GENERAL EDUCATION "ENGLISH" (TEST DRILLS)

1. The student's requests to re-set the test  ___________reasonable.

A. Were    

B. Very     

C. Are       

D. Is

 

2. "If you want the moon I will get it for you is an example of ________.

A. Hyperbole    

B. Synecdoche  

C. Irony

D. Personification

 

3. What figure of speech is: "O wild west wind!"

A. Irony    

B. Metaphor      

C. Apostrophe

D. Hyperbole

 

4. What figure of speech is: "The Lord is my shepherd"

A. Simile  

B. Hyperbole     

C. Irony

D. Metaphor

 

5. The figure of speech, "Sturdy and strong, the Filipinos are like the molave" is _________________.

A. Simile  

B. Irony    

C. Metaphor

D. Hyperbole

 

6. What figure of speech is present in this line of the poem "The Brook", "The second time it was a tiny snake."?

A. Personification      

B. Metaphor     

C. Simile

D. Apostrophe

 

7. The Filipinos are deeply religious; however, sometimes this religiosity instills the NEGATIVE attitude of ________.

A. Social responsibility to participate in the development of the society.

B. Resignation and ends up into doing nothing to improve one's condition,

C. Total surrender to God in times of helplessness is best.

D. God who is omnipotent and omniscient will allow what is best.

 

 

8. Read the paragraph and answer the item that follows,

"I am a retired public school teacher. As a teacher, I was branded as terror in school. The pupils dreaded the day they would enter my class. Little did they know that behind my unpopular facade was a heart full of compassion. But how did I earn this moniker? I did not tolerate dirty pupils in my class. I wanted them to know that cleanliness of body was good for their health. I inspected their teeth, nails, footwear, handkerchief, clothes, ears, noses and hair."

The public school teacher gives much importance to her pupils'

A. Cleanliness  

B. Study   

C. Absence

D. Posture

 

9. Select the most appropriate heading for the paragraph: "Stephen Crane was born in 1971 in New Jersey, but his family settled in New York. His father, a Methodist minister, died when Stephen was nine years old. He came to know New York through its slum and street life, particularly in Bowery,"

 

A. Stephen's family and boyhood

B. Stephen's genealogy       

C. Stephen as an Orphan

D. The New York Slums

 

10. What emotion or feeling is expressed in the following line?

To be or not to be, that is the question

Whether this nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous

Fortune, or to take arms against a Sea of Troubles, and by opposing end them?

A. Sadness

B. Anger   

C. Joy

D. Indecision

 

11. "My concept of inner peace came from my mother's daily activities which I now recall with fondness and awe. She was a full-time housewife, wholly dependent on my father's monthly salary. How she made both ends meet, guided us in our studies and did small acts of charity on the side was beyond me,"

 

The mother's financial resources are:

A. More than enough 

B. Abundant      

C. Miserable

D. Limited

 

 

 

12. One of the eggs _________ broken.

A. is 

B. Are       

C. Wasn't  

D. Were

13. Manolo approached the platform with his speech. His palms were sweaty and his hands were shaking. He felt the palpitations of his chest and perspiration began to appear at his forehead. Manolo is experiencing _____________.

A. Heart attack  

B. Nausea 

C. Stage fright

D. Epilepsy

 

14. "Nothing happens in this world by chance; it is all of a grand design."

The author speaks of one's  

A. Ambition      

B. Luck    

C. Destiny

D. Dream

 

15. Filipino writer whose stories and poems depict Filipino-Spanish cultural beliefs and traditions.

A. Edilberto Tiempo  

B. Bienvenido Santos

C. N.V.M. Gonzales

D. Nick Joaquin

 

16. A story put together through an exchange          of letter is called _________ literature.

A. Fiction 

B. Epistolary    

C. Episodic

D. Classic

 

17. Though nothing can bring back

The hour of splendor in the glass,

Of glory in the flower,

We will grieve not,

Rather find strength in what remains behind.

This stanza expresses _____________.

A. Grief

B. Hope    

C. Loss     

D. Despair

 

18. The celebrated play of William Shakespeare about two ill-starred who come from warring families.

A. Romeo and Juliet

B. Hamlet and Ophelia        

C. Anthony and Cleopatra

D. Ana and the King

 

 

19. Who is the proponent of the arena theater?

A. Carpio 

B. Tinio    

C. Montano

D. Avellana

 

20. She is known for the love sonnets she wrote.

A. Paz Marquez Benitez      

B. Edith Trernpo         

C. Gilda Cordero Fernando

D. Ophelia Dimalanta


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