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4th Quarter Examination in 21st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World

“Construct your determination with sustained effort, controlled attention and concentrated energy.
Opportunities never come to those who wait… they are captured by those who dare to attack.”
-Paul J. Meyer-
Name: Date:
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I. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Read the following statements below and choose the best answer from the given choices. Write the letter of
your answer on the space provided before the number.

____ 1. Who exactly is Annabel Lee in the narrator?

a. His Mother b. His wife c. His Sister d. His bestfriend
____ 2. Who is the author of "Annabel Lee"?
a. Walt Witman c. William Shakespear
b. Ernest Hemingway d. Edgar Allan Poe
____ 3. The tone of the poem can best be described as:
a. Nostalgic b. Ecstatic c. Melancholy d. Vehement
Nostalgic- a sentimental or wistful yearning for the happiness felt in a former place, time, situation
Ecstatic- expressing overwhelming happiness
Melancholy – having a feeling of sad and pensive
Vehement- showing strong feeling, forceful, passionate or intense

____4. In the poem Annabel Lee, the word sepulcher can best be defined as:
a. A morgue b. A castle c. A tomb d. A moat
____5. What is the author’s purpose for writing this poem?
a. To show the foolishness of young love
b. To teach the importance of letting someone go
c. To convey his sadness at the loss of his young love
d. to encourage others to pursue a loving relationship
____6. From the poem, what can the reader conclude about the narrator?
a. He is still greatly infatuated with Annabel Lee even after her death
b. He misses Annabel Lee but has moved on from her death
c. He wishes that he was dead in Annabel Lee’s place
d. His love for Annabel lee has started to fade
____7. In the excerpt The Tesseract, what are the two words that Sean mentioned?
a. McDonalds and Blood c. Milkshake and Beached jellyfish
b. Stains and Heat d. America and McDonalds
____8. Where was Tesseract takes place?
a. In Corregidor c. In Luneta Park
b. In Manila Bay d. In USA
____9. What does STAIN signify?
a. Overall sin c. death and violence
b. Heat found in the city d. dead marine life
____10. In the end, what does McDonald symbolize?
a. America b. stain c. heat d. culture
____11. Alex Garland: The Tesseract; Amy Tan:_________________
a. Love is a Strange Place c. Lengua Para Diablo
b. The Valley of Amazement d. The Good Body
____12. Amy Tan: The Valley of Amazement; Alessandro Bocceli: ____________
a. Silk c. Lengua Para Diablo
b. The Valley of Amazement d. The Good Body
____13. Alessandro Baricco: Silk; ______________: The Good Body
a. Alex Garland b. Bj Patino c. Eve Ensler d. Juan Luna
____14. He is the main character in the excerpt, Silk, where his mission is to smuggle silkworms in Japan.
a. Andrea Bocceli b. Herve Joncour c. Hara Kei d. Marco Polo
____15.People suffer from cognitive impairments, although some have typical or above average IQs.
a. Autism Spectrum Disorder c. Down Syndrome
b. Echolalia d. none of the above
____16. It is an excerpt from the novel, and the narrator is writing a murder mystery about who killed a dog in his
neighborhood.
a. The strange c. The silence of snow
b. Life and Death d. The Curious Incident of a dog in the Night-Time
____17. What will happen if Herve and the Japanese girl continue their relationship?
a. Hara Kei will let them go
b. The Japanese government will punish them
c. Hara Kei will kill them
d. None of the above
____18.There was a time when Japan was closed off from the world. This lasted for 200 years from the early
century to the year 1854. This policy was called_____________.
a. HaraKiri c. sakoku
b. Seppuku d. Xien Chen
____19.She is a playwright, performer and activist best known for her play The Vagina Monologue
a. Eve Ensler c. Lea Salonga
b. Hara Kei d. Imelda Papin
____20. What is Cosmo?
a. This is one of the most well-known women’s magazine in USA
b. It is a beauty product in Paris
c. An organization which promotes education in Tondo, Manila
d. None of the above
____21. Why do you think the title of the novel is “The Good Body?
a. To show what kind of bodies men like
b. To promote healthy diet and exercise
c. To promote healthy self-images regarding the body
d. To differentiate between good bodies and bad bodies.
____22. In the excerpt, The Good Body, what does COSMO symbolize?
a. Diverse standards of beauty
b. Western standards of beauty
c. Impossible standards of beauty
d. Hard-to-reach standards of beauty
____23. What is the explanation of the line, “She’s the American dream, my personal nightmare”?

a. The unrealistic body image that most women aspire to have.

b. People look down on others because of their weight.
c. The narrator dreamed to reach the standard of beauty, that they will be beautiful if they are thin.
d. The model on the magazine seems to haunt women as they are told that they should look
that way
____24. What does the narrator mean when she says, “My stomach is America”?
a. Her stomach reflects American greed
b. Her stomach reflects American wealth
c. Her stomach is fat and flabby and needs surgery
d. Her stomach is trim and muscular, like a superpower
____25. In “The Tesseract”, what can the stains symbolize?
a. The sins and frailty of humankind.
b. The blood and sacrifices we all make
c. The impoverished place that is Manila.
d. The impossible situation of the Philippines
____26.How many adult persons with autism are bullied at work?
a. All of them c. about half of them
b. About half d. about a quarter of them
____27. What are the possible meaning of McDonald in the excerpt “The Tesseract”?
a. The divide between the rich and the poor
b. Western consumerism spread in the world
c. Colonial mentality in the Philippines
d. All of the above
____28. At the end of the excerpt in the tesseract the narrator says that there are two archipelagos, what is he
referring to?
a. Himself and the Philippines
b. The world and the Philippines
c. The Philippine islands and poverty
d. The Philippine islands and Philippine society
___29. In the excerpt written by Alessandro Baricco, Silk, what does the cup symbolize?
a. It symbolizes the desire between Herve Joncour and the Japanese girl.
b. It symbolizes the anger of Hara Kei to Herve Joncour
c. It symbolizes the unending love of Helena to Herve Joncour
d. None of the above
___30. Manila Bay is considered as one of the world’s great harbors because of its location near the Southeast
Asian mainland, where Spanish colonizers began building fortifications at the site of Manila.

a. True b. Partly True c. False d. Partly False

II. MODIFIED TRUE OF FALSE

Write the phrase MAHAL NIYA AKO if the statement is TRUE and write HINDI KA NIYA MAHAL if the
statement is FALSE. Underline the word that make the statement incorrect and write the correct answer on the
space provided.
_____________________________________1. Japan has been isolated in the world trade for 333 years.
_____________________________________2. Body shaming is when people make you feel ashamed about how
your body looks.
_____________________________________3. Hara Kei travels the world buying silkworm eggs and eventually
travels as far as Japan.
_____________________________________4. Hara Kei's mistress gave Herve Joncour a flower and a
handkerchief.
_____________________________________5. Alessandro Baricco wrote a novel entitled “Silk”.

III. Fill each blank with the correct answer.

Annabel Lee
By: ___________________

It was many and many a year ago,

 In a ___________ by the sea.
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;--
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to ____ and be loved by me.

She was a ______ and I was a child

In this kingdom by the sea.
But we loved with a love that was more than love—
I and my Annabel Lee—
With a love that the winged __________ of Heaven
____________her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,

_______________________ ,
A wind blew out of a cloud by night
Chilling my Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn _________came
And _____ her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea.

The_______, not half so happy in Heaven,

Went envying her and me;--
Yes! That was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the ______ came out of the cloud, chilling
And killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the _____

Of those who were _____ than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the _______in Heaven above
Nor the _______ down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:--

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams

Of the beautiful__________________;--
And the stars never rise but I see the bright _________
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night tide, I lie down by the _______
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my_______,
In her _______there by the sea—
In her ______by the_______________.

Prepared by:

Ms. May-Ann S. Cahilig

Social Science Teacher