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Whenever our souls are tried, we often put the blame on God whom we hold responsible for anything that concerns his
creation. It is inherent in a person to believe in a presence of a supernatural element in his existence, thus, his belief in God.
Nonetheless, despite the wondrous works of God in our lives, we don’t trust him completely as evidenced by our filthiness during
critical moments. We suffer not because God always wants us to be miserable. While the inspirational message “We have to go
through pains and sorrows in order for God to complete his work in us” is true, it is not fair to claim his participation in every
desperate condition we are into. Sometimes, our adversaries are caused by our flaws and follies.
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c. I am not the instructor because I know all there is about dance, rather I am an instructor because of my ability to teach dancing
d. I am not competent I my duties because I am a nurse; I am competent in my duties because of my
training in nursing.
27. Coleridge cited what the cultural belief about the threshold in the lines of his poem “Chrisabel”!
The lady sank, belike through pain,
And Christabel with might and main
Lifted her up, a weary weight,
Over the threshold of the gate:
Then the lady rose again,
And moved, as she were not in pain
a. anybody could cross the threshold c. the threshold was the sanctuary of persons in pain
b. a clean heart could help one cross the threshold d. evil spirits could not cross a Christian threshold
28. Below is a poem written by John Updike. This paved the way for him to be called “The Brilliant Young Writer”. What
constitutes to this relation with the meaning of the poem?
Your nothing street corners
Your ugly eateries
Your dear barbarities
And vacant lots
A*M*E*R*I*C*A
You are the only land
a. the search for the true meaning of life b. nostalgic thoughts of his early childhood
c. the portrayal of a country with all its ugliness d. truthfulness and simplicity in his work
29. What word infers the moral of the lines from the poem “The Ideal Wife”?
Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman
That feareth the Lord, she shall be praised
a. favor b. feareth c. beauty d. praised
IV. Identify the author and the title of the given famous passages. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
30. “Let not ambition mock their useful toil; Their homely homely joys and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a smile; The
short and simple annals of the poor”
a. Ben Johnson (Song to Celia) c. Thomas Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)
b. William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice) d. Rudyard Kipling (If)
31. “If you prick us, do we not bleed?”
a. Ben Johnson (Song to Celia) c. Thomas Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)
b. William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice) d. Rudyard Kipling (If)
32. “Drink to me only with thine eyes and I will pledge with mine.”
a. Ben Johnson (Song to Celia) c. Thomas Gray (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard)
b. William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice) d. Rudyard Kipling (If)
33. “Trust no future, however pleasant; Let the dead past bury its dead”
a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life) c. John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale)
b. Francis Bacon (Of Studies) d. William Shakespeare ( Sonnet 29)
34. “For thy sweet love remember’d such wealth brings; That then I scorn to change my state with kings”
a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life) c. John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale)
b. Francis Bacon (Of Studies) d. William Shakespeare ( Sonnet 29)
35. “Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man and writing an exact man”
a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life) c. John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale)
b. Francis Bacon (Of Studies) d. William Shakespeare ( Sonnet 29)
36. “My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains; My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk”
a. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life) c. John Keats (Ode to a Nightingale)
b. Francis Bacon (Of Studies) d. William Shakespeare ( Sonnet 29)
37. “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul”
a. Rudyard Kipling (If) c. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Psalm of Life)
b. William Ernest Henley (Invictus) d. Alfred Lord Tennyson (Crossing the Bar)
III. Identifying Sonnets. Read and assess the following poems if they are sonnets. If the poem is a sonnet, place a check mark on
the number. Place an X mark if it is not a sonnet. (10 pts.)
38. Life hurries on, a frantic refugee, 40. I wish to perish, yet I ask for health;
And Death, with great force marches, follows fast I love another, and yet I hate myself;
And all the present leagues with all the past I feed in sorrow, and laugh in all my pain.
And all the future to make war on me.
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39. White and gentle friendly smoke 41. I shall be telling this with a sigh
Curling up from kitchen rooftops, Somewhere ages and ages hence:
You give me warmth, comfort, security, Two roads diverged in a wood and I,
White gentle smoke from kitchen stoves. I took the one less traveled by
And that has made all the difference.
42. Quite suddenly, from all green around,
Something--- you hardly know just what has gone;
You feel the dark itself drawing in upon
The windows and growing silent. The last sound.
IV. Literary Analysis (10 pts.) Invictus. Provide what is being asked in each number. Choose the correct answer by shading the
letter on the given answer sheet.
43. The poem “Invictus” is a Latin term for the word _________________.
a. invincible b. courageous c. unconquered d. victorious
44. Who is the author of the poem “Invictus”?
a. William Robert Henley b. William Ernest Henley c. William Robert Henry d. William Ernest Henry
45. Complete the given line:
“ I am the ________________ of my fate… I am the _______________ of my soul.”
a. captain: master b. master: captain c. owner: author d. author: owner
46. Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
Based from the poem, what is the meaning of the word “pit”?
a. world b. hole c. death d. grave
47. This stanza depicts the writer having what?
a. imagination b. reflection c. inspiration d. regret
48. In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
What word from the lines above is the definition of being beaten or forced down?
a. fell b. chance c. bludgeoning d. bloody
49. What word from the lines above is rendered as a powerful, oppressive force which the speaker refuses to be ruled?
a. fell b. chance c. bludgeoning d. bloody
50. Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
What is meant by the word ‘place’ as mentioned in the first line?
a. life b. death c. punishment d. hell
51. What is meant by the word ‘shade’ in the second line?
a. life b. death c. punishment d. hell
52. It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll…
What word from the above lines is a reference to the divine penalties or trials assigned by God to the writer?
a. strait b. gate c. charged d. scroll
V. Understanding Old English. Analyze the meaning of the underlined words through the use of context clues. (10 pts.)
53. “When thou methinks I who planned the crime and performed the assassination, aye, I am wroth, and will not stint my words
against thee.”
a. hurt b. worried c. angry d. afraid
54. “God pity thee! thou wast to misery born, thy life preserved for the worst of woes, controlled by dreadful weird.”
a. gods b. fate c. stupidity d. days
55. Not once but oft, he struck his eyes, and at each stroke the ensanguined orbs bedewed his beard, not oozing drop by drop, but
one gory downpour.”
a. bloodied b. blinded c. useless d. cursed
56. “Alack, alack! What have I done? All brought to pass, all true! O light, may I behold thee nevermore!”
a. an expression of pain c. an expression of anger
b. an expression of fear d. an expression of regret
57. “O Oedipus has spoken angry words. This is no time to wrangle but consult how best we may defy it.”
a. fear b. run away c. argue d. wait
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58. “One drop would save my soul: rend not my heart for naming my Christ! Yet, I will call on him.”
a. destroy b. tear c. stab d. pierce
59. “It is gone and see, where God stretches out his arm, and bends his ireful brows! Mountains and hills, come, come, and fall on
me and hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
a. angry b. thick c. dark d. judgmental
60. “Yet for Christ’s sake, whose blood has ransomed me, impose some end to my incessant pain.”
a. constant b. intense c. violent d. cursed
61. “All beasts are happy for when they die, their souls are soon dissolved in elements; but mine must live still to be plagued in
hell.”
a. imprisoned b. tormented c. punished d. thrown
62. “Cursed be the parents that engendered me! No, Faustus, curse yourself, curse Lucifer that has deprived you of the joys of
heaven.”
a. provoked b. stimulated c. produced d. prompted
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20. THE RIDDLE OF THE SANDS is an early example of the espionage novel, with a strong underlying theme of militarism. It
has been made into a film and TV film. Who wrote this novel?
a. Erskine Childers b. William Faulkner c. Jerome K. Jerome d. Honore De Balzac
21. JUDE THE OBSCURE, include themes such as class, scholarship, religion, marriage, and the modernisation of thought and
society. Name its author.
a. Samuel Richardson b. Franz Kafka c. Thomas Hardy d. Joseph Condrad
22. THE DIARY OF A NOBODY has spawned the word “Pooterish” to describe a tendency to take oneself excessively
seriously.Who is the author of this novel?
a. John Buchan b. George Grossmith c. Anthony Trollope d. Samuel Richardson
23. THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY is about a young man who sold his soul to the devil to ensure his portrait would age
rather than himself. Which of the following is its author?
a. Herman Melville b. Oscar Wilde c. Jonathan Swift d. Wikie Collins
24. THREE MEN IN A BOAT was initially intended to be a serious travel guide with accounts of local history along the route.
Who wrote this novel?
a. Benjamin Disraeli b. Jerome K. Jerome c. Laurence Stern d. Marcel Proust
25. DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE is about a London lawyer named Gabriel John Utterson who investigates strange occurrences
between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll, and the misanthropic Edward Hyde. Who is its author?
a. James Joyce b. Jack London c. Robert Louis Stevenson d. Stendhal
26. Which of the following is a work of SAMUEL LANGHORNE CLEMENS?
a. Animal Farm b. Uncle Tom’s Cabin c. The Scarlet Letter d. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
27. Which is a HENRY JAMES masterpiece?
a. Vanity Fair b. The Portrait of Dorian Gray c. The Portrait of a Lady d. David Copperfield
28. Which novel features JOSEPHINE “JO” MARCH?
a. Wuthering Heights b. Little Women c. Sense and Sensibility d. Scarlet Letter
29. Which is an HONORE DE BALZAC novel?
a. The Black Sheep b. The Charterhouse of Parma c. The Count of Monte Cristo d. Dangerous Laisons
30. Which of the following gothic authors wrote the THE INTERVIEW WITH A VAMPIRE?
a. Anne Rice b. Mary Shelley c. Bram Stoker d. Gaston Leroux
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