SEPTEMBER 2023

ENGLISH MAJORSHIP

1. Which is the first step in preparing a lesson in literature?

A. Text selection: relevance, interesting to learners and appropriate to student’s
comprehension level.
B. Length: shorter text may be easier to use.
C. Cultural difficulty: text should not be culturally dense and not loaded with many unfamiliar
cultural experiences.
D. Cultural appropriacy: learners should not be offended by textural content.

2. It is a shared belief that literature holds a prominent role in the children’s personal
development because it is a source of _________ for young learners.
A. personal conviction
B. personal growth
C. career growth
D. cerebral honing

3. What is the theme of this African proverb?

"On the way to one's beloved there are no hills."
A. Real love knows no boundaries.
B. Sacrifice is the gauge of true love.
C. Obstacles make a relationship strong.
D. True love is tested by difficulties.

4. What is the social issue of the story Magnificent by Estrella Alfon?

A. Teacher’s compassionate love
B. Human Rights
c. Sexism
d. Child Abuse

5. What is the point of view of the “Happiest Boy in the World” by N.V.M. Gonzales?
A. Third person
B. Third person limited
C. First person
D. Second person
7. In the literary text, "Doctor Faustus" by Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus submits
himself to the devil while God patiently waits for his repentance until it is too late. What
compelling truth does this show about humanity? Humans consistently embrace sins
A. as a trap for eternal damnation
B. and intentionally forget its effect
C. and successfully get the desired effect
D. and live life at its finest

8. What atmosphere do these lines create?

"The grave's a fine and private place. But none, I think, do there embrace.”
A. Warmth
B. Solitude
C. Peacefulness
D. Apprehension

9. What do the following lines depict about Life?

"We live as we dream-alone. While the dream disappears, life continues painfully.
-Excerpt from Heart of Darkness from Joseph Conrad
A. We dream that which is further from our reach.
B. We dream an unattainable dream.
C. We aspire but there is no one to share that dream with.
D. We continue living despite the dreams we did not reach.

16. What is the recurring motif of Edgar Allan Poe's poems based on "Annabel Lee".
A. Gothic
B. Superstitions
C. Rural/ pastoral Life
D. Industrial progression

11. Which of the following does NOT describe William Faulkner's literary texts?
A. Uses rich Baroque style
B. Utilizes different POVs
C. Makes use of Harlem Renaissance motif
D. Uses Yoknapatawpha County as an imagined landscape in most novels.

12. It is the era of Shakespeare

a. Elizabeth II
b. Elizabeth I
c. Queen Victoria
d. Faire Queen

13. William Sydney Porter is the author of Gift of Magi and the famous The Last leaf. What is
his
pseudonym?
a. George Eliot
b. O. Henry
c. e.e. cummings
d. Mary Ann Evans

14. Paul Bunyan and Bernardo Carpio are tales that depict a greatly exaggerated or
particularly imaginative story or account of something or someone such as an extraordinary
person doing extra ordinary things. What type of tale is it?
A. Realistic tales
B. Humorous tales
C. Folktales
D. Tall tales

15. Which of the following shows the use of intransitive verb?

A. I can’t believe the rain lasted for twelve hours.
B. The rain was a downpour.
C. The schools were flooded yesterday.
D. It rained cats and dogs last night.

16. Which of the following is NOT an intensive verb?

A. repair
B. seem
C. turn
D. become

17. ________ the pandemic, I managed to be strong and positive.

A. Despite
B. Despite of
C. Inspite from
D. Inspite of

18. What is an example of compound word?

A. Full moon
B. Shine star
C. Barking dog
D. Making noise

19. Which question is correct?

A. How much is time needed?
B. How much time is needed?
C. How much is the time needed?
D. How much needed is time?

20. They take pictures_____ the garden.

a. On
b. at
c. by
d. in

21. For two weeks now, our professor in World Literature has untiringly ______ about the
importance of submitting subject requirements on time.

a. spoken
b. spoke
c. have been speaking
d. did speak

22. Which sentence shows the correct combination of tenses of verbs?

a. I had just put the washing out when it starts to rain.
b. The train had left when I arrived at the station.
 c. Arch had gone out when I had arrived in the office.
d. I had saved my document before the computer crashes.

23. Which sentence is grammatically incorrect?

a. I have watched it the other day
b. The students had gathered at the quadrangle with their placard when the principal
entered
c. By the time he graduated, his parents will already have left for New Zealand.
d. He lived in his ancestral home in the countryside during his last year

24. Did the public secondary teachers from NCR _____ at the hotel for a seminar?
a. have convened
b. convened
c. Convene
d. has convened

25. Driving is my pastime hobby. The underlined word is what type of verbal______?
a. Subject
b. Gerund
c. Progressive tense
d. Infinitive

26. The ruined resort is still popular to tourists. The underlined word functions as____________
.
a. Gerund
b. Infinitive
c. Participle
d. Past tense

27. Gerund is always singular.

a. True
b. Partly false
c. False
d. Party true

28. Most versatile as it could be used as noun, adjectives, or adverbs

a. Subject
b. Gerund
c. Progressive tense
d. infinitive
29. The wife is grieving because her husband _____ away
a. Past
b. Passed
c. Has passed
d. Had passed

30. The child’s parent ______ get the new ID: which modal verb show strong obligation?
a. Could
b. Should
c. Might
d. Must
31. Which pair of verbs will correctly complete the following sentence? If I _____ that learning
Russian was going to be so difficult, I _____ that course.
a. knew / will never take
b. knew / would never have taken
c. know / would never take
d. had known / would never have taken

32. In the sentence “ the red roses given as a birthday gift by my best friend really smells
sweet” Which adjective is predicative?
a. red
b. birthday
c. best
d. Sweet
33. In the sentence “The cake given as a birthday gift by my best friend was sweetly baked.”
The underlined word functions as?
a. Predicative adjective
b. adjective
 c. adverb
d. object complements
34. In the sentence, The club meeting will be in an hour, the underlined phrase functions as?
a. subject complement
b. predicate noun
c. prepositional phrase
d. adverbial
35. The three-part type of phrasal verb is also called?
a. Transitive Phrasal Verb
b. Intransitive Phrasal Verb
c. Separable Phrasal Verb
d. Ditransitive Verb
36. You can sleep on the beach or in the woods. The sentence has conjoined_______
a. Clauses
b. predicates
c. verb phrases
d. prepositional phrases

37. He came by the office in a big hurry. The word “by” functions as ___________.

a. preposition
b. adverb
c. participle
d. particle
38. Which of the following sentence does not have a linking verb?
a. The tall building appears haunted
b. The principal is very busy observing classes.
c. The ugly bud becomes a beautiful flower after two days.
d. The class is working on a science project.

39. What type of error is shown in this sentence?

They weren't dangerous criminals they were detectives in disguise.
a. Verbosity/wordy
b. Run – on
 c. Dangling modifier
d. Misplaced modifier
40. Which sentence has a ditransitive verb?
a. He ran away.
b. We were happily chatting under the tree.
c. I bought myself flower.
d. She put a rocking chair on the lawn
41. Noun, verb, adjective, adverb - focuses on content or meaning of the word
a. Function words
b. Grammatical morpheme
c. Closed class
d. Open class
42.That Dan won the essay contest surprised me. That functions as?
a. Demonstrative pronoun
b. Relative pronoun
c. Adjective
d. adverb
43. What is the correct usage of the word good?
A. Mel sings good.
B. The cake tastes good.
C. I cook the dish good.
d. The students recite the verse so good
44. That is my bag. That functions as?
a. Demonstrative pronoun
b. Demonstrative adjective
c. Adjective
d. Relative pronoun

45. To top the exam is my goal.

a. Subject
b. Gerund
c. Progressive tense
d. Infinitive
46. Annoying him is my pastime – Verbal - Participle
The annoying tourist is smiling. – Verbal - Gerund.
a. Sentence 1 false; sentence 2 false
b. Sentence 1 true; sentence 2 true
c. Sentence 1 false; sentence 2 true
d. Sentence 1 true; sentence 2 false
47. The airplane flies fast. Fast functions as?
a. adjective
b. adverb
c. Particle
d. Participle
48. The fast airplane flies north. Fast functions as?
a. Adjective
b. Adverb
c. Particle
d. Participle
49. What is the correct usage of the word “well”
A. Are you well?
B. The garden looks well.
C. I feel well today.
D. Janiero and Rica work well together.
50. Learners who have social communication skills have also acquired proficiency in language
use academically.
A. True
B. Partly True
C. False
D. Partly False

51. What language can be considered as high-status language?

A. Majority Language
B. Dominant Language
C. Universal Language
D. Lingua Franca
52. Which principle in grammar teaching is applicable for ESP context?
A. Using a structural syllabus.
 B. Focusing on forms.
C. Teaching structures related to language functions.
D. Emphasizing the parts of speech.
53. BICS: skill needed in everyday social face to face interactions; CALP: _________.
a. Skills needed in interpersonal communication.
b. Skills used in informal settings to build relationships.
c. Skills used in the classroom in various content areas.
d. Skills needed to perform tasks beyond the school setting.
54. If you ask a translator to translate a text at the same time to verbalize his/her thoughts as
much as possible, which method do you use?
A. Thought processing
B. Cognitive processing
C. Read aloud.
D. Think aloud
55. What is the noun-forming suffix should be added to form verbs?
A. -ness
B. -cious
C. -ly
D. -ment (Appointment, Enjoyment, Commencement)
56. What semantic notion is given by inflectional morphemes on verbs?
A. Intensity and affinity
B. Degree
C. Gender and case
D. Tense and number

57. What type of morpheme is used

True vs UN true
paint vs RE paint
A. Bound Morpheme
B. Free Morpheme
C Inflectional morpheme
d. Cranberry morpheme
58. Which of the following has no derivational morpheme?
 A. kindness
B. hippopotamus
c. appointment
d. kingdom
59. Which is free morpheme in the word UNSTOPPABLE
A. Un
B. Able
C. Stop
D. Ble
60. A listener taps into his background knowledge of the topic in order to understand a
listening text. What strategy does he use?
A. Making predictions
B. Bottom-up strategy
C. Top-down strategy
D. Deciding what is and what is not important to understand.
61. Which process of listening requires the learners to use their background knowledge to
understand the meaning of the text listened to?
A. Bottom-up
B. Semantic cueing
C. Top-down
D. Synthetic cueing
62. The goal of critical listening is to judge the quality of a message to decide whether to
accept or reject it. Which of the following should NOT be done in critical listening?
A. Be opportunistic.
B. Evaluate the speaker's credibility.
C. Listen for information before evaluating.
D. Examine the speaker's evidence and examine emotional appeals.
63. Listening requires comprehension of the speaker's intended message. What else is the
requirement for listening process?
A. Social competence
B. Discourse competence
C. Emotional competence
D. Command over minor components of the language.
64. Which BEST describes the Peer-Assisted Reading Method?
A. It is an interactive teaching strategy that promotes text comprehension.
B. Peer-Assisted Reading Method is a schema-building technique that uses a pictorial
storyboard map for a graphic organizer.
 C. It focuses on words and phrases that students must know to function while shopping,
employed, enjoying recreation and at home.
D. Students are paired with one low achieving reader and one high achieving reader, and
the reading material should be at the lower level.
65. Grammar can be taught in two different ways. Which approach must be used if one
wishes to start with an example then the rules?
A. Constructivist Learning Approach
B. Deductive Approach
C. Inductive Approach
D. Inquiry Based Learning Approach
66. What is the purpose of Stylistic Approach in teaching literature?
A. It translates text using LI.
B. It incorporates moral values in lessons.
C. It raises students' awareness of values derived from the text.
D. It encourages students to discuss beyond the surface meaning of the text.
67. Which is a type of play where the plot and characters are symbols of something else and
which illustrates a moral or philosophical unit?
A. Farce
B. Drama
C. Allegory
D. Tragicomedy
68. Japanese poetry with 5 lines.
A. Tanka
B. Haiku
C. Renga
D. Chokka

69, It is an epic story of the Ilocano people from the Ilocos region of the Philippines. It is
notable for being the first Philippine folk epic to be recorded in written form.
A. Biag ni Lam-Ang
B. Aliguyon
C. indarapatra at Sulayman
D. Handiong
70. A Lenten play that depicts events from the Old and New Testaments related to the life,
sufferings, and death of Jesus Christ.
A. Panunuluyan
B. Cenakulo
c. Dalit kay Maria
d. Barlaan at Josaphat

71. In using quotations and paraphrases in news, which should be observed?

A. Alternate quotations and paraphrases
B. Start with paraphrases.
C. Avoid using them, if possible
D. Start with quotations.

72. Which is TRUE about editorial cartoons?

A. They must contain familiar symbolisms.
B. They must be related to the editorial. not always
C. They must be abstract.
D. They must not contain words.

73. If researchers are interested in conducting a study of ex-convicts, it could be difficult to

find a large sample of people who would be willing to come forward to be in the study. But if
researchers can find just a few ex-convicts to be in the study, they could ask each of them to
recruit additional people they may know who also ex-convicts are. What Survey sampling is it
in which you can apply in case respondents are difficult to find?
a. selective
b. snowballing
c. quota
d. random sampling

74. Ms. Venus asked the students to fill in the blanks with the correct pronoun? What test did
she use?
A. Cloze
B. C-Cloze
C. Hot spot
D. Text Numeric

75. In teaching English for international understanding, communicative competence equates

to a
blend of factors concerning cultural and linguistic competence. Which does not equate to
__________ competence?
A. Competence and Performance
B. Rules of Grammar and Rules of Use
C. Rules of Grammar and Usage
D. Usage and use

76. If a person can speak another language aside from his/her home language, he/she is
___________.
A. Multicultural
B. Multilingual
C. Bilingual
D. Pluralingual

77. Based on flood myth, what is the correct arrangement of the following ___
I. Sign
II. Cause
III. Survivor
IV. Size
A. II, I, III, IV b. III, I, II, IV C. IV, I, III, II D. II, I, IV, III

78. Along the town of the coastal road were hit by the storm. What function word used
describes hit?
A. Were
B. The
C. adding S
d. by

79. Row, row, row your boat

Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream…
What are the rhyming words?
A. Merrily -merrily
b. Stream- dream
c. Row-row
d. Boat- life
80. Row, row, row your boat
Gently down the stream
Merrily merrily, merrily, merrily
Life is but a dream…
What is the meaning of the rhyme?
A. Life
B. Love
C. Hope
D. Adventure

81. What conflict is seen in Harry Potter and Sorcerer’s Stone?

A. Voldemort Harry stops from stealing the stone.
B. Harry stops Voldemort from stealing the stone.
C. Harry rejects the offer of help from the Ministry of Magic and the Order of the Phoenix
D. Harry, Hermione and Ron face danger from the Death Eaters

82. Which would you suggest to your student journalist to help him/her in writing a quote
story?
A. Write a summarizing lead in any appropriate form.
B. Make the summary arrangement short.
C. Write the story side by side with its mother story.
D. Make sure to give first brief news of the event.

82. In news writing, active tense is preferred particularly in writing headlines. Which headline
gets immediate attention?
I. Golden State Warriors Beats Miami Heat
II. New York Knicks Lost to Oklahoma City Thunder
III. 3 Million Students Entered Public School Today

a. III only b. I and II

c. II only d. I only
83. What is the problem with the following lead? “The school board adopted new regulations
Tuesday that will affect all students and parents.”

a. It lacks attribution.
c. It is too specific and should be more general.
b. It should use present tense verbs.
d. It is too general and lacks specific details.

84. The sentence below is an example of lead which may be found in the following EXCEPT:
“Aside from police officers, ordinary workers nationwide may also enjoy a much-needed salary
increase before year-end.”
a. straight news b. feature story
c. Editorial d. news feature

85. Leads often omit the names of the people involved in news stories because _____.
a. their identities are less important than what happened
b. ethical journalists always omit the names of people involved in news events.
c. the names are best left to the last paragraph of the story
d. no one will care who is involved

86. Aside from being the official stand of the paper on a relevant development or issue, which
of the following supports the definition of an editorial article?
a. It is an opinion which the public clamor about.
b. It is a concerted commentary written by any member of the staff.
c. It is written by the editor-in-chief
d. It is the opinion of the newspaper publisher

87. *Next to the newspaper's masthead/flag, what is the most significant item in the front
page of the newspaper?

A. Banner Headline b. Lead c. Kicker d. Cutline

88. Which of the following is the best example of headline?

a. Drilon: Bats for Con-Con
b. DepEd rolls out Senior High School
c. Self-reliance and discipline up at Baguio confab
d. Filipino citizens go out to vote for

89. First step in technical writing

A. Outlining
B. Gather information.
C. Draft
d. Copyread

90. The following are examples of Intertextuality in Literature except.

A. The main plotline of Disney's The Lion King is a take on Shakespeare's Hamlet.
B. The structure of James Joyce's Ulysses is modeled after Homer's Odyssey
c. William Golding, in his novel Lord of the Flies, takes the story implicitly from Gullivers
Travel.
D. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series makes use of T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone, C. S.

91. Which is true about ESP

A. ESP is context based than EGP.
B. ESP is focused on structure.
C. ESP is content specific.
D. ESP targets foreign learners.

92. Not stylistics analysis in NO LEFT TURN.

A. The vocabulary is technical.
B. The sentence is caps locked for emphasis.
C. The sentence has no punctuations.
D. The sentence is commanding.

93. To ensure proper implementation of K-12 curriculum, the following pedagogical

approaches,
as stated in section 5 of R. A 10533, should only be used EXCEPT:

a. progressive
b. reflective
c. constructive
d. integrative
94. These are the language arts domains that teachers should give more emphasis on and
that should be stressed specially for the K-3 level?
I. Phonological Awareness
II. Book and Print Knowledge
III. Phonic and word recognition
IV. Writing and composition
V. Vocabulary development

a. I,II,V b. II,III,IV c. I, II,III, IV d. I, II,III

95. The following are the texts you may choose to teach Philippine epic except?
A. Ramayana
B. Bidasari
C. Ibong Adarna
D. Indarapatra at Sulayman

96.What text will you choose to teach Philippine folktale?

A. Ramayana
B. Bidasari
C. Ibong Adarna
D. Indarapatra at Sulayman

97. What is the theme or concept of “Five Brother’s, One Mother” By: Exie L.A Abola”?
A. love and aspiration
B. family and home
c. Siblings bond
D. Mother knows best.

98. Which slang words in English language are common today?

I. Lit
II. Ghosted
III. Vibe check
IV. Caught in 3k
a. II, III, & IV
b. I, II & III
c. III & IV
d. I & II

99. Based on a series of in-depth interviews with Gen Z, this current word used to describe
things that are “really awesome, really cool, amazing”

a. lit b. Rn c. ship d. All g

100. As part of the Phillpines history, Tadbalik refers to the word reversal or as the 'tadbalik'
style of wording. How does this word lodi be translated to English?

a. Werpa b. petmalu c. omsi d. idol

102. Who manages the stage lights?

A. Stage director
B. Stage manager
C. Stage producer
D. Playwright

103. What is the correct pitch for "Have confidence in yourself"?

A. 123
B. 321
C. 213
D. 231

104. In providing a list, what word/s use rising intonation)

A. First word only
B. Last word only
C. All except last
D. All except first
105. What do we call to the myths or collection of myths of a group of people from specific/
the same region?
A. Myths
B. Myth
C. Pure Mythology
D. Mythology

106. “It was the best of time, it was the worst of time. It was the age of wisdom, it was the
age of foolishness…,” in this opening line of the novel The Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
used ________________.

a. Juxtaposition
b. Paradox
c. Antimetabole
d. Foreshadowing

107. Which folktales are rhythmic with a narrative that builds upon itself, adding on and
repeating previous information?
A. Humorous
B. Realistic
C. Pourquois
D. Cumulative

108. How is the relationship of the given words called? Make noise, save time, do the dishes
A. Logical link
B. Idioms
C. Collocations
D. Lexical pairs

109. Which word in the choices does NOT collocate with “party”?
“He is _____ a party on Friday night.”
a. having
b. planning
c. throwing
d. making
110. A child begins to say words, phrases, and sentences by imitating what he/she hears
without
a teacher giving lesson on __________ or _______.
A. language structure; language use
B. language learning; literacy development
C. concepts; processes in learning language
D. grammar; sentence structure

111. Which are the purpose of technical writing?

I. To give instructions
II. To furnish research proposals
III. To record business transactions
IV. To furnish needed information
A. I, III, & IV
B. II, III, & IV
C. I & II
D. III & IV

112. Teaching word formation using compounding, which examples do you present?
I. greenhouse II. Sometimes III. Downstream IV, downy
a. I, II, and III
b. II, III, and IV
c. III, and IV
d. I and II

113. What is the intertextual reading of literature?

A. The connection of all the various forces of past and present literary works.
B. The communication and relationship between literary texts.
C. The complex relationships that exist between authors.
D. The expression of shared experiences to influence the readers’ minds.

114. Which is one of the main themes of contemporary literature?

A. Trials and Triumph
B. Success and Failure
C. Good vs. Evil
D. Pessimism vs. Optimism

115. There are three prosodic features of a language. These are tone or intonation, stress,
and
_______.
A. segment
B. glide
C. juncture
D. phoneme

116. Which of the following make the conduct of remedial instruction in English successful?
I. Provision of diversified teaching activities
II. Maximization of students’ involvement
III. Presence of a rich, pleasant learning environment
IV. Giving importance to teachers’ preferred strategies
A. II and III
B. II, III, and IV
C. I and IV
D. I, II, and III

117.All of the following options are the characteristics of the Philippines literature during the
Propaganda and Revolution Period EXCEPT ___________.
A. Amateurish, phrasing, and diction were awkward and unnatural
B. Directed to the masses instead of the “intelligentsia”
C. Language shifted from Spanish to English
D. Planted seeds of nationalism in Filipino

118. Which refers to the study of meaningful units of language that analyzes the structure of
words and parts of words?
A. Morphology
B. Phonics
C. Syntax
D. Phonology
119. Which is a type of play where the plot and characters are symbols of something else and
which illustrates a moral or philosophical unit?
A. Farce
B. Drama
C. Allegory
D. Tragicomedy

120. What is the recurring motif of Edgar Allan Poe’s Poems based on “Annabel Lee”.
A. Gothic
B. Rural/Pastoral Life
C. Superstitions
D. Industrial Progression

121. Theory which is concerned on motivation and ethno-language.

A. Monitor Model
B. Pidginization
C. Accommodation
D. Nativization

122. Some modern movies have characters reflecting the original mythological characters.
Which technique is used by these movies?
A. Symbolism
B. Metaphor
C. Allusion
D. Apostrophe

124. Stories that tell origin of the world, phenomena of nature?

A. Homoioteleuton
B. Polyptoton
C. Paronomasias
D. Bronfenbrenner’s ecological theory

123. What is one major characteristic of the Grammar Translations Method (GTM)?
a. It uses the mother tongue as target of instruction
b. It uses the target language as the medium of instruction
c. Conversational vocabularies are introduced in the class.
 d. Mimicry is the focus of classroom

125. Which among the following is a feature of Direct Method?

a. Classes are taught in the Mother Tongue
b. Complex vocabulary is introduced in the class.
c. Grammar is taught inductively
d. All of the above

126. Which is usually done when a teacher uses the Audio-lingual Method in second language
teaching?
a. Real-word conversations
b. Reading classical literature
c. Responding in the target language
d. Repetitive drills

127. Which design method in teaching the language is affective-based?

a. Community Language Learning
b. Suggestopedia
c. Silent Way
d. Natural Approach

128. Which designer method relies on the dramatic/theatrical nature of language learning?
a. Suggestopedia
b. Silent Way
c. Natural Approach
d. Total Physical Response

129. What could be a downside of using the natural Approach in teaching the language?
a. It may not foster students to advance (TPR) competence.
b. It may be too harsh for the students and teachers may be too distant from them
c. It may not be helpful for those students who have speaking impairment
d. It may lead to teachers being to nondirective when teaching

130. As an informed approach, communicative language teaching (CLT) makes use of key
factors of previous language teaching methods, which is considered the main goal of CLT?
a. Focus on learners’ vocabulary
 b. Focus on learners’ fluency
c. Focus on learners’ accuracy
d. All of the above

131. What is the recurring motif of literary texts during the Romantic Movement in England
a. Voyage
b. Human folly
c. Rural scenery
d. Superstitious

132. What does this excerpt reveal about Vicentes’ character in Magnificence by Estrella
Alfon?
a. Concern
b. Goal oriented
c. Persistent
d. Malicious

133. In William’s Blake Ah Sunflower, what do flowers symbolize?

a. Continuous struggles in life
b. Human's utmost care of one’s soul
c. Passage of time
d. Human and their desires for everlasting life

134. The first recorded drama in the Philippines was a comedia written by Fr. Vicente Puche
was performed in?
a. Manila
b. Batangas
c. Pampanga
d. Cebu

137. Who can be considered as the “ Bret Harte” of the Philippines?

a. Jose Garcia Villa
b. Manuel Arguilla
c. Francisco Balagtas
d. Nick Joaquin
138. Herriet Beecher Stowe “Uncle Tom’s Cabin inspired which famous Filipino literary
masterpiece?
a. Dekada 70
b. El Filibusterismo
c. America is in the Heart
d. Noli Me Tangere

139. What is the oldest extant English newspaper in the Philippines?

a. Manila Times
b. Manila Bulletin
c. Philippine Daily Inquirer
d. El Liliputiense

140. Bodabil was introduced in the Philippines during the Philippine Literary Period?
a. Spanish
b. American
c. New Society
d. Japanese

141. Gonzalo “I attached myself to nothing and to nobody” What character trait does Gonzalo
reveal in this except from Guerrero “ Three RATS.”
a. Shyness
b. Indifference
c. Pride
d. Boldness

142. The first novel written by a Filipino after World War II.
a. The Filipino Rebel
b. Without Seeing the Dawn
c. Literature and Society
d. The Woman who had two navels

143. The 1st Filipino novel written in English.

a. Dead Stars
b. A Child of Sorrow
 c. Like the Molave
d. Desire

144. It is considered to be the first Tagalog novel.

a. Bariaan at Josaphat
b. Urbana at Feliza
c. Pasyon
d. Ang mga Dalit kay Maria

145. In which type of novel are real people represented in the guise of fictional characters?
a. Picaresque novel
b. Epistolary
c. Roman a chef
d. Duex ex machine

146. If a critic views the story of Alice in Wonderland as a work of many sexual symbolism,
he/she is using?
A. Reader-response
B. Psychoanalysis
C. Deconstruction
D. Feminism

147. Which character is created to contradict another character and invite the audience to
rethink?
A. Antagonist
B. Protagonist
C. Foil
D. Flat

148. In classical Greek or Latin poetry, what do you call the poetic foot which consists of two
unaccented syllables?
A. Anapestic
B. Dactylic
C. Pyrrhic
D. Spondaic
149. ‘if’ is a familiar poem by Rudyard Kipling. What value is exhorted in these lines?

“If you can walk with kings and not lose the common touch, you are a man my son” It’s the
value of ________.

A. Purity and charity

B. Gentle manhood and desire
C. Great humility
D. Self-respect and courage

150.Glorious to hold,
she wakes the world of men,
Riding ahead, Opening the away
Spreading light at the break of day-
Ancient Mythology “ She” in the passage refers to:

A. Kali
B. Dawn
C. Night
D. Varuna

151. All of the following are reason why Lope K. Santos is considered as the Father of Tagalog
Grammar, EXCEPT:
A. He wrote the first Tagalog dictionary, “Tagalog Vocabulary”
B. He wrote Banaag at Sikat. Considered as the Bible of the Filipino Working Class
C. He founded the group TANIW in 1952
D. His last request on his deathbed was to establish Tagalog as the national language.

152. It is considered as the first bilingual newspaper in the Philippines

A. Kalayaan
B. El Liliputiense
C. La Solidaridad
D. Diariong Tagalog

153. In the judgment of Paris, who among the following did Paris choose as the fairest of all
the three goddesses and be awarded Eris’ apple of discord?
A. Aphrodite
B. Hera
C. Athena
D. Hestia

154. Who among the following sided with the Greeks during the Trojan war?
A. Apollo
B. Aphrodite
C. Athena
D. Poseidon

155. The following options correctly describe Hades EXCEPT:

A. God of the Underworld
B. God of Death
C. Wealthiest god
D. King of the Dead

156. Who is the Father of Romantic Poetry?

A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
B. William Wordsworth
C. William Shakespeare
D. Robert Browning

157. Symbolically, what does the sea represent in literature

A. vastness
B. dominion
C. Life and death
D. fatalism

158. How were American soldiers portrayed in the story We Filipinos are Mild Drinkers by
Alejandro R. Roces
A. Ten strong
B. Unmindful of Filipinos
C. Strong and heavy drinkers
D. Proud and heavy drinkers
159. Carla was listening to jot down notes about facts and figures dictated by the teacher.
What listening did Carla apply?
a. Appreciative
b. Comprehensive
c. Informative
d. Critical

160. Eric and Mia are seriously talking about the possible implementation of hyflex/hybrid
learning at the school where they are currently teaching. Rey who is sitting beside them tries
to formulate her conclusion from the pieces of information she heard from the two. What
listening comprehension skills is she applying?
a. Drawing inferences
b. Making predictions
c. Informative
d. Critical listening

161. This happens when the speaker unconsciously uses some linguistic aspects of his native
language to the target language he is learning.
a. Language interference
b. Intelligibility
c. Pronunciation
d. Comprehensibility

162. This is the most appropriate “while listening” activity for a text describing a family tree
with three generations .
a. Completing a family tree
b. Writing down names
c. Listening attentively
d. Marginal listening

163. One of categories of listening strategies is ____________.

A. System
b. contextual
c. Schematic
d. metacognition
164. All are goals of teaching reading except:
a. Understanding text organization
b. Vocabulary development
c. Reading comprehension
d. Inferential reading

165. After listening to the music played, Teacher Erica asked her students to include omitted
words or phrases they did not hear or were muted. In What one-way listening task does this
fall?
a. Restored text
b. Restoration
c. Reconstruction
d. evaluation

166. Mr. Quevedo asked his students to produce different consonant sounds. First, he told the
students to form sounds by completely obstructing the stream of air with either their lips or
their tongues and then suddenly releasing it. He taught them to produce _____________.
a. Fricatives
b. Affricates
c. Nasals
d. Plosives

167. To address listening comprehension problems what must teachers in the remedial class
do?
a. Train students in various types of listening
b. Train students in predicting and inferring strategies
c. Train students by asking them to listen native speakers
d. Train students in distinguishing between British and American English

168. Which of the following is not a writing difficulty addressed in remedial writing classes?
a. Poor knowledge of word and sentence structure
b. Fragmented and poorly organized topic knowledge
c. Inability to sense sound and letter correspondence
d. Limited vocabulary range and poor word attack skills

169. Schema Theory is about:

I. generalized description of knowledge
II. Conceptual system for understanding
III. Units of knowledge
IV. One’s own comprehension
a. I & III
b. III only
c. I, II, III, IV
d. I, II, III

170
II. inflectional morphemes could be prefix, suffix, inflix
a. Statement I – False; statement II - true
b. Statement I – true; statement II - true
c. Statement I – true; statement II – true
d. Statement I – False; statement II – false

171. Set, ear, mole, are words with many possible meanings, in what forms of ambiguity do
these words fall?
a. Homonymy
b. Heteronomy
c. Polysemy
d. Polysymous

172. The statement “Will you go?” has a tendency to be interpreted in various means? This
can be considered as?
a. Explicit performatives
b. Implicit performatives
c. Direct illocutionary
d. Indirect illocutionary

173. I felt the need __________ the need to stop being looked down again.
a. Dash ( – ) em dash
b. Semi- colon (;) – connect phrases, sentences, longer group of words
c. Colon (:) – to begin an enumeration, listing ideas
 d. Comma (,) – connect words, ideas

174. These are the newly added Filipino words in 2016 Oxford English Dictionary
a. Lechon, pancit, puto, kare kare, suman, balut
b. Lechon, paksiw, puto, kare kare, leche flan, balut
c. Lechon, pancit, puto, kare kare, leche flan, balut
d. Lechon, pancit, puto, kare kare, paksiw, balut

175. What type of sonnet is exemplified in the first four lines of Milton’s poem

when I consider how my light is spent

ere half my days, in this dark world and wide
and that one talent which is death to hide
lodged with me useless, though my soul more bent

a. Elizabethan
b. English
c. Petrarchan
d. Spenserian

176. According to the speaker in Sandburg’s “Chicago” how would most others describe the
city they tell you are a wicked and I believe them, for I have seen your painted women under
the gas lamps luring the farm boys.

a. Seducing
b. Amusing
c. Vibrant
d. immoral

177. The expressions ‘their boss might angry them for nothing’, ‘emptied the beers into their
open throats’, and ‘Our beer presents had already full up their heads’, are examples of the
use of __________and should not be seen as mistakes since they operate according to a
separate linguistic logic.

a. Pidgin
b. Creole
 c. Interlanguage
d. All of the above

178. Which of the following sentences is commissive?

A. I think this is a 40-carat gold.
B. I guarantee this is a 40-carat gold.
C. I guess this is a 40-carat gold.
D. believe this is a 40-carat gold.

179. The objective of giving phonological awareness test is to determine the learner's ability
to identify onsets and rimes. Which of the following words is the best example to present.
a. flu
b. tree
c. tea
d. can

180. Which principle in grammar teaching is applicable for ESP context?

a. Using structural syllabus
c. Teaching structures related to language functions
b. Emphasizing on the parts of speech
d. Focusing on forms

181. Virtually all languages have contrasts such as singular versus plural, and past versus
non-past. These contrasts are often marked with the help of _____.
a. inflection
b. derivation
c. conversion
d. dissimilitude

182. Which of the following pairs of words do NOT rhyme?

a. cry-buy
b. face-race
c. write-right
d. cunning-running
183. Which of the following statement defines COMPLEX word? A WORD consisting of
a. a base and one or more inflectional elements
b. a base and one or more derivational elements
c. a base and one or more inflectional and/or derivational elements
d. morphophonemic words

184. Mr. Dizon, the English Department head has observed that it is a common practice in
Miss San Juan’s grade 6 classes to have group learning activities that are interdependent,
socially structured, exchanges of information among students. What conclusion can be drawn
from his observation of Miss San Juan’s classes________?
a. cooperative
b. collaborative
c. content-based
d. task-based

185. "As the twig bend, so does the tree grow" what does it mean in relation to the phases of
curriculum development?
a. Phase1: planning
b. Phase2: content and method/designing
c. Phase3: implementation
d. Phase4: evaluation

186. What does the forest in A Midsummer Night's Dream symbolizes?

A. a place of wildness, lawless, and chaos
B. A place to battle with his fears
C. a place of civilization, law, and order
D. Losing innocence and virginity

187. "Cruel wall," they said, "why do you keep two lovers apart? But we will not be ungrateful.
We owe you, we confess, the privilege of transmitting loving words to willing, ears." What
does the wall symbolize?
a. the bridge that leads to the immature young lovers to their death
b. the hatred that has been carried by their families towards one another
c. the bridge that transmits their culture to the new generation
d. the hatred that divides Pyramus and Thisbe as well as the love that brings them together.
188. Arrange the following words in a cline?
1. Levitating 2. Pleased. 3. Indifferent. 4. Annoyed 5. Furious
A. 3,5,4,3,1
B. 2,1,3,4,5
C. 3,4,5,1,2
D. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

189. Which word combination will you teach your students if you are talking about half
rhymes?

a. Great-late b. rough-cough c. though-through d. bent-ant

190. It is expressing emotion in metered structure

A. lyric poem
B. narrative poem
C. tragedy
D. dramatic poetry

191. A traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining
some natural or social phenomenon
a. folktale
b.fable
c. myth
d. legend

192. They are the first parents of folktale?

A. Si Malakas at Si Maganda
B. Adam at Eve
C. Makisig at Maganda
D. Bathala at Babaylan
193. What does African oral tradition represent?
A. Emphasis on the rhythm and repetition of the language
B. An extraordinary potential for eliciting auditory images
C. Images of narrow applicability of human experiences
D. The essence of human experience shaped into rememberable images

194. Short stories are significant genres for teaching language because in short stories,
________
play authentically and symbolically as individuals do in their life.
A. antagonists
B. Narrators
C. Protagonists
D. Characters

195. In the literary text, “Doctor Faustus” by Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus submits
himself to the devil while God patiently waits for his repentance until its too late. What
compelling truth does this show about humanity?
A. Humans consistently embrace sins and successfully get their desired effects.
B. Humans consistently embrace sins and live life at its finest.
C. Humans consistently embrace sins and intentionally forget their effects.
D. Humans consistently embrace sins and trapped for eternal dominations.

196. Which approach in teaching literature examines how sexual identity influences the
creation
of literary works?
A. Biological Criticism
B. Constructionist Criticism
C. Psychological Criticism
D. Gender/Queer Criticism

197. Drama can raise the learner's awareness towards the target language and _______.
a. Structure
b. Functions
c. Perspectives
d. Culture
198. Orbit of beauty and love: Orbit of war and destruction. The Roman names of the goddess
of love and beauty and the god of wisdom and war?
A. Cupid and Psyche
B. Aphrodite and Ares
C. Venus and Jupiter
D. Hera and Apollo

199. In Greek Mythology, the Greeks built a huge wooden horse and left it at the gate of Troy.
What does the horse symbolize?
a. The City of Troy
b. A peace offering
c. Victory after a long siege
d. A strong warning

200. What is the focus of contemporary literature?

a. Imaginative characters and experiences
b. Political experiences of many nations
c. The society's continuous upheaval
d. Present values and beliefs of the society