ELS 2125 Philippine Literature Mid Term Examination 2020-2021 Name - Course and Year
ELS 2125 Philippine Literature Mid Term Examination 2020-2021 Name - Course and Year
ELS 2125 Philippine Literature Mid Term Examination 2020-2021 Name - Course and Year
Test I. Multiple Choice. Write the letter of your choice in your Canvas (25 pts.).
1. A long narrative divided into chapters. The events are taken from true-to-life stories
2. A narrative involving one or more chapters, one plot and one single impression
5. Fictitious stories that deal with animals and inanimate things which speak and act
like people
6. Products of the writer’s imagination and the main aim is to bring out lessons to
the reader
event
11. A narrative which is written in verse and can be classified as a ballad or metrical
romance
13. A form that describes important events in life either real or imaginary
15. It is a kind of poetry that is acted on stage that includes a few characters
17. A measure of twelve syllables and slowly sung to the accompaniment of a guitar or bandurria
20. Usually light and is written with the purpose of amusing people and usually a happy ending
21. Used in musical plays with an opera. It arouses immediate and intense emotion and is usually
sad but there is a happy ending for the principal character
22. An exaggerated comedy. It seeks to arouse mirth by laughable lines and situations are too
ridiculous to be true
23. The hero is struggling mightily against dynamic forces and he meets death or ruins without
success and satisfaction obtained by the protagonist
24. Forma are either purely comic and tragic and it pictures the life of today. It may aim to bring
about changes in the social conditions
Test II. True or False. Write T if the statement is true and F if otherwise (25 pts.)
______3. Don Juan left his wife and went to the mountain in order to punish a group of their enemies
______5. Lam ang dreamed about his father’s head being stuck on a pole
______7. All the fish died when Lam ang took a bath in the Amburayan River
______9. As Baldo saw his older brother’s wife, he described her as lovely, short, and beautiful
_____11. Maria admitted of having some fears if the father of Leon would not accept her
_____16. The three children did not put large stones in Bekat’s basket
_____20. Aponi tolau got angry because he was laugh at by the maiden guards
_____21. The Tinggian warrior was able to reach the shore unharmed with the help of his mother
______22. Lumnay still felt in love with Awiyao despite he had another woman
______23. Awiyao left Lumnay because she could not bear a child
______24. If Awiyao’s second wife could not still bear a child, he could return to Lumnay
Test III. Matching Type. Match column A with column B and write the letter of your choice on the
space before the number. (20 pts.)
Based on the poem, “ To the Man I Married”, match each word under column A with
each connotation under column B.
Column A Column B
_____1.Earth a. direction
k. continuity
Set B
Column A Column B
k. garrulous
Test IV. Essay. Give one moral lesson of the following selections and further explain by giving your
own example (10 pts each.)