Children of War
Myrna Pena-Reyes

1. What is the story all about?
a. It is about happiness and contentment
c. It is about struggles and hardships.
b. It is about struggles and success.
d. It is about one's experience as an orphan

2. What does the author wished to be manifested by her reader?
The author wished the reader to manifest the rights of a child.
b. The author wished the reader to manifest the helplessness of being a child in the midst of war.
The author wished the reader to appreciate her literary skills.
d. The author wished the reader to manifest the privilege of having a child.

3. What does the author wished to implicate in writing this poem?
Children born in time of war were most probably produced by coercion
b. Children born in time of war were most probably produced by natural order.
Children born in time of war were considered as blessings.
d. (a) and (c)

4. What is the setting that was depicted on the context of the poem?
a. During the Spanish colonization
c. During the Modern Era
b. During the Japanese colonization
d. During the Contemporary Period
a.
C.
a.
c.

5. How did the poetess represent the poor innocent souls in her poem?
These poor innocent souls are the living testimonies of war.
b. These poor innocent souls are the demoralized members of the society.
These poor innocent souls are the dysfunctional members of the society.
d. These poor innocent souls are the financially-deprived members of the society.

6. What did the poetess underscore on the First Stanza of her poem?
The poetess highlighted the restlessness of refugees, couples, and lovers who seeks comfort to each other.
b. The poetess emphasized the origins of the infants.
c. The poetess underlined the savage attitude of the invaders.
d. The poetess posited about someone who is uncertain if that someone will live or die.
a.
a.
C

7. What did the author emphasize on the Second Stanza of her poem?
The poetess emphasized the origins of the infants.

5. The poetess highlighted the way of how the mothers and their children were discriminated by the society
where they lived in
The poetess underscored the longing of a soldier before a soldier go to a battlefield.
d. The poetess underlined the savage attitude of the invaders.

8. What did the author underline on the Third Stanza of her poem?
a. The poetess underscores the act of the colonizer, ie, ransacking and torching houses, demising innocent
lives and forcing the women into unbecoming forms of slavery
b. The poetess highlighted the discrimination suffered by the native parent and child during the post-war
period
С.
The poetess described the fear of the refugees, couples, and lovers that there might be someone is
watching them, or may be their enemy is near
Both (a) and (0)
d

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