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SECOND QUARTERLY EXAMINATION IN 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE

PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD S.Y. 2023-2024
Name: ________________________________________________ Score: __________
Year & Section: _______________________ Teacher: Date:
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I. MULTIPLE CHOICE

Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer. Write your answers on the spae provided.
_______1. Who is the author of the Chinese literature, The Invisibility Cloak?
 a. Canaan Morse b. Yang Hongying c. Gei Fe d. Ocean Vuong
_______2. The following are the literary works in America except one. What is it?
a. The Road c. The Plot Against America
b. Zone One d. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
_______3. “Reading Lolita in Tehran” is an example of what Asian literature?
a. Turkish Literature b. Persian Literature c. Pakistani Literature d. Indian Literature
_______4. This famous young adult series is written by ____________ which tells about the adventure of Harry Potter.
a. Ian McEwan b. J.K Rowling c. Tatyana Tolstaya d. Jo Nesbo
_______5. Maria Felisa H. Batacan is more famously known as ________________.
a. MF Batacan b. Maria F. c. Felisa B. d. FH Batacan
_______6. The following are the dominating themes evident among writings in African literature except __?
a. Rootlessness b. Liberation c. Colonialism d. Luxurious life
_______7. Which of the following is not an example of European literature?
a. The Freedom Artist b. Men who hate women c. Midnight Sun d. White Walls
_______8. It is a consciousness of and pride in the cultural and physical aspects of African heritage.
a. Apartheid b. Racial Discrimination c. Negritude d. Liberation
_______9. This book speaks about stories of Mo's adventure.
a. The Invisibility Cloak c. Mo’s Mischief
b. Please Look After Mother d. The Garden of the Evening Mists
_______10. This metafiction chronicles the life of a Dominican boy living in America named Oscar de León.
a. Harry Potter Series c. The Island of Eternal Love
b. Happy Families d. The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
_______11. This post-apocalyptic novel is authored by Colson Whitehead.
a. Dear ljeawele b. Zone One c. The Plot Against America d. The Graveyard Book
_______12. Which of the following is an example of Latin-American literature?
a. Harry Potter Series c. The Lady Matador's Hotel
b. Black Sunday d. The Freedom Artist
_______13. “On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous” is an example of what Asian literature?
a. Thai Literature c. Turkish Literature
b. Vietnamese Literature d. Chinese Literature
_______14. It is a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race.
a. Apartheid b. Colonization c. Negritude d. Liberation
_______15. This family saga is told in two parallel timelines, one during our time and another that begins in the 1850s.
a. The Island of Eternal Love c. Happy Families
b. Hippie d. Malinche
_______16. Who among the following authors wrote the Arabic novel, A Woman is No Man?
a. Gei Fei b. Etaf Rum c. Shin Su Kyung d. Tan Thanh Eng
_______17. The “Invisibility Cloak” is translated by _____________.
a. Canaan Morse b. Yang Hongying c. Hiroko Oyamada d. Shin Sun Kyung
_______18. This novel revolves around the search for a family's missing mother. What is it?
a. Wave c. The Hole
b. Kitchen d. Please Look After Mother
_______19. This work tells the readers about alternative history many years ago, where they were ruled by a fascistic US government.
a. Zone One c. Homegoing
b. The Plot Against America d. Black Sunday
_______20. She is a writer born in Bohol and has written articles for magazines and poetry.
a. Beverly Wico Siy b. Genevieve L. Asenjo c. Kristine Ong Muslim d. Lina Sagaral Reyes
_______21. He is the main character in the novel, The Graveyard Book who is soon left to the care of a loving ghost couple and hundreds more
of them in the graveyard.
a. Mark Spitz b. Bod c. Milly d. Paula
_______22. This novel is written by English writer, lan McEwan. This novel is told in the perspective of an unborn child.
a. Nutshell b. Harry Potter Series c. White Walls d. LaDivine
_______23. This is the first novel of Ocean Vuong which speaks about the traumatic experiences. It is also an epistolary novel as he speaks
directly to his mother, which she will never read.
a. Wave c. Persepolis
b. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous d. The Sympathizer
_______24. Who is the main character in the novel Malinche?
a. Malinalli b. Malianna c. Malinda d. Milly
_______25. Which of the following is not an example of Asian literature?
a. Homegoing c. Bright
b. Persepolis d. Reading Lolita in Tehran

_______26. How many Palanca Awards did Glenn Sevilla Mas received?
a. Seven c. Nine
b. Eight d. Ten
_______27. Which of the following is an example of Thai literature?
a. Bright c. Please Look After Mother
b. Wave d. Persepolis
_______28. Who is the main character in the novel The Garden of the Evening Mists?
a. Tan Twan Eng b. Mo Shen Ma c. Teo Yun Ling d. Gei Fei
_______29. Ladivine is a work written by a French writer _____________.
a. J.K Rowling b. Stieg Larsson c. Elif Shafak d. Marie Ndiaye
_______30. Which of the following an example of Indonesian literature?
a. Finding Miracles c. The Heart of the Artichoke
b. Eyewitness d. Warlight
_______31. This is a parodic take on Miquel de Cervantes' famous work, Don Quixote. What is it?
a. Quishote b. Quiachotte c. Quichotte d. Quixotte
_______32. This story is about the haunting experience of Sonali Deraniyagala who lost her husband and sons during the 2004 Boxing Day
tsunami.
 a. Kitchen b. The Hole c. Bright d. Wave
_______33. It is the first memoir of Isabel Allende which is also a tribute to her deceased daughter?
a. The Sum of our Days b. Paula c. Wave d. Kitchen
_______34. Which of the following is not an example of American novel?
a. Dept. of Speculation c. Happy Families
b. Zone One d. The Graveyard Book
_______35. These 23 stories are about different people with different kinds of struggles in the landscape of Russia.
a. White Walls c. Nutshell
b. I Lived in a Butterfly Hill d. Midnight Sun
II. TRUE OR FALSE
36. _______The White Tiger is the second novel of Aravind Adiga.
37. _______Lina Sagaral Reyes has won two Palanca Awards for her poems, For All the Loved Ones (1987) and Istorya (1990).
38. _______An emergent post-apocalyptic literary work has become widespread in American literature.
39. _______H.M Naqvi has written the novel Home Boy which focuses on inequality and racism.
40. _______Latin American writers do not like to explore the digital literature.
41. _______Tatyana Tolstaya is the daughter of Leo Tolstoy.
42. _______Some American film adaptations spring from drama and novels.
43. _______Jose Neil C. Garcia is the present Director of the University Press.
44. _______One of the written works of Lina Sagaral Reyes is entitled A Brave New School Without Walls which is about Lumad
students.
45. _______Kristine Ong Muslim is the founder-director of Balay Sugidanun or The House of Storytelling.
46. _______Most Latin American works center on narratives on the investigation of the mysterious or crime fiction.
47. _______Jose Neil C. Garcia is known for his young adult novel series entitled Janus Silang.
48. _______Comics have been a long part of American literature as it is one of the forms of storytelling.
49. _______Eco Fiction is also a growing genre in European literature that includes the disruption of nature as caused by human activity.
50. _______Genevieve L. Asenjo’s first novel is Lumbay ng Dila.

III. ESSAY
Direction: In 5-7 sentences, share your insights on the given questions.

Criteria:
Organization – 3
Content – 3
Grammar usage and Spelling – 4
Total: 10 points

1. Why is it important to know the emerging writers in the Philippines and the world?