GENERAL EDUCATION

English
Rica Grace Ocfemia – Manuel
Lecturer
1. The novel Crime Punishment was written by
__________
A. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
B. Leo Tolstoy
C. Anton Checkov
D. Ivan Turgenev
Filipino as a language Blossomed during the ____________
occupation.
A. Japanese
B. American
C. Spanish
D. Commonwealth
The Thomasites are ___________________
A. teachers from UST
B. teachers from America
C. American Soldiers
D. Followers of St. Thomas
Who is Considered the goddess of Philippine poetry?
A. Opelia Alcantara Dimalanta
B. Trinidad Tarrosa-Subido
C. Aida Rivera Ford
D. Angela Manalang Gloria
The underlined word in the sentence below is an _________.
“She took the early train.”
A. Adjective
B. Adverb
C. Apostrophe
D. Appositive
What us the rhyme scheme of the Sonnet 29?
A. ABABCDCDEFEFGG
B. ABBCDDEFFGGHHI
C. AAABBBCCCDDDDEE
D. ABBCDDEFFGGHIJ
A sonnet has 14 iambic pentameter lines and that
means:
A. There are 10 syllables in a line
B. There are 5 syllables in a line
C. There are 8 syllables in a line
D. There are 11 syllables in a line
What do we call the last two lines of the sonnet?
A. Heroic couplet
B. Couplet
C. Coupled
D. Couply
Jose Rizal’s novel Noli Me Tangere is inspired by the
novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe titled
__________
A. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
B. Les Miserables
C. Tom Sawyer
D. War of the Roses
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ACTIVITY
List of the Famous Filipino
Writers and their Pen
Names or Pseudonyms
• 💡Jose dela Cruz - Huseng Sisiw

• 💡Marcelo H. Del Pilar - Plaridel, Dolores Manapat, Piping Dilat, Siling Labuyo, Kupang, Haitalaga, Patos,
Carmelo, D.A. Murgas, L.O. Crame D.M. Calero, Hilario, and M. Dati.
• 💡Severino de las Alas - Di-kilala

• 💡Epifanio delos Santos - G. Solon

• 💡Valeriano Hernandez Peña - Ahas na Tulog, Anong, Damulag, Dating Alba, Isang Dukha, Kalampag and
Kintin Kulirat
• 💡Severino Reyes - Lola Basyang

• 💡Pedro de Govantes de Azcarraga - Conde de Albay

• 💡Francisco dela Cruz Balagtas - Francisco Baltazar

• 💡Dr. José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda - José Rizal, Dimas-alang (Tagalog for
Touch me not), Laong-Laan (which means Ever-prepared), Agnoand Calambeño
• 💡Hugo Salazar - Ambut
• 💡Moises Salvador - Araw
• 💡Jose Turiano Santiago - Tiktik
• 💡Lope K. Santos - Anak-Bayan and Doctor Lukas
• 💡Juan Crisostomo Soto - Crissot
• 💡Luis Taruc - Alipato (which means spark that spreads a fire and one of Rizal’s pet dogs)
• 💡Jose Ma. Sison - Amado Guerrero
• 💡Dr. Pio Valenzuela - Madlang-Away
💡Andres Bonifacio - Agapito Bagumbayan, while his inspiring Katipunan
name was Maypagasa
💡Felipe Calderon - Simoun and Elias (names from Rizal’s novels)
💡José Corazón de Jesús - Huseng Batute
💡Emilio Aguinaldo – Magdalo
💡Apolinario Mabini - Bini and Paralitico
💡Jose Maria Panganiban - Jomapa and J.M.P.
💡Pascual H. Poblete - Anak-Bayan