ENGLISH 3 MODELE TEST 1

A WARTIME OF BASIC NEGROS ORIENTAL PEOPLE

ANSWERS:

1. One thing people today overlook far too much is the simple yet effective act of kindness.  In this
cold new world overtaken by selfishness and greed is a desperate need for those little acts of
care.   Just a helping hand or a quick show of compassion can turn another person’s day
completely around. That’s what they saw in Negros Oriental people, they learn it’s people
personality in it’s most primitive circumstance the kindness of the people to help.

2. The essay is generally intimate and light in tone, but it could also be deeply serious and
personally involved in its material, which is more lighter and personal in its details.

3. It’s very important for people to remember that anger is powerful.   So is selfishness along with
cruelty.   However, kindness and courage overpowers all.   You may think your kindness makes a
difference for other people only, but it doesn’t.  What comes around goes around, and your act
will be returned.   Your most important reward is knowing how much you just helped someone in
need.   You feel satisfaction knowing that you might have saved someone’s day, week, or even
life.   What you have really been given is the most precious gift you can receive, the gift of
kindness and courage. Everyone is capable of being kind and courage.  Everyone can help.  The
real question is, why don’t we? This should not be a question.   Kindness and courage should
come automatically.   It should be common rather than a rarity.   We can make this happen and
do something kind today or in the future.

THE DUMMY

ANSWERS:

1. The man’s goal of sneaking away because of his boring life everyday so he create a dummy of
himself and he achieved it but the reason behind it, to remove himself from the constraints of
his family and life, are revealed through the dummies. The perfect replication of the man within
the dummies backfires on him and the dummies are plagued with the man’s feelings and wants.
The man represents all people who have tried to hide their personality and feelings before. With
this story, Sontag is clearly hinting at the idea that a mask to cover a person’s true character can
actually tell more about the person.
 2. Yes the essay is satire on several ideas, specially when the main character builds another
dummy to replace the first dummy who married the secretary. While the main character who
builds second dummy to replace him while he disappears but at the end he losses his own
identity, his family, and his life. He live in the alleys and doorways for the rest of his life.

3. The lack of description makes the story have a greater impact because every reader can imagine
this story happening in their town, making this piece of fiction seem more real. Everyone has a
house, most have a place of work, and this nondescript setting means that the author wants the
story to be able to happen anywhere. The setting of this story is important; no one notices when
the man and the dummies switch roles because of the massive amount of people. It gives the
mass crowds a lack of identity, and when the man leaves his family he is able to disappear
without a trace. The setting is representative of the central idea of the story in that the
facelessness of the city makes it easy for the man to hide literally and metaphorically. He
literally hides from his family in the city, but he also hides metaphorically by hiding his true
feelings and personality behind the dummies’ robotic imitations of himself.

ENGLISH 3 MODELE TEST 2

THE ALIENIST

ANSWERS:

1. I was absolutely captivated by the writing, the characters and the plot and loved how they were
all deftly tethered to a great depiction of late 19th Century everyday life. I would describe this as
a psychological thriller and detective mystery set in the 1890's and blending a Sherlock Holmes
type investigator and a Hannibal Lector/Jeffrey Dahmer like serial killer straight of today. For
me, what set it over the top good was the healthy dose of historical fiction thrown in for
interesting background. It just gave the book a unique, interesting feel as it had the darkness
and grit of a present day "hunt the serial killer" story but with the customs, constraints and daily
rituals of 19th Century New York life.

2. The Alienist by Caleb Carr is a clever combination of a historical, psychological and crime thriller
novel. Embedded in a specific time and place, New York, 1896, focuses not only on solving
gruesome crimes but also, perhaps even in the first place, finding a satisfactory answer what
shaped the perpetrator and made him the man he became.

3. The riveting story is narrated by Dr. Kreizler's good friend, John Moore. Before you are finished
reading this delicious historical mystery you will meet an array of interesting and memorable
 characters you'll come to cherish. Sara Howard is a pretty and extremely capable woman ahead
of her time. Sara and Kreizler's pal, Moore, push the investigation forward against strong
opposition from conventional law enforcement. Two New York cops also ahead of their time,
Lucius and Marcus, will use footwork and cutting-edge investigative techniques to catch a
dangerous killer. A young street urchin, Stevie, saved from a miserable future by the good
doctor, and a very loyal servant named Cyrus round out this rag-tag group that confront the
unthinkable. They will break new ground, using Lazlo's "profile" to catch a serial killer. There are
moments so full of flavor in this fine historical mystery that you'll feel like you are sitting
alongside the characters at Delmonico's as they enjoy a good meal, and plan their next move.
This fine novel is truly memorable, and holds a special place among books I've read. If you love
historical mysteries you do not want to miss this one.

4. I disagree, Prior to the twentieth century, persons suffering from mental illness were thought to
be “alienated”, not only from the rest of society but from their own true natures. Those experts
who studied mental pathologies were therefore know as alienists. Because what you might find
between the covers of this book is a story that is anything but your typical thriller. Though it
contains many frights, twists, and tense moments, the pace is much different from your
standard fare. Carr chooses to unfold the tale of the shocking murders of child prostitutes as a
journey of almost-academic discovery led by the Sherlock-esque Laszlo Kreizler. Though there's
all the elements of your run-of-the-mill nail biter, they are spaced out over long periods and
occasionally eschew the traditional clip for which the genre is famous. That isn't to say that the
book is not compelling or hard to put down. If you are looking for an intelligent, high spirited, in
depth, look at the mind of a sadistic serial killer as well as a stroll through the late 19th century
streets of New York City then you should most assuredly pick up The Alienist. It is a thumping
good read.

From Conrado de Quiros, “The Gospel of History According to Nick Joaquin.”

ANSWERS:

1. We are given to believe that the “model Joaquin builds in his various essays integrates elements
of lesser importance, that it tends to extract from these more meaning than their content can
possibly hold. Joaquin has presented his views on colonialism, nationalism, culture and identity.
Criticism of his views and the problems he seeks to address entails an alternative view of the
matter. We take issue, first of all, with the manner in which Joaquin accounts for historical
development in general. A particularly conspicuous limitation of Joaquin’s approach is its
inability to account for motivation. It does require tremendous inventiveness to explain how
Spanish culture (which, by extending the logic, must have similarly derived tools) could have
produced colonization; much less explain the specific nature of that colonization. In fact,
Joaquin treats the Spanish colonization of the Philippines as a phenomenon contingent to both
Spain and the Philippines.
2. The cultivation of a “colonial mentality” among Filipinos was an integral, if less flagrant, feature
of American official policy. Root had stressed loyalty to the United States as the basic requisite
for public office and such loyalty had to be ensured as the Filipinos were given more
responsibility in government. The sponsorship and control of public education in the Philippines
became a particularly potent solution – it was democratic in form but imperialist in substance.
This growing Third-Worldism has two specific motivations. Firstly, it means, for the
undeveloped countries, the severing of ties that bind them, like the spokes of a wheel, to the
former colonial powers which reduce them to a position of dependency. Hence, the Third
World countries seek to relate to each other, sans Superpower interference, through economic
cooperation, cultural exchanges and new political alliances. Secondly, Third-Worldism seeks to
destroy the elements that retard or obstruct development. These elements were pointed out by
the Afro-Asian Writers Conference here as colonialism, imperialism and hegemonism.

3. The success of the American policy of creating “loyal” citizens extends well beyond the
“granting” of the Philippine independence in 1946. Our foreign affairs, which Recto had
described as “mendicant,” meant, until recently, doing as the Americans did. Major artists and
writers addressed a foreign – generally Western, particularly American – audience and became
obsessed with angst, alienation, and the various other problems of industrial society. Such was
the extent to which “the American spirit may take possession of us.” The last decade, however,
has seen the rapid development and intensification of nationalism, not only in the Philippines
but in various countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America. And it is in this context that the
“turning towards Asia” should be seen. It is no longer simply a matter of repudiating our
Western influences in order to uncover a pristine Filipino or an Asian soul. The “new
nationalism involves not only a turning towards Asia but towards Africa and Latin America as
well, a turning towards the peoples of the undeveloped countries that constitute the “Third
World” with whom we share the common experience of the colonized.

4. It is in these circumstances that we now have to define our national identity. Ultimately, this
identity does not wait for the Filipino to discover or uncover; it waits for the Filipino to create.

5. Neither Yes or Not but I think maybe it is time to stop judging cultures and identities as
authentic or not, superior or inferior, but to deem success for a race of peoples on how flexible
they are in assimilating new cultures, ideas and technologies into their own evolving cultures. If
so, then filipinos are the most successful peoples in the world. And it is being borne out by the
OFW phenomenon.
ENGLISH 3 MODELE TEST 3

“Kinship of the One With the Whole” by Virginia Burden

Answers:

1. "Intuition is knowing without knowing why you know,". The curious and mysterious fact is that
we are all immersed in an invisible medium to which the intuitive person relates as the
swimmer relates to the water. Intuition defines as " the power of understanding situations,
people’s feelings immediately without the need for conscious reasoning or study." it is an
unconscious understanding or knowledge of something, you don't have to use logic and
reasoning you just know what you know. In such a case where intuition does not require a
conscious effort then it is true that it is an irrational or unmediated awareness of a
phenomenon. This is because the intuitive mind does not need to think logically and take all the
facts into account; it doesn't have to question anything. The intuitive mind can posses
knowledge without needing an explanation and wanting to go through everything rationally.

2. Fear is a powerful emotion that can aid in your survival or hasten your demise. Destructive fear
is cunning; it controls your body, mind and soul with an iron fist, demanding decisions are made
according to its own agenda. It thrives in the past and venomously guards against the future.
But if one has enough control of his timidity, if he can hold it in abeyance long enough for
insight to occur he will learn the most wonderful process through which knowledge overcomes
fear as sunlight purifies diseased surfaces.

3. As we go through life, we have lots of experiences. The first time we encounter a situation we
might not know what to do or what is going on, but as we gain experience with similar
situations, we learn what actions work the best and what judgments are appropriate. Much of
our behavior works on the basis of intuitive responses to familiar situations. however, intuition
works very well, and we could never get through life without making lots of immediate
judgments about the things around us and how we should respond to them. It would be
impractical to replace all intuitive judgments by careful logical reasoning, and most of the time
it wouldn't give us any better answers than we get intuitively. Instead what we can do is
develop one more intuitive skill - that of recognizing when a situation is one which commonly
fools people, such as when there is an emotional difference of opinion, or someone has
something to gain by persuading us of something or when an extremely rare but sensational
mishap occurs. It is in these situations that it pays to stop and try to employ careful reasoning to
reduce the chances of adopting a false belief.
“What is Youth?” by Ibarahim Jubaira

ANSWERS:

1. In the essay, "What Is Youth," manifestatins of the said period were elaborated and described to give
substance and meaning to the things that comprise the youth. At first, youth is compared to nature's
different faces: the virgin morning, the seedtime of life, the fresh immaculate clouds, the dazzling,
expanding sun, the cool silvery moon upon which a child's delight is focused with wonder and
fascination, the vigoruous winds, the falling rains, the cascading flow of newly found rivers; and the
shore of life. Finally, youth is described as an age or a period in one's life that is distinct and
incomparable to other things in its whole sense.

2. Youth is not wasted on the young. It is beautiful though confusing. It is of birth and of ending. It consists
of almost everything and can resemble nothing. It is a universal diversity and differing commons.

3. the relationship between youth and knowledge was said to be the ever-questioning boy, a boy rubbing
his eyes, rasing his voice to ask: What is beyond that mountain, the moon, the sun, and the stars? God
could not be a sufficient answer, because who made God then? Indeed, youth is curiosity and sober
thoughts.

4. I don’t think the boy understand it because the boy answered “It was beautiful, he said more beautiful
than his poem. But, he remarked, some parts about mountainsides and the sparkling dew or something
were a bit confusing. “ on the next elaboration, the youth is described as a child at play, rich laughter in
the rain, vigorous running in the sunlight, a child's broken ankle or a lost coin. All these are just small
elements of what the true youth is. Finally, youth is described as an age or a period in one's life that is
distinct and incomparable to other things in its whole sense. It is a boy or girl laughing and crying on the
face of this earth, a bicycle, bus rides, movies, hitchhiking and reckless, aimless wanderings, a robust boy
drinking sweet water of this earth, hugging the sweetness of life, lamenting nothing, because life for the
youth is more laughter, while heartaches and real sorrows and responsibilities belong to another age,
another time, another season.

ENGLISH 3 MODELE TEST 4

How Natural is ‘Natural’?” by Loren Eiseley

Answers:
 1. There is a way in which the intelligence of man in this era of science and the machine can be viewed
as having taken the wrong turn. There is a dislocation of our vision which is, perhaps, the product of
the kind of creatures we are, or at least conceive ourselves to be. As we mentioned earlier, man, as a
two-handed manipulator of the world about him, has projected himself outward upon his
surroundings in a way impossible to other creatures.

2. Whatever may be the power behind those dancing motes to which the physicist has penetrated, it
makes the light of the muskrat’s world as it makes the world of the great poet. It makes, in fact, all of
the innumerable and private worlds which exist in the heads of men. We who are engaged in the life
of thought are likely to assume that the key to an understanding of the world is knowledge, both of
the past and of the future – that if we had that knowledge we would also have wisdom. It is not my
intention here to decry learning.

3. Life of thought are likely to assume that the key to an understanding of the world is knowledge, both
of the past and of the future – that if we had that knowledge we would also have wisdom. It is not my
intention here to decry learning. It is only to say that we must come to understand that learning is
endless and that nowhere does it lead us behind the existent world. It may reduce the prejudices of
ignorance, set our bones, build our cities. In itself it will never make us ethical men. Yet because ours,
we conceive, is an age of progress, and because we know more about time and history than any men
before us, we fallaciously equate ethical advance with scientific progress in a point-to-point
relationship. Thus as society improves physically, we assume the improvement.

4. Mankind can never give up its belief in “unseen nature.” He’s not talking about this from a theological
perspective but rather from a deeply humanist perspective. It’s looking through things again, not
becoming complacent spectators, simply accepting the world as it appears to be at any given time.
Man is not totally compounded of the nature we profess to understand. Man is always partly of the
future, and the future he possesses a power to shape.

On “The Gospel of History According to Nick Joaquin” by Conrado de Quiros. The Manila Review Vol. IV, no. 1,
1978

ANSWERS:

1. The idealization of the past or revivalism appeared common enough among the various Asian and
African countries. Adamantios Koreas appealed to Greek nationalist sentiment through the concept
of Philhellenism; Ziya Gokalp and the Young Turks invoked Pan-Turanianism; Banerjea Gandhi and
the early Indian nationalists glorified their past civilization; Sun Yat-sen saw in nationalism the
salvation of four thousand years of civilization; and perhaps the classic examples of revivalism. This
romanticism properly belongs to the initial phases of nationalism, when the awakening of Asian and
African nationalism created a need for an ideology to counter the alleged superiority of the West
which was being employed to rationalize and justify colonial exploitation.
 2. Revivalism, cannot purely and simply be regarded as reactionary. In fact, it proved revolutionary
enough in the early stages of the struggle against colonialism. Revivalism, moreover, was not
altogether backward-looking in content.

3. Philippines, sometimes taking the extreme form of idealizing an apocryphal pre-Spanish

“civilization.” Elements of revivalism, for example may be found during the Propaganda period of the
late 19th century. Nationalism regressed during the American period and then it revived particularly.
Philippine nationalism has advanced far beyond the stage when revivalism, with its heady
romanticism, can be progressive. Romanticism has given way to a more sober analysis of national
problems and the task of nationalism has become more clearly defined. We have learnt and are
learning to take our past more realistically to serve as guide in future undertakings.

ENGLISH 3 MODELE TEST 5

From “Seedlings” by Virginia Burden

Answers:

1. Values involves examining these beliefs and letting go of the ones that don’t serve us. As we let go of
these beliefs, we develop a new guidance system based on our deeply held values. Values are the
universal guidance system of the soul.

A. The prevailing educational systems represent the value commitments of people dominated by
feeling and intellect. To assist the child to find a comfortable place in society, if he is not especially
gifted intellectually. By “comfortable” is meant that he will have sufficient means to insure as
pleasing an environment as possible, and that he will so conduct himself as to find self-respect,
usefulness, and acceptance among his associates.

B. To assist the gifted child to make as outstanding a contribution as possible in the artistic or
intellectual “worlds,” while maintaining his adjustability to the challenge of relationships in
present-day society. It does not mean the deeper adjustment which comes with a perception of
values which are unconditioned by time and social conditions. So it is important at the offset to
decide whether we wish to approach the problem of education by means of existing value criteria
and to perpetuate the prevailing goals, or if we wish to go deeper and find a soundly philosophical
approach, whatever radical measures this may suggest.

2.
A. Mankind may be parceled out over a range of states of mind and feeling which fall within the two
extreme situations which have been pictured. The spiritual man—the man who has begun to
 crack the shell of his physical and mental environment – is comparatively rare. Because he is rare,
his is certainly not the voice that shapes our policies and institutions as a human society.

B. Individuals who have assiduously cultivated in themselves an unobstructed observation of the

meaning of life apart from and in combination with the physical senses—must also concede that
his is the only perspective view; that he is the only individual prepared to provide any kind of
definition of values suitable as a framework for human endeavor and for individual and collective
good.

3. “Seedlings” discusses the wrong values held by individuals and society, and suggests the particular
value that should be most useful to our world today. So it is important at the offset to decide whether
we wish to approach the problem of education by means of existing value criteria and to perpetuate
the prevailing goals, or if we wish to go deeper and find a soundly philosophical approach, whatever
radical measures this may suggest. Unfortunately, the history of educational philosophy gives us few
men and women of real vision – those whom we might call “practical philosophers.” Such individuals
have little in common with the prevailing educational system; yet they hold value commitments in
common, whether they lived two thousand years ago or live today.

“How I Spent My Summer” by Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc

Answers:

1. We had been putting off getting him a car, that he would have his own wheels as soon as the Philippine
car hits the street (Read: never). He got the drums, and this past summer, I got my ears damaged. I
have become an expert at scraping the crumbs out of the depths of packages of Chips Ahoy, cupping
them into my mouth and quickly gulping them all down followed with a swig of leavings from a family-
sized Coke. I’ve grown fat eating leftover spaghetti, lasagna, cheesy hotdog, pizzas and hamburgers. As
for the rest of the foods known to civilization, my kids’ immune systems rapidly reject like foreign
bodies.

2. Yes, because the difficulty of balancing it all. fear that many mothers have that they’re not doing a good
enough job. Because each child has unique temperament traits, needs, and quirks, and because
children grow and change all the time, it’s impossible to apply a one-size-fits-all approach to mothering.
That means that mothers are constantly reevaluating what they’re doing, looking for new insights (from
parenting experts who often disagree with one another on major issues), and trying to stay one step
ahead of their kids to be their best as mothers. Often, there are mysteries to be solved, crises to handle,
and fires to put out along the way. It’s easy for mothers to question themselves, and become stressed
by the consequences of making a mistake. It’s all part of being a conscientious mother. But do not
forget that Mothers teach us to have confidence and belief in ourselves. Mothers knew from experience
how important for people to believe in themselves in order for children to be whole, strong and grow
with a healthy estimation of oneself. One way of parents to breed confidence in a child is to affirm and
sharpen his/her thinking. A healthy sense of self-confidence can result in a person to achieve more and
 celebrate more. Mother’s lessons in life gives us the space to believe in oneself as there is no limit to
greatness one can attain or the great things you can accomplish. Mothers teach us the power of words.
The words that mothers speak have power. Words can build up a child or tear him down.

3. The Widow of Ephesus by Gaius Petronius its is a satire is a literary work holding up human vices and
follies to ridicule or scorn. In The Widow of Ephesus, the narrator recalls a tale of love in which an
apparently faithful woman discredits her vows of marriage after her husband's death. She is tempted
into this by a handsome young man, who attempts to save her life after she decides to entomb herself
with her dead husband. This was not a very smart decision on her part, but she does it for love, and as a
result, she is taken advantage of through her hunger for food. Instead of staying by her vigil of love, she
falls in love with another man in her husband's tomb. This story is told to the crew of a ship that the
narrator is riding on, he tells them this story to expose the follies of woman, and their adoration of love,
to the exclusion of all else. He states "Women are impetuous in love and would even neglect their own
children while having an illicit affair." He also stated that no woman he had ever known had the
strength to resist a handsome man. He proves this through the story, and furthermore, embarrasses a
girl on the ship, Tryphena, who exhibits the same nature as she had an affair with Encolpius, the
narrator, and is currently sleeping with Lichas, the man Encolpius had once robbed. Her two faced and
impetuous nature is just the example Eumolpus depicts in the story, but still, it is her love for the Lichas
that made her behave so stupidly.