ENG 48 – Children and Adolescent Literature

TEST I: MULTIPLE CHOICE

Direction: Choose the correct option that answers or completes the following questions or statements.

1. Seven Days by Eve Ainsworth, Butter by Erin Lange, and Asking for It by Louise
O’Neill are recommended YA books. What genre do they belong?
A. Family
B. Substance
C. Thriller
D. Relationships and Bullying

2. Young Adult literature is generally described as books written for an audience whose age is -
_________years old.
A. 21 - 29
B. 12 - 20
C. 5 - 12
D. 18 - 31

3. When did World War I begin and end?

A. 1941 - 1981
B. 1914 - 1918
C. 1814-1818
D. 1714 – 1918

4. Who wrote the poem "The owl and the Pussy Cat"?
A. Edward Lee
B. Edward Lear
C. Edgar Lee
D. Edgar Lear

5. Which of the following is the real name of Lewis Carroll?

A. Samuel L. Clemens
B. Charles Dodgson
C. L. Frank Baum
D. P.L. Travers

6. In what era did the stories of Trojan War, Adventures of Hercules, Pandora's box and Odysseus
flourish?
A. Renaissance
B. Classical
C. Middle Age
D. Between Word War I and II

7. How did children's literature begin?

A. It is through writing stories on leaves and woods.
B. It is through dancing and singing the stories reflecting real life events in front of the audience.
C. It began when our ancestors told stories to entertain, comfort, instruct young people and pass
on their cultural heritage.
D. It began when our ancestors told stories and passed them on through writing them in stones.
8. Having this provides you a sense of direction and purpose in life. What is referred to?
A. Love
B. Friend
C. Vision
D. Compass

9. Children's Literature gives students a sense of appreciation about their __________heritage.

A. ancestral
B. cultural
C. parents'
D. self

10. What is the main purpose of children's literature?

A. entertain or instruct young people.
B. persuade people.
C. tell stories about important events in the past.
D. pass on history.

11. The following are reasons mentioned in the text as to why there is a need for children’s books
and why would parents, caretakers and teachers give time and effort to tell stories for them.
Which DOES NOT belong?
A. It makes them appreciate their own cultural heritage as well as those of others.
B. It develops their ability to plan out important events in their lives.
C. It builds their aesthetic responses.
D. It provides encounters with the world that shape the meaning children make of the world.

12. What time period does the emergence of Chapbooks (small and cheaply made books
containing fairy tale) fall under?
A. Middle Age
B. Renaissance Period
C. The 18th and early 19th Century
D. Classical World of Greek and Roman

13. National Children’s Book Day was proclaimed on every .

A. Second Tuesday of June
B. Second Tuesday of July
C. Third Tuesday of June
D. Third Tuesday of July

14. What time period did the "promotion of mass education" fall under?
A. Renaissance Period
B. The 18th and early 19th Century
C. Middle Age
D. Classical World of Greek and Roman

15. This person was one of the famous authors in Middle Ages. He was a monk and an early historian
of the Church in England. Who is he?
A. Saint Vulnerable Bede
B. Saint Bende
C. Saint Venerably Bende
D. Bede

16. Which of the following words refers to the people, places, things, and events during Middle Ages
period?
A. Middle Ages
B. Black Ages
C. Middle man
D. Medieval
17. Which of the following scenes could be from a child living from the Middle Ages?
A. a rich child can afford to read a book about King Arthur.
B. a middle-class child learning to read through a horn book.
C. a poor child reading a comic strip.
D. a young girl reading a novel for women.

18. Which of the following is a work of Children’s Literature from the Renaissance period?
A. The Hobbit
B. The Book named the Governor
C. A Little Pretty Pocket Book
D. Robinson Crusoe

19. This era was said to be the time of the world's first Industrial Revolution.
A. Classical
B. Renaissance
C. Victorian
D. 18th and early 19th century

20. All of the following characterize children’s literature of the Middle Ages. Which DOES NOT belong?
A. Religious tales/ Biblical stories
B. Set examples for children, for a didactic purpose.
C. Promoted mass education.
D. Created a mixture of realism and fantasy.

21. Which of the following best describes John Comenius’s Orbis Sensualium Pictus?
A. one of the greatest American novels ever written.
B. early paperbacks wrapped in yellow.
C. regarded as the first children’s picture book.
D. storybook about a physician who talks with animals.

22. Which literary masterpiece was Mark Twain known for?

A. Treasure Island
B. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
C. The Coral Island
D. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

23. Who wrote the book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'"?

A. A. Milne
B. J. M. Barrie
C. P.L. Travers.
D. L. Frank Baum

24. All of the following children’s literature started in the Victorian era EXCEPT:
A. Picture books
B. Children’s magazines
C. Comic Strips
D. Yellowbacks

25. Which of the following accurately describes the story of "The Wind in the Willows" by
Kenneth Grahame?
A. a sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
B. became a part of childhood mythology
C. one of the most enduring of animal fantasies
D. story about a lovable bear who lives in The Hundred Acre Wood

26. Which is NOT TRUE about children’s literature?

A. It helps students develop emotional intelligence. Stories have the power to promote
emotional and moral development.
 B. Children’s literature “contains numerous moments of crisis, when characters make moral
decisions and contemplate the reasons for their decisions,” an important skill for children to
see modeled
C. Having a vicarious or “lived through” experience with literature, hinders readers’ aesthetic
responses and perceptions.
D. Children’s literature is of value because it is a timeless tradition, one in which “books are the
major means of transmitting our literary heritage from one generation to the next”.

27. Which of the following scenarios shows how children’s literature gives students appreciation
about their own cultural heritage as well as those of others?
A. Children from America do not read stories from Asia.
B. Children from Asia only reads Asian books.
C. Children does not read stories to focus on academic reading.
D. None of the above

28. Why was the Hornbook called as such?

A. It was made out of animal horns to give durable learning tool for children
B. It is shaped like a table-tennis paddle and easy to carry.
C. It was mounted on a wooden frame and protected with thin, transparent plates of horn.
D. It contained first a large cross, from which the hornbook was called the Christ’s Cross row.

29. Who among these authors lived during the 8th and early 19th Century?
A. Lewis Caroll
B. Louisa May Alcott
C. Hans Christian Andersen
D. Robert Louis Stevenson

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30. Sinbad the Tailor is from which of the following collections of stories and tales from the 18th
and early 19th Century?
A. The Tales of Mother Goose
B. Grimm’s Tales
C. Arabian Nights
D. The Lord of the Flies

31. Which of the following books could be considered to be written as a result of the didactic
element which persisted throughout the early nineteenth century?
A. Through the Looking Glass
B. Little Women
C. A Little Pretty Pocket Book
D. Aunt Judy’s Magazine

32. Why was Enid Blyton’s best-known work “The Magic Faraway Tree” criticized by adults?
A. It has a farfetched plot and simple and stereotypical vocabulary.
B. It is not suitable for children’s needs because it contains adult language and scenes
C. It is sensitive in nature for the problems at that time
D. none of the above

33. Did World War 1 affect art and literature?

A. Yes, authors and artists stopped creating art and focused on surviving the war.
B. No, artists were not affected at all.
C. Yes, writers and poets reflected a shifted outlook in literature, novels and poetry.
D. No, the war was not hard for artists' work.

34. Who formulated the notion that the minds of young children were similar to blank slates
waiting to be filled up?
A. John Newbery
B. Grimm
C. Locke
D. Wilhelm

35. Who are the two (2) German brothers who collected a great number of folktales in the beginning
of the nineteenth century and published them (not expressly for children)?
A. Jacob and William
B. William and John
C. Jacob and Wilhelm
D. Wilhelm and John

36. Who is Aenas?

A. a Trojan hero who was credited with founding the Roman race.
B. A greek hero who fought the gorgon Medusa.
C. A greek hero with a weak heel.
D. a son of zeus famous for his adventures.

37. Which period did books show bad children to inevitably suffer and punish?
A. Renaissance
B. Classical World
C. the 18th and early 19th century
D. Middle Ages

38. This person was a notable author who wrote over 600 books --during the period between the
two world wars. Who is referred to?
A. Wilder
B. Tolkien
 C. Blyton
D. Lofting

39. Which of the following books is popular in UK?

A. How to Train Your Dragon
B. A Wrinkle in Time
C. The Giving Tree
D. Stuart Little

40. Which of the following books is popular in US?

A. The Jungle Book

B. Alice's Adventure in Wonderland
C. Little Women
D. Harry Potter

41. Which of the following statements is TRUE about illustrated children’s book?
A. Illustrated children’s books only contain pictures.
B. Illustrated books were mainly created for adults.
C. Most children’s books are illustrated, but not all illustrated children’s books are picture books.
D. There are more texts than images in illustrated books.

42. Which book revolutionized how society as a whole looked at children during World War II?
A. Law Books
B. Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
C. Communal Book
D. Baby and Child Care Book

43. The following were the popular authors during WW II until present. Which does not include?
A. E.B. White
B. Lucy Boston
C. Natalie Babbitt
D. Ernest Hemingway

44. Who among the following regard natural objects and phenomena as being inhabited by living
beings, or having a mystical life?
A. Asian
B. African
C. American
D. British

45. Which books are much less likely to be found in libraries or bookstores?
A. eBooks
B. merchandise books
C. paperback books
D. graphic novels

46. Which of the following best describes Illustrated books?

A. Books for very young children are primarily illustrations with little or no text.
B. Depict what is happening in the story and provide less pictures.
C. Texts are dominant in the book.
D. all of the above

47. Which of the following is a disadvantage of hardcover books?

A. Covers are usually constructed of heavy-duty cardboard covered with quality glossy paper.
 B. They are durable and expensive.
C. The pages of the book are sewn together, and they are held inside the cover by sturdy
endpapers that are glue to the inside of the front and back covers.
D. Designs that pertain to the book’s subject or theme colorfully decorate the endpapers
of many hardcover picture books.

48. Which of the following can help you identify quality paperback books?
A. Expensive
B. color of cover
C. have a spine
D. the pages are glued together and then glued to a stiff paper cover.

49. Books that have no text at all are called .

A. Picture Books
B. Textless books
C. Graphic novels
D. Illustrated books

50. Are illustrated books and graphic novels the same?

A. Yes, both are types of comic books.

A. No, illustrated books are primarily illustrations with little or no text while graphic novels
are told through a combination of illustrations and text.
B. No, graphic novels are primarily illustrations with little or no text while illustrated books
are told through a combination of illustrations and text.
C. No, they have different materials in producing them.

51. Which of the following is not a benefit of easy-to-read-books?

A. They are read independently by children.
B. The difficulty of the vocabulary is also controlled, with the majority of the words having
only one syllable.
C. Too easy for children to read.
D. Restricted vocabulary.

52. What changed towards the perception of the child in the period after World War II??
A. Children were perceived to “Tabula Rasa”.
B. Children need modelling and conditioning to help them imitate the right behavior.
C. Holistic development and nurturing of the child as a center for learning.
D. Children seen as inherently good and must be close to nature to achieve learning.

53. Dr. Benjamin Spock published the book .

A. Universal Baby Book
B. The Common-Sense Book of Baby and Child Care
C. Child Care Book
D. Baby Care Book 101

54. Which of the following scenarios shows how a child-centered environment affected
literature for children?
A. Adults are depicted in unflattering light in the story plot.
B. Children are not expected to read to learn anymore
C. Children focused literature made them whiny and egocentric
D. Adults banned children from reading anti-adult literature.

55. What was the difference of literature for children in the time after World War II from the
previous periods?
A. It focuses on animals and inanimate objects with human-like characteristics.
B. Does not have the romantic and escapist quality in fantasy.
C. Less realism.
D. all of the above
56. Which book portrays a pig about to be slaughtered named Wilbur?
A. The Borrowers
B. The Children of Green Knowe.
C. Tom’s Midnight Garden
D. Charotte’s Web

57. Which of the following is a trend in modern realism in connection to children’s literature?
A. The family story has been perpetuated in a way that has given a less romanticized
vision of the family.
B. a franker and more open approach to subjects once thought taboo in children's books.
C. adults are often depicted in an unflattering light in these new books, for they are
portrayed as children often see them.
D. all of the above

58. Which of the following is another issue addressed in the children’s literary scene after World War
II?
A. Cultural Disparity
B. Political Agenda
C. Pandemics
D. none of the above

59. Who wrote the Goosebumps series?

A. J.K. Rowling
B. Suzanne Collins
C. Stephanie Meyer
D. R.L. Steine
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