Department of Education

Region-V (Bicol)
Schools Division Office of Catanduanes
CALATAGAN HIGH SCHOOL
Senior High School Department

MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN
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21 Century Literature from the Philippines and the World
Name:_____________________________________________ Date:_________________________
Grade/Section:______________________________________ Track/Strand:__________________

I. Directions: Choose the letter of the best answer.

1. 21st century started in what year?
a. 2000 c. 2010
b. 2001 d. 2100
2. The following are characteristics of pre-colonial period except?
a. It started in ___BC to 1564.
b. It is based on oral tradition.
c. It is crude on ideology and phraseology.
d. It has two distinct classification: religious and secular.
3. The system of writing before the coming of Spanish is___________.
a. Alibata c. Sanskrit
b. Alphabet d. Syllabry
4. What period started from 1565 and ends in1863?
a. American Colonial Period c. Pre-colonial Period
b. Japanese Occupation Period d. Spanish Colonization Period

5. It is the period where literary “giants” appeared.

a. American Colonial Period c. Pre-colonial Period
b. Japanese Occupation Period d. Spanish Colonization Period
6. It is the most prevalent literary form in American Colonial Period.
a. Epic c. Legends
b. Essay d. Short story
7. These are often repetitive and sonorous, didactic and naïve.
a. Folk lyrics c. Religious literature
b. Folk songs d. Secular literature

8. It is written to prescribe proper decorum.

a. Essay c. Prose Narratives
b. Folk songs d. Tanaga
9. Which of the following is an example of religious literature?
a. Korido and awit b. Pasyon and awit
 c. Senakulo and korido d. Senakulo and pasyon
10. It is address instead of “intelligencia.”
a. alipores c. lupon
b. Intelligent people d. masses
11. It is the most populous island group in the Philippines.
a. Luzon c. Mindanao
b. Visayas d. Metro Manila
12. The theme of this story from Luzon is infidelity, love and acceptance.
a. Flowers in the Crypt. c. Blue Blood of Big Astana
b. Doreen’s story d. The Kiram Building

13-14
Nanay ko’y di napagod
Araw gabi’y aming lingkod.
Kaya ngayon aking handog
Ginhawa n’ya, ako’y tungkod.
-Tracer Maranan
13. This is an example of:
a. Text tula c. Literary Journalism
b. Testimonio d. Flash Fiction
14. What is the central theme of the poem above?
a. Bountiful of the life here in the Philippines.
b. Happiness in mother and child relationship and how they make their life joyous.
c. Sacrifice of mother to a child and the reciprocated effort of a child to make mother’s
life comfortable
d. Sacrifice of parents to a child and the reciprocated effort of a child to make her parents
comfortable in life.
15. During what period does the drastic and sudden shift of status of living occur as shown in the
story of the Blue Blood of Big Astana?
a. American Colonial Period c. Pre-colonial Period
b. Japanese Occupation Period d. Spanish Colonization Period

16. What is common about Annabella and her mother?

a. Both of them were victims of infidelity
b. Both of them has renewed sense of being
c. Both of the commit suicide because of the boy.
d. Both of them were maltreated and locked by the king to the castle
17. Why is the Kiram Building Important to Kidapawan?
a. It is Kidapawan’s greatest link to its Mindanawon roots.
b. It is the\most luxurious building that is designed by a sultan.
c. It is a 2.3-hectare building made in the center of Kidapawan and it is landmark.
 d. It is the sole building in Kidapawan that is the closest to Mindanao’s center , Davao.
18. He was the long lost Prince of Uyaan.
a. Abdul Kiram c. Jafaar
b. Vicente Austria d. Menius Kiram

19. What is the greatest difference of Literary Journalism to Traditional Journalism?

a. Literary journalism is bias while traditional journalism is not.
b. Literary journalism is factual while traditional journalism is not.
c. Literary journalism includes the writer while traditional journalism does not.
d. Literary journalism is detached to the writer while traditional journalism is not.
20. What is the main difference between traditional poetry and 21st century poetry?
a. Traditional poetry is symbolic while 21st century literature is not.
b. Traditional poetry is prescriptive while 21st century literature is not.
c. Traditional poetry is susceptible to change while 21st century literature is not
d. Traditional poetry is all about nature and love while 21st century literature is not.
21. What is common in testimonio and autobiography?
a. Both genre are vague
b. Both genre are first-person accounts.
c. Both genre concerns with the complexity of life.
d. Both genre concerns with the issue of marginality.
22. It refers to a largely fictional work of relative brevity.
a. Literary journalism c. Poetry
b. Flash fiction d. Short story
23. Why is the title of the story of Charlotte Aninion-De Guzman, Jeepney Tapestry?
a. Because it all happened in jeepney.
b. Because it is a pure experience of Edrex.
c. Because it is concerned with the issue of marginality.
d. Because it tackles about different faces and stories inside the jeep.
24. Why is flash fiction called “smoke-long” story in China?
a. Because smoking is bad to our health
b. Because smoking lasts 5 minutes in China.
c. Because smoking in China is very common.
d. Because one would likely finish reading it before/she finishes smoking cigarette.
25. Who’s author uses flash fiction in his master piece?
a. Eros Atalia
b. Kristian Sendon Cordero
c. Lourd de Veyra
d. Ma. Luisa Aguilar-Cariṅ o
 II. Directions: Match Column A (the region) with Column B(associated writer).
A B
1. Region 1 a. Felino Garcia Jr.
2. Region 2 b. Joel M. Toledo
3. Region 3 c. Jose Dalisay Jr.
4. Region 4 A d. Jun Lisondra
5. Region 4 B e. Kristian Sendon Cordero
6. Region 5 f. Lourd de Veyra
7. Region 6 g. Ma. Luisa Aguilar-Cariṅ o
8. NCR h. Paul Zafaralla
9. CAR i. Steven Prince Patrick C. Fernandez
10. ARMM j. Virgilio Almario
III. Read the following flash fiction and answer the table that follows.
Morsels of Memory
by: Charlotte Aninion-De Guzman
They came, almost every day, at different times of the day, pilgrims of my mother’s cooking. They did
not knock, because everyone knew that our door was never locked. And she welcomed them with a smile, a
warm coffee and with the delicious smell of food that was always slowly cooking our stove.
There was Aling Nita who seemed to be always fretting about one thing or another, that once straight
hair suddenly turned curly and white overnight. Then the group of glorious gay men working at a nearby beauty
parlor who can shake our house with their laughter. And poor little lost Ada who was always playing hide-and-
seek with love, while her sister Maya dreamed of flying to distant lands and seas where she said her life waits
for her, and I could not help but wonder how she can walk and talk without the breath of life in her languid
sinewy body. But they were not the only ones, there were countless others who sat in our small round kitchen
table while my mother fed their hunger. Perhaps that was my mother’s tragedy, like the stew that was always
cooking on her stove, her nose was too soft and her heart too open.
Complete the Chart that follows: (3 points each)
Person Description Image What does the description suggest
or connote? What kind of person
do you imagine them to be? WHY?
Aling Nita … seemed to be always fretting about one 1-3
thing or another, that once straight hair
suddenly turned curly and white overnight…
Ada … poor little lost Ada who was always playing 4-6
hide-and-seek with love…
Maya … dreamed of flying to distant lands and seas 7-9
where she said her life waits for her, and I
could not help but wonder how she can walk
and talk without the breath of life in her
languid sinewy body…
Gay men …working at a nearby beauty parlor who can 10-12
shake our house with their laughter…
The author’s mother …like the stew that was always cooking on her 13-15
stove, her nose was too soft and her heart too
open…

“Failure to prepare is a preparation for failure.”

Prepared by: RACHEL ANNE D. BELANGEL