ENGLISH - Q and A with Rationalizations (Part 2)

1. The novel Crime Punishment was Written by ____________

A. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
B. Leo Tolstoy
C. Anton Checkov
D. IvanTurgenev

Ans: A


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

A. Present Tense
B. Past Tense
C. Progressive Tense
D. Present Perfect

Rationalization: The answer is letter C. If the Action is happening right now, it must be in the progressive tense. Example: She is singing right now.

3. Filipino as a language Blossomed during the Japanese occupation ___________

A. Japanese
B. American
C. Spanish
D. Commonwealth

Rationalization: The answer is A because during the Japanese occupation, they prohibit the use of English and Spanish and required everyone to use the vernacular language.

4. The Thomasites are ______________________

A. teachers from UST
B. teachers from America
C. American Soldiers
D. Followers of St. Thomas

Rationalization: The answer is B. They are called Thomasites because they arrived in the Philippine shores in board the ship USS Thomas.

5. Who is Considered the goddess of Philippine poetry?

A. Opelia Alcantara Dimalanta
B. Teresa Subido
C. Aida Rivera Ford
D. Angela Manalang Gloria

Ans: A

6. Leo Tolstoy’s short Story about a man falsely judge and accused of murder is titled _________.

A. Murder
B. God Sees The Truth but Waits
C. The Killer and the Victim
D. The misjudged

Ans: B

7. The underline word in the sentence below is an ___________?

“She took the early train.”

A. Adjective
B. Adverb
C. Apostrophe
D. Appositive

Rationalization: The answer is A. The underlined word is an adjective because it modifies the word “train” which is a noun.

8. Who wrote the short story “ Magnificence” Which is about the girl abused by an older man.

A. Estrella Alfon
B. KerimaTuvera
C. Nick Joaquin
D. Appositive

Ans: A

For numbers 59 – 63 read the sonnet below:

SONNET 29

By William Shakespeare

When, in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes,
I alone beweep my outcast state
And trouble heaven with my bootless cries
And look upon myself and curse my fate
Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,
Featured like him, like him with friends possess’d,
Desiring this man’s art and that man’s scope,
With what I most enjoy contented least;
Yet in these thought myself most despising,
Haply I think on thee, and then my state,
Like to the lark at break of day arising
From sullen earth, sings hymns at heaven’s gate;
For they sweet love remember’d such wealth brings
That then Iscom to change my state with kings.

9. What us the rhyme scheme of the sonnet above/

A. ABABCDCDEFEFGG
B. ABBCDDEFFGGHHI
C. AAABBBCCCDDDDEE
D. ABBCDDEFFGGHIJ

Rationalization: A Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines with ten syllables per line, the answer is A.

10. 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
C. There are 8 syllables in a line
D. There are 11 syllables in a line

Rationalization: A Shakespearean sonnet has 14 lines with ten syllables per line, the answer is A.


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

A. Heroic couplet
B. Couplet
C. Coupled
D. Couply

Rationalization: The last two lines is called the Heroic Couplet and it serves as the synthesis of the entire sonnet. The answer is A.

12. Jose Rizal’s novel Noli Me Tangere is inspired by the novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe titled ____________

A. Uncle Tom’s Cabin
B. Les Miserables
C. Tom Sawyer
D. War of the Roses


Rationalization: The answer is A. It is about the liberation of the African American Slaves.

13. The film “ Gone with the Wind” is about the American ___________________

A. Civil War
B. Revolution
C. Cold War
D. War and Peace

Rationalization: The answer is A, Civil War is pioneered by Abraham Lincoln in an attempt to liberates the slaves.

14. The reality TV show Big Brother is based on the novel by George Orwell titled ______________

A. Big Brother
B. 1984
C. Brother
D. Brother and Sons

Rationalization: The answer is B. George Orwell wrote this novel on the year 1948 but he change it to 1984 to make it seem futuristic.

15. The Family _____ together, ___________ together.

A. prays – stays
B. pray – stay
C. prayed – stayed
D. praying – staying

Rationalization: The answer is A. most collective nouns if taken as a single entity must take a singular verb.

16. One third of the population ______________ poor.

A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were

Rationalization: The answer is B. In fractions, if the subject is a count noun then it takes a plural noun. If it is a non count noun, then it takes a singular noun.

17. Neither Jordan nor his brothers _____________ leaving the company

A. is
B. are
C. was
D. were

Rationalization: The answer is B. In sentences with Neither… nor the verb agrees with the noun closest to it.

18. What is considered the oldest epic in England?

A. Beowulf
B. Neibulgid
C. Song of Roland
D. El Cid

Ans: A

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

A. Beijing Imperial Library
B. Ashurbannipal Library
C. UST Libray
D. Alexandria Library

Rationalization: The answer is B. It was founded by King Ashurbannipal in Niniveh.

20. Who wrote the novel “ The little Prince”?

A. Niccolo Machiavelli
B. Antoine De Saint Exupery
C. Martin Luther King
D. Rober Frost

Ans: B

21. Which sound is a voiced bilabial stop?

A. /b/
B. /p/
C. /k/
D. /t/

Rationalization: All of the sounds are stops/plosives, but only /b/ and /p/ are bilabial, and only /b/ is voiced, and so the answer is A.

22. 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
C. Because
D. For

Rationalization: The answer is A because “ in behalf” must only be used if the speaker is part of the group he/she is representing.

23. Which of the following inspired Rizal’s El Filibusterismo?

A. The execution of GOMBURZA
B. The death of Andres Bonifacio
C. The death of his father
D. The imprisonment of his mother

Rationalization: The answer is A. Rizal’s Family is closely attached to the Filipino priest, that is why the death of Gomez, Burgos and Zamora inspired Rizal to write his Novels.

24. What is the First American School in the Philippines that is aims in teaching the Filipinos how to use the English Language.

A. Philippine Normal University
B. Far Eastern University
C. University of Santo Tomas
D. University of the Philippines

Rationalization: The answer is A . PNU (PNS) is the first school stablished by the Thomasites in the Philippines.

25. He is the advocate of Art for Art’s sake in the Philippines.

A. Jose Garcia Villa
B. Jose Salvador
C. Manuel Arguilla
D. Arturo Rotor

Ans: A

26. Listening, Speaking, Reading and Writing are collectively known as ______________

A. Marco Skills
B. Cueing Skills
C. Communicative Competence
D. Micro Skills

Rationalization: The answer is A. In English language teaching, the words listed above are called the MACRO skills.

27. In the epic lliad, who is the most trusted friend of Archilles?

A. Hector
B. Patroclus
C. Agamemnon
D. Paris

Rationalization: The answer is B. In the epic, the death of Patroclus caused the greatest heart ache of Achilles.

28. Who wrote the epic lliad and Odyssey?

A. Vigil
B. Homer
C. Chaucer
D. Valmiki

Ans: B

29. Who is the Roman goddess of wisdom?

A. Athena
B. Minerva
C. Hera
D. Venus

Rationalization: Minerva is the Roman goddess of wisdom because Athena belongs to Greek Mythology. The answer is B.

30. DRTA in reading means:

A. Directional Reading Toward Attention
B. Direction on Reading To Attain Information
C. Directed Reading and Thinking Activity
D. Direct Reading and Teaching Activity

Rationalization: The answer is C. It is a process where in the teacher would read parts of the story and then they would let the students guess what is going happen next.

31. In developmental reading, this pertains to the familiarity of the students toward the sounds of the language.

A. Phonemic Awareness
B. Phonology
C. Syntax
D. Semantics

Rationalization: The answer is A. This skill attained if the learner can distinguish a feature of a particular language upon hearing it.

32. In development reading, this pertains to the ability of the learner to relate the written symbols to its corresponding sound.

A. Phonemic Awareness
B. Phonics
C. Syntax
D. Semantics

Rationalization: The answer is B. Phonics pertain to the sound and symbols correspondence graphophonemic.

33. Who wrote the short story “ A Rose for Emily”?

A. William Faulkner
B. Emily Dickinson
C. Virginia Woolf
D. Mary Shelley

Ans. A

34. Who is the Indian counterpart of William Shakespeare?

A. Tagore
B. Kalidasa
C. Valmiki
D. Vyasa

Rationalization: The answer is letter B. Kalidasa, like Shakespeare is a writer of dramas. His famous work is Shakuntala.

35. English Sonnet: Shakespeare , Italian Sonnet:

A. Alighieri
B. Petrarch
C. Boccaccio
D. Dante

Rationalization: Francisco Petrarch is the most famous sonnet writer in Italy

36. Who wrote the essay “ Self Reliance” Which mentions that “ envy is ignorance while imitation is suicide”?

A. Hendy David Thoreau
B. Ralph Waldo Emersion
C. Walt Whiteman
D. Gertrude Stein

Rationalization: The answer is B. Emerson, Whiteman, and Thoreau are friends and they all agree on the power of the individual. Emerson wrote Self Reliance, Thoreau wrote Walden, And Whiteman wrote Leaves of Grass.

37. In reading, IRI means:

A. Informal Reading Intervention
B. Informal Reading Inventory
C. Informal Reading Innovation
D. Informal Reading Integration

Rationalization: The answer is B. IRI is a system that labels a reader based on his/her capacity to voice out written symbols in a given text.

38. In the cueing system, this pertains to the structure of grammar.

A. Phonology
B. Semantics
C. Morphology
D. Syntax

Ans: D

39. In cueing system, this entails to the formation of words.

A. Phonology
B. Semantics
C. Morphology
D. Syntax

Ans: C

40. In the cueing system, this is about vocabulary and coming up with the meanings in a context.

A. Phonology
B. Semantics
C. Morphology
D. Syntax

Ans: B


41. In the cueing system, this pertains to the formation of sounds of the language.

A. Phonology
B. Semantics
C. Morphology
D. Syntax

Ans: A

Rationalization: for number 88 – 91: Phonology concerns sound; syntax concern structure/grammar, morphology concerns word formation; and semantics concerns meanings.

42. The poem “The Road Not Taken” which road did not traveler take?

A. Clear road
B. Road less travelled
C. High way
D. Streets

Rationalization: The traveler chose the road less travelled and for the persona his/her choice made all the difference.

43. Who wrote the novel “A Christmas Carol” which is about a man who hates Christmas?

A. Charles Dickens
B. Oscar Wilde
C. H.G Wells
D. D.H Lawrence

Ans: A

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

A. the reign of Queen Elizabeth
B. the reign of Charles II
C. the reign of Victoria
D. the reign of Henry VII

Rationalization: The answer is A. During the rime of Queen Elizabeth, writer of different genres surfaced. We have Shakespeare, Jonson, and Marlowe to mention a few.

45. Who wrote the novel Pride and Prejudice

A. Jane Austen
B. Charlotte Bronte
C. Ann Bradsheet
D. Edith Wharton

Ans: A

46. What is the pen name of Samuel Clemens?

A. Mark Twain
B. George Orwell
C. D.H Lawrence
D. T.S Eliot

Ans: A

47. The pen name of Mary Ann Evans is _____________

A. George Eliot
B. Emily Watts
C. Jane Seymour
D. Anne Bradsheet

Rationalization: The answer is A. She used a male pen name because Queen Victoria prohibits women to write.

48. “ She is a star in the heavens above. “What figure of speech is used?

A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole

Rationalization: The answer is B because “she” is directly compared to the stars. Direct comparison is called metaphor.

49. What figure of speech is used in the sentenced below?

“I can eat a whole cow!”

A. Simile
B. Metaphor
C. Personification
D. Hyperbole

Rationalization: The answer is D. Hyperbole is exaggeration.

50. Mark Twain’s novel Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are set in the ___________ river.

A. Nile
B. Mississippi
C. Amazon
D. Rio Grande

Rationalization: The answer is B. Mark Twain’s novels are set on the Mississippi river which is the longest river in America.