GENERAL EDUCATION 2.0 Q & A Part 4

1. The manager told his workers, "We have to reduce our workforce." What did he mean?

A. Workers are free to leave

B. Workers are warned of possible lay off

 

2. What is the theme of quote "have a good bank account, a good cook

and a good digestion?"

A. Security

B. Responsibility

 

3. From the following, choose the two words that lack correlation.

A. Prodigy: offspring   

B. Recipe: formula

 

4. Which of the following words lack correlation?

A. Troupe: company of actors

B. Species: variety

 

5. Senators were accused by activists of washing their hands with the perfumes of Arabia. This state is commonly known as:

A. Guilt     

B. Aggression

 

6.       There were three guests on the stage. They were made up of a parent, the governor and the principal. Who should be acknowledged first by the valedictorian?

A. The principal   

B. The governor

 

7. What is suggested in the opening line? June 13, 1986 - they came from all over America - 200,000 heroes strong, with their families.

A. The writer holds great admiration for the veterans

B. The writer is opposed to the Vietnam War

 

 

8. A readability mismatch happens when the reading levels of books exceed the reading levels of the students. In this situation, the students experience frustration and they fall short of the expected or desired output. A student who finds himself/ herself in such a mismatch will likely do which of the following?

A. Give an intelligent critique of the selection or story read

B. Present an argument that the selection or story read was  not properly written

 

9. What does this mean: Excuses are for losers... those who take responsibility for their actions are real winners in life. This tells of?

A. Accountability of one's action tells of bravery

B.  Excuses are needed to justify any failure

 

10. A couple accepted a wedding invitation. They showed pleasure in these remarks:

A. All guests congratulated the organizers and the couple

B. The ceremonies were very impressive

 

11:     What correction should be.made to this sentence?

One of the theories is that the first child receives more of the parents' attention than other children so first-borns tend to be more intellectual.

A. Insert a comma after children

B. Change parents' to parent's

 

12. Which of the ""Following lines is a simile?

A. Life has loneliness to sell.

B. Holding wonder like a cup.

 

13. The statement, "She is a rose" is an example of:

A. Hyperbole       

B. Metaphor

 

 

14. "The sun was gone, be he had left his footprints in the sky." The description of the sun in the sentence contains which of the following literary devices?

A. Personification

B. Synecdoche

 

15.  “And it seems to me you lived your life, Like a candle in the wind."

A. Metaphor

B. Simile

 

16. Carl Sundburg wrote "Jazz Fantasia" which has for its first stanza:

Drum on your drums, batter on your banjos, sob on the long cool winding saxophones. Go to it, 0 jazzmen.

Which words illustrate alliteration?

A. Batter and banjos    

B. Sob and winding

 

17. What is the mood of these lines?

Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise

 I must think of a new life

And f mustn't give in.

When the down comes

tonight will be a memory, too

And a new day will begin.

A. Afraid    

B. Hopeful

 

18. In what literary genre does the story of Maria Makiling belong?

A. Myth     

B. Legend

 

19. A distinctive type of literary composition such as epic, tragedy, comedy and novel.

A. Genre    

B. Form

 

20. Epistolary is a novel told through the medium of:

A. Letters  

B. Messages

 

21. In English verse, a poetic foot having 1 stressed syllable followed by 1 unstressed syllable is      

A. Trochaic

B. Iambic

 

22. What book is written by Boris Paternak that talks about totalitarianism rule over Russia?

A. War and Peace 

B. Doctor Zhivago

 

23. Who won the nobel price collection "Gitanjali," which express faith, hope and beauty of the world.

A. Mashou Basho 

B. Rabindranath Tagore

 

24. It is a collection of religious poetry written by Rabindranath Tagore.

A. Gitanjali

B. Bhagavad Gita

 

25. Carl Friedrich Georg Spitteler received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1919. What was the title of the poem that he was most known for?

A. "The Stranger" 

B. "Olympian Spring"

 

26. A novel by Leo Tolstoy about the Napoleonic Invasion of Russia. Also termed as the greatest novel ever written:

A. War and Peace

B. God Sees the Truth but Waits

 

27. Which is Chaucer's collection of stories in verse showing his skill as  a story teller in giving a vivid picture of English society in the 1300's?

A. The Canterbury Tales

B. The Song of Roland

 

28. A collection of fables which was used to educate Indian princes into becoming wise kings:

A. The Great Epics of the World

B. The Panchatantra

 

29. George Eliot is the pen name of whose English writer?

A. Jane Austen     

B. Mary Evans

 

30. Who delivers the Gettysburg address to give tribute to the union soldiers of civil war?

A. Abraham Lincoln    

B. George Washington

 

31. Which of the following is a work of Samuel Langhorne Clemens?

A. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

B. Uncle Tom's Cabin

 

32.  Which among the following narrative uses talking animals to teach moral lessons?

A. Grimm's Brother       

B. Aesop's Fables

 

33. Victor Hugo's masterpiece about the adventures of an ex-convict named Jean Val Jean, a prostitute named Fantine and her daughter Cosette:

A. Les Miserables

B. Age of Innocence

 

34. Who among the following is known as the Indian Shakespeare?

A. Tagore  

B. Kalidasa

 

35. Known for his fables and other stories that are set in the jungles of British India. His most famous collection is The Jungle Book which is about Mowgli and the wolves.

A. Oscar Wilde     

B. Rudyard Kipling

 

36. It is Edgar Allan Poe's short story about revenge and murder between friends namely Fortunato and Montessor:

A. Fall of the House of Usher

B. The Cask of Amontillado

 

37. He was the American President who said, "Ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.

A.      Franklin Roosevelt

B.      John F. Kennedy

 

38. He is the first mythical geographer who was recognized due to his vivid descriptions of lands and people encountered by his her Odysseus:

A. Swift     

B.  Homer

 

39. Political idealists advocate ideals in politics such as justice, and fairness. Political realist have a more realist viewpoint of politics, aptly stated by "Might is right". Who among the following is more of a political realist rather than political idealist?

A. Julius Caesar 

B. Martin Luther King

 

40. "Only the heart can see rightly." This statement is lifted from what  particular novel?

A. The Prince and the Pauper

B. The Little Prince

 

41. The Greek Goddess of Wisdom and War.

A. Frige      

B. Athena

 

42. It is a medieval German epic:

A. Beowulf

B. Nibelungenlied

 

43. Every June, Manila has its festival of outstanding Filipino films. This

was a project initiated by:

A Antonio Villegas        

B. Ramon Bagatsing

 

44. She is known for the love sonnets she wrote:

A. Paz Marquez Benitez 

B. Ophelia Dimalanta

 

 

         

45. Jose Garcia Villa's story that tackles the problems and disadvantages of marrying at an early age is known as:

A. How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife

B. Footnote to Youth

 

46. What reading technique is being utilized when a teaches asks his students to read a particular passage, and he marks mispronounced words?

A. IRI        

B. DRTA

 

47. In reading, DRTA means:

A. Directed Reading and Thinking Activity

B. Directional Reading and Thinking Assessment

 

48. This is a reading technique when a student certifies and notes certain details from a given paragraph:

A. Skimming      

B. Scanning

 

49. Which of the following numbers is prime?

A. 101        

B. 91

 

50. The GCF of 12 and 42:                

A. 12

B. 6

 

51. Find the GCF of 18 and 36:         

 A. 18

B. 12

 

 

52. Find the LCM of the numbers 18, 24 and 54.

A. 192        

B. 216

 

53. Three or more points that lie on a single straight line:

A. Coplanar points

B. Collinear points

 

54. The following are the scores of students on their math examination: 91, 80, 90, 81, 88, 85 and 87. What is the media of the group?

A. 88

B. 87

 

55. The grades in Mathematics of the students in Section A are as follows: 80, 75, 60, 95 and 100. What is the range of their group?

A. 60-100  

B. 80-95

 

56. 40% of 35 is what percent of 140?

A. 10%      

B. 14%

 

57. Each bag of rice contains 50 Kg. What would be the increase in the price if the cost of one bag of rice goes from P950.00 to P1200.00?

A. P250.00

B. P7.50

 

458.The hypotenuse of a right triangle is 25 feet. If one leg is 24 feet, what is the length of other other leg?

A. 7 ft        

B. 15 ft

 

59. What are the prime factors of 273?

A. 2 x 3 x 13        

B. 3 x 7 x 13

 

60. Factorize: 2)( + 7x — 15

A. (x — 5) (2x + 3)        

B. (x + 5) (2x — 3)

 

61. Simplify: [(3x — 12) / (3x)] divided by (x — 4)

A. 3x

B. 1/x

 

62. Simplify (3x — 9) / (x2 — 9)

A. 3 /(x-3)  

B. 3 /(x+ 3)

 

63. In the series of graphs, what is presented by rectangles?

A. Line graph       

B. Bar graph

 

64. A ball is drawn at random from a box containing 6 red balls, 4 white balls and 5 blue balls. Find the probability that it is white:

A. 4/15       

B. 4/5

 

465. What is the probability of getting a multiple of 3 when a die is tossed?

A. 1/6

B. 1/3

 

66. Three fourths of the participants in a regional training program are from private universities. Two-thirds of these are from Teacher Education Institutions. If there are 96 participants, how many of them represent private Teacher Education Institutions?

A. 48

B. 72

 

67. Mrs. Santos borrowed from a friend P50,000 at 5% interest per month. She contracted the loan in December 2015. How much will she pay after a year?

A. P80,000

B. P100,000

 

68. Clara Ramos works as sales clerk, She is paid a salary of P3,000.00 a week plus 2% commission on sales over P4,000.00 Find her gross pay for a week in which her sales are P9,500.00

A. 3,210.00

B. P3,110.00

 

69. Regaia Company manufactures beds; in its catalogue, a double bed is at P5,000.00 less a discount of 20% what will Rizza have to pay for the bed she ordered?

A. P4,150.00       

B. P4,000.00

 

70. There are 120 freshmen in the group of 300 students. How many percentage of the group are freshmen?

A. 45%      

B. 40%

 

71. A man sleeps 6 hours a day. What is the ratio of the time he is asleep to the time he is awake?

A. 1:4

B, 1:3

 

72. Justin mows lawns for extra money. If he mows 5 lawns in one hour and has 30 lawns to mow, how long will it take him to mow all of them?

A. 6 hours 

B, 5 hours

 

73. How long will it take A and B together, to finish a job which can be done by A alone in 6 days and be alone in 3 days?

A. 2 1/2 days        

B. 2 days

 

74. Which three consecutive numbers has a sum of 123?

A. m40, 41, 42     

B. 41, 42, 43

 

75. If the average or arithmetic mean of x and -5 is 10, then what must be the value of x?

A. 15

B. 25

 

76. How much greater is the sum of the 20 first counting numbers than the sum of the first 10 counting numbers?

A. 100        

B. 155

 

77. How many glasses of Cola each to be filled with 150 cu cm of the liquid can be made from 5 family size bottles of cola each containing 1.5 liters?

A. 60

B. 50

 

78. A time deposit in a bank will mature after 91 days. If the deposit was made on April 28, on what date will it mature?

A. July 28  

B. July 29

 

79. Which is the length of the hypotenuse of a right triangle with legs 5 inches and 12 inches?

A. 11 inches

B. 13 inches

 

80. The edges of a cubical framer are made of plastic straws. How much longer is the total length of the plastic edges of a cube whose edge is 10 cm compared to a cube whose edge is 8 cm?

A. 32 cm    

B. 24 cm

 

81. Which of the following is not true about the sum of two consecutive odd integers?

A. It is always divisible by 4

B. It is divisible only by 12

 

82. It takes 20 men to build a house for 60 days. How many men will be needed to build one in only 15 days?

A. 80

B. 100

 

83. What is the amount at the end of 4 years if P90,000 is invested at 12% simple interest?

A. P133,200

B. P152,500

 

84. The readings on a water meter in April and May are 417.8k! and 430.4k1. if there is a basic charge of 23 pesos and the cost per kl is 20 pesos, how much is the billing for water consumption between the two months?

A. P272     

B. P275

 

85. A map is drawn to scale such that 1,5 cm on the map corresponds to 75km in actual distance. How many cm on the map would represent the distance between the two towns which are 270 km apart?

A. 2.7 cm   

B. 5.4 cm

 

86. On a certain day, three computer technicians took turns in manning a 24hour internet shop. The number of hours Cesar, Bert and Danny were on duty was in the ratio 1:2:3, respectively. The shop owner pays them Php 40 per hour. How much would Danny receive for that day?

A. Php 230 

B. Php 480

 

87. A projectile always travels in a     

A. Parabolic path

B. Linear path

 

88. Which among the following statements is ALWAYS TRUE?

A. The complement of an angle is obtuse.

B. The complement of any acute angle is acute.

 

89. Which of these statements is always TRUE?

A. The sum of the page number of the two consecutive pages of a book is even.

B. The sum of 5 consecutive numbers is always divisible by 5.

 

90. Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. A square is a rhombus.

B. A rhombus is a rectangle.

 

91. If the opposite sides of a quadrilateral are equal, the figure is a

A. Rectangle        

B. Parallelogram

 

92. A square lot has an area of 121 square meters. What is the length of each side of the lot?

A. 13

B. 11

 

93. What is the sum of the measures of the interior angles of an icosagon?

A. 3140      

B. 3240

 

94. One angle of a parallelogram is 35? What are the measures of the three other angles?

A. 145 °, 35°, 145°

B. 85°,135°,140

 

95. Which of the following gives the numerical value of the population?

A. Parameter      

B. Statistics

 

96. It can be used to show the progress in academic grades over four quarters.

A. Bar graph        

B. Line graph

 

97. The grades in Mathematics of the students in section A are as follows: 60, 75, 60, 95, 100. What is the population standard deviation of their group?

A. 16.91     

B. 14.97

 

98. The grades in Mathematics of the students in section A are as follows: 80, 75, 60, 95, 100. What is the population variance of their group?

A.230

B. 206

 

99. The grades in Mathematics of the students in section A are as follows: 60, 75, 60,  95, 100. What is the population standard deviation of their group?

A. 16.91     

B. 14.97

 

100. How many square inches are in 1 square yard?

A. 1296      

B. 648


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