QUIZ - Survey of Literature of Selected Countries 13/30 C.

Hinduism
1.The Beat generation writers William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, and Allen Ginsberg used their writing to D. Taoism
________. 10.“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears.” -W. Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
immortalize or glorify the past A. synecdoche
A. stress the significance of connection with nature B. apostrophe
B. condemn the evils brought about by industrialization in the 1970s. C. metonymy
C. reflect the rebellious, imaginative spirit of the 1960s D. hyperbole
2.One cosmic Truth holds in _____, and that is that “all things are simply a part of a greater, whole One”. 11.The following Japanese writers are regarded as great haiku poets EXCEPT:
All beings and things, from the gods and demons, through humans, on to the lowliest pebble on the beach, A. Yosa Buson
were and are part of this One. B. Matsuo Bashō
A. Hindu Mythology C. Kobayashi Issa
B. Egyptian Mythology D. Yukio Mishima
C. Celtic Mythology 12.This novel solidified Mark Twain as a noteworthy American writer. Some called it the first “Great
D. Mesopotamian Mythology American Novel”, and became a required reading in many schools throughout the United States.
3.Literature during the American period is written in three languages. Which is not? A. Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A. English B. The Prince and the Pauper
B. Spanish C. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. Japanese D. . The American Dream
D. Tagalog 13.The Anglo-Saxon poem “Beowulf” is representative of which of the following techniques often found
E. Will be reviewed with Old English poetry?
4.The literature of this period addressed the masses to inflame the spirit of reformation. A. Alliteration
A. Colonial Period B. Free verse
B. Revolutionary Period C. Epenthesis
C. American Period D. Parallelism
D. Japanese Period 14.John Keats’s “Beauty is truth, truth beauty”
5.Sonnet 118 of William Shakespeare starts with “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”. This line Emily Dickinson’s “Hope is the thing with feathers, that perches from the soul”.
shows the use of rhetorical question, and what figure of speech? For the students to better understand the lines above, what figure of speech is relevant to take up with your
A. Simile class?
B. Metaphor A. metaphor
C. Personification B. Personification
D. Alliteration C. Alliteration
6.Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Scarlet Letter depicts a belief in individual choice and consequence. This ideal is a D. Hyperbole
characteristic of _____. 15.This is a collection of Indian beast fables originally written in Sanskrit. It is also known as “The Fables of
A. Realism Bidpai”
B. Transcendentalism A. Aesop’s Fables
C. Puritanism B. The Ant and the Grasshopper
D. Naturalism C. Panchatantra
7.I love my kitten. D. Indian Beasts
She is so little and cute. 16.Campbell gave an example of Hero (character), _____, who asked to sleep forever in a cave deep in a
She has a pink tongue, mountain. For this he is often alluded to as having refused the responsibility.
And lots of long whiskers too. A. King Muchukunda
She purrs when I stroke her back B. God “Vishnu”
The poem above is an example of ______. C. Jason
A. haiku D. King Rama
B. tanka
C. choka
D. renga
8.This is considered as the “hymns of supreme sacred knowledge.”
A. A Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights) 17.The Mahabharata is a poem which is made up of 100,000 ____ divided into 18 ____.
B. Aesop’s Fable A. Lines – sections
C. The Great Vedas B. Stanzas – parvans
D. The Great Epics of the World C. Stanzas – sections
9.What important related background knowledge should a teacher take up before teaching haiku to Grade D. Couplets - parvans
VIII students? 18.Africa, my Africa
A. Shintoism Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs
B. Buddhism Africa of whom my grandmother sings
On the banks of the distant river 27.Which philosophical foundation of Chinese mythology has taught that cosmic energy and all life
I have never known you compounded of “yin” (the negative, female principle) and “yang” (the complimentary positive, male
But your blood flows in my veins. principle)?
– David Diop, Africa A. Taoism
This excerpt is an example of _. B. Confucianism
A. Pun C. Buddhism
B. Apostrophe D. Mohism
C. Hyperbole 28.Vanity Fair is a novel satirizing society in early 19th-century Britain. Who wrote this classic?
D. Chiasmus A. Daniel Defoe
19.In his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer used a literary technique which refers to a B. Wikie Collins
narrative within a narrative. Which technique is referred to? C. Herman Melville
A. Internal story D. William Makepeace Thackeray
B. Frame story 29.The works of which of the following groups of writers contributed significantly to the slave narrative
C. Sequential story genre of American literature?
D. Embedded story A. Elizabeth Ashbridge, Mary Rowlandson, Edward Taylor
20.In teaching the “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” by Mark Twain to your third-year high school class, B. Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, Olaudah Equiano
what is one theme that you should help them derive from the novel? C. Charles W. Chesnutt, Pauline E. Hopkins, Ida B. Wells-Barnett
A. Slavery is bad and must be abolished. D. David Walker, Maria W. Stewart, Victor Séjour
B. To be young and to be free are the world’s riches. 30.These poems are known for their elegant, refined and courtly culture. They are also known as “carpe
C. Time is short, so we must seize the day. diem” or “seize the moment” poetry.
D. An honest life is a life well lived. A. Metaphysical Poems
21.This novel about slavery prompted nationwide debate and helped triggered the war. B. Cavalier Poems
A. Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn C. Elitist Poems
B. Walt Whitman’s Leaves of the Grass D. Holy Poems
C. Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women
D. Harriet Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin
22.In the first scene of William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the witches said, “Something wicked this way
comes.” What plot element is employed here?
A. Exposition
B. Foreshadowing
C. Internal conflict
D. Flashback
23.This is the first short story in English written in the country
A. Dead Stars by Paz Marquez Benitez
B. Footnote to Youth by Jose Garcia Villa
C. Child of Sorrow by Zolio Galang
D. Wedding Dance by Amador Daguio
24.The Rig Veda, the oldest of the Vedas, is the foremost collection or Samhita made up of 1,028 hymns,
often comparable to the psalms in the Old Testament. This has come to mean ______.
A. the Gospels of the Hindus
B. the important philosophical doctrine of the Hindus
C. the hymns of the “Enlightened one”
D. the hymns of supreme sacred knowledge
25.The title of the poem, The Passionate Sheperdd To His Love, by Christopher Marlowe suggests that the
poem is a _______.
A. pastoral
B. ballad
C. metrical romance
D. ode
26.Which of the following is NOT a true description of Rabindranath Tagore’s Gitanjali: Song Offerings?
A. It uses imagery from nature to express the themes of love and the internal conflict between
spiritual longings ang earthly desires.
B. It has many verses of prayers as divinely inspired or “heard” directly from gods.
C. It is Tagore’s best-known works for which he received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
D. It was originally published in India in 1910 and its translation followed in 1912.