
REGIONAL DIAGNOSTIC TEST in- 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World
Quiz by Leo Lumanog
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Tagalog Zarzuela, Cenaculo and the Embayoka of the Muslims were presented in the rebuiltMetropolitan Theater, the Folk Arts Theater and the Cultural Center of the Philippines. During what period were these presented?
A valid observation of literary development in the Philippines is that _______.
Philippine regional literature has become rich and varied because of _______.
In Jose Rizal’s “Noli Me Tangere”, what does the line “It is not the criminals who arouse the hatred of others, but the men who are honest” imply?
The pre-colonial Filipinos worshipped anything from trees, mountains, to sea and skies. Discuss thereason behind this.
Distinguish the emotion manifested by Sebio in Arturo Rotor’s “Dahong Palay” when he said, “For heaven’s sake! Give me a knife and a hot metal rod! I need to get the poison out of my body!”.
Examine what is represented by the word “gospel” in “gospel, gold, glory” brought by the Spaniardsin the East.
Infer the emotion manifested by Maria Clara when she uttered, “My father loved me so much even ifit’s not his duty, so I’ll pay the debt even by marrying someone whom I do not love”.
It is one of the most famous epics from the Ilocos Region.
He wrote the famous “awit” entitled Florante at Laura which is is loosely based on his ownbiography.
It is a type of Filipino poem, consisting of 12-syllable quatrains. It follows the pattern of rhyming stanzas established in the Philippine epic Pasyon.
It is an octosyllabic verse and the plot were usually based on legends or stories of chivalry fromEuropean countries.
Your literature teacher encouraged your class to join a poetry writing contest organized by theNCCA the Text Tula. Contestants are asked to write a short Tagalog poem that consists of four lineswith seven syllables each. Which of the following traditional Filipino poetic forms similar to the texttula would help you prepare for the contest?
Lam-Ang adventures begin when his father, Don Juan, set out for a battle but never returned. At barely nine months, Lam-ang goes to search for Don Juan in the highlands where the latter was saidto have gone. Aware that her child was a blessed, exceptional creature, his mother Namongan allows him to go. Lam-ang then goes off in search of his father, leaving his grieving mother behind. WhenLam-ang arrives at the place where Don Juan had disappeared, he is enraged to see his father’s severed head atop a bamboo pole; a scene he dreamt beforehand.
On a faraway vast land, there’s a mystical forest outside the Kingdom of Albanya. Florante, son of Duke Briseo and Princess Floresca, was knotted tightly on a giant old tree in the middle of the dark forest. Sadness and emptiness crept around the helpless Prince. The scary woods and uncanny sound of wild animals and creatures just didn’t help. Just before two huge lions were about to ravish the poor Prince, a kindhearted Persian Morong, Aladin, arrived.
. It is the first day of an Anglo-Saxon school in a small town in northern India. Five-year-old Santhaand her eight-year-old sister, Premila, are new students at the school. The sisters meet with the headmistress, who is the leader of the school. When Premila introduces herself and her sister to the headmistress, the headmistress says their Indian names are too difficult for her to pronounce.
The Adarna bird is so beautiful and could change in a lot of stunning forms. It is very much hard to catch. It knows a total of seven songs that could either enchant anyone to sleep, turn into stone or heal a deadly sickness.
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any directionyou choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’lldecide where to go…”
It is a short story written by Paz Marquez Benitez in 1925, which ushered in an era of Philippine writing in English.
What does the persona likely feel about his situation?
A Poem by Du FuThe river’s blue, the bird a perfect white
The mountain green with flowers about to blaze.
I’ve watched the spring pass away again,
When will I be able to return?
In her 124-word story “What is to Come?”, Lilledeshan Bose tells the story of a woman whosehusband, a congressman, has another woman. Which genre is the most appropriate classification ofit?
Which is a fictional story often set in the future that combines elements of fantasy and scientific facts?
Suppose a novel is about a young woman named Daniella who moves out of her parents’ house andmoves into a new apartment owned by Hector, with whom she feels an unexpected emotionalconnection. What genre of popular fiction is the novel likely?
Aside from the length, how does flash fiction differ from traditional short stories?
Which of the following statements in NOT true about the Text Tula?
Which of the following images would most likely be present in a Filipino Speculative fiction or specific?
A. Devastating nuclear explosion   B. Powerful anting-anting
C. mysterious nunu sa punso        D. old; abandoned warehouse
Which of the following is an imaginative form of writing that may suggest an event in the future if a current environmental issue will not be addressed?
Which of the following best define text’s context?
All statements describe analyzing a text through a biographical context except
In analyzing a text based on its biographical context, a reader ________________.
Which of the following questions may be asked when examining a literary text through sociocultural context?
Elena is a firm believer of women’s rights and feminism. Their teacher asked them to write a sociocultural critique on Romeo and Juliet. Which of the following should Elena do?
If a biographical approach refers to the reading strategy one employs in reading a text, then biography refers to _________________.
Why is the historical context of the Diary of Anne Frank, a story of a Jewish girl in Nazi Germany, important?
Leyna is reading T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land.” Which of the following should she do to read it by examining its linguistic context?
Which of the following anecdotes intends to persuade readers?
It is a relatively new and popular type of contemporary world literature which uses illustrations and dialogue to create the story.
Which of the following pop culture Sci-Fi stories feature Neo who learned that life and humanexistence is controlled and is an illusion?
Who was Japan’s first recipient of Nobel Prize for Literature because of his mastery of psychologicalfiction?
What is a valid generalization about 21st century literary genres?
Which of the statements is TRUE?
How will you modernize a classical literary piece without losing its original sense?
Read the poem and then, answer the questions that follow.
What imagery is predominant in the lines of the poem?

Read the poem and then, answer the questions that follow.
Splendor in the 4th stanza is synonymous to?

The battering restlessness of the sea
Insists a tidal fury upon the beach
At Gabu, and its pure consistency
Havocs the wasteland hard within its reach
What does sea means?
The battering restlessness of the sea
Insists a tidal fury upon the beach
At Gabu, and its pure consistency
Havocs the wasteland hard within its reach
If you were the “sea” in the poem, why do you keep pursuing the shore?
To produce a literary adaptation of a story, one needs to apply his ICT skills. ICT means _____.
To make our multimedia presentation creative, we can import images, audio, and video clips to unique output, but we have to ________ avoid plagiarism.
It is a visual, stylized arrangement of words or tags within a textual content such as websites, articles,speeches and databases
It is an electronic device for recording, copying, replaying, broadcasting and displaying of moving visual media.