Concepts

Question 1

Leading figure of the Negritude Movement

Answer 1

Leopold Sedar Senghor

Question 2

Chinese leader whose essay and poems depicted the totalitarian rule in China and advocated a revolutionary movement

Answer 2

Mao Tze-Tung

Question 3

He wrote “Kalayaan”

Answer 3

Emilio Jacinto

Question 4

He wrote the novel “Ninay”

Answer 4

Pedro Paterno

Question 5

First Asian to receive the Novel Prize for literature

Answer 5

Rabindranath Tagore

Question 6

Principal author of the American Declaration of Independence, referred to the Americans as “merciless Indian savages”

Answer 6

Thomas Jefferson

Question 7

Father of Tagalog short stories

Answer 7

Deogracias Rosario

Question 8

Wrote Banaag at Sikat, considered as the bible of the Filipino working class

Answer 8

Lope K. Santos

Question 9

He founded the group TANIW in 1952

Answer 9

Lope K. Santos

Question 10

His last request on his deathbed was to establish Tagalog as the national language

Answer 10

Lope K. Santos

Question 11

Playwright known for using the alienation effect to educate the audience rather than relying on their emotions

Answer 11

Bertolt Brecht

Question 12

First Filipino who won the nobel prize

Answer 12

Maria Ressa