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Directions: Choose the letter that corresponds to your answer. Write it on the space provided.
1. He is known as the Ruler of the Olympians and is respected as the protector of the Greeks.
a. Hephaestus b. Zeus c. Poseidon d. Hades
2. The mythological background of the Trojan War is said to be caused by Paris, the prince of Troy. Eris,
the goddess of discord, brought to a party a golden apple with an inscription – for the fairest. Hera
Athena and Aphrodite all made a quick claim on the apple. Fearing that he may anger any of the
goddess of, Zeus decided to send the three women to Paris. Each of the three goddesses offered
the following: Hera and Athena offered him that he will always be victorious in battle and wealth
and Aphrodite offered him the most beautiful woman in this world, as his wife. Being young and
romantic, he gave the apple to Aphrodite. Who was this beautiful woman offered to Paris as bribe?
a. Penelope, queen of Ithaca c. Helen of Troy
b. Persephone, queen of the underworld d. Hera, queen of Olympus
3. As a result, Hera and Athena helped Troy’s enemy, Greece, in the war while Aphrodite helped Troy.
What does this show?
a. Serious decisions have serious consequences
b. Paris was wrong in choosing Aphrodite as the winner
c. Hera and Athena harbored ill feelings
d. Zues ordered the goddesses to take sides in the war.
4. The Trojan War is technically set due to the abduction of Helen by Paris. This is remembered in the
modern times referring to Helen as
a. The woman who started the war c. The woman who left the husband
b. The face that launched a thousand ships d. The face which surpassed all beauties
5. Apollo was the god of sun and poetry. He has mastered the craft of prophesy and earned the
reference as the god who mostly reflected of Zeus. What is his Roman name?
a. Mars b. Neptune c. Jupiter d. Apollo
6. She is the wife of Zeus and considered as the goddess of fertility and of the Earth.
a. Hera b. Athena c. Aphrodite d. Artenio
7. The passages in the analects appear as dialogues between Confucius and his _________?
a. Disciples b. Father c. Son d. Wife
8. The analects is a collection of moral and ethical principles enunciated by a Chinese thinker called
__________?
a. Confucianism b. Confucius c. Confucian d. Lun-yu
9. Which of the following is generally considered as the oldest literary work in the history of the
world?
a. The Rig Veda b. The Yajur Veda c. Mahabharata d. The Bible
10. Mahabharata deals with the contest between what two families?
a. Rama & Ravana b. Pandavas & Kauravas c. Krishna & Arjuna d. American &
Muslim
11.The Daodejing/ Tao Te Ching expresses the basic beliefs of Daoist philosophy by teaching the
a. Dao, or way, as the fundamental oneness of all things
b. De, as the energy of the Dao
c. Opposing energy of the yin and yang
d. All of the above
12. To yield is to be preserved whole.” What figure of speech is used in this line from the Tao Te
Cheng?
a. oxymoron b. paradox c. metonymy d. synecdoche
13. Below is an excerpt from The Panchatantra.
The Lion-Makers
Scholarship is less that sense;/ Therefore seek intelligence:// Senseless scholars in their pride/
Made a lion; then they died.
What is the moral expressed in this verse?
a. Intelligence is more important than scholarship.
b. Too much studying can make one lose common sense.
c. One should remain humble on his/her achievements.
d. A person without scholarship is like a dead lion.
Read the proverb and then choose the best answer to the questions that follows.
The King who tastes his kingdom like
Elixir, bit by bit,
Who does not overtax its life,
Will fully relish it. From Panchantantra
25. The proverb implies that a king who rules well is one who _________
a. Believes he is god enjoying his power.
b. Can make his country prosperous.
c. Does not exact high taxes
d. Treasures his kingdom not his position
26. The figure of speech used in line 1-2 is
a. Personification b. metaphor c. Simile d. apostrophe
Read the poem and choose the best answer to the questions that follow
Poverty’s child –
He starts to grind the rice
And gazes at the moon (a haiku by Basho)
27. The haiku suggest the idea that________.
a. Nature offers the only consolation to a lonely life.
b. Life as symbolized by the rice is difficult for the child
c. Humans are lucky to see the moon on a clear night.
d. Poverty makes the child feel hopeless and pitiful.
Read the passages below and the choose the best answer to the questions that follows
It was in this apartment, also, that there stood against the western wall, a gigantic clock of ebony.
Its pendulum swung to and fro with a dull, heavy, monotonous clang ; and when the minute- hand made
the circuit of the face , and the hour was to be stricken, there came from the brazen lungs of the clock
a sound which was clear and loud and deep exceedingly musical , but of so peculiar a note and emphasis
that, at each lapse of an hour , the musicians of the orchestra were constrained to pause, momentarily ,
in their performance, to hearken the sound; and thus the waltzers perforce ceased their evolutions; and
there was a brief disconcert of the whole gay company ; and while the chimes of the aged and sedate
passed their hands over their brows as if in confused reverie or meditation.
From the” Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe
45. What figure of speech is “We talked with each other about each other/ Though neither of us
spoke” by Emily Dickinson?
a. metonymy b. paradox c. personification d. synecdoche
46. From what perspective is the following story told?
“I could picture it. I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends. We
went out to the Café Napolitain to have an aperitif and watch the evening crowd on the
boulevard.” From “The Sun Also Rises” by Ernest Hemingway
a. first person b. second person c. third person omniscient d. third person
limited
47. What figure of speech is “I had so much homework last night that I needed a pickup truck to
carry all my books home!”
a. synecdoche b. onomatopoeia c. pun d. hyperbole
48. What figure of speech is “The chug-a, chug-a, chug-a of the train echoed down the hill, while a
cloud of smoke rose up to the blue western sky.”
a. metaphor b. metonymy c. anaphora d. onomatopoeia
49. What figure of speech is it when you substitute the word “euthanasia” for “mercy killing" or
"killing the terminally ill"?
a. hyperbole b. assonance c. euphemism d. oxymoron
50. What figure of speech is exemplified below?
“The wind stood up and gave a shout. He whistled on his two fingers.”
a. allusion b. metaphor c. onomatopoeia d. personification