REVIEWER FOR 21ST CENTURY LITERATURE FROM THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD

1. The main idea of a text is quickly identified using this approach. The goal is to read shorter texts to extract
accurate detailed information. What do you call this?
A. extensive reading C. scanning
B. reading approach D. skimming
2. Jeremiah wants to answer questions quickly, so he looked for keywords in the selection. He used _______.
A. extensive reading C. scanning
B. reading approach D. skimming
3. Texts must be read many times to be able to get the real meaning, but readers can have their own
interpretation since the texts can have multiple meanings. The approach described is ____.
A. Deconstruction ApproachC. Moral/Philosophical Approach
B. Formalism Approach D. Reader-Response Approach
4. Ray is a Spelling Bee contestant. He wanted to be familiar with words so he got his dictionary and started
looking through words randomly. If you were Ray, which technique is best to use?
A. extensive reading C. scanning
B. reading approach D. skimming
5. The following are statements that can be used in writing a close analysis of a literary text. Which of the
following presents a text using the Archetypal Approach?
A. “Mary had a Little Lamb” was based on an actual incident when Mary Sawyer took her lamb to
school.
B. “The Doll” by Egmidio Enriquez is a characterization of how a traumatic incident affects a child’s
life and thinking.
C. Rosa, the servant in the story “Servant Girl” by Estrella D. Alfon, becomes a female, feminine,
and feminist several times.
D. The spider in the nursery rhyme “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” symbolizes poor Filipinos and their
ongoing struggle against the upper class.
6. Coraline is written as a children’s novel before it was produced as a film in 2009. If a reader would analyze it
using Psychoanalytic approach, which of the following statements should he/she use?
A. The movie Coraline originated from a children’s novel written by Neil Gaiman.
B. Coraline is about a girl who created another world to fill the shortcomings of her parents.
C. The Coraline doll represents Coraline’s future, it symbolizes an option she can have to remain in
the other world.
D. Coraline presents mirror images as a reflection of the protagonist’s own desires, that is – to be
given the attention she thinks she needed.
7. Dindo is analyzing the excerpt “The Good Body” by Eve Ensler. He realized he wanted to do a literary
analysis using Reader-Response Approach. How will he write his analysis?
A. In the excerpt, America was symbolized as the whole nation of women wishing to have the
magazine model’s.
B. “The Good Body” is an excerpt from a series of monologues written by Eve Ensler. This is
composed of sentences that seemed to narrate about the author’s perception of her own body.
C. “The Good Body” by Eve Ensler is a monologue celebrating what a good body should be, but I
disagree with the author. I believe that a good body is any size of body as long as it is reclaimed
by the owner.
D. The excerpt celebrated how women are seen in the society in terms of body structure. The author
was at her female stage because it is seen that she only adheres to the standards of the society
in terms of good body.
8. How do flash fictions commonly end the story?
A. The story ends with a twist.
B. It presents a painful ending.
C. It usually ends happily and merrily.
D. Readers have the liberty to give their own ending.
9. Which is not TRUE about graphic novel?
A. It presents colorful image bubbles.
B. Graphic novel combines letters and words.
C. Graphic novel presents fewest words as possible.
D. Illustrations allow the readers to imagine and experience the characters and events in the story.
10. You are a history enthusiast. You want to speculate the validity and truthfulness of conspiracy theories
arising in the present. To do this, what genre should you use in writing your thoughts?
A. Science Fiction C. Historiographic Metafiction
B. Non-Fiction D. Creative Non-Fiction
11. The following literatures are examples of Historiographic Metafiction, which is NOT?
A. A Low Art by Margaret Atwood
B. The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
C. The Three Littlle Pigs
D. Maleficent (movie)
12. One benefit of incorporating multimedia to the lessons and activities is improve students’ knowledge and
increase skills such as writing, researching, and reading. If you were the teacher, what would you use to
make learning meaningful in the classroom?
1) create a slideshow presentation with limited information on the slides
2) create a slideshow presentation with texts and images along with video clips of certain parts of the
lesson
3) create a slideshow presentation containing video clips for viewing and use the textbook in the
discussion
4) create a slideshow presentation of the lesson copying directly everything that is written from the
book
A. 1 & 2 C. 2 & 3
B. 3 & 4 D. 1 & 4
13. To Find, press (Ctrl+F); to Replace, press _______ on the computer keyboard.
A. (Ctrl+G) C. (Shift+G)
B. (Ctrl+H) D. (Shift+H)
14. Based on what you have learned about historiographic metafiction, how would you take a strong stand for
the welfare of women?
A. Write a paper about how women dislike male writers.
B. Write a position paper that investigates the women’s perspective in history.
C. Write a paper that examines how men and women are represented in the story.
D. Write a critique paper that presents a masculine-patriarchal view in which the role of women is
negated or minimized.
15. Which is NOT a feature of a graphic novel?
A. Graphic novel is in condensed form.
B. Graphic novel is a combination of book and screen.
C. In encourages interactivity in the minds of the reader as he fills in the blanks between pages.
D. Its language, syntax and meaning spring primarily through the relationship between images than
words.
16. The following statements describe Historiographic Metafiction, which of them DOES NOT?
A. With the use this narrative strategy, literature has found a way to interrogate history and reveal
marginal voices.
B. This strategy tries to shift perspectives that have come from received ideologies that have been
traditionally depicted by history and literature.
C. This genre reveals voices of dominant people to compete with marginal voices that come from
history books and what could be termed official histories.
D. This genre makes one wonder about the different voices in history that have not been heard, and
how to allow these ghostly voices speak through literature.
17. Desiderata is a poem written by Max Ehrmann. If it be analyzed using Moral/Philosophical approach, how
should the analysis be written?
A. Desiderata was written as a prose poem. It has no rhymes making it seem as if it is a free-verse
poem.
B. Desiderata is a Latin word meaning “things desired”. It is a prose poem written by an American
writer, Max Ehrmann, in 1927.
C. In Desiderata, the poet explains why both self-worth and self-analysis are important and so is
appreciating the virtues on other people.
D. After reading the poem Desiderata, I was given the chance to rethink my choices. I was glad that
such poem existed to inspire readers.
18. Texts are believed to be extensions of the author’s unresolved issues in life. Which of the following is a
statement using Psychoanalytic Approach?
A. “Mary had a Little Lamb” was based on an actual incident when Mary Sawyer took her lamb to
school.
B. “The Doll” by Egmidio Enriquez is a characterization of how a traumatic incident affects a child’s
life and thinking.
C. Rosa, the servant in the story “Servant Girl” by Estrella D. Alfon, becomes a female, feminine,
and feminist several times.
D. The spider in the nursery rhyme “The Itsy Bitsy Spider” symbolizes poor Filipinos and their
ongoing struggle against the upper class.
19. The teacher gave the students an essay to read. She asks them to get the main idea of each paragraph and
create an outline. If you were her student, which approach should you use?
A. extensive reading C. scanning
B. reading approach D. skimming
20. Love in a strange place is showcased in a novel written by Alessandro Baricco. It showed how people from
two different cultures can have an understanding despite having different sets of gestures and body
languages. Which of the following is the said novel?
A. The Good Body C. Malinche
B. Silk D. Coraline