[General Education ENGLISH] 4.

Identify the author of the poem torn

which the following lines are taken:
1. Identify the play from which lines are
taken: O is she
rosely loved
Will thou be gone? It is not yet is she lovely rosed
near day. O is she lovely sung as sea-shells?
It was the nightingale, and not the
lark a. Fernando M. Maramag c.
The period the fearful hollow of Natividad Marquaez
thine ear; b. Mauro Mendez d. Jose
Nightly she sings on your Garcia Villa
pomegranate tree;
Believe me, love, it was the 5. Who said, “These are the times that
nightingale try men’s souls?”
a. James Madiso c. Benjamin
a. Love’s Labour’s Lost c. Romeo Franklin
and Juliet b. Thomas Paine d. Thomas
b. Othello d. Cymbeline Jefferson

2. Identify the poem from which the 6. Who wrote the novel WAR AND
following line are take: PEACE?
a. Spencer b. Turgenew c.
DRINK TO ME ONLY WITH THINE Shaw d. Tolstoy
EYES. 7. Identify the play from which the lines
AND I WILL PLDGE WITH ME. are take:
OR LEAVE A KISS BUT IN THE
CUP. All that glitters is not gold;
AND I’LL NOT LOOK FOR WINE. Often you have heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold
a. Song to Celia c. Ode to the But my outside to behold;
West Wind Glided tombs do norms enfold.
b. Crossing the Bar d. She was a
Phantom of Delight a. MECHANT OF VENICE c.
AS YOU LIKE IT
3. Identify the poem from the lines are b. HAMLET d.
taken: MACBETH

Have glimpse that would make me 8. Identify the poem from which the
less forlorn; stanza is take:
Have sight of Proteus rising from the
sea; Trust no future, howe’er pleasant
Or hear old Triton blow is wreathed Let the dead Past bury its dead!
horn Act-act in the living Present
Heart within, and God o’erhead
a. Auguries of Innocence
b. God Moves in a Mysterious Way a. HYMN TO THE NIGHT c. MY
c. Elegy Written in a Country LOST YOUTH
Churchyard b. THE CROSS OF SHOW d. A
d. The World is Too Much With Us PSALM OF LIFE

9. What virtue is inferred in the poem?


Little things
It’s the little things we do or say
that make or break the beauty of
the average passing day
Hearts, like doors, , will open with
ease
To very, very little keys.
And don’t forget that two of these
Are “I thank you”, and “If you
please.”
- Anonymous
a. Kindness c.
Friendliness
b. Confidentiality d.
Encouragement
10. What does William Norris want
you to do in his ZIP THE LIP?
If your lips would keep from slips.
Five things observe with care;
To whom you speak; of whom you
speak
And how, when, and where
a. To be truthful c. To show
kindness
b. To be sincere d. To observe
confidentiality
11. What figure of speech is used in
the lines below?
His bright eyes rolled, they never
seemed to settle.
And glittered like the flowers
beneath a kettle:
Geoffrey Chancer, The Canterbury
Tales
a. Simile b. Hyperbole c.
Metaphor d. Personification
12. Which speech is considered of the
greatest speeches for its vision of
American democracy by a U.S
political leader?
a. THE GETTYS BURG ADDRESS
b. John F Kennedy’s INAUGURAL
SPEECH
c. LINCOLNMEMORIAL ADDRESS
d. Patrick Henry’s speech
13. Which play of Jose M. Hernandez
tells of an artisan who forged
cannons for the used of the
Spaniards?
a. THE REAL LEADER c. THE
FILIPINO REBEL
b. PANDAY PIRA d. THE CRY
OF THE PHILIPPINES
14. Which novel written by Kerima-
Tuvera tells of the story of Emma
Mercene who struggles for
consummation of purse and clean
love?
a. THE BARANGAY
c. A CHILD OF SORROW
b. THE HAND OF THE ENEMY d.
THE FILIPINO REBEL
15. William Wordsworth wrote “SHE
WAS PHANTON OF DELIGHT” from
which the lines are taken:
SHE WAS PHANTOM OF DELIGHT
WHEN FIRST SHE GLEAMED UPON
SIGHT;
A LOVELY APPARITON, SENT
TO BE A MOMENT’S ORNAMENT;
Which figure of speech is used?
a. Hyperbole c. Metaphor
b. Personification d.
Simile
16. “It is only the heart that one can
see nightly; what is essential is
invisible to the eye.”
From THE LITTLE
PRINCE
BY ANTOINE DE
ST. EXUPERY
The aspiration drawn from quote is
that
a. Important things are visible to the
eye
 b. There are things which the eye
cannot see.
c. It is better to see things with the
heart
d. Only the heart can see the
beautiful things in life.
17. Consider this poem entiled WINGS
written by Victor Hugo.
Be like the bird, who
Halting in this flight
On limb too slight
Feels it give way beneath him
Yet sings
Knowing be hain wings
a. Listen to advices c. Be
courageous
b. Believe in yourself d. Don’t
be over confident
18. Who wrote “HESPERIDES” which
contains lyrics filled with themes
about country life and beauty?
a. Lord Byron c. John
Milton
b. Robert Herrick d. George
Herbert
19. Which novel written by E.M.
Foster satirizes the manners of the
middle-class English folk with their
provincial class clannishness and
prejudices?
a. WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
b. A ROOM WITH A VIEW
c. THE LONGEST JOURNEY
d. HOWARDS END
20. What is alluded to by these lines?
The man who made it did not want
it.
The man who bought it did not use
want it
The man who used it did not use it
Try to guess just to call just what
to call it.
a. Poison b. Gun c.
Coffin d. Bomb
21. Which poem by William Ernest
Henley answers the question; Do
humans control their own lives?
a. REMMEMBER c.
PRECIOUS STONES
b. INVICTUS d. THE
ALDERKING
22. Who wrote TO LUCASTA?
a. Robert Herrick c. Thomas
Carew
b. Richard Lovelace d. John
Sucking
23. Which earned for Joyce Carol
Oayes the title THE DARK LADY OF
AMERICAN LETTERS?
a. The beautiful insights imposed on
her characters and settings
b. Her writings have been experiential
c. Her ability to describe and narrate
realities
d. The unrelieved sense of death that
pervades her writings
24. Which psalm is a song of joy and
reverence?
a. Psalms 7 b. Psalms 23
c. Psalms 8 d. Psalms 24
25. John Milton wrote “ON HIS
BLINDNESS” for which this lines is
taken:
THEY ALSO SERVE WHO ONLY
STAND AND WAIT.
Which Filipino Trait does is show?
a. Juan “Tamad” attitude c.
“Pakikibahagi”
b. “Pakikisama d.
“Karangalan”
26 – 28. On August 28, 1963, Martin
Luther King delivered his famous
LINCOLN MEMORIAL ADDRESS from
which these paragraphs are taken:
I say to you today, my friends, that
in spite of the difficulties and frustration
of the moment; I still have a dream. It is
a dream deeply rooted in the American
dream.
I have a dream that one day this
nation will rise up and live out the true
meaning of its creed. “We hold these
thruths to be self-evident; that all men
are created equal.”
I have a dream that one day on the
red hills of Georgia the sons of former
slaves and the sons of former
slaveowners will be able to sit down
together at the table of brotherhood…
26. Which is the dream of Martin
Luther King?
a. Freedom for Jews and gentiles
b. Freedom for all of God’s children
c. Freedom for the black men from
Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana,
and slums and ghettos of Northern
cities.
d. Freedom for America
27. Which difficulties and frustrations
are being referred to:
a. Forced segregation, jobs, housing,
education, and breath
b. Voting, public accommodation and
housing
c. Government indifference
d. Religion with its practices
28. Which refers to CREED?
a. My dream is rooted in America
b. I have a dream
c. The truth is evident
d. All men are created equal
John Fitzgerald Kennedy delivered his
famous INAGURAL SPEECH from which
the paragraphs are taken:
And, so my fellow Americans: Ask no
t what your country can do for you-ask
what you can do for your country.
My fellow citizens of the world: ask
not what America will do for you but
what together we can do for the freedom
of man.
29. What is John F. Kennedy asking
the citizens of American and the
citizens of the world?
a. Economic cooperation
b. Cooperation and support against
terrorism
c. High standards of strength and
sacrifice too safeguard freedom
d. Adherence to democratic ideals,
principles and practices
30. What does Shakespeare want to
infer in this line?
The fault, dear BRUTUS, is not in our
stars, but in ourselves.
a. A statue has never been set up in
honor of a critic
b. “Be content with things you have.”
c. Dreams don’t work unless you do
d. A great man is always willing to be
little.
31. Which is Chaucer’s collection
stories in verse showing his skill as a
story teller in giving a vivid picture of
English society in the 1300’s?
a. THE DIVINE COMEDY
b. THE NEW LIFE
c. THE SONG OF ROLAND
d. THE CANTERBURY TALES
32. Which work of Henry David
Thoreau contains civil disobedience
and passive resistance which were
practiced by Mahatma Gandhi of
India and Martin Luther King, Jr. in
their protest against their
governments?
a. ON THE DUTY OF CIVIL
DISOBEDIENCE
b. A WEEK ON THE CONCORD AND
MERRIMACK RIVERS
c. WALDEN
d. THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE
ROMAN EMPIRE
33. Below is a sentence from DON
QUIXOTE:
In a village of La Mancha a name
of which I have no desire to recall,
 there lived not so long ago one of 39. The Greek alphabet is adapted
those gentlemen who always have a from the consonantal writing
lance in the rock, an ancient buckles, developed by the
a skinny nag and a greyhound…. a. Phoenicians c. Babylonians
b. Assyrians d. Hebrews
Which question should you ask if
you are reading it at a LITERAL 40. Which of the following is Carlos
LEVEL? Bulosan’s celebrated autobiography?
a. Falling Leaves c.
a. Is there a figurative language America is in the Heart
used? b. The laughter of My Father d.
b. Which word will l own? Footnote to Youth
c. What are the figurative language
and sound techniques used? 41. The type of novel, which became
d. Which technique creates humor? popular, in the 18th century is ____.
a. Religious b. Picaresque
34. Which is the highest level of c. Epistolary d. Gothic
comprehension?
a. Literal comprehension c. 42. The most authentic record of
Critical comprehension Confucian teaching form which the
b. Critical evaluation d. Integration Tao or Way was learned the correct
principles of governing both self and
35. The Maranao stories about state is ____.
Pilandok are examples of ____. a. Tu Fu b. Analects c. Shih
a. Fantastic stories c. Folk tales Ching d. Tao-te Ching
b. Creation myths d. Folk epics
43. What literacy movement in
36. Which of the following epic is American literature examines life as
about the exploits of early Muslim it is?
warriors who fought in defense of a. Romanticism b. Realism c.
Islam. Puritanism d. Naturalism
a. Indarapatra and Sulayman c.
Parang Sabu 44. “The Tale of Genji” was written by
b. Bantugan d. Darangan ____.
a. Akutagawa Ryunosuki c.
37. Which book in the New Testament Kawabata Syaonari
includes a vision of the end of the b. Lady Murasoki Shokibu d.
world and the second coming of Lady Murasaki
Jesus?
a. Epistle of Hebrews c. 45. What is the English translation of
Epistle of James Rabindranath Tagore’s “Gitanjail”
b. Revelations d. a. Patriotic Hymns c. Song
Colossians of Offerings
b. Devotional Songs d. Songs
38. Which of the following terms Caesar
describes the subject matter, style,
tone and attitude of the literature of 46. Who of the following Romans was
ancient Greek and Rome? never emperor?
a. Romanticism c. a. Catullus b. Claudius
Classicism c. Caligula d. Julius Caesar
b. Realism d.
Naturalism
47. Which is NOT a work of Leo a. Zarsuela b. Comedia c.
Tolstoy? Cenaculo d. Duplo
a. Father and Sons c.
War and Peace 53. In Homer’s epic, who kept
b. The Death of Ivan Illych d. Odysseus on her Island for seven
Anna Karenina years?
a. Athena b. Calypso c. Helen
48. Who among these writers is d. Penelope
famous for using local color in his
stories? 54. A distinct of poetry during the age
a. Manuel Arguilla c. of modernism is ______.
F. Sionel Jose a. Measure b. Blank verse c.
b. Carlos Bulosan d. Juan Free verse d. Rhyme
C. Laya
55. Her way of speaking is as
49. What narrative poem tells of the entertaining as a laundry list “is an
heroic exploits of great heroes? example of _____.
a. Romance b. Ballad a. Simile b. Metaphor c.
c. Epic d. Lyric Hyperbole d. Onomatopoeia

50. If Divine Comedy is characterized 56. Which short narrative poem is

by absolute faith in a single truth, intended to be sung?
what best characterizes Boccaccio’s a. Ballad b. Lyric c. Epic
Decameron? d. Romance
a. An equally devout reference for
this truth 57. What is the usual ending of a
b. A complete negation of Christian Comedia?
doctrine a. Death of the prince c. Death
c. Characteristics of the merchant of the queen
class b. Victory of Muslims d.
d. A sexual libertinism that seeks to Victory of Christians
revive the great pleasures of
Ancient Rome 58. The period of American
Renaissance gave birth to ____.
51. Time is a pair scissors a. Romanticism c.
And life, a bolt of brocade Transcendentalism
When the lost section is done b. Naturalism d. Realism
The scraps are committed to a
bonfire 59. “Yes, thou shalt die,
And lie
The key idea expressed in the stanza Dump in the tomb;
above is the __. Nor of thy name
Shall these be any fame”
a. Transitoriness of life c. =To An Uncultured Lesbian
Beauty of life Woman=
b. Cruelty of time d. =Sappho=
Destruction of beauty
What does the person tell the
52. Which of the following literary lesbian woman about her death?
genre was used to express social a. She will not be famous in death
protest during the early days of b. She will find peace
American regime? c. She will be placed in a tomb
 d. She will be forgotten d. In Paradiso, they have neither
bodies nor images but not
60. The Ifugao hero who was corporeal substance
immortalized in the epic Hudhud is
_____. 65. Which two groups are at war in
a. Lumawig b. Duluyan c. the Iliad?
Banna d. Aliguyon a. Trojans and Macedonians
b. Trojans and Achaens
61. Who among the following is known c. Trojans and Minoans
as the Indian Shakespeare? d. Trojans and Phaeacians
a. Kalidasa b. Khagyam c.
Tagore d. Sadi 66. To punish himself for murdering
his father and having sexual
62. What conventions or earlier relations with his mother, what did
literary and artistic cycle style do Oedipus do?
both realism and naturalism oppose? a. He castrated himself
a. Classicism c. b. He killed himself
Symbolism c. He ordered his sons to murder him
b. Romanticism d. d. He gouged his eyes
Neoclassicism
67. The first Asian to receive the Nobel
63. The Homeric poems greatly Prize for Literature.
influenced the development of Greek a. Yasunari Kawabata c. Wole
civilization. Which of the following Soyinka
best supports this statement? b. Rabindranath Tagore d. Po
a. The Greek became great warriors Chu-I
b. The great epic characters became
models of conduct for later 68. Filial piety is a basic tenet of this
generations of the Greeks school of thought.
c. The Olympian gods were a. Taoism c.
worshipped Hinduism
d. The Greek became good architects b. Confucianism d.
Buddhism
64. Which of the following best
describes the differences between 69. This ethical concept suggests a
figures that Dante encounters in the sense of obligation or indebtedness,
three canticles of the Divine which explains the sense of
Comedy? patriotism and nationalism of the
a. In Inferno, they become more Japanese.
corporeal as Dante descends in the a. on b. seppuku c. giri
lower circles d. Kami
b. In Purgatorio, they have corporeal
shape but not corporeal 70. What insight is suggested by this
c. In Paradiso, they have neither haiku from Basho?
bodies nor images but simply
lights, and In Purgatorio they have Poverty’s child –
corporeal shape but not corporeal He starts to grind the rice
substance and Inferno, they And gazes at the moon.
become more corporeal as Dante
descends into the lower circles a. Nature has a soothing effect on the
human spirit.
 b. Child labor is a reality in many
Asian nations
c. The poor dreams and are hopeful
of better things in their life.
d. Life is never-ending routine of work
and leisure.
“You mean- like plain or milk chocolate?”
Her assent was clinical, crushing its
light Impersonality. Rapidly, wave
length adjusted, I chose, “West African
sepia.” – and as an afterthought,
“Down in my passport.”

71. He is the leading figure of the a. gender discrimination c.

Negritude movement. human rights violation
a. Leopold Senghor c. b. colonial mentality d.
Wole Soyinka racial discrimination
b. Dennis Brutus d. David
Diop 77. The Hindu belief that life is an
illusion is __________.
72. The plot development of the a. dharma b. artha c. maya
Ramayana. d. kama
a. Circular b. En medias res
c. Linear d. Pyramid 78. In which Jane Austen novel do the
following lines appear?
73. The South African novelist and
short story writer whose major “It is a truth universally acknowledged,
themes are on exile and alienation, that a single man in possession of a
won the Nobel Prize for Literature in good fortune, must be in want of a
1991. wife.”
a. Ousmane Sembene c. Bessie
Head a. Mansfield Park c. Pride and
b. Nadine Gordimer d. Prejudice
Barbara Kimenye b. Northanger Abbey d. Sense and
Sensibility
74. This novel is based on the
pilgrimage of the Buddhist monk 79. Which novel by Thomas Hardy
Xuangzang to India in search of begins with the hero selling his wife
sacred texts. and daughter to a sailor who is on
a. The Tale of Genji his way to Canada?
b. Dream of the red Chamber a. Return to the Native c. Under the
c. Record of a Journey to the West Greenwood Tree
b. Tess of d’Urberville d. The Mayor
d. On Learning to be an Indian of Casterbridge
75. Fine arts and literature flourished
during this dynasty which is viewed
as the Golden Age of Chinese 80. In what Shakespearean play do
civilization. the following lines appear?
a. Han b. T’ang c. Ch’in d.
Shang What a piece of work is a man! How
noble in reason!
76. This excerpt from Soyinka’s How infinite in faculties! In form and
Telephone Conversation indicates moving, how express and admirable!
the universal issue of _________.
a. Hamlet c. A Midsummer
“ARE YOU DARK?OR VERY LIGHT?” Night’s Dream
Revelation came. b. Romeo and Juliet d. King
Henry IV
 85. In the following dialogue, what
81. What is the title of Mary Filipino value is affirmed by Mario’s
Wollstonecraft Shelley’s ‘Tale of statement?
Horror’?
a. Bleak House c. Heart Gloria: So, for a measly apple, you lost
of Darkness a job you needed so much –
b. Frankenstein d. Tell- Mario: I wouldn’t mind losing a
Tale heart thousand jobs for an apple for my
daughter!
82. Identify the poem from which the
lines are taken: a. Parental sacrifice for children
“I LOVE THEE WITH A LOVE I b. Material comfort for the family
SEEMED TO LOSE WITH MY LOST c. Family happiness over job security
SAINTS- I LOVE THEE d. Child’s care above morality
WITH THE BREATH, SMILES, TEARS,
OF ALL MY LIFE! – AND, IF GOD 86. Which famous painting is
CHOOSE, I SHALL BUT LOVE THEE described in the poem?
BETTER AFTER DEATH.”
He saw the terror and violence, and he
a. Sonnet 53 c. Sonnet 15 Depicted sorrow, too, and infamy.
b. Sonnet 43 d. Sonnet 14 Corpses are dragged across a blood
soaked floor.
83. What sound device is exemplified What gods the victims did implore?
in the first two lines of Poe’s ‘The
Raven’? a. The Gladiator c. The
Spolarium
Deep into that darkness peering, long I b. Death in Rome d. The
stood there wondering, fearing, Execution
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal
ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the 87. “He” in these lines of poetry refers
stillness gave no token, to
And the only word there spoken was the a. Juan Luna c.
whispered word, “Lenore?” Resurrection Hidalgo
This I whispered and an echo murmured b. Jose Rizal d. Emilio
back the word, Lenore!” Aguinaldo
Merely this and nothing more. 88. The writer acknowledged to have
From The introduced modernism in Philippine
Raven poetry in English is
Edgar Allan a. Jose Garcia Villa
Poe c. Hilario Francia Jr.
b. Angela Manalang Gloria d.
a. Anaphora c. Assonance Cirilo Bautista
b. Onomatopoeia d. 89. The concepts of actual
Alliteration consciousness and ascribed
consciousness are important in the
84. What atmosphere do the images _____________ literary
create? theory/approach.
a. Confusion c. Longing a. psychoanalytical c.
b. Contentment d. feminist
Solitude b. Marxist d.
mythological-archetypal
90. Mimesis, catharsis, style, function,
and censorship are important in the
_________ approach.
a. historical-biographical c.
mythological/archetypal
b. classical d. formalist
91. Foreshortening, skipping,
decentring, transposing and
fragmentation are concepts
associated with the ________literary
theory.
a. Marxist c. Feminist
b. Postmodern d.
Psychoanalytical
92. Looking for the objective
correlative, the central metaphor,
and the central irony in a poem is
part of the practice of __________.
a. Feminist Criticism c. American
New Criticism
b. Postcolonial Criticism d.
Marxist Literary Criticism
95. In “To The Virgins to Make Much
of Time,” what is time persona’s main
message?
Then be not coy, but use your
time
And white ye may go marry:
For having lost but once your
prime
You may be forever tarry.
a. Be wise in marriage to make life
more worthwhile.
b. Marry now, or you may never have
another chance.
c. Gather the rosebuds now, before
the roses bloom.
d. Choose only lovers who, like roses,
are of the highest order.

93. Below is a tanka.

The End of My Journey

(by Oshikochi)

The end of my journey

Was still far off.
But in the tree-shade
Of the summer mountain
I stood, my mind floating

What state of mind suggested by the

phrase “my mind floating” in the tanka?

a. contemplation c. jet lags

b. hangover d. peace of mind

94. What figure of speech exemplified

below?
“The wind stood up and gave a
shout. He whistled on his two
fingers.”

a. Allusion c.
Onomatopoeia
b. Metaphor d.
Personification
96. What 17th century philosophy does
Browning assert in the following lines
from Rabbi Ben Ezra?
Ay, note that Potter’s wheel,
That metaphor! And feel
Why time spins fast, why passive lies
our clay, –
Thou, to whom fools propound,
When the wine makes its round,
“Since life fleets, all is change, the Past
gone, seize to-day!”
d. Psyche stopped loving her
husband.
100. The stanza is taken from the
poem, “If You Think” by Walter D.
White:
If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don’t!
If you want to win, but think you
can’t,
It’s almost a cinch you won’t.

a. anagnorisis c. peripeteia The author’s attitude toward the

b. carpe diem d. romanticism power of the mind is ____________.

97. Which of the following is the a. optimistic c. hopeful

resounding theme of contemporary b. serious d.
stories like Hemingway’s A Clean sympathetic
and Well Lighted Place and
Anderson’s Hands?
a. alienation from the society
b. melancholia in solitude

c. respect for the old

d. contentment in life

98. ”She” in the passage refers to

a. Kali b. Dawn c. Night d.
Varuna

Glorious to behold, she wakes the world

of men,
Riding ahead, opening the way
In her lofty car, delighting all,
Spreading light at the break of day.
- Ancient Mythology

99. One of the most popular love

stories in Greek mythology is the
story of Cupid and Psyche. Psyche’s
undying love and devotion to her
husband earned the respect of the
Gods. What was Psyche’s mistake
that nearly broke up her marriage?

a. Psyche had an affair.

b. Psyche listened to the evil
suggestion of her sisters to leave
her husband.
c. Psyche defied her husband by
looking at his face in the middle of
the night.