Sample Questionnaire for World Literature

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College of Teacher Education
Main Campus, Tandag City
Name: __________________________________________________ Date: ____________
Course and Year: ____________________________________ Score: ___________
Literature 102
(World Literature)
4:00PM-5:30PM
I. Direction: Encircle the letter of the best answer.
1. It tells the reader where and when the story takes place.
a. Setting b. Author c. Birthplace d. Venue
2. They are the people, and in some stories, the animals that take part in the story. The description
of the personalities of the characters in the story and the way in which an author reveals their
personalities.
a. Characters b. Characteristics c. Venues d. Genres
3. It is actually the chain of related events that take place in a story. Built around conflict, which is
a struggle between opposing forces.
a. Plot b. Slot c. Setting d. Events
4. Which of the following choices is not an element of a plot?
a. Exposition b. Rising Action c. Conflict d. Genre
5. In organizing the plot of the story, what is the first part?
a. Conflict b. Complication c. Exposition d. Setting
6. It is the part of the plot that reveals the final outcome of the story.
a. Complication b. Resolution c. Climax d. Action
7. if the rising action is the action in the story leading up to the climax, falling action refers to
a. the action in the story after climax is revealed
b. the action in the story before the climax is revealed.
c. the action in the story during and after the climax is reached.
d. the action in the story in which it is capsulated with the plot of the story.
8. The Types of Conflict include the following, except
a.Man vs. Man b. Man vs. Nature c. Man vs. Society d. Man vs. Wild
9. The theme of the story speaks an important role to
a. The main idea of a story. It is not a moral, lesson, or a rule for living.
b. the main struggles and events of the story that the character is facing.
c. the main happiness an desolation of the story.
d. None of the above.
10. The Tell Tale Heart was one of the famous examples of American short stories authored by:
a. John Dewey b. Edgar Allen Poe c. Washington Irving d. Edgar Allan Poe
11. The following choices are elements of short story, except
a. Theme b. Character c. Venue a. Author
12. When we studied the structure of the short story, we have noticed that
a. Short story has specific length and a number of words used in the story.
b. Short story has plot in order to capsulate the story.
c. Short story has minimum words and a number of plots to consider.
D. Short story has specific ideas that magnet readers’ attention and comprehension.
13. Short story is considered to be one of the oldest forms of
a. Orature b. Written Literature c. Verbal-written literature d. None of the Above
14. Which of the following Filipino literature is a good example of short story?
a. The Witch b. Minggay c. Annabelle Lee d. The Dawn
15. Writing a short story should embrace and use its elements so that
a. to give emphasis and connection to the short story to be read.
b. to appreciate its importance in the existence of human nature.
c. to encourage readers to predict in the story and make reflections.
d. None of the above has mentioned.
16. It is a composition in prose form that presents a story entirely told in dialogue and action and
written with the intention of its eventual performance before an audience.
a. Drama b. Poetry c. Short Story d. Essay
17. It identifies the time and place in which the events occur. It consists of the historical period, the
moment, day and season in which the incidents take place. It also includes the sceneries in the
performance which are usually found in the preliminary descriptions.
a. Setting b. Character c. Plot d. Scene
18. They are the people in the play and thus considered as the principal material in a drama.
a. Setting b. Character c. Plot d. Scene
19. It identifies peripheral facts such as age, sexual category, size, race and color. It deals with
external attributes which may be envisaged from the description of the playwright or deduced
from what the characters say or what other characters verbalize about his appearance.
a. Moral b. Physical c. Social d. Psychological
20. It embraces all aspects that can be gleaned from the character’s world or environment as
exemplified by the economic status, occupation or trade, creed, familial affiliation of the
characters ( same choices, please refer to no.19)
21. It discloses the inner mechanism of the mind of the character as exemplified by his habitual
responses, attitudes, longings, purposes, likes and dislikes. It is considered as the most
indispensable level of character categorization because routines and emotions, thoughts, attitude

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and behavior enable the readers to know the character intrinsically ( same choices, please
refer to no.19).
22. It discloses the decisions of the characters, either socially acceptable or not, exposing their
intentions, thus projecting what is upright or not ( same choices, please refer to no.19).
23. The following are elements of drama, except:
a. Plot b. Characters c. Scenarios d. Setting
24. It actually lays out the series of events that form the entirety of the play. It serves as a
structural framework which brings the events to a cohesive form and sense.
a. Plot b. Characters c. Setting d. Venue
25. It is a chronological sequence of events arrangement where actions continuously take place as
an end result of the previous action.
a. Natural Plot b. Characters c. Setting d. Venue
26. It refers to each episode independently comprises a setting, climax, and resolution; therefore, a
full story in itself is formed.
a. Episodic Plot b. Artificial Plot c. Natural Plot d. Venue
27. It is the structure of the plot that identifies information about the place, such as geographical
location, social, cultural, political background or period when the event took place.
a. Beginning b. Middle c. Ending d. Semi-ending
28. It actually the point where the playwright commences his story. It reveals the identity of story’s
initial crisis.
a. Exposition b. Complication c. Conflict d. Climax
29. Middle plot of drama is composed of a series of difficulties, except?
a. Complications bring changes and alterations in the movement of the action which takes place
when discovery of novel information, unexpected alteration of plan, choosing between two
courses of action or preface of new ideas are revealed.
b. Crisis reveals the peak of anticipation in the series of incidents.
c. Obligatory Scene identifies the open collision between two opposing characters or forces.
d. All of the above mentioned.
30. It is the final major component of the story which brings the condition back to its stability. This
part brings satisfaction to the audience which extends to the final curtain as peace is completely
restored.
a. Beginning b. Middle c. Resolution d. Ending
31. It is an imaginative awareness of experience expressed through meaning, sound, and rhythmic
language choices so as to evoke an emotional response.
a. Poetry b. Poetic c. Poems d. Poet
32. They are stanzas of only two lines which usually rhyme of the poem.
a. Couplets b. Trecets c. Quatrains d. Quintain
33. It is the attitude a poet takes toward his/her subject, it refers to the writer's attitude towards
the subject of a literary work as indicated in the work itself.
a. Tone b. Mood c. Emoticon d. Authorship/Persona
34. It is the attitude a reader takes toward his/her subject. It is one element in the narrative
structure of a piece of literature.
a.Tone b. Mood c. Emoticon d. Authorship/Persona
35. It is the representation of the five senses: sight, taste, touch, sound, and smell and it creates
mental images about a poem’s subject.
a.Imagery b. Mood c. Emoticon d. Persona
36. It is the visual descriptions so vivid they seem to come to life in the reader's mind's when they
read.
a. Visual Imagery b. Olfactory c. Tactile d. Auditory
37. It is The Choice of words which embraces the Connotative: figurative/metaphorical meaning.
Denotative: literal /dictionary-based.
a. Dicitone b. Diction c. Definition d. Genera
38. It is the repetition of one or more phrases or lines at certain intervals, usually at the end of each
stanza and similar to the chorus in a song.
a. Repetition b. Refrain c. Alliteration d. Litotes
39. It is the pattern in which end rhyme occurs, the pattern in which end rhyme occurs, Rhymes
are types of poems which have the the repetition of the same or similar sounds at the end of
two or more words most often at the ends of lines.
a. Rhyme Scheme b. Rhythm c. Metaphorical Language d. None of the above
40.It conveys feelings, thoughts and ideas using symbols in poetry can stand for anything and
makes the reader take a systematic approach which helps him/her look at things in a different
light.
a. Symbology b. Symbolism c. Semantics and Semionics d. Signs
“It is literature that reveals the beauty of the World” Sir Pera