Board Licensure Examination for Professional Teachers Reviewer

COMMUNICATION ARTS: ENGLISH AND FILIPINO EXERCISES IN LITERATURE

Direction: This is a test on your ability to recall facts which you learned in English and in Filipino Literatures. Choose the correct answer from the choices given. Answers are found at the end of the last exercise.

1.                 It is the longest epic ever written.

a)     Mahabharata

b)    Lam-ang

c)     Siegried

d)    Lament

2.                 The pseudonym of Samuel Clemens

a)     The Barrettes

b)    Mark Twain

c)     Ulysses

d)    Abe Lincoln

3.                 The oldest form of Egyptian writing

a)     Alphabet

b)    Cursive

c)     Hieroglyphics

d)    Stone carving

4.                 Father of the English essay

a)     Alexander Camus

b)    William James

c)     Edgar Allan Poe

d)    Francis Bacon

5.                 Greatest American writer of horror and detective stories

a)     Albert Camus

b)    Edgar Allan Poe

c)     Justin O’Brien

d)    James Joyce

6.                 An allegory

a)     A poem of sadness

b)    A verse of three stanzas

c)     A short story

d)    A narrative whose meaning is beneath the surface

7.                 An elegy

a)     A meditative poem of grief

b)    Love song

c)     A debate

d)    Note of love

8.                 A verse with iambic pentameter lines

a)     Ballad

b)    Verse

c)     Sonnet

d)    Epic

9.                 A ling poem which depicts the adventure of great hero who reveals his country’s aspirations.

a)     Epic

b)    Legend

c)     Novel

d)    Short story

10.            A speech made by a person who reveals his thoughts

a)     Sonnet

b)    Metaphor

c)     Soliloquy

d)    Simile

11.            Figure of speech where two different things are compared thru the use of “as” and “like”

a)     Novels

b)    Folktales

c)     Prose

d)    None of these

12.            Author of “How My Brother Home a Wife”

a)     Manuel Arguilla

b)    Fernando Maramag

c)     Paz Benitez

d)    None of these

13.            These stories which reflect the people’s beliefs are handed down from one generation to another by word of mouth.

a)     Novels

b)    Folktales

c)     Prose

d)    Poetry

14.            A type of literature which narrates heroic deeds and supernatural happenings with local color and which people sing or chant

a)     Epic

b)    Poetry

c)     Verse

d)    Riddles

15.            He wrote the famous letter “To The Women of Malolos”

a)     Gregorio del Pilar

b)    Andres Bonifacio

c)     Jose Rizal

d)    Emilio Jacinto

16.            A kind of literary piece which moralizes and was written in letter form between two sisters dwelling in the city and the other in the province.

a)     Urbana at Felisa by M. de Castro

b)    Pasyon, religious play

c)     Manang Biday

d)    None of these

17.            He is the author of “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” which revolves around a headless horseman’s tale.

a)     George Washington

b)    Robert Surtess

c)     Washington Irving

d)    Shakespeare

18.            Considered as one of the world’s greatest short stories, and it sis Edgar Allan Poe’s story of terror about a hypochondriac living in morbid fear.

a)     Annabel Lee

b)    The Fall of the House of Usher

c)     Macbeth

d)    The Raven

19.            He is Edmond Rostand’s famous who is poet and a soldier noted for his peculiar nose.

a)     Roxanne

b)    Don Quixote

c)     Ichabod

d)    Cyrano de Bergerac

20.            “If eyes are made for seeing, then beauty is its own excuse for being” – is taken from the poem’

a)     The Bells

b)    Sonnets

c)     Don Juan

d)    Rhodara

21.            A great epic poem whose plot centers around the anger and wrath of Achilles against Agamemnon, a Greek leader.

a)     Bernardo Carpio

b)    The Iliad of Homer

c)     The Odyssey

d)    Myth

22.            “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul”, is taken from poem

a)     O Captain, my captain

b)    Invictus

c)     The arrow and the Song

d)    None of these

23.            He was the American President who said: “Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”

a)     Gerald Ford

b)    F. Roosevelt

c)     Harry Truman

d)    Abe Lincoln

24.            The speech of Abe Lincoln which ends, thus; “That the government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not from the earth.” – is in his famous

a)     Farewell Address at Sprinfield

b)    Inaugural Address

c)     Address Gettysburg

d)    None of these

25.            The figure of speech which uses exaggerated statement for aesthetic reason.

a)     Alliteration

b)    Onomatopoeia

c)     Hyperbole

d)    Metaphor

26.            Isang kuwentong ang mga tauhan ay hayop.

a)     Parabola

b)    Kathang-isip

c)     Tula

d)    Sarsuela

27.            Ang lumikha ng awit na “Ang Bayan Ko”

a)     Jose Rizal

b)    Constancio de Guzman

c)     Severino Reyes

d)    Manuel Roxas

28.            Si Pascual Poblete

a)     Makata ng Tagalog

b)    Isa sa mga Gomburza

c)     Ama ng pahayagang Tagalog

d)    Maghihimagsik

29.            Sagisag na hindi kailanman ginamit ni Marcel H. del Pilar sa pagsulat

a)     Pupdok

b)    Dolores Manapat

c)     Piping Dilat

d)    Basang Sisiw

30.            Ang unang aklat ana nalimbag sa Pilipinas

a)     Diaryong Malaya

b)    Doctrina Christiana

c)     Ang Balita

d)    Pakikibaka

31.            Ang sagisag na panulat ni Andres Bonifacio

a)     Anak-bayan

b)    Taga-ilog

c)     Comedyang Bingi

d)    Lola Basyang

32.            Ama ng dulang tagalog

a)     Manuel L. Quezon

b)    Amado V. Hernandez

c)     Severino Reyes

d)    Antonio Luna

33.            His famous work is Mona Lisa

a)     Jose Rizal

b)    Leonardo da Vinci

c)     Juan Luna

d)    Pavarotti

34.            The famous painting Juan Luna made

a)     Spolarium

b)    Bahag-hari

c)     Rice Paddies

d)    Sunset

35.            The Statue of David was created by

a)     Sigfried Vandike

b)    Vincent Gogh

c)     Michaelangelo

d)    Andre Warbol