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Lit 1N: Literatures of the Philippines
Midterm Examination
Prof. E.T.M. Solmerano
Direction: Read and analyze the poem and then answer the questions that follow as briefly as possible - with a letter, word, or phrase.
“The Way My Ideas Think Me"
by Jose Garcia Villa
1 The way my ideas think me
2 Is the way I unthink God.
3 As in the name of heaven I make hell
4 That is the way the Lord says me.
5 And all is adventure and danger
6 And I roll him off cliffs and mountains
7 But fast as I am to push him off
8 Fast am I to reach him below.
9 And it may be then his turn to push me off,
10 I wait breathless for that terrible second:
11 And if he push me not, I turn around in anger:
12 "O art thou the God I would have!"
13 Then he pushes me and I plunge down, down!
14 And when he comes to help me up
15 I put my arms around Him, saying, "Brother,
16 Brother"... This is the way we are.
1. This poem is:
a. purely lyric
b. purely narrative
c. partly dramatic
d. partly narrative
2. Who is speaking the lines:
a. the poet himself
b. a character in the poem
c. nobody in particular
d. the reader
3. The lines are addressed to:
a. God
b. the poet himself
c. no one in particular
d. the readers
4. In stanza 1, the speaker of the poem could be characterized as:
a. unconventional
b. religious
c. atheist
d. outrageous
5. Line 3 contains:
a. a paradox
b. an antithesis
c. an oxymoron
d. an irony
6. Line 3 is also an example of:
a. consonance
b. assonance
c. onomatopoeia
d. rhyme
7. In stanza 2, the speaker could be described as:
a. mischievous
b. childish
c. childlike and playful
d. timid
8. An alliteration is found in line:
a. 3
b. 9
c. 11
d. 16
9. Point out the alliteration used in line 13.
10. The speaker, in the third stanza, could be described as:
a. daring
b. stubborn
c. unorthodox
d. bothersome
11. The tone of the poem is:
a. serious
b. sardonic
c. light and playful
d. blasphemous
12. In this poem, ___________ function as symbols.
a. heaven and hell
b. adventures and danger
c. cliffs and mountains
d. the speaker's relationship with God
13. Which of the following is not a central image of the poem:
a. the pushing down and rolling off the cliff
b. mountains and cliffs
c. heaven and hell
d. the reaching out and helping up
14. A symbol can be found in the entire poem except in stanza:
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
15. When the speaker pushes God, the cliffs and mountains stand for:
a. the loss of faith and belief he has of the Lord
b. the high esteem, awe, reverence and grand
concept he has of God
c. the speaker is just toying with God as he pushes Him off the cliffs
d. none of these
16. When God pushes the speaker (upon his insistence although God is reluctant to do so), the cliffs and mountains indicate:
a. the high points in the speaker's life like success or everything about the speaker is going right
b. God's great love for the speaker
c. the speaker is just showing how God would act as he did - push the speaker off but help him up
d. all of the above
17. When the speaker rolls God off the cliffs and mountains, it connotes:
a. the speaker's belief being a brother to God
b. the speaker's view of God as a Being way above us
c. the loss of all those fine feelings and thoughts he has of the Lord
d. the speaker is playfully treating God as he rolls Him off the cliffs
18. When God pushes the speaker off, the cliffs and mountains signify:
a. the crises when the speaker suffers setbacks
b. the hardships and trials that the speaker encounter in his life
c. the lowest and saddest times in the speaker's life
d. all of the above
19. That the speaker could be very loving is shown in line:
a. 4
b. 7
c. 10
d. 15
20. The speaker states (in lines 7 and 8) that he is fast to reach the Lord below after pushing Him off the cliffs to imply:
a. his loss of faith in God
b. his image of God is not completely shattered
c. his entirely dependent on God
d. his strong faith in the Lord
21. Line 13 suggests:
a. the fall from grace of the speaker in his relationship with God
b. the despondence of the speaker without God
c. the speaker strips God of the usual conventional attributes given to Him
d. the actual fall of the speaker into the abyss
22. Line 14 stands for:
a. the Lord stands by him and does not desert him in times of trouble
b. the idea of God being merciful and kind
c. the concept of God being powerful and omniscient
d. the ever-illusive nature of God
23. The language of the poem is:
a. archaic or antiquated
b. cultured and sophisticated
c. slang and literary
d. cryptic or enigmatic
e. blasphemous or sacrilegious
24. The theme of the poem is:
a. the speaker's childlike and playful relationship with God
b. the speaker's stripping God of the conventional attributes given to Him
c. the exciting but turbulent relationship between the speaker and God
d. all of the above
25. The essential value of the poem as art is that it:
a. conveys a moral
b. expresses the speaker's belief and attitude
c. gives aesthetic pleasure
d. all of the above
Midterm Examination
Prof. E.T.M. Solmerano
Direction: Read and analyze the poem and then answer the questions that follow as briefly as possible - with a letter, word, or phrase.
“The Way My Ideas Think Me"
by Jose Garcia Villa
1 The way my ideas think me
2 Is the way I unthink God.
3 As in the name of heaven I make hell
4 That is the way the Lord says me.
5 And all is adventure and danger
6 And I roll him off cliffs and mountains
7 But fast as I am to push him off
8 Fast am I to reach him below.
9 And it may be then his turn to push me off,
10 I wait breathless for that terrible second:
11 And if he push me not, I turn around in anger:
12 "O art thou the God I would have!"
13 Then he pushes me and I plunge down, down!
14 And when he comes to help me up
15 I put my arms around Him, saying, "Brother,
16 Brother"... This is the way we are.
1. This poem is:
a. purely lyric
b. purely narrative
c. partly dramatic
d. partly narrative
2. Who is speaking the lines:
a. the poet himself
b. a character in the poem
c. nobody in particular
d. the reader
3. The lines are addressed to:
a. God
b. the poet himself
c. no one in particular
d. the readers
4. In stanza 1, the speaker of the poem could be characterized as:
a. unconventional
b. religious
c. atheist
d. outrageous
5. Line 3 contains:
a. a paradox
b. an antithesis
c. an oxymoron
d. an irony
6. Line 3 is also an example of:
a. consonance
b. assonance
c. onomatopoeia
d. rhyme
7. In stanza 2, the speaker could be described as:
a. mischievous
b. childish
c. childlike and playful
d. timid
8. An alliteration is found in line:
a. 3
b. 9
c. 11
d. 16
9. Point out the alliteration used in line 13.
10. The speaker, in the third stanza, could be described as:
a. daring
b. stubborn
c. unorthodox
d. bothersome
11. The tone of the poem is:
a. serious
b. sardonic
c. light and playful
d. blasphemous
12. In this poem, ___________ function as symbols.
a. heaven and hell
b. adventures and danger
c. cliffs and mountains
d. the speaker's relationship with God
13. Which of the following is not a central image of the poem:
a. the pushing down and rolling off the cliff
b. mountains and cliffs
c. heaven and hell
d. the reaching out and helping up
14. A symbol can be found in the entire poem except in stanza:
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
15. When the speaker pushes God, the cliffs and mountains stand for:
a. the loss of faith and belief he has of the Lord
b. the high esteem, awe, reverence and grand
concept he has of God
c. the speaker is just toying with God as he pushes Him off the cliffs
d. none of these
16. When God pushes the speaker (upon his insistence although God is reluctant to do so), the cliffs and mountains indicate:
a. the high points in the speaker's life like success or everything about the speaker is going right
b. God's great love for the speaker
c. the speaker is just showing how God would act as he did - push the speaker off but help him up
d. all of the above
17. When the speaker rolls God off the cliffs and mountains, it connotes:
a. the speaker's belief being a brother to God
b. the speaker's view of God as a Being way above us
c. the loss of all those fine feelings and thoughts he has of the Lord
d. the speaker is playfully treating God as he rolls Him off the cliffs
18. When God pushes the speaker off, the cliffs and mountains signify:
a. the crises when the speaker suffers setbacks
b. the hardships and trials that the speaker encounter in his life
c. the lowest and saddest times in the speaker's life
d. all of the above
19. That the speaker could be very loving is shown in line:
a. 4
b. 7
c. 10
d. 15
20. The speaker states (in lines 7 and 8) that he is fast to reach the Lord below after pushing Him off the cliffs to imply:
a. his loss of faith in God
b. his image of God is not completely shattered
c. his entirely dependent on God
d. his strong faith in the Lord
21. Line 13 suggests:
a. the fall from grace of the speaker in his relationship with God
b. the despondence of the speaker without God
c. the speaker strips God of the usual conventional attributes given to Him
d. the actual fall of the speaker into the abyss
22. Line 14 stands for:
a. the Lord stands by him and does not desert him in times of trouble
b. the idea of God being merciful and kind
c. the concept of God being powerful and omniscient
d. the ever-illusive nature of God
23. The language of the poem is:
a. archaic or antiquated
b. cultured and sophisticated
c. slang and literary
d. cryptic or enigmatic
e. blasphemous or sacrilegious
24. The theme of the poem is:
a. the speaker's childlike and playful relationship with God
b. the speaker's stripping God of the conventional attributes given to Him
c. the exciting but turbulent relationship between the speaker and God
d. all of the above
25. The essential value of the poem as art is that it:
a. conveys a moral
b. expresses the speaker's belief and attitude
c. gives aesthetic pleasure
d. all of the above