English Literature and Grammar Quiz

Literature

• Helen of Troy is the face that launched a thousand ships, an example of a metaphor.
• Mercy is spontaneous and freely given, as exemplified in Portia's speech in Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice".

Grammar

• Teachers, as well as the guidance counselor, is accompanying the students on a field trip ( error in subject-verb agreement).
• Imprisoned for 27 years, Nelson Mandela demonstrated his trait of forgiving his oppressors and negotiating in good faith for the peaceful transition to democracy.

Figures of Speech

• A man is known by the company he keeps, an example of a proverb.
• Loquacious means verbose or talkative.

Philippine History and Culture

• Abakada is considered the earliest form of writing in the Philippines.

Mathematics

• 3-√2 is a real number.
• The probability of getting a number divisible by 2 when rolling a die is 1/2.
• The equation of the line with slope -2 and y-intercept 3 is 2x + y = 3.
• A wood frame for pouring concrete has an interior perimeter of 14 meters, and its length is one meter greater than its width.
• The ratio of the length to the width of a rectangular cardboard is 4:3.
• If a baseball player hits 10 home runs in the first 45 games, he can expect to hit 36 home runs during the 162-game season.

Science

• The ratio of the number of red, green, and blue balls in a box is 2:5:6.
• The type of thermo-nuclear reaction that occurs in the sun, generating a tremendous amount of heat energy, is fusion.
• Herbivores are organisms that eat plants only.
• When carrying a heavy load with one arm, holding the free hand away from the body helps to change the center of gravity of the body and load.

Human Rights and Social Issues

• The ultimate purpose of Human Rights Education is to understand and change conditions that give rise to human rights violation.
• The Philippine agrarian reform is a question of land distribution.
• The Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program can bring about social equity and economic prosperity in the country by distributing agricultural lands to landless farmers, transferring ownership of land to farmers, and providing support services to farmer beneficiaries.

History

• Rizal Day celebration reminds us about heroes worth emulating.
• The exact date of Rizal's birth is June 19, 1861.

This quiz tests your knowledge of literary devices, grammar, and sentence structure with a mix of questions on figures of speech, sentence correction, and more.