GENERAL EDUCATION 3.0 Q & A Part 3

1.The wounded soldiers were visited by the president who honored them with _____ for their_____________.     

A. medals-valor

B. gun salute - bravery

 

2. Which among the sounds below is voiceless?

A. /b/

B. /p/

 

3. Which is the BEST WAY to write the underlined portion of this sentence? Researchers also speculate that some teachers might have given boys more computer time because parents and teachers expected boys to need computers for future careers. C`

A. will expect       

B. will have expected

 

4. Robert Frost wrote the poem Acquainted with the Night from which the stanza is taken:

I have been one acquainted with the night.

I have walked out in rain-back in rain.

I have out walked the farthest city light

The poet in the stanza talks of?

 

A. isolation and loneliness      

B. joy getting out of the house

 

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

A. The Prince and the Pauper   

B. The Little Prince

 

6. 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. Henry Truman 

B. John F. Kennedy

 

7. History is the witness that _____________ passing of time.

A. testifies for      

B. testifies for the

 

8. An association wherein the name of something is substituted by something that represents it.

A. Metonymy     

B. Euphemism

 

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

syllable is ______________.

A. Trochaic

B. Iambic

 

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

A. Guilt

B. Triumph

 

11. I suggest that he ___________       in the room for one week.

A. Stay                

B. stayed

                  

12.     When I met Liza yesterday, it was the first time I ________ her since Christmas.

A. had seen 

B. have seen

 

13. Be sure to fill _________ the forms correctly.

A. In

B. on

 

14. Excuse me, can I borrow ____________ dictionary?

A. Your      

B. yours

 

15. Far __________ Terry's small plane lay the freezing waters of the North Sea, where his father's boat had disappeared many years before.

A. Underneath     

B. below

 

16. Excuse me, ________the time?

A. have you

B. have you got

 

17. Nowadays,  ___________ are much better behaved than their parents were at same age. don't you think?

A. teenagers

B. the teenagers

 

18. We're late. By the time we get to the cinema, the film ____________ .

A. will have started        

B. has started

 

19. Which of the following is expressed clearly, effectively states the idea, and has no structural error?

A. Albert himself told me it was true.

B. Albert, himself, told me it was true.

 

20. Did you have ____________ on holiday?

A. a good weather        

B. good weather

 

21. “Of mans first disobedience , and the fruit/Of that forbidden tree" is the opening to:

A. Paradise Lost by John Milton

B. The Vision of Delight by Ben Jonson

 

22. The Picture of Dorian Gray is a novel by author?

A. Oscar Wilde   

B. John Steinbeck

 

23. What canon of religious literature was finally, firmly fixed at the end of 4th century AD?

A. The Hebrew Bible     

B. The New Testament

 

24.     Who wrote the novel "The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde?"

A. William Golding       

B. Robert Louis Stevenson

 

25. "No smoking during the cigarette break." What kind of figure of speech was used?

A. Irony    

B. Oxymoron

 

26. The Greek dramatist authored "Alcestis" and "Andromache."

A. Homer   

B. Euripides

 

27. This one made from ersatz coloring. ERZATS means:

A. Genuine 

B. Artificial

 

28. In the 23rd century BC, Sargon of Akkad conquered Mesopotamia, and became the subject of legends. It is from a Sumerian legend that we learn how Sargon established himself as the cupbearer of the king of Kish in Sumer. What early form of writing did the Sumerians invent?

A. Cuneiform     

B. Hieroglyphics

 

29. Which of the following is an incorrect representation of the Scarlet Letter throughout the course of the novel?

A. Able      

B. Avowal

 

30. Spot the correct word to complete the analogy. Donkey and Horse: Mule::Lion and Tiger:

 A. Thrag    

B. Liger

 

31. Guest house rooms must be ________ by noon.

A. Vacated

B. Abandoned

 

32. Which is NOT synonym for 'gathering'?

A. Contesseration

B. Collocation

 

33. Which word is defined by: A great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like

A. Blizzard 

B. Conflagration

 

34. You eat like a horse when __________________.

A. get used to something new

B. have a healthy appetite

 

35.     I'll ______________ their cat while they are away in holiday.

A. be looking at    

B. be looking after

 

36.     Madonna's agent _______________ change her name at the start of her career.

A. made her to    

B. made her

 

37. A light dramatic composition that uses highly improbable situations, stereotyped characters, extravagant exaggeration, and violent horseplay.

A. Satire     

B. Farce

 

38. Who was the author of the famous story book 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland'?

A. Rudyard Kipling       

B. Lewis Caroll

 

39. Who was the 1st century BC poet an author of "The Aeneid" serves as a guide in Dante's "Inferno?"

A. Homer   

B. Virgil

 

40. Rizal gave the time of his death in this quotation: "I die when the dawn breaks to herald the day." What is the time of his death?

A. Sometime sunset

B. Sometime at dawn

 

41. Which Russian novelist wrote "Anna Karenina" and "War and Peace?"

A. Leo Tolstoy     

B. Vladimir Nabokov

 

42. Read the following lines:

Midnight, not a sound from the pavement.

Has the moon lost its memory

She is smiling alone

In the lamp light the withered leaves

Collect at my feet

And the wind begins to moan.

 

A. Loneliness

B. Optimism

 

43. ___________is the study of the structure and form of words in language or a language, including inflection, derivation, and the formation of compounds.

A. Phonology      

B. Morphology

 

44. The English word "fig" is a:

A. Phoneme

B. Morpheme

 

45. Because of the typhoon, a number of local businesses ___________closed yesterday.

A. were      

B. are

 

46. The earliest recorded syllables are on tablets around 2800 BC in the Sumerian city of _______________.

A. Mesopotamia   

B. Ur

 

47. I could have joined the outreach project if I ___________ in the country at that time.

A. will be   

B. were

 

48. When helping in the kitchen, I always careful not to hurt ______________.

A. myself   

B. ourselves

 

49. You ___________ finished eating before we arrive.

A. will have

B. have

 

50. I thought the work is heavy for Martha and ______________.      

A. myself   

B. me

 

51. What is meant by AT SIXES AND SEVENS in this sentence? We moved into the house last week, but I'm afraid everything, is still at sixes and sevens.

A. The things have not been shipped.

B. In a state of confusion

 

52. For the synecdoche figurative expression "My mother has a green thumb. I can't wait to show you her garden." What is the equivalent meaning?

A. She grows a vegetable garden plats

B. She is good at gardening

 

53. She is __________  a jeepney.

 A. in

B. On

 

54. Which of the following words has an alternate correct spelling as shown in any good dictionary?

A. Advertisement 

B. Apologized

 

55. This is _____________ typhoon in five years.

A. a worse  

B. he worst

 

56. Danny look at the _________to look meanings of words used by the book in its

various chapters.

A. glossary

B. index

 

57. What type of language is normally used in ordinary conversation and other informal communication? e.g. "What a close shave?"

A. Trite Expression        

B. Colloquialism

 

58. What error is committed in the sentence: "The bus stopped suddenly, I spilled coffee all over my shirt."

A. Run-on 

B. Dangling modifier

 

59. What type of error is shown in this sentence? "Faster than a speeding bullet, the citizens of Metropolis saw Superman flying overhead."

A. Faulty Coordination  

B. Misplaced Modifier

 

60. To show phonological awareness skill in the student says the word, then syllable

or sound.

A. Segmenting

B. Rhyming

 

61. Which following pair of words is prescriptively correct in the blanks within the sentence: "I enjoy __________ but I would not like ___________ it all my life."

A. Painting: doing        

B. To paint: to do

 

62. Which sentence is consistent in the use of indefinite pronoun?

A. Everyone is required to do our share in the development of their community.

B. Everyone is required to do his share in the development of his community.

 

63. Jiemark was happy after he bought three ______________.

A. pieces of antique furniture

B. piece of antique furnitures             

                  

64. The underlined word in the following sentence is . "As a volunteer, he joined the VACC, an organization against corruption and crime"

A. Objective complement        

B. Appositive

 

65. There aren't ___________ for everybody attending the meetings.

A. enough chairs 

B. much chairs

 

66. Where are the human vocal cords located?

A. Pharynx 

B. Larynx

 

67. Egyptian literature is identified as literature.

A. European

B. Mediterranean

 

68. What is the logical fallacy in: "You once sponsored a project of the governor, therefore you are the governor's crony?"

A. Illogical conclusion  

B. Association fallacy

 

69. In the speech process, which is concerned with amplifying and enriching the voice, using human amplifiers such as the nose, windpipe and chest?

A. Resonation     

B. Phonation

 

70. What kind of word is AWOL?

A. Borrowed        

B. Acronym

 

71. He authored the popular short stories, "How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife," and "Midsummer," which both depict scenes in Barrio Nagrebcan, Bauang, La Union, where he was born.

A. Manuel Arguilla      

B. Bienvenido Santos

 

72. Which type of error is committed in the sentence below?

"The President together with his department secretaries is in Central Luzon distributing relief good."

A. Dangling modifier     

B. Misplaced modifier

 

73. Which is the BEST interpretation of this metaphorical line: "The car is a gluton for gasoline."

A. Speeding eats up a lot of gas       

B. High expensive for fuels gas

 

74.  Which of the Japanese poems consist of five lines 5-7-5-7-7 syllables including

one pause?

A. Hokku   

B. Tanka

 

75. When you teach students to use pleasant words instead of those offensive effect like the "grim-reaper" for death, or "crossing over" for dying you are teaching a lesson on_________.

A. Euphemism    

B. Contextualization

 

76. On levels of reading comprehension, which involves the understanding of information stated directly in the text?

A. Critical   

B. Literal

 

77. Which of the following speech articulators does most of the work in sounds like d, t, s, z, l, n, and th?

A. Teeth      

B. Tongue

 

78. In the phrase structure rules, a preposition phrases consist of a preposition followed by a ________.

A. noun phrase   

B. clause

 

79. This tense connotes actions that are happening at present time, meaning right now.

A. Progressive Tense     

B. Present Perfect

 

80. Who is Considered the goddess of Philippine poetry?

A. Opelia Alcantara Dimalanta      

B. Teresa Subido

 

81. Leo Tolstoy's short Story about a man falsely judge and accused of murder is entitled __________.

A. Murder    411%

B. God Sees The Truth but Waits

 

82. A sonnet has 14 iambic pentameter lines and that means:

A. There are 10 syllables in a line    

B. There are 5 syllables in a line

 

83. What do we call last two lines of the sonnet?

A. Heroic couplet

B. Couplet

 

84. Jose Rizal novel Noli Me Tangere is inspired by the novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe entitled _____________.

A. Uncle Tom's Cabin  

B. Les Miserables

 

85. What is considered the oldest epic in England?

A. Beowulf

B. Song of Roland

 

86. What is the name of the very first library in the world?

A. Beijing Imperial Library      

B. Ashurbannipal Library

 

87. The teacher was asked to speak for her students when they won the speech choir competition, and so she says "___________ of my student, I want to thank you."

A. On behalf       

B. In behalf

 

88. He is the advocate of Art for Art's sake in the Philippines.

A. Jose Garcia Villa      

B. Jose Salvador

 

89. Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are collectively known as_________.

A. Macro Skills   

B. Communicative Competence

 

90. DRTA in reading means:

A. Directed Reading and Thinking Activity

B. Direct Reading and Teaching Activity

 

91. In developmental reading, this pertains to the familiarity of the student toward the sounds of the language.

A. Phonemic Awareness

B. Phonology

 

92. Who is the Indian counterpart of William Shakespeare

A. Tagore   

B. Kalidasa

 

93. Who wrote the novel "A Christmas Carol" which is about a man who hates Christmas?

A. Charles Dickens       

B. scar Wilde

 

94. This is considered the Golden Age of Literacy Production in England.

 A. The reign of Queen Elizabeth    

B. The reign of Charles II

 

95. The pen name of Mary Ann Evans is ____________,

A. George Eliot

B. Emily Watts

 

96. "She is a star in the heavens above what figure of speech is used?

A. Simile    

B. Metaphor

 

97. What figure of speech is used in the sentenced below? "I can eat a whole cow!"

A. Personification

B. Hyperbole

 

98. Mark Twain's novel Torn Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are set in the _________ river.

A. Nile       

B. Mississippi

 

99. Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice?

A. Jane Austen   

B. Charlotte Bronte

 

100. What is the first Filipino Social Novel by Pedro Paterno?

A. Ninay    

B. Kenkoy


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