MAJOR IN ENGLISH (LITERATURE DRILLS)

 Resounding theme (We ate the children last) by Yann Martel

Ans: Hypocrisy in created system

 Eliot’s The Journey of the Magi

Ans: No longer at ease

 The happiest boy in the world by: N.V.M Gonzales

Ans: A parent who values education

 Technique use in “ The Flowers of May” by Francisco Arcellana

Ans: Flashback

 Japanese folklore entitled “ The story of the Aged mother speaks about all”
Except:
Ans: the fate of the common people a despot is grim

 Incarnation in Hindu
Ans: to demonstrate dharma or righteous path on earth

 Mockingbirds symbolize
Ans: cruelty

 In William Blake’s “Ah Sunflower”, sunflower symbolize

Ans: humans and their desire for an everlasting life

 Approaches focuses on figure of speech

Ans: Formalism

 Say it with Flowers by Toshio Mori

Ans: businessmen fool their clients and costumer

 “Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ans: it is the fleeting of man’s accomplishments

 “Gee I feel like rotten. Those flowers I sold won’t last longer than tomorrow. I feel
lousy. I’m lousy ..” exclaimed Terou
Ans: honesty

 “We live as we dream -alone . While the dream disappears, the life continues
painfully” Excerpt from heart of darkness from Joseph Conrad
Ans: we continue living despite the dreams we did not reach

 Karma by: Khushwant Singh

Ans: a citizen who dreams of being and Englishman

 “ There was nothing to fear, for the man was always so gentle, so kind”
Magnificence by Estrella D. Alfon
Ans: Foreshadowing

 Literature’s methods and goals

Ans: Literary theory
 Used to analyze Jose Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere if the critic consider
Ans: the time that shaped the events in the novel

 Flowers of May, the author described the weather of May

Ans: The weather reflects denial on the part of the father

 Bhagavad Gita, Hinduism principle- “Curving back within myself, I create gain
and again”
Ans: Samsara

 Phi. Literature was shaped by the different colonizer. (approach most

appropriate use)
Ans: Post-colonial criticism

 American soldiers portrayed in the story We Filipino are Mild Drinkers by

Alejandro R. Roces?
Ans: Proud and heavy drinkers

 Literary technique used in korean fiction The Pilgrim’s Progress by John

Bunyan’s
Ans: Allegory

 Best describe in epigram from Lao-tse’s Book of Tao

Ans: Humility

 Approaches investigates the underlying patterns of the different texts

Ans: Structuralism

 Feminists point of view, The picture Wife retold by Keigo Seki

Ans: woman who is not inferior to man

 A formalistic approach to John Milton’s Paradise Lost would take into account
the following EXCEPT
Ans: the blindness of the writer

 Confucius mean “ learning without thought is labor lost”

Ans: Learning is useless if it’s not thought through

 True about the recurring themes of Matsou Basho’s haiku?

Ans: to a beautiful life with nature

 Approaches make use of the different theories that are proposed by behavioral
sciences
Ans: psychological criticism

 Historical approach places the text as parallel to the relevant experiences

Ans: biographical criticism

 Last line of poem “ In Africa, balck men fly airplanes” the persona expresses
Ans: Hope

 Situation is present “In africa, black men fly airplanes

Ans: Slavery
 Advice given to the reader in the last stanza of “Thanatopsis” by William Cullen
Braynt
Ans: Live your life in such a way that you meet death calmly

 Why is Bhagavad Gita regarded essential in India

Ans: It is a search for serenity, calmness and permanence in a world of rapid change

 What is regarded as the universal spirit as the soul and the original source of the
universe
Ans: Purusha

 Which approach focuses on the role of women in the text as relfected in the
different kinds of society?
Ans: gender criticism

 “ Fame is a fickle Food” and “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” poem by Emily
Dickinson. Which figure of speech do they share in common?
Ans: Metaphor

 Which is regarded as hymns divinely inspired or “heard “ directly from the gods?
Ans: Rigveda

 Characteristic of the Japanese poetry of Trans. R.H. Blyth

Ans: Brief and clever

 Approaches shows that there is a dynamic interaction between the text and the
reader
Ans: reader-response criticism

 Lines from poem, “The Rhodora” by Ralph Waldo Emerson tells that the speaker
and the Rhodora share the same
Ans: creator

 Scheherazade saves her life by telling a series of interesting stories to King

Schahriah
Ans: One Thousand and one nights

 True about Indian Caste System

Ans: humanity is ranked or organized by their spiritual purity by innate
spiritul purity

 Magnificence by Strella Alfon shows how a mother’s image become a protector

instead of the stereotyped father
Ans: gender crtiticism

 Literary approach centers on the character’s motivations, behavior and actions

Ans: Psychological criticism

 Aphorism taken from “poor richard almanack”. which former US president is

ascribed to the aphorisms
Ans: Benjamin Franklin

 The passionate sheperd to his love by Christopher Marlowe

Ans: pastoral
1. What is the noble key theme of the B. First person perspective exploring
Mahabharata? personal and societal struggles
A. Love and Betrayal C. Second person narration
B. Fate and Free Will D. Stream of consciousness
C. The balance of duty and morality
D. War and Revenge
8. Which of the following is a work of
Haruki Murakami?
2. Filial Piety is the basic tenet of which A. Norwegian Wood
school of thought? B. Kafka on the Shore
A. Confucianism C. The Makioka Sisters
B. Taoism D. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with
C. Buddhism the Sea
D. Shintoism

9. Who is considered the greatest

3. Which Japanese novel by Yukio classical Indian writer of all time?
Mishima is key in understanding post- A. Valmiki
war Japanese society? B. Rabindranath Tagore
A. Norwegian Wood C. Kalidasa
B. Silence D. Premchand
C. The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
D. Snow Country
10. What does the line “Are you
insulting my father?” imply?
4. In which novel by Chinua Achebe A. She is defending her father.
does the protagonist Okonkwo struggle B. She wants to leave.
with British colonial changes? C. She regretted marrying her husband.
A. Arrow of God D. She is confused.
B. Things Fall Apart
C. No Longer at Ease
D. The African Child 11. Nationalism and anti-nationalism are
central to which Indian novel?
A. The Guide
5. What is the central message of “Over B. A Passage to India
the Wintry”? C. Train to Pakistan
A. Winter brings hope D. The God of Small Things
B. Winter reflects transformation
C. Winter is a time of desolation and
loneliness 12. Which Japanese author was
D. Winter shows survival awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in
1968?
A. Yasunari Kawabata
6. Piety is the basic tenet of which B. Yukio Mishima
school of thought? C. Haruki Murakami
A. Confucianism D. Natsume Soseki
B. Jainism
C. Buddhism
D. Zen 13. Who was the first African writer to
win the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A. Chinua Achebe
7. What narrative technique is used in B. Wole Soyinka
"A Personal Matter" by Kenzaburo Oe? C. Ben Okri
A. Third-person omniscient D. Ngugi wa Thiong'o
 20. A feature of African narrative
structure is:
14. Nigerian author Chimamanda A. Flashback-driven plot
Adichie wrote which of the following? B. Use of proverbs and aphorisms
A. The Fishermen C. Single point-of-view
B. Stay With Me D. Historical myth-making
C. Season of Migration to the North (❌
Incorrect attribution; should be Tayeb
Salih) 21. What characterizes the poetry of Li
D. Americanah Bai and Basho?
A. Descriptive and emotional expression
of nature
15. Ben Okri won the Booker Prize in B. Political commentary
1991 for: C. Satirical and humorous tones
A. Songs of Enchantment D. Epic narratives
B. The Famished Road
C. Astonishing the Gods 22. Who wrote the novel Beloved?
D. Dangerous Love A. Alice Walker
B. Toni Morrison
C. Maya Angelou
16. Who wrote The Long Walk to D. Zadie Smith
Freedom?
A. Desmond Tutu
B. Chinua Achebe 23. Which novel tells the story of a
C. Nelson Mandela disillusioned, middle-aged man
D. Steve Biko reflecting on life?
A. The Great Gatsby
B. The Sun Also Rises
17. Who wrote The Three-Body C. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
Problem? D. A Man Called Ove
A. Haruki Murakami
B. Liu Bei
C. Liu Cixin
D. Cixin Tao 24. Which Gothic novel is about an
orphaned child?
A. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
18. Kenyan author known for colonial B. Wuthering Heights
and neocolonial themes? C. Rebecca
A. Chinua Achebe D. The Woman in White
B. Ben Okri
C. Ngugi wa Thiong’o
D. Wole Soyinka 25. Who wrote Mrs. Dalloway?
A. Sylvia Plath
B. Emily Dickinson
19. What narrative style is common in C. Virginia Woolf
South Asian novels like One Hundred D. Zadie Smith
Years of Solitude?
A. Use of magical realism to reflect
complexity of social reality 26. Charles Dickens’ novel about harsh
B. Stream of consciousness life in Victorian England?
C. Autobiographical realism A. Oliver Twist
D. Real-time narration B. David Copperfield
C. Great Expectations
D. Hard Times
 D. Simile
27. Which poem by William Wordsworth
is about nature and childhood
memories? 34. (BLANK)
A. Tintern Abbey
B. The Prelude 35. What type of narration knows the
C. Ode to a Nightingale thoughts and feelings of all characters?
D. The Solitary Reaper A. Third person omniscient narration
B. First person limited
28. John Donne’s literary group was C. Second person
called? D. Objective narration
A. Metaphysical Poets
B. Cavalier Poets
C. Augustan Poets 36. What is the narrative style of The
D. Fireside Poets Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
A. Vernacular style
B. Standard English
29. Which land in Gulliver’s Travels C. Epistolary form
represents satire on intellectuals and D. Stream of consciousness
scientists?
A. Brobdingnag
B. Laputa 37. Edgar Allan Poe’s stories often
C. Lilliput feature what kind of narrator?
D. Houyhnhnms A. Unreliable narrator
B. All-knowing narrator
C. Neutral narrator
30. The Faerie Queene was written by? D. Omniscient observer
A. Edmund Spenser
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. John Milton 38. What narrative style is used in
D. John Dryden Beloved by Toni Morrison?
A. Non-linear narrative
B. Linear progression
31. Emily Brontë’s novel set in the C. Flashback-only structure
Yorkshire Moors? D. Epistolary form
A. Jane Eyre
B. Wuthering Heights
C. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall 39. What genre is Ray Bradbury’s
D. Agnes Grey Fahrenheit 451?
A. Dystopian fiction
B. Science fantasy
32. What was the purpose of Samuel C. Cyberpunk
Johnson’s dictionary? D. Historical fiction
A. To codify standard English spelling
and grammar
B. To translate Latin classics 40. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet
C. To reform British English Letter is part of which movement?
D. To educate children A. Romanticism
B. Modernism
C. Realism
33. What is an extended metaphor in D. Naturalism
Animal Farm?
A. Allegory
B. Irony 41. Postmodernism is known for:
C. Paradox A. Realism
B. Objective storytelling
C. Fragmentation of identity, reality, and 48. Concrete ideas and symbols that
genre represent an idea are known as:
D. Historical accuracy A. Metaphor
B. Symbolism
C. Allegory
42. “Not all those who wander are lost” D. Irony
is from:
A. The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R.
Tolkien 49. Which novel by Richard Powers
B. The Hobbit explores environmental issues?
C. Beowulf A. Bewilderment
D. The Chronicles of Narnia B. The Overstory
C. The Gold Bug Variations
D. The Echo Maker

43. Who is the author of The Brief

Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao?
A. Zadie Smith 50. Which novel by Margaret Atwood is
B. Junot Díaz a feminist dystopian classic?
C. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie A. The Handmaid’s Tale
D. Colson Whitehead B. Alias Grace
C. Oryx and Crake
44. Who wrote The Underground D. The Testament
Railroad?
A. Toni Morrison 51. Who is known for popularizing the
B. Colson Whitehead “New Journalism”?
C. Tayari Jones A. All of the above
D. Brit Bennett B. Tom Wolfe
C. Hunter S. Thompson
D. Gay Talese
45. The Road by Cormac McCarthy is
what genre?
A. Realist fiction 52. Circe retells Greek mythology. Who
B. Post-apocalyptic fiction is the author?
C. Horror A. Madeline Miller
D. Historical fiction B. Margaret Atwood
C. Donna Tartt
D. Emily Wilson
46. Haruki Murakami’s works are often
associated with:
A. Magical realism 53. Who was awarded the Nobel Prize
B. Gothic realism in 2019?
C. Post-colonialism A. Olga Tokarczuk
D. Minimalism B. Abdulrazak Gurnah
C. Annie Ernaux
D. Peter Handke
47. Which of the following is an example
of emergent literature addressing
technology? 54. Who wrote White Teeth?
A. Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell A. Zadie Smith
B. The Circle B. Jhumpa Lahiri
C. The Metaverse C. Tayari Jones
D. Neuromancer D. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
 B. Harry Potter and the Chamber of
55. Which critical approach focuses on Secrets
the reader’s experience and reception? C. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
A. Reception Theory Azkaban
B. Structuralism D. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood
C. Formalism Prince
D. Deconstruction

62. Who is the Half-Blood Prince in

56. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Harry Potter?
Hugo was written by: A. Severus Snape
A. Taylor Jenkins Reid B. Tom Riddle
B. Colleen Hoover C. Harry Potter
C. Brit Bennett D. Draco Malfoy
D. Delia Owens

63. Katniss Everdeen is the main

57. Who wrote Convenience Store character in:
Woman? A. The Hunger Games
A. Sayaka Murata B. Divergent
B. Banana Yoshimoto C. Matched
C. Hiromi Kawakami D. The Maze Runner
D. Yoko Ogawa
64. In Divergent, what faction did
Beatrice initially belong to?
58. Netflix series Alice in Borderland is A. Abnegation
based on a manga by: B. Dauntless
A. Haro Aso C. Erudite
B. Sui Ishida D. Amity
C. Katsuhiro Otomo 65. What novel by Han Kang won the
D. Naoki Urasawa International Booker Prize in 2016?
A. The Vegetarian
B. Human Acts
59. “Hope is the thing with feathers that C. The White Book
perches in the soul” is a line from: D. Please Look After Mom
A. Emily Dickinson’s poetry
B. Walt Whitman’s poetry
C. Langston Hughes’ poetry 66. What is the central theme of
D. Maya Angelou’s poetry Divergent?
A. The dangers of a society that limits
individualism
60. A science fiction novel featuring a B. The collapse of totalitarianism
sentient robot is: C. The fight for family
A. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro D. The power of love
B. Do Androids Dream of Electric
Sheep?
C. Neuromancer 67. Which postmodern technique is
D. The Robots of Dawn commonly seen in contemporary
novels?
A. Self-referentiality
61. What is the first book in the Harry B. Linear narrative
Potter series? C. Historical accuracy
A. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s D. Omniscient narrator
Stone
68. In contemporary popular fiction,
which narrative perspective is often
used for intimacy? 75. What does “cognitive load” refer to
A. First Person Narrative in language learning?
B. Third Person Omniscient A. The mental effort required to
C. Second Person complete a language task
D. Objective Narration B. The number of vocabulary words
C. The size of the textbook
D. The classroom environment
69. (BLANK)

76. In a comprehension class, students

70. What is an example of a summarize texts in small groups with
contemporary speculative novel? specific roles. This strategy is:
A. Station Eleven by Emily St. John A. Reciprocal Teaching
Mandel B. Direct Instruction
B. The Da Vinci Code C. Choral Reading
C. Normal People D. Silent Sustained Reading
D. The Midnight Library

77. Teacher Seraspi focuses on

71. Which novel is an example of summarizing and analyzing arguments
climate fiction (cli-fi)? in class. The lesson is on:
A. Parable of the Sower by Octavia A. Critical Reading
Butler B. Skimming
B. The Road C. Extensive Reading
C. Dune D. Reading Fluency
D. The Overstory

78. (BLANK)
72. In a speaking class, students
practice ordering food in a restaurant.
The focus is: 79. What is the correct sequence in
A. Fluency-Based Speaking developing reading skills?
B. Accuracy-Based Speaking A. 4-Reading Readiness, 3-Beginning
C. Controlled Speaking Reading, 2-Rapid Growth, 1-Period of
D. Silent Way Refinement
B. 1-2-3-4
C. 2-3-1-4
73. What is the primary goal of D. 3-2-4-1
formative assessment in language 80. What should be prioritized in an
learning? argumentative essay?
A. To provide ongoing feedback and A. The clarity and logical progression of
improve learning the thesis and supporting arguments
B. To assign final grades B. Use of quotations
C. To identify misbehavior C. Length of the introduction
D. To compare students D. Popularity of the topic

74. In proofreading, what does the hash

mark (#) usually indicate? 81. The primary focus in developing
A. A paragraph should be inserted reading instruction is:
B. A word should be deleted A. Developing comprehension and
C. A sentence should be moved vocabulary
D. A comma should be added B. Teaching only grammar rules
C. Practicing spelling 88. A strategy where students practice
D. Memorizing sight words sentence structure before free
82. How can students best infer conversation is called:
meaning from context? A. Bottom-Up Strategy
A. By using context clues like synonyms B. Top-Down Strategy
and examples in the text C. Free Expression
B. By guessing D. Whole Language Approach
C. By translating
D. By skipping unknown words
89. Which approach starts from general
to specific?
83. Which best describes BICS (Basic A. Top-Down Approach
Interpersonal Communication Skills)? B. Bottom-Up
A. Simple, everyday vocabulary and C. Functional Notional
informal expressions D. Language Experience
B. Academic vocabulary
C. Scientific language
D. Technical jargon 90. When a student gives short replies
to initiated questions, this is:
A. Responsive Speaking
84. A short passage about endangered B. Interactive Speaking
animals is read aloud, then C. Imitative Speaking
reconstructed. This strategy is: D. Transactional Speaking
A. Dictogloss
B. Jigsaw
C. Echo Reading 91. Which is an example of “Talk as
D. Note-Taking transaction”?
A. Asking for directions
B. Telling a story
85. Predicting before reading and C. Debating
revising after reading is part of: D. Delivering a speech
A. DRTA (Directed Reading Thinking
Activity)
B. KWL Chart 92. Teacher focuses on quantity over
C. SQ3R quality in paragraph writing. This is:
D. Mind Mapping A. Free Writing Approach
B. Controlled Writing
C. Parallel Writing
86. What is the main goal of using the D. Peer Review
Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)?
A. To identify a student’s comfortable
reading level 93. Students identify facts and opinions
B. To assign grades in a news clip. This is:
C. To track attendance A. Critical Listening
D. To teach grammar B. Extensive Listening
C. Listening for Detail
D. Inferential Listening
87. Which is NOT a feature of
productive skills assessment?
A. Vocabulary Recognition 94. A method to improve real-life
B. Pronunciation conversation skills is:
C. Intonation A. Negotiation of Meaning
D. Fluency B. Grammar Translation
C. Repetition Drills
D. Dictation
95. Students use prior knowledge and 98. In poetry class, students highlight
clues to understand idioms. This and analyze similes and metaphors.
strategy is: This method is:
A. Contextual Guessing A. Language-Based Model
B. Scanning B. Reader-Response Model
C. Chunking C. Historical Approach
D. Intensive Reading D. New Criticism

96. A formative assessment method for 99. What is an innovative way to teach
narrative writing is: literature?
A. Peer review with specific feedback A. Create a collage of personal
B. Pop quiz experience related to the story
C. Reading aloud B. Memorize poems
D. Book report C. Lecture-based approach
D. Take quizzes

97. A method using reading aloud and 100. Which method is best used for
group discussion to improve studying literature today?
comprehension is: A. Narrative
A. Guided Reading B. Grammar-Translation
B. Sustained Silent Reading C. Structural
C. Shared Reading D. Clipping Method
D. Choral Reading