English or @1st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World, Exercises of English

Download English or @1st Century Literature from the Philippines and the World and more Exercises English in PDF only on Docsity! EGLISH FOR ACEDEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES ASSESSMENT S.Y. 2021-2022 1ST Quarter - 1st Semester Name: _____________________________ Grade and Section: ______________________ Score: __________ Test I – Multiple Choice Questions. Encircle the letter of your answer. 1. Who are the target readers of an academic essay? A. Parents, workers, teachers B. Teachers, students, academic community C. Students, out-of-school youth, government officials D. None of the above 2. What are the purposes of doing an academic writing? A. To settle, to negotiate and to inform B. To defend, to challenge and to question C. To inform, to persuade and to argue a specific point D. To guess, to hypothesize and to make conclusions 3. Writing academic papers requires deliberate, thorough and careful thought. Therefore, what should one do to achieve a well-crafted academic essay? A. One must depend on his/her own opinions alone. B. One must conduct a research on the topic at hand. C. One must not consult the Internet for unsure sources. D. One must depend highly on the Internet for easy information access. 4. What are the three main parts of an essay? A. The hook, the main idea and the conclusion. B. The introduction, the body and the conclusion. C. The topic sentence, the body and the conclusion. D. None of the above 5. What is the sequence of an essay? A. Introduction, Body Paragraph, Body Paragraph, Conclusion B. Body Paragraph, Introduction, Conclusion, BodyParagraph C. Introduction, Body Paragraph, Conclusion, BodyParagraph D. Conclusion, Introduction, Body Paragraph, Body Paragraph Choose the best strategy to use in the following conditions. 6. Determine what you think will happen in the text. A. Visualize B. Predict C. Connect D. Clarify 7. Create mental images of the settings, characters, and events in the text. A. Connect B. Visualize C. Clarify D. Evaluate 8. Stop and ask yourself questions to see if the text makes sense. A. Clarify B. Evaluate C. Question D. Predict 9. Think about what you already know about the text. Find ways to relate the text to yourself, other texts, and the world around you. A. Predict B. Visualize C. Clarify D. Connect 10. Think about the text as a whole and form opinions about what you read. A. Evaluate B. Question C. Predict D. Connect 11. Stopping when you are confused to reread or look up a word you don't know. A. Connect B. Clarify C. Evaluate D. Predict 12. When you give your opinion of a book or story, you are using the strategy. A. Question B. Evaluation C. Summarize D. Clarify 13. Making pictures in your mind as you read is an example of. A. Predicting B. Connecting C. Visualization D. Clarifying 14. Wondering about why a character acted in a certain why is using the comprehension skill of. A. Visualizing B. Summarizing C. Predicting D. Questioning 15. "This story reminds me of something I heard on the news," is an example of which strategy? A. Visualizing B. Connection C. Clarifying D. Summarizing 16. The New Critics were: A. Feminist critics B. Psychological Critics C. Marxist critics D. Formalist critics 17. What approach to literary criticism requires the critic to know about the author's life and times? A. All of these B. Mimetic C. Historical D. Formalist 18. Formalist critics believe that the value of a work cannot be determined by the author's intention. What term do they use when speaking of this belief? A. The intentional fallacy B. The affective fallacy C. The pathetic fallacy D. The objective correlative 19. Which poet popularized the term objective correlative, which is often used in formalist criticism? A. Virginia Woolf B. C.S. Lewis C. T.S. Eliot D. Matthew Arnold 20. In a Freudian approach to literature, concave images are usually seen as: A. Male symbols B. Evidence of an Oedipus complex C. Phallic symbols D. Female symbols 21. He was an influential force in archetypal criticism. A. Freud B. Jung C. Richards D. Tate 22. Seven is an archetype associated with: A. Astrology B. Perfection C. Birth D. Death 23. This feminist critic proposed that all female characters in literature are in at least one of the following stages of development: the feminine, feminist, or female stage. A. Virginia Woolf B. Ellen Mores C. Mary Wolstencraft D. Elaine Showalter 24. A critic argues that in John Milton's "Samson Agonistes," the shearing of Samson's locks is symbolic of his castration at the hands of Delilah. What kind of critical approach is this critic using? A. Mimetic approach B. Psychological approach C. Historical approach D. Formalist approach 25. One archetype in literature is the scapegoat. Which of these literary characters serves that purpose? A. Billy Budd B. Hamlet C. Captain Ahab D. Ophelia 26. One of the disadvantages of this school of criticism is that it tends to make readings too subjective. A. Reader Response Criticism B. Formalist Criticism C. Historical Criticism D. These are all equally subjective 27. This literary critic coined the term "fancy." A. Samuel Taylor Coleridge B. Virginia Woolf C. Matthew Arnold D. Carl Jung 28. Michael Foucault was the major practitioner of this school of criticism. A. Structuralism B. Mimetic Criticism C. Deconstructionism D. Formalist Criticism 5 29. This critical approach assumes that language does not refer to any external reality. It can assert several, contradictory interpretations of one text. A. Structuralism B. Deconstructionism C. Formalist Criticism D. Mimetic Criticism 30. A critic examining John Milton's "Paradise Lost" focuses on the physical description of the Garden of Eden, on the symbols of hands, seed, and flower, and on the characters of Adam, Eve, Satan, and God. He pays special attention to the epic similes and metaphors and the point of view from which the tale is being told. He looks for meaning in the text itself, and does not refer to any biography of Milton. He is most likely a ____ critic. A. Formalist B. Mimetic C. Reader Response D. Feminist Simple recall: For numbers 1 and 2, encircle the letter of the correct answer. 31. Which of the following statements in SUMMARIZING is false? A. The Summary is what the passage is mostly about. B. The Summary is what all or most of the sentences or paragraphs are about. C. The Summary is usually found in more than just one sentence of the passage. D. The Summary is one isolated thought in a passage. 32. Which of the following statements in SUMMARIZING is true? A. The Summary is a thought that is true but is not in the passage. B. The Summary is what the passage is mostly about. C. The Summary is specific, detailed information contained in the passage. D. The Summary is always found in the first sentence of the passage. Choose the letter that presents the best summary in each of the following paragraphs: 33. When some people think about Texas, they think of cowboys on the open rangeherding cattle up a dusty trail. However, Texas has much more than open prairie with large herds of cows. There are the mountains of West Texas, the piney hills of east Texas, and the emerald waters off the coast of Padre Island. Texas also has large coastal harbors with numerous sailboats, powerboats, inland lakes, rivers, swamps of southeast Texas with alligators and other exotic wildlife.