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6.

It is a branch of linguistics that deals with how words


combine to form phrases, phrases combine to form
clauses, and clauses conjoin to make sentences.
A. morphology
B. syntax
CLASSIFIED EXAMINATION C. semantics
FOR CRITICAL TEST ANALYSIS D. pragmatics
BOARD LICENSURE EXAMINATION
FOR PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS 7. What is shown in the systematic variation of /t/ such as /t/
in top is aspirated, /t/ is stop is released, and /t/ in pot is
ENGLISH unreleased?
Specialization A. phoneme
Warning: This material is protected by Copyright Laws. B. consonant
Unauthorized use shall be prosecuted in the full extent of the C. variation
Philippine Laws. For exclusive use of CBRC reviewees only . D. allophone
1. Which hypothesis of Krashen’s Monitor Model proposes 8. Which of the following sounds are produced by bringing
that when learners are exposed to grammatical features a the articulators near each other such that the flow of air is
little beyond their current (i.e., I + 1), those features are impeded but not completely blocked. The air flow through
“acquired”. Acquisition results from comprehensible input, the narrow opening creates friction.
which is made understandable with the help provided by A. p,b,t,d,k,g
the context. B. f,v,Ɵ,ð,s,z,š,ẑ,h
A. acquisition/learning hypothesis C. m,n,ŋ
B. natural order hypothesis D. l,r
C. input hypothesis
D. affective filter hypothesis 9. What is illustrated in following example? In English, the
statement “Marian is a linguist” ends with a fall in pitch,
2. All of the following are implications of Krashen’s Monitor while as a question, “Marian is a linguist?” the pitch goes
Model EXCEPT _____. up.
A. Teachers should correct errors during the time they A. stress
are committed as error correction is valuable. B. juncture
B. Teachers should not insist on learners conversing C. intonation
before they feel comfortable in doing so. D. suprasegmentals
C. Teachers should not expect learners to learn “late
structures” such as third person singular early. 11. Which of the following is an example derivational
D. Teachers consider grammatical teaching is of limited morpheme?
value. A. helpful
B. stays
3. They view the language as a system of related elements C. eaten
or “building blocks” for the encoding of meaning, the D. longest
elements being phonemes (sounds), morphemes (words),
tagmemes (phrases/sentences/clauses). 12. The words “gym, mike, and TV” are formed through
A. structuralists _____.
B. transformationalists A. clipping
C. functionalists B. back formation
D. interactionalists C. root creation
D. compounding
4. Which of the following is a view of a interactionalist?
A. Language is primarily vocal. 13. What morphophonemic process is involved in which units
B. Language is creative. that occur in some contexts are “lost” in others such as “l i
C. Language emphasizes the meaning and functions b r y” instead of “l i b r a r y”?
rather than the structures A. assimilation
D. Language is a vehicle for establishing interpersonal B. dissimilation
relationship. C. epenthesis
D. metathesis
5. Which theory on language teaching has given birth to the
methods that are learner-centered, allowing learners to 14. Which syntactic structure is shown in the following
work in pairs or groups in information gap tasks and examples? responsible officers, trusted friend
problem-solving activities where such communication A. predication
strategies as information sharing, negotiation of meaning, B. complementation
and interaction are used. C. modification
A. Structuralism D. coordination
B. Behaviorism
C. Cognitivism
D. Functionalism

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15. What is made use in this example “I told Paul to close the 22. What aptly describes “universal grammar”?
door and he did so”? A. language used for communication by people who
A. homonymy speak different first languages
B. anaphora B. rules applicable to all human languages
C. deixis C. language with the same vocabulary, grammar, and
D. hyponymy pronunciation
D. rules of grammar that distinguish one language from
16. What category of illocutionary act is demonstrated in the the others
following example?
“Recession will worsen in Europe in the next five years.” 23. At the border of two countries there is a port where
A. representative fishermen work. The fishermen do not speak the same
B. commissive language, so they communicate using one that has been
C. directive invented but only for the purpose of trade. This scenario
D. expressive most accurately describes which of the following types of
language?
17. What conversation maxim seems to have been violated in A. a dialect
the following example? B. a creole
A: How was the LET? C. a pidgin
B: Well, the proctor is my former college professor. D. a regionalism

A. maxim of quantity 24. If the second language learner “assimilates”, then he


B. maxim of quality _____.
C. maxim of relation A. maintains its own life style and values and rejects
D. maxim of manner those of the target language group
B. adapts to the life style and values of the target
18. This view emphasizes that native language comprises language group but maintains its own life style and
habits that a second language learner must overcome. values for the intragroup use.
This is accomplished by forging new habits through C. gives up his own life style and values and adopts
repetition of pattern drills with accompanying positive those of the target language group
reinforcement. D. maximizes the use of his first language and the target
A. Behaviorist learning theory language
B. Cognitive learning theory
C. Functional learning theory 25. The following are the areas of knowledge and skills of
D. Holistic learning theory communicative competence EXCEPT _____
A. grammatical competence
19. Overgeneralization errors such as “goed” and “keeped” B. sociolinguistic competence
are common in children’s speech. Such errors suggest C. discourse competence
that children _____. D. language competence
A. are repeating what was said to them, and should take
note of them 26. Speaker A’s final remark functions as _____.
B. do not know the past tense forms of those verbs, and Speaker A: That’s the telephone.
experience difficulty Speaker B: I’m in the bath.
C. induce the rules for the past tense from the language Speaker A: OK.
to which they are exposed A. a request to answer the phone
D. repeat the teacher’s mistakes, and those errors are B. an excuse for not complying
very hard to undo C. acceptance of an excuse
D. sarcasm
20. This type of language is used to describe the kind of
language a learner uses at a given time, that is, his 27. What is strategy is used by the second language learner
version of a given language, which deviates in certain in the following situation”
ways from the language of a mature speaker. A. “The student forgot the English term “train station”. He
A. dialect used the phrase “the place for trains” instead.
B. native language B. inference
C. holophrastic speech C. paraphrase
D. interlanguage D. generalization
E. adaptation
21. According to cognitivists, errors in second language
learning is considered _____. 28. What is the message of the short story, “The Centipede”
A. basis for testing by Rony V. Diaz?
B. part of learning process A. Childhood memories are treasures.
C. as proofs of unsystematic way of learning B. Teasing or Taunting should only be done by adults.
D. not part of natural progression in acquisition of C. Children should be responsible with what trick they do
English with their siblings.
D. Childhood relationships between siblings were
sometimes painful.

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29. What problem is pointed out by the author in the story A. The speaker with champacas will visit his lover at
“How My Brother Brought Home a Wife” by Manuel night.
Arguilla? B. The speaker wants his lover to keep and cherish their
A. How Filipinos live in the province memories in her heart.
C. The speaker will rise from death to remind his lover of
B. How Filipinos solve family problems their sweet moments.
C. How Filipinos are affected by new technology D. The speaker wants to give his lover fresh champacas.
35. This line “You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting”
D. How Filipinos accept or treat a new family member means __________.
A. The speaker wants to be left unforgotten.
30. What is the problem or conflict in the story “The Mats” by B. The speaker wants his lover to forget her past.
Francisco Arcellana? C. The speaker wants his past not to be discussed.
A. Emilia’s indifference D. The speaker wants his past not to be forgotten.
B. siblings’ rivalry
C. Mr. Angeles’ emotionality 36. The line “I shall haunt you” has a/an __________ tone.
D. Hunger in the family A. begging
B. appealing
31. What truth about life was presented in the story “The C. romantic
Wedding Dance” by Amador Daguio? D. commanding
A. Some men are not contented with one partner.
37. “Lost One” may be pertained to _________.
B. Women and men are born equal. A. lost feeling
C. Culture goes beyond love. B. past lover
C. abandoned person
D. Love conquers all. D. ghost

32. The “Dead Stars” by Paz Marquez Benitez symbolizes 38. It is a generally accepted first principle of oral
___________. interpretation that the reader must be true to
A. the love of Esperanza for Alfredo A. the performance space
B. the author
B. the love of Alfredo for Julia C. the method
C. the love of Julia for Alfredo D. the audience
E. his or her training
D. the love of Alfredo for Esperanza
39. Within the communication process, the area that causes
TO A LOST ONE the most breakdowns is _____.
Angela Manalang-Gloria A. interference
B. feedback
I shall haunt you O my lost one, as the twilight C. the situation
Haunts a re-entangled trail, D. the channel
And your dreams will linger strangely with the music E. the message
Of a phantom lover’s tale,
You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting, 40. David is preparing a speech about why Hollywood
I shall come to you again became the center of the motion picture industry and the
With the starlight and the scent of white champacas, impact that its development as the center had on
And the melody of rain. filmmaking. David’s speech should be organized using
You shall not forget. Dust will peer into your which of the following methods?
Window, tragic-eyed and still, A. Spatial
And unbidden, startle you into remembrance B. Chronological
With its hand upon the still. C. Cause-effect
D. Problem-solution
32. What is the poem “To a Lost One” about? E. Topical
A. An appeal to be remembered by a lover
41. All of the following are correct descriptions of listening
B. A threat to a lover behavior EXCEPT _____.
C. Beautiful memories of a dead person A. Careful listening can lead to anticipation of a
speaker’s actions.
D. A ghost that haunts a fastidious lover B. People who learn to listen selectively can shut out
what is undesirable.
33. What virtue of the writer is depicted in the poem? C. Listening comprises more than one-half of all
A. forgiving communication.
B. honest D. The ability to be a good listener comes naturally, and
C. romantic no training is necessary.
D. faithful E. Being an effective communicator means that one
must listen to oneself.
34. What does this line “I shall come to you again with the
starlight, and the scent of champacas’?
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42. When a group is faced with a problem requiring immediate 49. If the students think about the knowledge of their own
action, the most effective leadership style is _____. thoughts and the factors that influence their thinking, they
A. authoritarian are engaged in the process of _____.
B. democratic A. artistic thinking
C. laissez-faire B. metacognition
D. charismatic C. higher-order thinking
E. permissive D. critical thinking

43. Schema activation is important to make sense of new 50. Mrs. Torres wants to find out her students’ schema about
information in light of what students already know, and to storm surge. On the board she writes the words “storm
make the necessary connection between the two. The surge” and encircles them. She, then, asks her students
following are good activities for schema activation what they know about storm surge, and helps them cluster
EXCEPT _____. the information. What technique does Mrs. Torres use?
A. constructing graphic organizer A. demonstration
B. previewing a passage B. vocabulary building
C. brainstorming ideas C. semantic mapping
D. evaluating or assessing ideas D. deductive reasoning

44. The following are concerns of teaching reading EXCEPT 51. The underlined verbs in the following sentences are
_____. classified as _____.
A. vocabulary development The time is now.
B. comprehension development The world became flesh.
C. output development We remain silent.
D. application
A. intransitive
45. The following are principles for designing effective and B. reflexive
interesting reading lessons EXCEPT _____. C. transitive
A. For reading lessons to be interesting and motivating D. ascriptive
they must focus on simple themes.
B. Instructional activities have a teaching rather than a 52. Which of the following is the true description of an
testing focus. auxiliary verb?
C. Lessons should be divided into pre-reading, during A. It is used to complete the verb phrase in certain
reading, and post-reading. constructions such as the emphatic, the negative, the
D. The major activity of the reading lesson is students passive, or the perfect and progressive aspects.
reading texts. B. It occurs before the main verb, and denotes
modification of the basic meaning of the main verb.
46. Content-Based Instruction (CBI) is based on the common C. It belongs to several classifications of verbs. It may
underlying principle that successful language learning take an impersonal it as a subject.
occurs when students are presented with target language D. It is followed by noun or noun phrase functioning as
material in a meaningful, contextualized form, with the its direct object.
primary focus on _____.
A. understanding the lessons 53. What preferred tense is used for “stage directions and
B. acquiring information and knowledge synopses?
C. making connections between what they learn at A. present
school and what they learn outside the school B. past
D. making meaning from what they learn C. future
D. present perfect
47. It is a vocabulary strategy which involves the process of
breaking up of a word into its meaningful components: the 54. The word “just” in the sentence below indicates _____.
root words, affixes, and suffixes. “She has just eaten.”
A. contextual clues A. an action that was true in the past and is still relevant
B. structural analysis to the present
C. summarizing B. a recently completed action
D. groupings C. an action which was completed before another past
action
48. Which of the following questions is best for activating D. an action continuing at a given point in time
students’ prior knowledge to feel that they somehow
connected to the topic “snakes” being studied? 55. All of the following contains verbal EXCEPT _____.
A. What do you know about snakes? What snakes are A. Satisfied, the producer began paying the artists.
common in your area? B. Having recovered her voice, the soprano hit her top
B. What according to the selection are the types of notes well.
snakes? C. Your mom arrived after you had gone.
C. What did the writer suggest to the person who was D. To see is to believe.
bitten by snakes to do?
D. What is the importance of animals such as snakes in 56. What type of mood is indicated in this sentence: “How did
ecosystem? you come to know about that tragic event?”
A. indicative
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B. subjunctive 65. Which of the following does NOT function as a pronoun?
C. imperative A. I
D. directive B. we
C. you
D. my

66. The President himself promised to stop the war. The


57. The sentence “The child cried when his toy car got underlined word is ______ pronoun.
broken” follows ____ pattern. A. an interrogative
A. N InV B. an intensive
B. N LV Adj. C. a reflexive
C. N TrV N D. a reciprocal
D. N InV Adv.
67. The question “Is he coming?” has a _____ intonation.
58. “Mario, my older brother, fathers there good looking and A. falling
smart children.” The underlined word functions as _____. B. sustained
A. a noun C. rising
B. a verb D. melodic
C. an adjective
D. a possessive 68. Which of the following sentences does NOT observe
correct subject-verb agreement?
59. Which of the following adjective phrases is syntactically A. The mayor as well as his brothers is going to prison.
correct? B. Neither of the two traffic lights is working.
A. the most unique C. My assets were wiped out in the depression.
B. nearly unique D. Neither the plates nor the serving bowl go on that
C. the very much unique shelf.
D. less unique
69. The pronoun in this sentence “When she arrived, Suad
60. Which of the following is a gradable adjective? was surprised to find her apartment door open” is _____.
A. absolute A. cataphoric
B. clear B. anaphoric
C. complete C. deitic
D. impossible D. coreferential

61. Which sentence has ditransitive verb? 70. The underlined word in this sentence “We elected him
A. Those guys are highly intelligent group of engineers. chairman” functions as _____.
B. Those mean boys tried to throw a rock through our A. direct object
windows. B. indirect object
C. Nobody will believe a ruffian like you. C. objective complement
D. My mother gave me this cardigan for Christmas. D. predicate nominative

62. “When we arrived, they gave us badges.” Which of the 71. Which of the following words is derived from a French
following questions should be asked to find the direct word?
object? A. Armadillo
A. What did we do? B. Geography
B. When did we arrive? C. Poultry
C. What did they give us? D. Laser
D. Who gave us badges?
72. The style of writing employed in this passage can be best
63. All of the following contain operator verbs EXCEPT ____. described as _____.
A. My father approves your marriage proposal. A. standard English
B. Will your father approve my marriage proposal? B. formal English
C. My father won’t approve your marriage proposal. C. jargon
D. Your father will approve my marriage proposal, won’t D. dialect
he?
The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods
64. Each person’s vocabulary is a continuum. On the one end ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing
of the continuum are words the person knows very well about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog
and for which he has a full rich understanding of their crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind
various meanings. On the other end of the continuum are? was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn’t make out
A. words he enjoys using regularly what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me. The
B. new words that he has learned both the spelling and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
meaning for
C. words he doesn’t recognize 73. The author’s use of language in this passage helps to
D. words he can recognize and figure out the meaning of demonstrate the speaker’s ____
based on context A. lack of intelligence
B. lack of education
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C. good-heartedness City of the Big Shoulders:
D. confusion I. -Chicago by Carl Sandburg

80. The poetry of Walt Whitman is significant in the


development of American literature primarily because he
74. The author uses imagery in this section to illustrate Huck’s _____.
_____. A. used the epic form to tell distinctly American tales
A. fear and loneliness B. developed his own poetic form and style instead of
B. awareness of his environment adhering to the traditional poetic forms
C. loss of his father C. commemorated in verse the lives of public leaders
D. moral dilemma like Abraham Lincoln.
D. was heavily influenced by Emerson’s call for a new
75. When doing research on the life of an important figure, national poet.
you would probably give more credence to a biography
than you would to an autobiography, due to memoirist’s 81. The following words: edit from editor, and beg from
_____. beggar are formed through _____.
A. verbosity A. blending
B. creativity B. back formation
C. subjectivity C. derivation
D. experiences D. clipping

76. Which type of logical fallacy is demonstrated by this 82. Which of the following sentences should be revised in
argument? order to correct an error?
It is essential that we reject the proposed changes to A. Sentence 1, to correct an error in comma use
the company’s insurance plan. If we don’t protest against B. Sentence 2, to correct an error in apostrophe use
these changes now, we’ll soon end up with no health C. Sentence 3, to correct an error in comma use
coverage at all. D. Sentence 4, to correct an error in agreement
A. slippery slope
B. red herring The themes of liberty and freedom are central to much of
C. strawman American literature, particularly the literature produced during
D. circular reasoning the American Renaissance. (2) As the issues of women’s rights
and abolition came to the forefront of the American
77. Which of the following works of literature was originally consciousness, writers delved deep into an exploration of the
written in Modern English? meaning of freedom for the country and for individuals. (3)
A. The Decameron Three such writers from this time period who focus on issues
B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight of freedom are Margaret Fuller, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and
C. War and Peace Harriet Jacobs. (4) Each of these writers develop an answer to
D. Paradise Lost the question posed by Stowe in Uncle Tom’s Cabin: “Liberty! –
electric world! What is it?”
78. The line is an example of ____.
I. apostrophe 83. Which of the following English words is most commonly
II. personification pronounced with the vowel sound /ə/ (i.e., schwa)?
III. hyperbole A. where
IV. metonymy B. who
C. what
A. II only D. why
B. I and II only
C. I, II, and IV only 84. Why do most fathers prefer a son _____ a daughter for his
D. II and IV only first-born child?
A. to
“They tell me you are wicked and I believe B. than
them, for I have seen your painted women C. from
under the gas lamps luring the farm boys. D. over
-Chicago by Carl Sandburg
85. I am going to sit and rest _______.
79. This poem is most likely influenced by which of the A. a little bit
following? B. a while
A. Industrialization C. a little more
B. Increased immigration D. awhile
C. Western expansion
D. World War II patriotism 86. Which sentence has error in punctuation?
A. “You’re a great friend,” Jose said.
Hog Butcher for the World B. Judith, my best friend went to a concert last Friday.
Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, C. I have a lot of work to do; as such, I left for work a few
Player with Railroads and the Nation’s minutes early.
Freight Handler; D. According to the radio, surface streets were the best
Stormy, husky, brawling, alternative to the congested freeways.
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87. Unprepared for such a strong rebuttal, _____. D. I. Plays
A. the lawyer’s attempt at winning the case failed a. Tragedies
B. the lawyer’s attempt failed to win the case 1. Hamlet…
C. the lawyer failed to win the case b. Histories
D. the lawyer failed in his attempt to win the case 2. King Lear…
c. Comedies
88. ______ on the MTRCB to take action. 3. Titus Adronicus…
A. Whenever television is denounced by viewers for its II. Poems
violence, they call
B. Whenever television is denounced for its violence, 92. The narrator of this passage is _____.
viewers call A. Victor C. the monster
C. Whenever viewers denounce television for its Elizabeth D. the author
violence, they call
D. Whenever a denunciation of television is voiced, they But how was I direct myself? I knew that I must travel in a
call southwesterly direction to reach my destination, but the sun
was only guide. I did not know the names of the towns that I
89. Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, has been called was to pass through, nor could I ask information from a single
a “tragedy of the common man” because it _____. human being; but I did not despair. From you only could I hope
A. depicts the fall from grace of an important person for succor, although towards you I felt no sentiment but that of
B. fits Aristotle formal definition of tragedy hatred. Unfeeling, heartless creator! You had endowed me with
C. gives an ordinary salesman’s life weight and meaning perceptions and passions and then cast me abroad an object
D. is written in a poetic and serious style for the scorn and horror of mankind. But on you only had I any
claim for pity and redress, and from you I determined to seek
90. He holds the distinction of being the first Asian to receive that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other
the Nobel Prize for literature. being that wore the human form.
A. Wole Soyinka -Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
B. Yasunari Kawabata 93. “A part of its orb was at length hid, and I waved my brand;
C. Po Chu-I it sank, and with a loud scream I fired the straw, and
D. Rabindranath Tagore heath, and bushes, which I had collected.”-from the
passage
91. Which outline correctly organizes and categorizes Which of the following is a correct restatement of the
information pertaining to the work of William above?
Shakespeare? A. When my branding iron sank, I screamed and shot at
A. I. Plays the bushes.
a. Tragedies B. When the moon set, I screamed and burned the
1. King Lear… cottage.
b. Histories C. When I could not find the orb, I screamed and kicked
2. Richard III… at the straw and the bushes.
c. Comedies D. I waited until the sun set, then I screamed and set fire
3. Twelfth Night… to the forest.
II. Poems
94. A Marxist interprettation of “Waiting for Godot” would
B. I. Plays probably focus on _____.
a. Tragedies A. the poverty and despair of its working-class
1. Hamlet… characters
b. Poems B. the use of archetypes in the portrayals of the
2. My Mistress’ Eyes… characters
c. Comedies C. the power imbalances in the relationships of the
3. All’s Well That Ends Well… characters
II. Histories D. the reliance of the two main characters on the
eventual arrival of a “savior”
C. I. Plays 95. In paragraph 2, Mandy Ringer and Dr. Clevenger are
a. Tragedies mentioned in order to emphasize which point about
1. Comedies Sapphira and the Slave Girl?
b. Histories A. A number of the characters in the novel are based on
2. Henry V… people Cather knew in her childhood.
c. Poems B. The novel displays Cather’s mixed feelings about
3. Not Marble Nor the Gilded slavery.
Monuments… C. Cather took four years to complete the novel because
II. The Tempest she carefully researched her characters.
D. One of Cather’s purposes in writing the novel was to
paint a full portrait of life in rural Virginia in the years
before the Civil War

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E. The characters in the novel are portrayed in a positive 98. The writing style used by Salman Rushdie and Gabriel
light since Cather was a great admirer of the old Garcia Marquez is most often referred to as _______.
South. A. Stream of Consciousness
Sapphira and the Slave Girl was the last novel of Willa B. Magical Realism
Cather’s illustrious literary career. Begun in the late summer of C. Minimalism
1937 and finally completed in 1941, it is often regarded by D. Social Realism
critics as one of her most personal works. Although the story
takes place in 1856, well before her birth, she drew heavily on 99. At the border of two countries there is a port where
vivid childhood memories and tales handed down by older fishermen work. The fishermen do not speak the same
relatives to describe life in rural northern Virginia in the middle language, so they communicate using one that has been
of the 19th century. She even went on an extended journey to invented by them for the purpose of trade. The scenario
the area to give the story a further ring of authenticity. above most accurately describes which of the following
types of language?
Of all Cather’s many novels, Sapphira and the Slave Girl A. dialect
is the one most concerned with providing an overall picture of B. creole
day-to-day life in a specific era. A number of the novel’s C. Pidgin
characters, it would seem, are included in the story only D. Regionalism
because they are representative of the types of people to be
found in 19th-century rural Virginia; indeed, a few of them play 100.He is known as the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek
no part whatsoever in the unfolding of the plot. For instance, religion, who ruled as king of the gods and goddesses of
we are introduced to a poor white woman, Mandy Ringer, who Mt. Olympus
is portrayed as intelligent and content, despite the fact that she A. Hephaestus
has no formal education and must toil constantly in the fields. B. Zeus
And we meet Dr. Clevenger, a country doctor who, with his C. Poseidon
patrician manners, evokes a strong image of the pre-Civil War D. Hades
South.
101.The Titanomachy was a ten-year series of battles fought in
The title, however, accurately suggests that the novel is Thessaly, also known as the War of the Titans, Battle of
mainly about slavery. Cather’s attitude toward this institution the Titans, Battle of the Gods, or just the Titan War. Zeus
may best be summed up as somewhat ambiguous. On the one freed his brothers and sisters from their father, Cronus.
hand, she displays almost total indifference to the legal and This shows that the Greeks value _____.
political aspects of slavery when she misidentifies certain I. bravery
crucial dates in its growth and development. Nor does she ever II. respect
really offer a direct condemnation, of slavery. Yet, on the other III. persistence
hand, the evil that was slavery gets through to us, albeit in IV. change
typically subtle ways. Those characters, like Mrs. Blake, who A. 1 and II only
oppose the institution are portrayed in a sympathetic light. B. II and III only
Furthermore, the suffering of the slaves themselves and the C. 1 and IV only
pretty, nasty, often cruel, behavior of the slaveowners are D. II and IV only
painted in stark terms.
102.In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was commonly
Although Sapphira and the Slave Girl was certainly not described as a symbol of purity and grace, which could
meant to be a political tract, the novel is sometimes considered only be captured by a virgin.
to be a denunciation of bygone days. Nothing could be further A. Troll
from the truth. In spite of her willingness to acknowledge that B. Dragon
particular aspects of the past were far from ideal, Willa Cather C. Kappa
was, if anything, a bit of a romantic. Especially in the final D. Unicorns
years of her life, an increasing note of anger about the
emptiness of the present crept into her writings. Earlier 103.He was a fearless warrior &and king who one day saw the
generations, she concluded, had been the real heroes, the real emptiness of his life and turned his back on it, becoming a
creators of all that was good in America. wanderer and sadhu. He refused to return to the world
that is why he is often alluded to as having refused the
96. In context, “a bit of a romantic” suggests that Willa responsibility.
Cather______________. A. King Minos
A. condemned the evils of slavery B. King Muchukunda
B. favored the past over the present C. King Rama
C. disliked writing about life in the 1030s D. Jason
D. denounced certain aspects of the 19th-century life 104.The story of Cupid and Psyche depicts undying and
E. exaggerated the evils of earlier generations devotion. What was Psyche’s mistake that according to
Cupid was a betrayal?
97. The works of Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, A. Psyche got infatuated with Zues.
and Upton Sinclair _______. B. Psyche believed her sisters persuasion that her lover
A. examined 19th-century cultural values was an ugly beast and would kill her.
B. broke with the literary traditions of the past C. Psyche disobeyed her husband when she
C. fought against the mistreatment of the working class enlightened his face in the middle of the night.
D. awakened readers to social wrongs D. Psyche left the house without her husband
permission.
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105.Anthropomorphism is the attribution of a human form, 111. A student is conducting a research project and has
human characteristics, or human behaviour to nonhuman learned of a website that may have useful information. The
things, e.g. deities in mythology and animals in children’s domain extension for the site is .org. Which of the
stories. What trait is this? following assumptions about the website is correct?
A. Anthropomorphic A. All of the information on the site is current.
B. Ethereal B. The site has been evaluated for bias.
C. God-like C. The site might belong to a nonprofit agency.
D. Anthropocentrism D. The author of the site is well respected in his or field.

106.Philippine mythology and superstitions are very diverse. It 112. In preparation for a writing unit on short stories, a teacher
includes a collection of tales and superstitions about presents students with several examples of short stories
magical creatures and entities like _____ and works with them to identify defining characteristics of
A. kapre, aswang, matruculan, duwende, tiyanak etc. the genre. Which of the following best describes this
B. sirena, syokoy, etc. instructional strategy?
C. cherubs, guardian angels, etc. A. conferencing
D. Malakas at Maganda, etc. B. discipline-based inquiry
C. self-regulated strategy development
107.In Greek mythology, she was the most beautiful woman in D. introduction-body-conclusion strategy
the world. A daughter of the god Zeus*, she is best known
for the part she played in causing the Trojan War. Some 113. In a holistic evaluation of student essays, evaluations are
scholars suggest that she was also a very ancient made on the basis of the _____
goddess associated with trees and birds. A. overall number and variety of errors made by each
A. Penelope, queen of Ithaca student
B. Persephone, queen of the underworld B. overall number of sentences, length and complexity
C. Helen of Troy demonstrated in each essay
D. Hera, queen of Olympus C. overall ability of each student to communicate in a
variety of discourse modes
108.When Paris abducted Helen to Troy, all the Greek princes D. overall quality of each student’s essay in relation to
were bound by the oath to help Menelaus recover Helen. the topic
Athena and Hera who were not chosen by Paris sided with
the Greeks who sent one thousand ships to Troy to. What 114. What literary theory or approach is shown in the following
does this indicate? passage?
A. Serious decisions have serious consequences. A. Feminist Criticism
B. Paris was wrong in choosing Aphrodite as winner. B. Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Hera and Athena harbored ill feelings. C. Reader-Response Criticism
D. Zeus ordered the goddesses to take side in the war. D. Romantic Theory

109.He was the son of Zeus and Leto, twin brother of Artemis. The difficulties involved in the governess’s effort to create
He was the god of music, and he is often depicted playing a space for herself outside of patriarchal boundaries are
a golden lyre. He was also known as the Archer, far metaphorically represented in her struggle for the children.
shooting with a silver bow; the god of healing, giving the While she believes she is engaged in a battle with the ghosts
science of medicine to man; the god of light; and the god for the children’s souls, she is also, symbolically, involved in
of truth. overcoming patriarchal definitions of womanhood. Rejecting
A. Mars the ineffectual role played by Mrs. Grose, the respectable
B. Neptune matron character, the governess attempts to define herself
C. Jupiter against the sexualized whose figure, Miss Jessel, as she tries,
D. Apollo to supplant the male-authority figure, Peter Quint. Neitherof
these roles can help her in her struggle for a subject position,
110. Which of the following is the best description of traditional however, as is made clear when the governess cannot replace
phonics instruction? Miss Jessel for Flora, or Quint for Miles.
A. Students study lists of high-frequency words in order
to increase reading speed and comprehension. 115. What literary theory or approach is shown in the following
B. Students are taught individual letter sounds and the passage?
rules of combining the sounds together to make A. Marxist Literary theory
words B. Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Students are immersed in written language, and is C. Postmodern Literary Theory
encourage to decode entire words using context D. Deconstruction
clues.
D. Students analyze patterns of organization and syntax Not only James’s governess fit the classic profile of the
as a way of learning to recognize common structures. female sexual hysteric, she also experiences the “hysterical fit”
observed by turn-of-the-century clinicians. That her first
hallucination precipitates a “nervous explosion” of some
intensity is clear from her own account. Like that of the classic
hysteric, her “mental activity...is split up, and only a part of it is
conscious.” Her initial fantasy of her handsome employer is
conscious, but his transformation into a figure embodying her

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fear of sexuality is generated by deep-rooted unconscious
inhibitions.

116. What literary theory or approach is shown in the following


passage?
A. Deconstruction
B. Psychoanalytic Theory
C. Reader-Response Criticism
D. Marxist Literary Theory

What is even more troublesome is disagreement among


critics about just what standards are to be applied. Two
“straight” readers, seeing the ghosts as real and the story as
an attempt to “turn the screws” of horror as thrillingly as
possible, might flatly disagree with each other about whether
the literary experience of thrilling horror is good or bad for “us,”
or for a given immature reader, or for a former governess now
incarcerated in a mental institution. Because of all this variety,
we have to ask our questions as if we were dealing not with
one The Turn of the Screw but many different ones.

117. If a teacher uses only basal readers for teachings her


students to read, she is most likely believes in _____.
A. primarily a whole language approach
B. primarily a phonics approach
C. mixture of a whole language and phonics
D. Individualized reading instruction

118. A parent walks into a classroom and sees the children in


groups, each gathered around a poster board. The
children are writing ideas on the poster board in what
looks like graffiti (writing on walls) to the parent. When the
parent asks the teacher what the children are doing, the
teacher is likely to explain that ___.
A. this is playtime, and the children need playtime
because recess has been taken out of the program
B. the children are involved in brainstorming, which is
part of the prewriting stage of the writing process
C. invented spelling and graffiti type expression is
important to the child’s development
D. the children are creating final versions of posters to
be displayed in the school fair.

119. Each of the following is an effective strategy for a teacher


who is facilitating a whole-class discussion EXCEPT
_____.
A. having the students sit in a circle instead of traditional
rows
B. breaking the class into smaller discussion groups
before concluding the whole-class discussion
C. pausing and allowing silence to promote student
participation
D. ensuring that all questions require simple-sentence
answers

120.Which of the following activities will best help a teacher


collect data that will inform instruction to meet the
individual needs of students?
A. concentric circles
B. K-W-L chart
C. book pass
D. reciprocal teaching

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