Gen Ed Flashcards
William Shakespeare showed COMPOSURE in front of his critics amidst countless derision. The word means:
a. ) agitation
b. ) fear
c. ) aplomb
d. ) nervusness
a. agitation (anxiety)
b. fear
c. aplomb (self-confidence)
d. nervousness
ANSWER: C.
There are times when we are forced to do things against our own VOLITIONS. The word means:
a. opinion
b. intuition
c. will
d. fate
ANSWER: C. will
These patients are facing _________ death.
a. eminent
b. eminence
c. imminent
d. imminence
a. eminent (famous-adj)
b. eminence (fame-noun)
c. imminent (threatening)
d. imminence (threat)
ANSWER: C.
He is a Filipino poet known in using punctuation marks extensively in his pieces-most specially “commas.”
a. Paz Marquez Benitez
b. Nick Joaquin
c. Jose Garcia Villa
d. Edilberto Tiempo
a. Paz Marquez Benitez
(authored Dead Stars, first modern English -language short story)
b. Nick Joaquin (Quijano de Manila)
(Nat’l Artist for Literature, May Day Eve, The Woman Who Had Two Navels, a Portrait of the Artist as Filipino)(WW)
c. Jose Garcia Villa (Doveglion)
(poet, Nat’l Artist for Literature 1973: Footnote to Youth)
d. Edilberto Tiempo (E.K Tiempo)
(fiction-writer, founded the Siliman National Writers Workshop, works:Cry Slaughter/ Watch in the Night)
ANSWER: C. Jose Garcia Villa
In Kerima Polotan Tuvera’s short story “The Virgin”, why did Ms. Mijares fail to find a man to marry?
She took care of her sick mother
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn were written by American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens. By what name is he better known as?
a. Robinson Crusoe
b. Ernest Hemingway
c. Miguel de Cervantes
d. Mark Twain
a. Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
(one of the founders of english Novel with Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson)
b. Ernest Hemingway
(The Old Man and the Sea, 1954 Nobel Prize Winner)
c. Miguel de Cervantes
(spanish writer, Don Quixote)
d. Mark Twain
Answer : D.
Come live with me and be my Love, And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dale and field, And all the craggy mountains yield. The passionate Shepherd to His Love -Christopher Marlowe, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love" Which of the following is the most accurate classification of the poem?
a. ballad
b. ode
c. pastoral
d. dramatic
a. Ballad (poem or song narrating a short story)
b. Ode (type of lyrical stanza)
c. Pastoral (idealistic, almost Utopian, view of rural life)
d. Dramatic Monologue (persona poem, written in the form of a speech of an individual character)
Answer: C.
What is true of the following example?
“My goal, to be independently wealthy by the age of fifty, is looking increasingly unrealistic.”
a. it contains gerund phrase
b. it contains participial phrase.
c. it contains an absolute phrase
d. it contains an appositive phrase
a. It contains a gerund phrase
(usually function as noun- ing)
b. It contains participial phrase
(usually function as adjective in a form of present-ing or past-ed)
c. It contains an absolute phrase
(usually function as a modifier in a form of ing)
d. It contains an appositive phrase
(renames or identifies another noun in a form of essential/ restrictive (no commas) or nonessential/ nonrestrictive (use commas if it provides sufficient identification on its own)
Answer: D
I think Arnold spent the entire afternoon ___ the phone.
a. on
b. in
c. at
d. with
Answer: A. on
Bread and butter _____ our daily food.
a. is
b. are
c. were
d. am
Answer: A. is
"As far back as I can remember, our family had always been an extended one. Our grandmother was the mainstay in the family the silent strength behind our mother who is daughter." The informal guide and honorary household chief in the extended family is the \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_. a. grandmother b. mother c. father d. aunt
Answer: A. grandmother
What reading technique is being utilized when a teacher asks his students to read a particular passage, and he marks mispronounced words?
a. DRTA
b. IRI
c. SQ3R
d. KWL
a. DRTA (Directed Reading Thinking Activity) b. IRI (Informal Reading Inventory) c. SQ3R (Survey Question: Read, Recite, Review) d. KWL Chart (Know, Want, Learn)
ANSWER: B.
What figure of speech is used in this haiku? O moon, why must you Inspire my neighbors to chirp All night in his flute. -Koyo
a. Apostrophe
b. allusion
c. Hyperbole
d. Euphemism
a. Apostrophe (starts with O, calling inanimate object) b. Allusion (refer to something in the past) c. Hyperbole (exaggeration) d. Euphemism (used to tone done intensity of the word to avoid issue)
ANSWER: A
The sun was gone, but he had left his footprints in the sky. -Zora Neale, Their Eyes Were Watching God
a. Metonymy
b. Irony
c. Synedoche
d. Personification
a. Metonymy (replacing related word/noun) b. Irony (opposite meaning of one's expression) c. Synecdoche (part used to represent a whole) d. Personification (attribution of personal nature or human characteristics to something nonhuman) ANSWER: D.
What is the mood of these lines? Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise I must think of a new life And I must not give in When the dawn comes Tonight will be a memory, too And a new day will begin
a. enthusiastic
b. motivated
c. thrilled
d. hopeful
Answer: D. hopeful
What type of error is shown in this sentence?
“Faster than a speeding bullet, the citizens of Metropolis saw Superman flying overhead.”
a. Dangling modifier
b. Misplaced Modifier
c. Faulty Parallelism
d. Comma Splice
Answer: B. Misplaced Modifier
Which of the sentences demonstrates effective
parallelism?
A. Popular exercises for men and women include aerobic
dancing, weight lifters, and jogging.
B. I look forward to hearing from you and to have an
opportunity to tell you more about myself.
C. Computerization has helped industry by not allowing labor
costs to skyrocket, increasing the speed of production.
D. Baby food consumption, toy production, and marijuana use
are likely to decline as the Philippine population grows older.
Answer: D.
Determine which may be the best order in
which the sentences should be arranged to result in a well
organized paragraph. Encircle the letter of the correct answer.
A. Now, we shall do everything we can to enforce this law.
B. In the struggle against crime, government and people
should join hands.
C. Republic Act 7659, the death penalty law is government’s
response against cruelty and heartlessness.
D. The law’s main objective is not retribution but reform and
rehabilitation of offenders and would-be offenders.
E. All countries in the world are presently siege by violent crime.
a. CEBAD b. EBCDA c. CEDAB d. ACEBD e. CBEDA
Answer: B.
Find the error
The effort to create appropriate theatrical effects often result in settings that cannot be effective without an imaginative lighting crew.
Answer: result-results
What sound is produced when the letter or sound D is
followed by a word that starts with Y?
a. ch
b. j
c. sh
d. zh
Answer: B.
Which enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1916 established a bicameral legislature in the Philippines with the senator (upper house) and House of Representative (lower house) to be
composed of elected Filipinos?
a. Philippine Legislative Law
b. Cooper Act
c. Mckinley Law
d. Jones Law
a. Philippine Legislative Law
b. Cooper Act
c. Mckinley Law
d. Jones Law
Answer: D.
The fundamental right invoked by filling the “writ of
amparo” is ________________.
a. The right to due process
b. The right to self-defense
c. The right to be defended by a public attorney
d. The right to life, liberty and security
a. The right to due process
b. The right to self-defense
c. The right to be defended by a public attorney
d. The right to life, liberty and security
Answer: D.
An international convention where the Philippines can
validate its claim to the Spratlys and other territories in the West Philippine Sea is known as the __________.
a. United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea
b. Geneva Convention
c. Rio De Janeiro Convention
d. Kyoto Protocol
a. United Nations Conventions on the Law of the Sea
b. Geneva Convention
(humane rules for the conduct of war)
c. Rio De Janeiro Convention
(UNCED: United Nations Conference on Environment and Development)
d. Kyoto Protocol
(project used to reduce greenhouse gas)
Answer: A.
Which religious missionaries first arrived in the Philippines?
a. Dominicans
b. Franciscan
c. Jesuits
d. Augustinians
Answer: D. Augustinians
in alphabetical order
Which band played the Marcha Nacional Filipino of the
national anthem on June 12, 1898 during the declaration of Philippine Independence?
a. Malabon Band
b. Kawit Cavite Band
c. Pangkat Kawayan ng Pateros
d. San Francisco del Monte Band
Answer: B. Kawit Cavite Band
Who was the literary figure known as “Huseng Sisiw”?
a. Jose Dela Cruz
b. Francisco Baltazar
c. Juan Matapang Cruz
d. Jose Corazon De Jesus
Answer: A
Which order of the presidents correctly applies to Philippine history? I. Carlos P. Garcia II. Diosdado Macapagal III. Manuel Roxas IV. Ferdinand Marcos
a. III, I, II, IV
b. IV, II,I,III
c. I,II,III,IV
d. IV, III,II,I
Answer: A
- Emilio Aguinaldo
- Manuel L.Quezon
- Sergio Osmeña
- Manuel Roxas
(Presidents of the Philippine Commonwealth) - Jose P. Laurel
(President of the 2nd Republic) - Elpidio Quirino
- Ramon Magsaysay
- Carlos P. Garcia
- Diosdado Macapagal
- Carlos P. Garcia
- Diosdado Macapagal
- Ferdinand Marcos
- Corazon Aquino
- Fidel V. Ramos
- Joseph Estrada
- Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
- Benigno aquino III
- Rodrigo Duterte
A __________ state is a state wherein all government authority emanates from the people and is exercised by representatives chosen by the people.
a. Communist
b. Republican
c. Democratic
d. Parliamentary
ANSWER: B
What law passed on August 1909 by the U.S. Congress established a partial free foreign trade in the Philippines?
a. Bell Trade
b. Underwood-Simmons act
c. Treaty on General Relations
d. Payne-Aldrich Act
ANSWER: C. Payne-Aldrich Act
a. Bell Trade
(policy governing trade between the Philippines and the United States)
b. Underwood-Simmons Act
(Tariff Act- federal income tax)
c. Treaty on General Relations/ Treaty of Manila
d. Payne-Aldrich Act
(bill raising certain tariffs on goods entering the United States)
Which power of the state enables it to impose charge of burden upon persons, property or property rights for the use and support of the government in its discharge of appropriate functions?
a. Eminent domain
b. Value added tax
c. Expropriation
d. Taxation
a. Eminent domain
(the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation)
b. Value added tax
(sales tax)
c. Expropriation
(the action by the state or an authority of taking property from its owner for public use or benefit.)
d. Taxation
(means by which governments finance their expenditure by imposing charges on citizens and corporate entities)
Who was the revolutionary leader who refused to surrender to the Americans even after General Malvar’s surrender, and declared himself President and Commander-in-Chief of the Supreme Government of the Tagalog Archipelago?
a. Julian Montalan
b. Licerio Geronimo
c. Macario Sakay
d. Artemio Ricarte
ANSWER: C. Macario Sakay a. Julian Montalan (Macario Sakay's chief officer) b. Licerio Geronimo (general of the Philippine Revolutionary Forces under Emilio Aguinaldo) c. Macario Sakay d. Artemio Ricarte (Philippine-American War General, "Father of the Philippine Army"))
What kind of cooperative system sells farmer’s agricultural product?
a. Service cooperative
b. Marketing cooperative
c. producers cooperative]
d. multi-purpose cooperative
B. Marketing cooperative
