SECOND QUARTER EXAM

in 21st Century Literature

From The Philippines and
The World
School Year 2022-2023
1. It is reading a longer text, usually for pleasure.
a. extensive reading b. scanning c. skimming d. reading approach
2. It is one way that will help students to solve their problems in reading.
a. reading approach b. extensive reading c. skimming d. scanning
3. It is used by the reader to find answers to questions.
a. skimming b. reading approach c. extensive reading d. scanning
4. This technique is useful when the students are seeking specific information rather than reading for
comprehension.
a. reading approach b. scanning c. skimming d. extensive reading
5. Mina wants to answer questions quickly, so she looked for specific titles in the selection. She used _.
a. skimming b. scanning c. extensive reading d. reading approach
6. Randie quickly understood the main idea of the poem he is reading. He used ______.
a. extensive reading b. reading approach c. scanning d. skimming
7. Princess loves reading novels and short stories. It improves her vocabulary a lot. She is using ______.
a. reading approach b. scanning c. skimming d. extensive reading
8. Ma’am Karen encouraged her students to read a lot and use techniques in understanding the text and
improving their knowledge. She is talking about ______
. a. extensive reading b. scanning c. reading approach d. skimming
9. The line of the poem by Maya Angelou, “take the binders from your vision,” means that the ______.
a. author has placed the binders to someone’s ears. b. author is persuading the people to see their
real situation. c. author has a poor vision. d. author is crying.
 10.“Take the padding from your ears, and confess you’ve heard me crying,” this line wants the readers
to ______.
a. listen to their pleas b. cry with their difficulty c. see want they see d. fell what they feel
11.Equality, and I will be free. If this happens, people will ______.
a. put things in place to support people achieve similar outcomes.
b. lend things to people who are deprived of material things.
c. give similar materials to all people who need it.
d. allow someone to get what he wants.
12. “In another world, I want my children to tame grasshoppers in the field, to play with their dolls in the
living room, to inhale the fragrance of flowers waving as wind blows, to see the birds measure the sky
with their wings.” These lines expressed the earnest wish of a father. What do you think these wishes
mean?
a. The family is living in a peaceful village. b. The family is well-accepted by society.
c. The family is suffering from war. d. The family has the sickness.
13.“In another world, I want to be a father without passing through the eternal insanity of mourning my
children, without experiencing the ritual of watching my children return home as bodied folded like a
prayer mat, without spending my nights telling them the stories of a hometown where natives become
aliens searching for a shelter.” What is the tone of the poem?
a. Hopeful b. Mournful c. Peaceful d. Hopeless
14. The use of ropes for hunting, puling, fastening, attaching, carrying, lifting, and climbing dates back to
prehistoric times. In Asia, the very first ropes ever made were twisted from hemp fibers. Hemp rope was
used during the age of sailing ships. Which statement must be false?
a. Ropes have many uses. b. Ropes were used long time ago.
c. Ropes can be made from hemp. d. Ropes are only found in Asia.
15.Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another. It may be defined as the
hatred of one person to another because of skin color, language, or customs. Therefore, ___.
a. someone who believed that there is a superior race over the other, that person is a racist.
b. if people speak a different language, they are not racist.
c. if all the people have the same color, no one is racist.
d. all people are racist.
16. It is short story designed to allegorically teach some religious principles, moral or lesson, or general
truths.
a. fable b. parable c. narrative poem d. anecdote
17. It is a brief story illustrating a moral or revealing general truths about human nature.
a. parable b. narrative poem c. fable d. anecdote
18. A literary genre is also known as literary _________.
a. composition b. academic text c. essay d. epic
19. Parables and fables are very interesting to read, because you will learn ___ or lesson from them.
a. topic 1 b. review c. moral d. immoral
20. The story of “The Ants and a Grasshopper” is a example of ______
A. parable B. fable C. narrative poem D. anecdote
21. The most exciting part of a story is called _______________.
A. character B. climax C. conflict D. plot
22. It refers to the tension, the fight or the struggle between the various characters or forces in the
story.
a. conflict b. theme c. setting d. plot
23. A short story is interesting and fun to read because it teaches ______ or lesson.
a. biographical b. political c. moral d. sociological
24. The main character in the story is known as the __________.
a. protagonist b. antagonist c. feminist d. masculinist
25. This element refers to the topic that the writer writes or comments on in his or her writing.
a. plot b. conflict c. climax d. theme
26. To Copy, press (Ctrl+C); to Paste, press ________ on the computer keyboard.
a. (Shift+V) b. (Shift+P) c. Ctrl+C) d. (Ctrl+V)
27. It generates slides for presentation; used to design professional presentations.
a. Microsoft (MS) Word b. MS Excel c. MS PowerPoint d. MS Publisher
28. To produce a literary adaptation of a story, one needs to apply his ICT skills. ICT means ____.
a. Information and Communication Technology B. Information to Centralize Tutorial
C. Inclusive for Classroom Technology D. Important in Communication Technology
29. ICT skills are about understanding and applying a range of computer programs, _____________, and
other applications.
a. hardware b. software c. peripheral d. hard drive
30. When an item is lacking interesting quality, it has a ______________ label.
a. nonsense B. nondescript c. no quality d. no value
31. A person employed to drive a private car is called _______.
a. driver b. courier c. chauffeur d. pauper
32. A video clip of a story entitled “Rich People Problem” is in _______ file format.
a..mp4 c. .html c. .jpeg d. .xls
33. Using interactive digital tools to tell a story is called digital _________.
a. story browsing b. storymapping c. storykeeping d. storytelling