27. What is the message of the short story, “The Centipede” by Rony V. Diaz?

A. Childhood memories are treasures.

B. Teasing or Taunting should only be done by adults.

C. Children should be responsible with what trick they do with their siblings.

D. Childhood relationships between siblings were sometimes painful.

SUMMARY:

When Eddie saw his sister beating his dog with a stick, he felt hate like a caged, angry beast in his chest.
He could not cry to his sister because she had a weak heart. He recalled the things his sister did to him.
For Eddie, his sister, Delia was the meanest creature he knew. He remembered when he was furiously
hit by his sister when she learned that the leg of her doll was accidentally torn by him.

Nothing Eddie did ever pleased her. Destroying willfully anything he liked had become a habit for her.
She even told Berto to kill his monkey because it snickered at her one morning, while she was brushing
her teeth.
Eddie did not tell anything when she told Father that she did not like Eddie's pigeon house because it
stank and he had to give away his pigeons and Berto had to chop the house into kindling wood. He
learned how to hold himself because he knew they had to put up with her whims to keep her calm and
quiet. But when she dumped his butterflies into a waste can and burned them in the backyard, he
realized that she was spiting him.

Eddie got a big centipede that Berto found under the stack he chopped. He made sure that it was
dead and placed it in a white cloth. He unwrapped and threw it on the lap of his sister whom he hated
so much. His sister collapsed. Her voice dragged off into a painstaking moan.Eddie was engulfed by a
sudden feeling of pity and guilt. He cried kneeling before her, telling her that the centipede was dead..

28. What problem is pointed out by the author in the story “How My Brother Brought Home a Wife” by
Manuel Arguilla?

A. How Filipinos live in the province

B. How Filipinos solve family problems

C. How Filipinos are affected by new technology

D. How Filipinos accept or treat a new family member

SUMMARY:

Baldo waited Maria and Leon in a station so that he would bring the two in their house. Maria met Baldo
at the first time. Leon and Maria rode in the cart with Baldo and Labang.

While they were in their journey, Leon asked Baldo on who told him to meet Maria and Leon in the
station. In their journey, Leon and Maria sang a song “Sky Sown with Stars”. When they reached to their
home, Leon saw his mother and asked on where was his Father

Baldo went upstairs to go to his father’s room and told the story to their journey. And when Leon and
Maria came into the father’s room, his father changed the topic to Labang.

29. What is the problem or conflict in the story “The Mats” by Francisco Arcellana?

A. Emilia’s indifference

B. siblings’ rivalry

C. Mr. Angeles’ emotionality

D. Hunger in the family

SUMMARY:

Mr. Angeles travelled to southern Philippines and bought mats for his wife and children. Each mat had
the corresponding name of all his living offspring, even those who already died. When he arrived home
from his trip, he presented the mats to his family. As he unfolded one mat after another, he narrated
the emotions, longings and beautiful memories they had had as a family. The sorrow heightened when
the last two mats he opened were for his dead children which made his wife reacted with grief, and told
Mr.Angeles that there was no need for him to open those mats for the two were already dead.

At that point, Mr. Angeles cried with pain while telling his wife that his children must always be in their
memory no matter where they were.
30. What truth about life was presented in the story “The Wedding Dance” by Amador Daguio?

A. Some men are not contented with one partner.

B. Women and men are born equal.

C. Culture goes beyond love.

D. Love conquers all.

SUMMARY:

"The Wedding Dance" by Amador Daguio, is a short story about a husband and wife, Awiyao and
Lumnay, who had been married for seven years. In spite of being in love with his wife, Awiyao felt the
need to marry again in order to have a son. At his second marriage celebration, Awiyao went to check
on Lumnay, knowing she was upset. Awiyao thought the answer to Lumnay's sorrow would be to have
her join the other women during the wedding dance. Lumnay went out to join the wedding dance, but
decided not to and left. She could not stand the idea of her husband marrying another woman because
she could not give him children.

31. The “Dead Stars” by Paz Marquez Benitez symbolizes ___________.

A. the love of Esperanza for Alfredo

B. the love of Alfredo for Julia

C. the love of Julia for Alfredo

D. the love of Alfredo for Esperanza

SUMMARY:

TO A LOST ONE
Angela Manalang-Gloria

I shall haunt you O my lost one, as the twilight

Haunts a re-entangled trail,
And your dreams will linger strangely with the music
Of a phantom lover’s tale,
You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting,
I shall come to you again
With the starlight and the scent of white champacas,
And the melody of rain.
You shall not forget. Dust will peer into your
Window, tragic-eyed and still,
And unbidden, startle you into remembrance
With its hand upon the still.

32. What is the poem “To a Lost One” about?

A. An appeal to be remembered by a lover

B. A threat to a lover

C. Beautiful memories of a dead person

D. A ghost that haunts a fastidious lover

33. What virtue of the writer is depicted in the poem?

A. forgiving

B. honest

C. romantic

D. faithful

34. What does this line “I shall come to you again with the starlight, and the scent of champacas’?

A. The speaker with champacas will visit his lover at night.

B. The speaker wants his lover to keep and cherish their memories in her heart.

C. The speaker will rise from death to remind his lover of their sweet moments.

D. The speaker wants to give his lover fresh champacas.

35. This line “You shall not forget, for I am past forgetting” means __________.
A. The speaker wants to be left unforgotten.

B. The speaker wants his lover to forget her past.

C. The speaker wants his past not to be discussed.

D. The speaker wants his past not to be forgotten.

36. The line “I shall haunt you” has a/an __________ tone.

A. begging

B. appealing

C. romantic

D. commanding

37. “Lost One” may be pertained to _________.

A. lost feeling

B. past lover

C. abandoned person

D. ghost

38. It is a generally accepted first principle of oral interpretation that the reader must be true to

(A) the performance space

(B) the author

(C) the method

(D) the audience

(E) his or her training

77. Which of the following works of literature was originally written in Modern English?
 A. The Decameron

B. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

C. War and Peace

D. Paradise Lost

RATIO:

Milton’s Paradise Lost which was published in 1667 in Modern English. through elimination.

78. The line is an example of ____.

I. apostrophe

II. personification

III. hyperbole

IV. metonymy

II only

I and II only

I, II, and IV only

II and IV only

“They tell me you are wicked and I believe

them, for I have seen your painted women

under the gas lamps luring the farm boys.

Chicago by Carl Sandburg

RATIO:
 The “You” in this line is Chicago itself. This is a form of apostrophe and personification.

79. This poem is most likely influenced by which of the following?

A. Industrialization

B. Increased immigration

C. Western expansion

D. World War II patriotism

Hog Butcher for the World

Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat,

Player with Railroads and the Nation’s

Freight Handler;

Stormy, husky, brawling,

City of the Big Shoulders:

Chicago by Carl Sandburg

RATIO:

This poem is written during the early 1990s, a time Chicago experienced increased
industrialization.

80. The poetry of Walt Whitman is significant in the development of American literature primarily
because he _____.

A. used the epic form to tell distinctly American tales

B. developed his own poetic form and style instead of adhering to the traditional poetic forms

C. commemorated in verse the lives of public leaders like Abraham Lincoln.

D. was heavily influenced by Emerson’s call for a new national poet.

RATIO:

Walt Whitman’s “Leaves of the Grass” departs from the metered, traditional poetic forms.

89. Arthur Miller’s play, Death of a Salesman, has been called a “tragedy of the common man” because
it _____.

A. depicts the fall from grace of an important person

B. fits Aristotle formal definition of tragedy

C. gives an ordinary salesman’s life weight and meaning

D. is written in a poetic and serious style

RATIO:

Miller’s play gave the importance to an ordinary salesman who was opposite to the character in
a traditional play.

90. He holds the distinction of being the first Asian to receive the Nobel Prize for literature.

A. Wole Soyinka

B. Yasunari Kawabata

C. Po Chu-I

D. Rabindranath Tagore

RATIO:

Tagore won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913.

91. Which outline correctly organizes and categorizes information pertaining to the work of William
Shakespeare?
A. I. Plays

a. Tragedies

1. King Lear…

b. Histories

1. Richard III…

c. Comedies

1. Twelfth Night…

II. Poems

B. I. Plays

a. Tragedies

1. Hamlet…

b. Poems

1. My Mistress’ Eyes…

c. Comedies

1. All’s Well That Ends Well…

II. Histories

C. I. Plays

a. Tragedies

1. Comedies

b. Histories

1. Henry V…

c. Poems
 1. Not Marble Nor the Gilded Monuments…

II. The Tempest

D. I. Plays

a. Tragedies

1. Hamlet…

b. Histories

1. King Lear…

c. Comedies

1. Titus Adronicus…

II. Poems

RATIO:

The two broadest categories, labelled I, II, should be plays and poems.

But how was I direct myself? I knew that I must travel in a southwesterly direction to reach my
destination, but the sun was only guide. I did not know the names of the towns that I was to pass
through, nor could I ask information from a single human being; but I did not despair. From you only
could I hope for succor, although towards you I felt no sentiment but that of hatred. Unfeeling, heartless
creator! You had endowed me with perceptions and passions and then cast me abroad an object 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 that justice which I vainly attempted to gain from any other being that wore the
human form. -from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

92. The narrator of this passage is _____.

A. Victor C. the monster

B. Elizabeth D. the author

RATIO:
The clues “you were my father, my creator,” and “then cast me abroad an object for the scorn and
horror of mankind” indicate that was the monster who was speaking.

93. “A part of its orb was at length hid, and I waved my brand; it sank, and with a loud scream I fired the
straw, and heath, and bushes, which I had collected.” -from Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley

Which of the following is a correct restatement of the above?

A. When my branding iron sank, I screamed and shot at the bushes.

B. When the moon set, I screamed and burned the cottage.

C. When I could not find the orb, I screamed and kicked at the straw and the bushes.

D. I waited until the sun set, then I screamed and set fire to the forest.

RATIO:

The orb described here is the moon.

94. A Marxist interpretation of “Waiting for Godot” would probably focus on _____.

A. the poverty and despair of its working-class characters

B. the use of archetypes in the portrayals of the characters

C. the power imbalances in the relationships of the characters

D. the reliance of the two main characters on the eventual arrival of a “savior”

RATIO:

Marxist theory is that all relationships are power relationships, based on economic class
standing.

95. In paragraph below, the characters, Mandy Ringer and Dr. Clevenger, are mentioned in order to
emphasize which point about “Sapphira and the Slave Girl”?

A. A number of the characters in the novel are based on people Cather knew in her childhood.
B. The novel displays Cather’s mixed feelings about slavery.

C. Cather took four years to complete the novel because 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.

E. The characters in the novel are portrayed in a positive light since Cather was a great admirer of the
old South.

The following passage analyzes one of Willa Cather’s (1873-1947) novels.

Sapphira and the Slave Girl was the last novel of Willa Cather’s illustrious literary career. Begun
in the late summer of 1937 and finally completed in 1941, it is often regarded by critics as one of her
most personal works. Although the story takes place in 1856, well before her birth, she drew heavily on
vivid childhood memories and tales handed down by older relatives to describe life in rural northern
Virginia in the middle of the 19th century. She even went on an extended journey to the area to give the
story a further ring of authenticity.

Of all Cather’s many novels, Sapphira and the Slave Girl is the one most concerned with
providing an overall picture of day-to-day life in a specific era. A number of the novel’s characters, it
would seem, are included in the story only because they are representative of the types of people to be
found in 19th-century rural Virginia; indeed, a few of them play no part whatsoever in the unfolding of
the plot. For instance, we are introduced to a poor white woman, Mandy Ringer, who is portrayed as
intelligent and content, despite the fact that she has no formal education and must toil constantly in the
fields. And we meet Dr. Clevenger, a country doctor who, with his patrician manners, evokes a strong
image of the pre-Civil War South.

The title, however, accurately suggests that the novel is mainly about slavery. Cather’s attitude
toward this institution may best be summed up as somewhat ambiguous. On the one hand, she displays
almost total indifference to the legal and political aspects of slavery when she misidentifies certain
crucial dates in its growth and development. Nor does she ever really offer a direct condemnation, of
slavery. Yet, on the other hand, the evil that was slavery gets through to us, albeit in typically subtle
ways. Those characters, like Mrs. Blake, who oppose the institution are portrayed in a sympathetic light.
Furthermore, the suffering of the slaves themselves and the pretty, nasty, often cruel, behavior of the
slaveowners are painted in stark terms.
 Although Sapphira and the Slave Girl was certainly not meant to be a political tract, the novel is
sometimes considered to be a denunciation of bygone days. Nothing could be further from the truth. In
spite of her willingness to acknowledge that particular aspects of the past were far from ideal, Willa
Cather was, if anything, a bit of a romantic. Especially in the final years of her life, an increasing note of
anger about the emptiness of the present crept into her writings. Earlier generations, she concluded,
had been the real heroes, the real creators of all that was good in America.

RATIO:

The author mentions two characters who are included mainly to help complete Cather’s portrait
of rural Virginia. D is a good match and is the correct answer.

96. In context, “a bit of a romantic” suggests that Willa Cather ____.

A. condemned the evils of slavery

B. favored the past over the present

C. disliked writing about life in the 1030s

D. denounced certain aspects of the 19th-century life

E. exaggerated the evils of earlier generations

RATIO:

The last paragraph refers to Cather as “a bit of a romantic” who cherished past creativity over
the present emptiness.

97. The works of Charles Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Upton Sinclair _______.

A. examined 19th-century cultural values

B. broke with the literary traditions of the past

C. fought against the mistreatment of the working class

D. awakened readers to social wrongs

RATIO:

D is the only choice general enough to apply to all three authors.

98. The writing style used by Salman Rushdie and Gabriel Garcia Marquez is most often referred to as
_______.

A. Stream of Consciousness C. Social Realism

B. Magical Realism D. Minimalism

RATIO:

Marquez and Rushdie share a writing style which is “Magical Realism

100. He is known as the sky and thunder god in ancient Greek religion, who ruled as king of the gods and
goddesses of Mt. Olympus

A. Hephaestus B. Zeus C. Poseidon D. Hades

RATIO:

In Greek mythology, Zeus is the God of the sky, the ruler of the Olympian gods, and spiritual father of
gods and mortals. The Roman equivalent is Jupiter.

101. The Titanomachy was a ten-year series of battles fought in Thessaly, also known as the War of the
Titans, Battle of the Titans, Battle of the Gods, or just the Titan War. Zeus freed his brothers and sisters
from their father, Cronus. This shows that the Greeks value _____.

I. bravery

II. respect

III. persistence
IV. change

A. 1 and II only B. II and III only C. 1 and IV only D. II and IV only

RATIO:

Zeus rescued his brothers and sisters, and then started a war against his father, and the Titans.
Their winning was greatly attributed to Zeus. As a sign of respect for Zeus bravery he was considered as
the ruler of Mt. Olympus.

102. In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, it was commonly described as a symbol of purity and grace,
which could only be captured by a virgin.

A. Troll B. Dragon C. Kappa D. Unicorns

RATIO:

In the Middle Ages and Renaissance, unicorn was commonly described as an extremely wild woodland
creature, a symbol of purity and grace, which could only be captured by a virgin.

103. He was a fearless warrior & and king who one day saw the emptiness of his life and turned his back
on it, becoming a wanderer and sadhu. He refused to return to the world that is why he is often alluded
to as having refused the responsibility.

A. King Minos B. King Muchukunda C. King Rama D. Jason

RATIO:

Muchukunda (cited in Mahabarata & Parunas) saw the emptiness of his life and turned his back
on it, becoming a wanderer and sadhu. He refused to return to the world.

104. The story of Cupid and Psyche depicts undying and devotion. What was Psyche’s mistake that
according to Cupid was a betrayal?

A. Psyche got infatuated with Zues.

 B. Psyche believed her sisters persuasion that her lover was an ugly beast and would kill her.

C. Psyche disobeyed her husband when she enlightened his face in the middle of the night.

D. Psyche left the house without her husband permission.

PART of the STORY:

Psyche had not yet seen her destined husband, Cupid. He came only in the hours of darkness and fled
before the dawn of morning, but his accents were full of love, and inspired a like passion in her. She
often begged him to stay and let her behold him, but he would not consent. Her sisters who also were
curious told her that her husband was a monster that was why he would not allow reveal himself. So,
one night when her husband had fallen into his first sleep, she silently rose and uncovering her lamp
beheld not a hideous monster, but the most beautiful and charming of the gods, with his golden ringlets
wandering over his snowy neck and crimson cheek, with two dewy wings on his shoulders, whiter than
snow, and with shining feathers like the tender blossoms of spring.

105. Anthropomorphism is the attribution of a human form, human characteristics, or human behaviour
to nonhuman things, e.g. deities in mythology and animals in children’s stories. What trait is this?

A. Anthropomorphic B. Ethereal C. God-like D.

Anthropocentrism

RATIO:

Anthropomorphism is the showing or treating of animals, gods, and objects as if they are human in
appearance, character, or behaviour:

106. Philippine mythology and superstitions are very diverse. It includes a collection of tales and
superstitions about magical creatures and entities like _____

A. kapre, aswang, matruculan, duwende, tiyanak, etc.

B. sirena, syokoy, dugong, etc.

C. cherubs, Seraphims, Cherubims, thrones, guardian angels, etc.

D. Malakas at Maganda, Maria Makiling, etc.

RATIO:

To this day, Philippine myths still have an active role in the lives of rural Filipinos. The countless myths
circulating throughout the Filipino countryside contain a large variety of mythical creatures.

107. In Greek mythology, she was the most beautiful woman in the world. A daughter of the god Zeus*,
she is best known for the part she played in causing the Trojan War. Some scholars suggest that she was
also a very ancient goddess associated with trees and birds.

A. Penelope, queen of Ithaca

B. Persephone, queen of the underworld

C. Helen of Troy

D. Hera, queen of Olympus

RATIO:

The mythological background of the Trojan war, Helen was the most beautiful mortal woman in the
world.

108. When Paris abducted Helen to Troy, all the Greek princes were bound by the oath to help
Menelaus recover Helen. Athena and Hera who were not chosen by Paris sided with the Greeks who
sent one thousand ships to Troy to. What does this indicate?

A. Serious decisions have serious consequences.

B. Paris was wrong in choosing Aphrodite as winner.

C. Hera and Athena harboured ill feelings.

D. Zeus ordered the goddesses to take side in the war.

109. He was the son of Zeus and Leto, twin brother of Artemis. He was the god of music, and he is often
depicted playing a golden lyre. He was also known as the Archer, far shooting with a silver bow; the god
of healing, giving the science of medicine to man; the god of light; and the god of truth.

A. Mars B. Neptune C. Jupiter D. Apollo

RATIO:

Apollo, in Greek and Roman mythology, is the god of prophecy, sunlight, music, and healing. He was the
son of Zeus and Leto, and Artemis was his twin sister.