. Match the literary works in Type A to their respective authors in Type B. Write
the letter of your answer on the space provided.

TYPE A TYPE B
__________ 1. Gone Back A. From the Koran
__________ 2. Your God Is One God B. Langston Hughes
__________ 3. Psalm 23 C. Rabindranath Tagore
__________ 4. The Analects D. O. Henry
__________ 5. Unending Love E. William Ernest Henley
__________ 6. Thank You, Maam F. Martin Luther King
__________ 7. The Story of an Hour G. Huang Chunming
__________ 8. The Gift of the Magi H. Confucius
__________ 9. I Have a Dream I. From the Bible
__________ 10. Invictus J. Kate Chopin

B. Directions: Modified true or false. Read the following statements about the authors carefully
and identify whether these are true or not. On the space provided, write LATIN if true;
otherwise, change the underlined word to make the statement true.

1. Gabriel Garcia Marquez wrote many acclaimed non-fiction works and short stories. His works have
achieved significant critical acclaim and widespread commercial success, most notably for popularizing a
literary style labeled as magical realism. _____________________
2. Jorge Luis Borges was one of the most important figure of Uruguayan literature of the second half of the
20th century and one of the great names of the Boom of Latin American literature. ________________
3. Mario Benedetti exerted a strong influence on the direction of literary fiction through his genre-bending
metafictions, essays, and poetry. __________________
4. Pablo Neruda is a Mexican poet, writer, and diplomat, recognized as one of the major Latin American
writers of the 20th century. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1990. __________________
5. Born Ricardo Eliezer Neftali Reyes y Basoalto, Mario Benedetti is one of the most influential and widely
read 20th-century poets of the Americas. ________________
6. Jorge Luis Borges wrote lyrically inspirational works, employing an original use of language and reveal-
ing an intense search for understanding the enigmas of existence, the problems of self and subjectivity as
well as identity difference, and the condition of psychological and spiritual exile. _______________
7. In her work, Clarice Lispector used allegories of great women from literary works to emphasize her
views on how women should be treated. ________________
8. Pablo Neruda published Cien sonetos de amor, a collection of poems with four sections, which was
dedicated to his wife, Matilde._______________________
9. Clarice Lispector’s works secured a prominent place for Latin America in global literature, along with the
works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. __________________
10. Gabriel Garcia Marquez was considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. Most
of his works express the theme of solitude. ________________

C. Match column A with their corresponding answers in column B below.

A
________ 1. Also known as literary non-fiction or narrative non-fiction
_______ 2. The Year of Magical Thinking
_______ 3. He is husband of Joan Didion
_______ 4. Mockingjay
_______ 5. Is a genre of speculative fiction dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science
and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, a parallel universe and extra-
terrestrial life.
_______ 6. The protagonist in the novel Mockingjay
_______ 7. There Will Come Soft Rains
_______ 8. Scars
_______ 9. The prequel movie to Mockingjay
_______ 10. The daughter of Joan

II. PERFORMANCE TASK. Answer briefly the following questions in complete sentences with correct
punctuations.

1. What is the lesson in the story The Gift of the Magi?

2. In the story Scars, there are two kinds of scars: physical and emotional. For what, what is more
painful between the two? Why?

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Prepared by:
BERNADITH E. MENDOZA
SHS TEACHER 2, BOLJOON NHS

Reviewed by:
ANN DAPHNE F. EUBLERA
SHS Department Coordinator, Boljoon NHS
ANSWER KEY
I. WRITTEN WORKS
A. 1. G B. 1. Poem
2. A 2. Short story
3. I 3. Short story
4. H 4. Poem
5. C 5. Short story
6. B 6. Poem
7. J
8. D
9. F
10. E

B.
1. Latin 6. Clarice Lispector
2. Mario Benedetti 7. Latin
3. Jorge Luis Borges 8. Latin
4. Octavio Paz 9. Pablo Neruda’s
6. Pablo Neruda 10. Latin

C.
1. Creative nonfiction
2. Joan Didion
3. John Gregory Dunne
4. Suzanne Collins
5. Science Fiction
6. Katniss
7. Ray Bradbury
8. David Owen
9. The Hunger Games
10. Quintana