Top 50 General Education Questions for the Licensure Examination for Teachers

1. The editor found the news story not so entertaining. He found it full of:

A. Adjectives
B. Verbs
C. Pronouns
D. Adverbs

2. “On the street of this position of God’s world, I feel neighbor to a rat, so brother of a worm. Forever chasing rainbows at muddy margins…” The line on Quemada’s poem is saying that:

A. Life is fruitful.
B. Life is not worth living.
C. Life is empty and meaningless.
D. Life is full of challenges.

3. “The whale has no famous author and whaling, no famous chronicles.” Based on this line from the novel, Moby Dick is treated as:


A. Whaling is not truly structured.
B. Whales are ordinary creatures.
C. Whale is a wild mammal that hunts mariners.
D. Whaling is an old hobby.

4. Venus is an exemplification of feminine pulchritude.

A. Plain
B. Beauty
C. Ugliness
D. Homeliness

5. Samantha’s eyes are blurred and her eyes ached. She ___ at the computer for six long hours. Finally, she took a break.


A. Was seated
B. Has seated
C. Would have seated
D. Had been seated

6. After seven depressing years, Mitch finally quit the job. She ___ along with her superior for a long time before she finally decided to look for a new position.

A. Didn’t get
B. Isn’t getting
C. Hasn’t been getting
D. Hadn’t been getting

7. Five years of intensive language study are required for second-language learners. Chu Li ___ English for three years, but she will need more training to be more proficient.

A. Has studied
B. Will have studying
C. Has been studying
D. Will be studying

8. The laborers are so happy that ___ now reaping the fruit of ___ efforts.

A. They’re – their
B. They’re – there
C. There – their
D. Their – their

9. The seatwork is difficult for Paul and __.

A. Myself
B. I
C. Me
D. Himself

10. The candy can smells ___.

A. Sweet
B. Sweetly
C. Sweeter
D. More sweet

11. What is the biggest hindrance in learning a second language.

A. Grammar
B. Structure of language
C. Imagery
D. Cross-cultural issues

12. Which of the following words has the /z/ end sound?

A. Maps
B. Jokes
C. Laughs
D. Buys

13. Which among these words has the voiced /th/ sound?

A. Thank
B. Breathe
C. Teeth
D. Health

14. Which of the words below has the /zh/ sound?

A. Ships
B. Shore
C. She
D. Leisure

15. Which among these words has the /id/ end sound?

A. Praised
B. Mailed
C. Judged
D. Needed

16. Audio-lingual is a new language-teaching approach that mainly focuses on ___.

A. Syntax
B. Structure
C. Reading
D. Pronunciation

17. Rubric as a measuring instrument is best used in assessing ___.

A. Sentence structure
B. Oral recitation
C. Multiple-choice test
D. Dictation test

18. Which among these words has the starting voice /th/ sound?

A. Thank
B. These
C. Think
D. Thing

19. Manuel Arguilla wrote the “Juan Tamad” series. He is famous in injecting ___ in his stories.

A. Urbanity
B. Cosmopolitanism
C. Local color
D. Ranch life

20. Who wrote the novel the Jungle Book?

A. Victor Hugo
B. Rudyard Kipling
C. William March
D. K.L. Mansfield

21. This is Victor Hugo’s masterpiece about the French Revolution.

A. Les Miserables
B. Hunchback of Notre Dame
C. Anna Karenina
D. Fathers and Sons

22. A comma indicates _.

A. Pause
B. Slight pause
C. Longer pause
D. No pause

23. Which word has the c pronounced as k?

A. Century
B. Cold
C. City
D. Censure

24. Which word is accented on the first syllable?

A. Fifteen
B. Out-speak
C. Understand
D. Heaven

25. Which word has the c pronounce as s?

A. Censure
B. Connote
C. Comma
D. Collaborate

26. Loreto Paras Sulit’s short story that revolves around the theme that beauty can be danger is titled _.

A. The Harvest
B. The Beautiful Stranger
C. Desire
D. Beautiful Liar

27. She’s riding ___ a plane.

A. In
B. On
C. At
D. Into

28. Robert Frost’s poems are commonly about ___.

A. Beautiful girls
B. Decision-making and fate
C. God and faith
D. End of the world

29. F. Scot Fitzgerald’s story about a boy who was born old and gets younger every day

A. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
B. The Great Gatsby
C. The Innocent Boy
D. Growing Young

30. In the ballet presentation “Swan Lake” by Tchaikovsky, who seduced the prince?

A. Black Swan
B. Golden Swan
C. Swan Witch
D. Ugly Duckling

31. In Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, which tale talks about three friends who killed each other for the chest filled with treasures?

A. Pardoner’s Tale
B. Knight’s Tale
C. Merchant’s Tale
D. The Nun Priest’s Tale

32. Rabindranath Tagore’s poem “Innermost One” is taken from the collection devotional songs title ___.

A. Gitanjali
B. Shakuntala
C. Ramayana
D. Mahabharata

33. It determines if a sound is voiced or voiceless.

A. Ovula
B. Voice box
C. Tongue
D. Alveolar Ridge

34. Family of consonant sounds where the air is held back for a moment before it is released abruptly

A. Fricatives
B. Plosives
C. Affricates
D. Glides

35. Paz Marquez Benitez wrote a love triangle amongst Alfredo, Esperanza and Julia. What is the title of this masterpiece?

A. Wedding Dance
B. Dead Stars
C. Desire
D. Tatsulok

36. What makes the sentence bellow erroneous?

I have written a letter yesterday.

A. Yesterday
B. Have
C. A
D. Letter

37. What is not true about the present perfect tense?

A. The action started somewhere in the past and continued up until present.
B. It must bear with it the auxiliary verb has/have, plus the past participle form of the verb.
C. The action is still happening at present or just recently ended.
D. The action is happening at present and may still happen in the future.

38. He is considered the father of essay.

A. Michel de Montaigne
B. Francis Bacon
C. William Shakespeare
D. George Elliot

39. Which work of Leo Tolstoy is about the Napoleonic Invasion in Russia?

A. War and Peace
B. Anna Karenina
C. God Sees the Truth but Waits
D. Fathers and Sons

40. The film Tatarin is based on the short story by Nick Joaquin ___.

A. May Day Eve
B. Summer Solstice
C. Three Generations
D. Woman Two Navels

41. Read the poem below.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me—
Yes!—that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

What can be the cause of death of Annabel Lee?


A. Consumption
B. Dengue
C. HIV
D. Hepatitis

42. Who is considered as the father of detective stories?

A. Edgar Allan Poe
B. William Shakespeare
C. Robert Frost
D. Shoguna

43. The vellum is also known as the _.

A. Hard palate
B. Soft palate
C. Uvula
D. Alveolar Ridge

44. In Carlo Bulusan’s My Father Goes to Court, what was the accusation of the rich father?

A. Stealing the aroma of the food
B. Stealing the kitchen utensils
C. Stealing the gold bars under their bed
D. Cheating on his wife

45. In Paz Latorena’s story Desire, the main character has a sexy body but a _.

A. Homely face
B. Twisted mind
C. Scaly skin
D. Low IQ

46. The lines below are taken from what Shakespearean play?

If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?

A. Romeo and Juliet
B. Merchant of Venice
C. Hamlet
D. Macbeth

47. What is true about the past perfect tense?

A. There must be two past actions.
B. The auxiliary verb must be has.
C. The main verb must be in the present participial form.
D. The auxiliary verb had must not be used.

48. Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy is originally titled:

A. Comedia
B. DivinaComedia
C. Comedia de Divina
D. D. Divina de CovalandiaComedia

49. Divine Comedy is a trilogy. Which of the three is most widely read?

A. Purgatory
B. Bel and the Dragon
C. Paradise
D. Inferno

50. Who is considered as the master of short story writing?

A. Edgar Alan Poe
B. Leo Tolstoy
C. Jose Rizal
D. Rudyard Kipling

51. The novel Crime and Punishment was written by _.

A. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
B. Leo Tolstoy
C. Anton Chekov
D. Ivan Turgenev

52. This tense connotes actions that are happening at present time.

A. Present tense
B. Past
C. Progressive
D. Present

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