This document contains a summative test from Balite National High School in the Philippines assessing students' knowledge of 21st century Philippine and world literature. The test contains 30 multiple choice questions testing students on different periods, genres, and works of Philippine literature including folktales, epics, songs, and plays from the pre-colonial, Spanish, American and Japanese periods. It also contains questions about regions, languages, and notable historical figures in Philippine literature and history. The document provides the test questions, answer key, and instructions for teachers to grade the assessments.

1. Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
CARAGA REGION XIII
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SURIGAO DEL NORTE
BALITE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Brgy. Balite, San Francisco, Surigao del Norte
Address: Balite, San Francisco, Surigao del Norte
e-mail: balitenhs.deped304814@gmail.com
SUMMATIVE TEST IN 21ST
CENTURY LITERATURE OF THE PHILIPPINES AND THE WORLD
FIRST QUARTER
NAME: ________________________________ DATE: ______________
YEAR LEVEL & SECTION ___________________
Instruction: Answer the following test items accordingly. Shade the letter of the correct answer on the answer sheet
provided. Strictly no erasures and/or alterations. May the odds be ever in your favor.
1. This period has a vast collection of folk speeches.
a. Pre-Colonial Period
b. Spanish Period
c. American Period
d. Japanese Period
2. It is a practical observations and philosophy.
a. Riddles
b. Proverbs
c. Tales
d. Folksongs
3. These are questions or statements that offer a puzzle to be solved.
a. Proverbs
b. Tales
c. Riddles
d. Folksongs
4. These are written in the different Philippine languages, including Tagalog or Visayan, and they reflect the lives
of rural people and their connection with nature, including themes such as harvest, fishing or love, but also
religious traditions that were introduced during the Spanish colonization.
a. Proverbs
b. Riddles
c. Tales
d. Folksongs
5. It is a comparatively simple narrative, either fictitious or true, written or recounted orally in prose or in verse.
a. Proverbs
b. Riddles
c. Folksongs
d. Tales
6. It is a long narrative poem that usually deals with important subjects matter like events of cultural significance
and heroic actions.
a. Proverbs
b. Narrative
c. Epic
d. Tales
7. This period centered on Christian shift.
a. Pre-colonial Period
b. Spanish Period
c. Japanese Period
d. American Period
8. The songs are often about oppression, history, daily life for criminals, the vaquero lifestyle, and other socially
relevant topics.
a. Corrido
b. Pasyon
c. Cenaculo
d. Moro-moro
9. It is a Philippine epic narrative of the life of Jesus Christ, focused on his Passion, Death, and Resurrection.
a. Pasyon

2. Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
CARAGA REGION XIII
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SURIGAO DEL NORTE
BALITE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Brgy. Balite, San Francisco, Surigao del Norte
Address: Balite, San Francisco, Surigao del Norte
e-mail: balitenhs.deped304814@gmail.com
b. Cenaculo
c. Moro-moro
d. Corrido
10. This period is the second of the series of literary periods of growth and development of Philippine literature.
a. Spanish Period
b. American Period
c. Pre-colonial Period
d. Japanese Period
11. During this period, the Philippine literature in English came to a halt.
a. American Period
b. Spanish Period
c. Japanese Period
d. Pre-colonial Period
12. It is a form of theater premised on battles between Christians and Moors performed in village fiestas in the
Philippines from the Spanish colonial period to the present.
a. Pasyon
b. Moro-moro
c. Carillo
d. Tibag
13. It is the staged re-enactment of Christ's passion and death.
a. Tibag
b. Carillo
c. Cenaculo
d. Awit
14. This ritual was brought here by the Spaniard to remind the people about the search of St. Helena for the
Cross on which Jesus died.
a. Carillo
b. Awit
c. Tibag
d. Cenaculo
15. A PLAY that empowers the appreciation of Filipino culture and values, and is packaged in a comical and
musical style.
a. Awit
b. Tibag
c. Cenaculo
d. Zarzuela
16. He died by musketry in the hands of the Spaniards on Dec. 30, 1896 on charges of sedition and rebellion
against the Spaniards.
a. Andres Bonifacio
b. Marcelo H. Del Pilar
c. Jose P. Rizal
d. Juan Bautista
17. He is known for his pen names Plaridel, Pupdoh, Piping Dilat.
a. Jose Rizal
b. Andres Bonifacio
c. Marcielo Del Pilar
d. Marcelo H. Del Pilar
18. He is a writer and orator in the Philippines.
a. Andres Bonifacio
b. Graciano Lopez Jaena
c. Jose Rizal
d. Apolinario Mabini
19. He is the Father of Filipino democracy.
a. Jose P. Rizal
b. Andres Bonifacio

3. Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
CARAGA REGION XIII
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SURIGAO DEL NORTE
BALITE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Brgy. Balite, San Francisco, Surigao del Norte
Address: Balite, San Francisco, Surigao del Norte
e-mail: balitenhs.deped304814@gmail.com
c. Apolinario Mabini
d. Emilio Jacinto
20. He is known as an intelligent assistant of Andres Bonifacio.
a. Jose P. Rizal
b. Emilio Jacinto
c. Andres Bonifacio
d. Apolinario Mabini
21. During this period, the public education was institutionalized.
a. Japanese Period
b. American Period
c. Spanish Period
d. Pre-colonial Period
22. These periods include all literary works written and published in the Philippines from 1946.
a. American Period
b. Contemporary and Modern Period
c. Japanese Period
d. Spanish Period
23. It is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound and rhythmic language
choices to evoke an emotional response.
a. Imagery
b. Poetry
c. Essay
d. Poem
24. It is a poetic element that tries to create a picture in the mind of the reader or a mental image through the use
of figurative language.
a. Poetry
b. Essay
c. Poem
d. Imagery
25. It is a Filipino citizen who has been given the rank and title in recognition of his or her significant contributions
to the development of Philippine arts and letters.
a. National Artist
b. International Artist
c. Community Artist
d. Public Artist
26. It is anything that is included in a list of holy books that accepted as genuine.
a. Bible
b. Canonical
c. Cannonical
d. Biblical
27. This part of Luzon is considered as the central focus of politics, culture and economics.
a. Cebu
b. Marawi
c. Makati
d. NCR
28. It is the largest island in the Philippines.
a. Mindanao
b. Luzon
c. Visayas
d. CARAGA
29. MIMAPORA stands for
a. Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Payaw
b. Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Pacquiao
c. Mindoro, Marinduque, Romblon and Palawan

4. Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
CARAGA REGION XIII
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF SURIGAO DEL NORTE
BALITE NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Brgy. Balite, San Francisco, Surigao del Norte
Address: Balite, San Francisco, Surigao del Norte
e-mail: balitenhs.deped304814@gmail.com
d. Marinduque, Mindoro, Romblon and Pallawan
30. It is the smallest island group in the Philippines.
a. Luzon
b. Visayas
c. Mindanao
d. NCR
Identify if this literary text belongs to LUZON, VISAYAS, MINDANAO. Write L if it is from LUZON, V if it is from
VISAYAS and M if it is from MINDANAO.
_________1. The Legend of Maria Makiling
_________2. Biag ni Lam-ang
_________3. Hinilawod
_________4. Tungkung Langit and Alunsia
_________5. Bantugan
_________6. Mahingan
_________7. Indarapan at Sulayman
_________8. Sicalac and Sicavas
_________9. Ibalon or Ibalong
________10. Tuwang attends a wedding
Enumerate the following:
1-3 Regional languages in LUZON
4-6 Regional languages in VISAYAS
7-10 Regional languages in MINDANAO
Prepared by: Checked and Reviewed by:
JOICE ANNE E. LAMANILAO RANDY P. LAMANILAO
Records Custodian Master Teacher I
Noted by:
JEMALYN S. JACQUEZ
Secondary School Head Teacher V