Luzon literature
What is the largest and most populous island in the Philippines?
Luzon
What are three major languages commonly used in Visayan literature?
Cebuano, Hiligaynon, and Waray
What place is known as the “Land of Promise”?
Mindanao
Who wrote A Wedding Dance?
Answer: Amador T. Daguio
What literary tradition involves stories, legends, chants, and songs being passed from one generation to another through speaking and performance?
Answer: Oral literature
Who wrote “How My Brother Leon Brought Home a Wife”?
Manuel Arguilla
Who was the Cebuano writer, journalist, and politician who helped promote Cebuano literature?
Answer: Vicente Sotto
What is the native language spoken in most regions of Mindanao, except in some Muslim areas and among some hill tribes?
Cebuano
What poem by Fernando Maramag portrays a simple rural Filipina maiden?
The Rural Maid
What type of Visayan literature explains the origin of places, objects, traditions, or natural features?
Legends
What famous Ilocano epic is associated with Pedro Bucaneg?
Answer: Biag ni Lam-ang
What epic from Panay tells stories of heroes, adventures, supernatural powers, and beliefs?
Hinilawod
This Mindanao region is officially known as Region XIII.
Caraga
Who composed the famous Bicolano folk song Sarung Banggi?
Answer: Potenciano Gregorio Sr.
What literary form from Visayas includes Hinilawod?
Epic
Who is the Ilocano writer who authored The God Stealer and My Brother, My Executioner?
F. Sionil Jose
Who was the prominent Hiligaynon writer from Iloilo who wrote novels and other works reflecting Western Visayan culture and history?
Ramon Muzones
This scholar and researcher documented the Ulahingan, an epic of the Livunganen-Arumanen Manobo.
Elena G. Maquiso
Who created the famous Filipino characters Darna, Dyesebel, and Captain Barbell?
Answer: Mars Ravelo
What collective term refers to the indigenous tribes inhabiting the Cordillera?
Igorot
What is the traditional form of purely sung folk poetry from the Cagayan Valley mentioned in the Luzon material?
Ibanag folk poetry
Who is the contemporary Visayan writer and poet whose works explore Visayan culture, history, identity, and the experiences of ordinary people?
Merlie M. Alunan
This Higaonon writer from Northern Mindanao focused strongly on Indigenous Mindanao culture in his works.
Telesforo S. Sungkit Jr.
Who wrote The God Stealer and My Brother, My Executioner?
Answer: F. Sionil Jose
Why is regional literature important to Philippine literature?
Answer: It preserves and expresses the cultures, languages, histories, beliefs, traditions, struggles, and experiences of different Filipino communities.