NABUA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

School ID 302001 | Nabua, Camarines Sur

SUMMATIVE TEST
21st Century Literature from the Philippines and from the World
1st Semester, 2nd Quarter

1. A feminist reads literature as an independent work of art rather than as a reflection of the author’s state of
mind or as a representation of a moment in history.
a. False c. Maybe
b. True d. None of the above

2. Which is true about 21st Century Literature?

a. Literary works written and published from 2001 onwards.

b. Literary works written and published from 2001 and below.

c. Literary works written and published from 2002 onwards.

d. Literary works written and published from 1999 onwards

3. You are fond of making six word stories. Which literary genre are you going to used?

a. Sci-Fi c. Chik lit

b. Flash Fiction d. Folk Narratives

4. Refers to a society in which no one is born into a social class. Such distinctions of wealth, income, education,
culture, or social network might arise and would only be determined by individual experience and
achievement in such a society.
a. Classless society

b. Equality

c. Labor Revolt

d. Dystopian society

5. A social group that consists of people who earn little money, often being paid only for the hours or days that
they work, and who usually do physical work.
a. Labor revolt

b. Burgeoisie

c. Working class/ Proletariat

d. Dystopian members

6. The study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

a. Literary Critic c. Literary Criticism

b. Literary Theory d. Literary History

7. An economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their

operation for profit.

a. Marxism c. Capitalism

b. Equality d. Ideology

8. Which of the following statements does NOT support Feminism as an approach in analyzing literature?

a. It highlights the influence of patriarchy over women and girls.

b. It suppresses the struggles of women to be accepted by the society and the world as a human being.

c. It explores the systematic inequalities that exist in the society.

d. It reinforces the call for women empowerment and independence.

9. In which of the following story lines can the feminist approach best apply?

a. A girl receives the accolades of classmates and friends after winning the national championship.

b. A woman weds her longtime beau in a very classy and intimate ceremony.

c. A girl, born to a poor but domineering father, marries someone chosen for her in exchange for a land title,
lives with the abusive husband, and lives her life in misery.

d. A woman works in a big company that provides good pay and benefits, lives alone in an apartment, drives
her own car and travels often.

10. You are to use Critical Race Theory on a specific literary text that is based on a historical event. What event
among the following are you going to choose in order to apply CRT?

a. Martial Law

b. abuses received by Black Americans because of white privilege

c. Cold War

d. Covid 19 pandemic

11. Feminism is solely focused on advancing the rights and equality of women.

a. Yes

b. No

c. Maybe

d. Depends on the text

12. One of the strengths of Feminist Literary Criticism is _____

a. It examines how women are represented

b. how to make feminist readings visible to readers

c. it only examines a specific element in the literary text

d. how women read about themselves

13. Which literary criticism should we use in analyzing Lualhati Bautista’s Dekada ’70, that is based on the
horrors and atrocities during the Martial Law?

a. Feminism

b, Critical Race Theory

c. Marxist Criticism

d. Formalism

14. Feminist Literary Criticism includes all these EXCEPT for _____

a. It examines how women are represented

b. how women do not like male writers

c. it calls for the equality both for men and women

d. how women read about themselves

15. This literary criticism is concerned with understanding the role of power, politics, and money in a specific
literary text

a. Feminist

b. Socialist

c. Formalist

d. Marxist

16. This literary criticism asserts that “most literature” throughout time has been written by men, for men.

a. Feminist

b. Socialist

c. Formalist

d. Marxist

17. In the story, My Father Goes to Court, why were the audience amazed when they saw the children of the
complainant?

a. Because they were nourished and healthy

b. Because they were not the real children of the poor man.

c. Because they were thin and pale

d. Because they were average.

18. Why did the poor family’s farm got destroyed in the story, My Father Goes to Court?

a. Because of the war

b. Because of the flood

c. Because of a fire outbreak

d. Because of the summer heat

19. In the story, My Father Goes to Court, where did the family live before having the rich family as neighbor?

a. In a small town in Bicol

b. In an island town in Mindanao

c. In the rice terraces of Ifugao

d. In a small town in the island of Luzon

20. Who wrote the short story, My Father Goes to Court?

a. Carlos Romulo

b. Carlos Bulosan

c. Nick Joaquin

d. Carlo Aquino

21. Why did the rich man’s family and the other family?

a. The rich man's family became victorious and healthy while the other family grew weak and ill

b. The rich man's family grew sickly and tubercular while the other family became strong in limb and fair of
complexion

c. The rich man’s family became richer while the other has become poorer

d. The poor family sought revenge to the rich man’s family.

22. Critical Race theory deals with ____

a. inequality of women and men in society

b. genocide

c. portrayal of racism and institutionalized equality

d. abuses of capitalists in the society.

23. CRT believes that race is a social construct

a. Yes

b. No

c. Maybe

d. Depends on the situation

24. In Marxist theory, those who own property and the means of production are the _____.
a. bourgeoisie

b. proletariat

c. government

d. monarchy

25. This literary criticism tend to focus on the representation of class conflict as well as the reinforcement of
class distinctions.

a. Feminism

b, Critical Race Theory

c. Marxist Criticism

d. Formalism

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26. This is one of the basic tenets of Critical Race Theory which states that racism is difficult to address or cure
because it is not acknowledged.

a. ordinariness

b. social construction

c. differential racialization

d. interest convergence

27. The following views may be considered in doing an analysis using feminism except:

a. Do characters take on traits from opposite genders? How so? How does this change others’ reactions to
them?

b. What does the work reveal about the operations (economically, politically, socially, or psychologically) of
patriarchy?

c. What does the work imply about the possibilities of sisterhood as a mode of resisting patriarchy?
d. What does the work imply about the success of the male characters and the abuses received by the other
characters

28. It is a genre of fiction, defined as a very short story.

a. flash fiction

b. sonnet

c. poem

d. limerick

29. The narrator's perspective (who is telling the story)

a. setting

b. character

c. point of view

d. theme

30. The major events that move the action in a narrative.

a. Setting

b. Theme

c. Conflict

d. Plot

31. An author using the _______ recounts the story through the eyes of a single character (or occasionally
more than one, but not all or the narrator would be an omniscient narrator).

a. characterization

b. limited POV

c. omniscient POV

d. dialogue

32. The central and dominating idea (or ideas) in a literary work.

a. Theme

b. Plot

c. Setting

d. Point of View

33. The following are elements of flash fiction except _____

a. plot

b. characters

c. point of view

d. a hook

34. The following are characteristics of flash fiction except ____

a. drama

b. brevity

c. complete plot

d. surprise

35. The following are some questions that may help in analyzing a text using Marxist lens except:

a. What values does it subvert?

b. What conflict can be seen between the values the work champions and those it portrays?

c. What social classes do the characters represent?

d. What is the condition of the female character in the story and how was she portrayed?