Gen Ed English reviewer, part 1

Question 1. _____ is an epic about the Question 5. What is the main idea that can be
adventures of early Muslim warriors who inferred from the stanza below?
defended Islam.
Time is a pair of scissors
A. Indarapatra and Sulayman✅
And life, a bolt of brocade
B. Bantugan
When the lost section is done
C. Parang Sabu
The scraps are committed to a bonfire
D. Darangan
A. Transitoriness of life✅

B. Cruelty of time
Question 2. During the 18th century, what kind
C. Beauty of life
of novel is most common?
D. Destruction of beauty
A. Religious

B. Epistolary
Question 6. “Ibong Mandaragit” was written
C. Picaresque
by ____.
D. Gothic✅
A. Amado V. Hernandez✅

B. Vergilio Almario
Question 3. This is a literary movement in
C. Lualhati Bautista
America that looks through life as it is.
D. Edgardo Reyes
A. Romanticism

B. Puritanism
Question 7. Poetry during the age of
C. Realism✅
modernism is characterized by _____.
D. Naturalism
A. Measure

B. Free Verse✅

C. Blank Verse
Question 4. All the cities below were centers of
D. Rhyme
government, religion, and culture in the 3rd
Millennium B.C except _______.

A. Babylon Question 8. “Her dress is as blue as the sky” is

an example of _____.
B. Nineveh
A. Simile✅
C. Baghdad✅
B. Hyperbole
D. Thebes
C. Metaphor C. She will be placed in a tomb

D. Onomatopoeia D. She will be forgotten✅

Question 12. The Ifugao epic “HUDHUD”

immortalized the hero _____.
Question 9. A Comedia usually ends with the
_____. A. Lumawig
A. Death of the Prince B. Banna
B. Victory of Muslims C. Duluyan
C. Death of the Queen D. Aligaynon✅
D. Victory of Christians✅

Question 13. Who is considered the Indian

counterpart of Shakespeare?
Question 10. The American Renaissance also
known as the American Romantic Movements A. Kalidasa✅
paved the way for the birth of _____.
B. Tagore
A. Romanticism
C. Khagyam
B. Transcendentalism✅
D. Sadi
C. Naturalism

D. Realism
Question 14. Both Realism and Naturalism
oppose ______.
Question 11. What does Sappho tell the A. Classicism
lesbian woman about her death in the poem
below? B. Symbolism

To An Uncultured Lesbian Woman C. Romanticism✅

“Yes, thou shalt die, D. Neoclassicism

And lie

Dump in the silent tomb; Question 15. This is Geoffrey Chaucer’s

collection of stories in poetic form.
Nor of thy name
A. The Canterbury Tales✅
Shall these by any fame”
B. Lliad
A. She will not be famous at death
C. Decameron
B. She will find peace
D. Beowulf
 D. In Paradiso, they have neither bodies nor
images but not a corporeal substance
Question 16. Which of the statements below
supports this statement: “The Homeric poems
greatly influenced the development of Greek
Question 19. _____ are at war in the lliad.
Civilization.”
A. Trojans and Macedonians
A. The Greeks became the great warriors
B. Trojans and Minoans
B. The great epic characters became the
models of conduct for the later generations of C. Trojans and Acheans✅
the Greeks✅
D. Trojans and Phoenicians
C. The Olympian gods were worshipped

D. The Greeks became the good architects

Question 20. The lines of the poem below
describe Africa as a land that is _____.

AFRICA
Question 17. Filipino folks narratives’ function David Deop
is _____.
Africa, my Africa
A. To ward off evil spirits
Africa of proud warriors
B. To explain natural phenomena✅
In ancestral savanna
C. To teach proper behavior
Africa of whom my grandmother
D. To honor the gods
Songs

A. Free and beautiful

Question 18. Among the following statements,
B. Mysterious and unexplored
which best describes the difference between
the three canticles of the Divine Comedy? C. War town and undeveloped✅
A. In Inferno, they become more corporeal as D. Primitive and uncivilized
Dante descends into the lower circles

B. In Purgatorio, they have corporeal shape,

but not corporeal Question 21. Because of his poetic style, Ezra
Pound is considered a/an _______.
C. In Paradiso, they have neither bodies nor
images but simply lights; in Purgatorio, they A. Philosophical
have corporeal shape but not corporeal
B. Imagist✅
substance; and in Inferno, they become more
corporeal as Dante descends into lower C. Metaphysical
circles✅
D. Romantic
Question 22. Oedipus _____ as a punishment Question 26. In the poem below, what could
for killing his father and having sexual relations be the author’s feeling toward lesbian
with his mother. women?

A. Castrated himself To Uncultured Lesbian Woman

B. Killed himself “Yes, thou shalt die,

C. Ordered his sons to murder him And lie

D. Gouged his eyes✅ Dump in the silent tomb;

Nor of thy name

Question 23. ______ can be inferred from Shall these by any fame”
Iseneses’ “answer.”
A. Pity✅
A. She respects Creon
B. Regret
B. She fears Creon✅
C. Sadness
C. She understands Creon
D. Anger
D. She likes Creon

Question 27. Who is speaking in the poem

Question 24. The following are romantic poets below:
except:
“Sunset and the evening star
A. William Blake✅
And one clear call for me
B. Robert Burn And may there be no moaning of the bar
C. John Milton When I put out to sea”
D. John Keats
A. A dying man✅

B. A fisherman
Question 25. _____ is famous for his plays that
C. The certainty of more suffering
used the “alienation effect”.
D. Understanding and progress
A. Henrick Ibsen

B. August Strindberg

C. Bertolt Brecht✅
Question 28. Based on Zeus’ plan, _____ comes
D. Thomas Mann from suffering.

A. The consolation of death

B. The ecstasy of truth✅

C. The certainty of more suffering C. Folk tale

D. Understanding and progress D. Creation myth✅

Question 29. The word Gospel is derived from Question 33. _____ greatly influenced the
a Greek word that means _____. Japanese Noh Play
A. Holy word A. Shintoism✅
B. Good News✅ B. Zen Buddhism
C. Law of God C. Hinduism
D. Message of God D. Buddhism

Question 30. The line below expresses _____. Question 34. Among the statements below,
which is not an important cultural influence in
“While a cold hand snatched you away like a
the development of Europe in the middle
kite–I should have come home”
ages?
A. Regret✅
A. Greco-Roman civilizations
B. Sadness
B. Christianity from Palestine
C. Loss
C. Germanic tribes from the north
D. Love
D. Merchant trade from China✅

Question 31. Which statement best

Question 35. Pre-colonial literature is best
characterizes the Old Testament as a literary
described by _____ themes.
piece?
A. Sad and dramatic
A. A collection of religious anecdotes
B. Serious and imaginative
B. A chronicle of Jewish events
C. Playful and entertaining
C. An inspirational prose
D. Communal and functional✅
D. An anthology of Jewish literature✅

Question 36. What lesson can be inferred in

Question 32. This line usually starts a/an
the passage below:
_____.
“All that we are is the result of what we have
A. Supernatural tale
thought: It is founded on our thoughts, it is
B. Legend made up of our thought. If a man speaks or
acts with an evil thought, pain follows him, as
the wheel follows the foot of the ox that draws
the carriage.”
Question 40. This is considered the greatest
A. we must change for the better contribution to the prose of the 17th century.

B. we must think carefully A. the drama✅

C. we must have the right thoughts✅ B. the biology

D. we must be hardworking like the ox C. the essay

D. the novel

Question 37. Among the following statements

below, which is not an accurate representation
Question 41. _____ is the usual topic of lyric
of ancient Greek religious beliefs?
poetry
A. The Greeks credited humanity with
A. Women
intervening in humanity
B. Nature
B. The Greek god Zeus was subject to the
mysterious power of fate✅ C. Feelings or emotions✅
C. The Greek gods were expressions of the D. Religion
world’s uncontrollable forces

D. The Greeks blamed humanity for disorder in

the universe Question 42. All are examples of Gnomic
verses except:

A. Folktale
Question 38. Euripides produced the play
“Medea” to _____. B. Legend

A. Express his shock C. Fable✅

B. Attack the deepest prejudices of the levels✅ D. Riddle

C. Criticize Greek behavior

D. Entertain the audience Question 43. Sappho is considered the _____.

A. The greatest woman poet of antiquity✅

Question 39. The following are works of B. model of women in Greece

Sophocles except: C. The leader of women in Lesbos
A. Agamemnon✅ D. A very passionate poet
B. Ajax

C. Antigone

D. Oedipus at Colonus
Question 44. Mistakes in pronunciation are
immediately corrected in the Audio-Lingual
Question 48. Which statement below is a
method because:
feature of Suggestopedia?
A. So that behaviors don’t become habits
A. Learners share their feelings in a small
B. To make learners conscious of their group
mistakes
B. Only listening activities are provided
C. So that learners will practice more
C. Learners are in a relaxed and reclining
D. To develop accuracy and fluency✅ position✅

D. Reading and writing are emphasized

Question 45. Which of the following

statements below will help the students, who
Question 49. If a teacher believes that a
are asked to listen to a set of instructions in
language is a system of a structure composed
English, process the material?
of sounds, words, and sentences, then his
A. Identifying the topic sentence syllabus might focus on _____.

B. Identifying the keywords A. Communication tasks

C. Listening to every word B. Building blocks of language

D. Repeating each sentence✅ C. Functions of language

D. Form and function of language✅

Question 46. Vowels are characterized by

_____.
Question 50. Where is the primary stress in the
A. Freely flowing air through the nasal cavity word “characterization”?

B. The little obstruction in the vocal tract✅ A. Second

C. Friction that is present in the vocal tract B. Fifth✅

D. Vibrations of the vocal cords C. Fourth

D. Firs

Question 47. This is the most appropriate

“while listening” activity for a text describing a
family tree with three generations.

A. Completing a family tree

B. Copying a family tree

C. Writing down names✅

D. Writing the family history