San Juan National High School

Handong, Libmanan, Camarines Sur

2nd Grading Examination

21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

Name:________________________________Year & Section:___________Score:__________

General Directions: Read and answer each item carefully. Shade the letter of the best answer in
your answer sheet.

I. TRUE OR FALSE
Shade letter T if your answer is True and letter F if your answer is False

1. Literature is the significant human exploitations written in words well-chosen and

arranged.
2. People are fond of telling others about the things we have seen or imagined; hence the
literature of description.
3. A great book is born of the brain and heart of its author; he has put himself into its pages;
they partake of his life, and are instinct with his individuality.
4. People are strongly impelled to confide to others what they think and feel; hence the
literature which deals with the great drama of human life and action.
5. A great book grows directly out of life; in reading it, we are brought into large, close, and
fresh relations with life; and in that fact lies the final explanation of its power.
6. Literature is different from a treasure chest because literature does not only keep
experiences but also exposes relevant experiences to audiences around the world.
7. A piece of literature differs from a specialized treatise on astronomy, political economy,
philosophy, or even history, in part because it appeals, not to a particular class of readers
only.
8. Literature is composed of those books, and of those books only, which, in the first place,
by reason of their subject-matter and their mode of treating it, are of general human
interest.
9. Literature is a vital record of what men have seen in life, what they have experienced of
It, what they have thought and felt about those aspects of it which have the most
immediate and enduring interest for all of us.
10. People are intensely interested in men and women, their lives, motives, passions,
relationships; hence the literature which directly expresses the thoughts and feelings of
the writer.

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II. REFLECTION
Write a 10 or more sentences reflection on the question:
“How can literature be the mirror of life?”

Content: 50%
Originality: 30%
Mechanics: 20%