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  1. Who among the following is heroic and taller, reigned over the lands, and governed with justice among men?

    • King Shahryar

  2. Who among the following averts her fate by withholding the ending of stories she tells to delay her execution?

    • Scheherazade

  3. Which of the following is the rhymed-prose story collection related to the encounters of the witty Abul-Fath al-Iskanderi?

    • Maqamat

  4. Which of the following is the meaning of the word ‘Jinni’?

    • Genie

  5. Which of the following pertains to the collection of stories that was made chaotically over centuries with no officially accepted genuine version?

    • One Thousand and One Nights / Arabian Nights

  6. Where is the book One Thousand and One Nights from?

    • Arabian Literature

  7. Which of the following is an example of a cognitive process in reading techniques?

    • Remembering

  8. Who among the following is the all-wise and all-knowing, all-powerful, and all-beneficent in One Thousand and One Nights?

    • Allah

  9. Which of the following is the recognition and interpretation of information when reading a text?

    • Decoding

  10. What is the title of the first story of Shahrazad to King Shahryar?

  • The Fable of the Merchant and the Ifrit

  1. Which of the following is the process by which humans acquire the capacity to perceive and comprehend language?

  • Language acquisition

  1. Who among the following retold or translated the stories from One Thousand and One Nights in Europe?

  • Antoine Galland

  1. Who among the following is the master of armies and auxiliaries who is smaller and ruled over Samarkand al-Ajam?

  • King Shahzaman

  1. Which of the following is the action of recognizing and interpreting information received?

  • Decoding

  1. Which of the following reading techniques involves rapidly moving the eyes over text to get only the main ideas and a general overview of the content?

  • Skimming

  1. Which of the following best completes the analogy below?
    990-1008 :: Maqamat :: ______

  • Hung Poems

  1. Which of the following refers to the process of thinking and remembering?

  • Cognitive Process

  1. Which of the following refers to taking, receiving, or obtaining something from a specified source?

  • Deriving

  1. Which of the following is a reading technique that involves finding specific information such as a name, date, or fact without reading the entire article?

  • Scanning

  1. Which of the following refers to the grouping of words that go together to mean something, also known as ‘chunking’?

  • Phrase Reading

  1. Which of the following refers to an active process of thoughtful and deliberate reading to enhance comprehension and enjoyment of a text, also called “slow reading”?

  • Deep Reading

  1. Which critical approach suggests that language is not a stable entity and that literature cannot provide a definitive meaning because language is too ambiguous?

  • Deconstruction

  1. Which literary criticism approach tries to correct a predominantly male-dominated perspective with a feminist consciousness?

  • Feminist Criticism

  1. Which of the following criticisms insists that all language use is influenced by social class and economics, deriving from Karl Marx’s theories?

  • Marxist Criticism

  1. Which of the following focuses on the literary text as part of a larger social and historical context?

  • New Historicism

  1. Which critical approach removes the focus from the text and places it on the reader instead, attempting to describe what goes on in the reader’s mind while reading?

  • Reader-Response Criticism