Department of Education Region V Division of Camarines Sur CALABANGA NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL Sta. Cruz, Calabanga, Camarines Sur
1st QUARTER EXAMINATION 21ST Century Literature I. Identify what is asked in each item. Choose the letter of your answer and write it on your answer sheet. 1. Annie wrote a story of of what happened to her yesterday. She inserted additional twist to make it creative and interesting. What is the general literary genre of the text? a. Fiction b. Non-fiction c. Poetry d. Short Story 2. Maryanne Moll : Writer : : Annie: ___________ a. Character b. Author c. Persona d. Writer 3. These are the series of events in the story which includes the characters’ actions that relate to the central conflict. a. Character b. Theme c. Setting d. Plot 4. It is an approach in understanding literature that examines the subjugation of women in the society and how they are personified in literature. a. Patriarchy b. Conformism c. Feminism d. Authoritarianism 5. It defies the stereotype representation of women grounded on the idea that they are only secondary to men. Instead, men and women are equal. a. Feminism b. Radical c. Liberal d. Negative 6. It is the portrayal of women as free from the patriarchy. a. Feminism b. Radical c. Liberal d. Negative 7. It is the belief that men are controlling the society, thus, superior. a. Feminism b. Radical c. Liberal d. Patriarchy 8. The photographs are in sepia color of secret and regret. What does the statement mean? a. The picture is colored sepia and is old. b. Only the people in the picture knows things that the viewer will never understand. c. Things portrayed by the photos in sepia are only for the past and needs to be kept. d. It is sepia because the situation in the picture are not important. 9. This refers to the greenish square of steaming glutinous rice wrapped in banana leaves to be eaten during merienda. a. Palitaw b. Suman c. Latik d. Tinuktok 10. This is the assumed place of the story At Merienda which is a third class municipality in Partido. a. Caramoan b.Tigaon c. Goa d. Lagonoy 11. This is the system of owning lands to control power in a certain places. a. Anarchy b. Feudalism c. Confucianism, d. Imperialism 12. This is the social sytem that segregates the rich from the poor by assigning places based on social classes. a. Nirvana b. Chaste c. Caste d. Haste 13. This law requires the landlords to redistribute their lands that exceed the maximum allowable size of property per individual to their tenants and servants. a. VAWC b. CARP c. R.A. 9269 d. None of the above 14. The following are the genre of the story At Merienda EXCEPT: a. Fiction b. Memoir c. Autobiography d. Journal 15. The genre is popularized by a Canadian Laureate known as ________. a. Matt Monro b. Alice Monroe c. Alice Munro d. Marilyn Monroe Prepared by MARLENE A. RAMOS, SHS Department
II. Explain the lines from the story At Merienda as briefly as you can while following the instructions after the given lines. 16-20. The weight that used to settle on my shoulders and had sometimes drawn blood is now gone. It has turned itself into a f ine mist that has all but disappeared. Where has all the weight gone when I kept it all myself all these years? Only time in its eternal jest, can know. If you are the persona, how will you tell this using your own words?
21-25. Never a wrong crease, never a missed meal, never a speck of dirt on the children’s faces. Explain the line using feminism.
26-30. In the story, Annie learned that he had a brother who died in the cold, ta table. When we experience death, why do we put our memories in some place or control them? Why not face them?
Before you marry, you should open your eyes wide because marriage is the time to close them. 31-35. Gaps are places in the text where readers are invited to make connections by drawing on their “common sense” understanding of the world. Cite one gap from the line above and explain.
36-40. Silences are places where the texts keep silent or makes no mention of a certain group or topics. Who or what are missing from the text? What was not mentioned from the text? Give what the line above is silent about.
41-45. In the story, the characters, especially Bita, is very fond of acknowledging the presence of cobwebs that did not exist. What gaps and silences in the society do cobwebs are like? What are the things or ideas in the society that do not really exist or is not really a problem but is always acknowledged and was given attention to? Give one gap and one silence.
45-50. If you are going to write about silences and gaps, what will you write (poem, story, novel, song, essay, autobiography) and what will it be specifically about (example: poverty in Bicol)?
Prepared by MARLENE A. RAMOS, SHS Department
