MAGPAPALAYOK NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

San Leonardo, Nueva Ecija

A.Y. 2017-2018
JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

FIRST QUARTER EXAM IN UNDERSATNDING CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND

POLITICS 11

NAME:____________________________ SCORE:________

GRADE AND SECTION:_____________ DATE:__________

GENERAL INSTRUCTION: Read and analyze the following questions. No erasures and
superimposition.

I. MULTIPLE CHOICE TEST: Choose the letter that corresponds to the correct answer. Write your
answer on the space provided before the number. Write in capital letters.

_____1. Which of the following describes visible rules?

a. It is easily seen, observed and obeyed c. It creates more disorder than other
b. It is easily felt, heard and done d. It can easily be thrown and forgotten

_____2. Which of the following actions show cultural behaviour?

a. Shaking hands c. Shouting at strangers
b. Playing jokes d. Reading aloud

_____3. Which of the following shows preservation of Philippine Culture?

a. Recycling an old flag into a bag or shirt
b. Sitting and playing under a risen flag
c. standing straight when national anthem is being sung.
d. Remodeling of national Shrines

_____4. Which of the following statements show xenocentrism?

a. Greeting the elders by kissing the hands.
b. Greeting the hands with besobeso.
c. Giving the elders housework to do.
d. Keeping the elders at a distance.

_____5. Which of the following statements define xenophobia?

a. Fear of what is perceived as common and familiar.
b. Fear of what is perceived as foreign or strange.
c. Fear or direct exposure to other cultures.
d. Fear of what is perceived as deprivation.

_____6. Constant family get together shows that Filipino are_________.

a. Work oriented c. Family oriented
b. Fun oriented d. Subject oriented

_____7. Bragging constantly about ones achievements and recognition shows that the person lacks _______.
a. Simplicity c. Bravery
b. Humility d. Honesty

_____8. Reaching out for victims of every calamity is a virtue shown as a part of Filipino culture popularity
called ______________.
a. Barangayan spirit c. Bayanihan spirit
b. Ugnayan spirit d. Kapitbahayan spirit

_____9. Teenage girls in Cambodia are given freedom to choose their own mates by “building them love
huts”. A shocking experience to Filipinos, child prostitution to others but women empowerment to
the tribe. Which characteristics of culture is best described in the given situation?
 a. varies from society to society
b. Culture is transmitted among members
c. Culture is a social product of behaviour
d. Cultures defines myths, legends, and supernatural

_____10. Rituals after giving birth to regain the health of the mother is being done and instructed by a mother
or an elder who had undergone the same thing. Which functions of culture is best described in the
situation?
a. Culture is shared
b. Culture defines situations
c. Culture provides behaviour patterns
d. Culture defines myths, legends and supernatural

_____11. Which of the following was not identified as defining feature of culture?
a. Culture is learned
b. Culture is shared
c. Culture is transmitted
d. Culture is symbolic

_____12. Language is usually considered to be _____________.

a. a key cultural marker
b. a cultural barrier
c. essential for cultural integration
d. a cultural universal

_____13. Culture is usually assumed to be_______.

a. always changing
b. mutually exclusive
c. fixed and static
d. insulated against technology

_____14. Cultural change can also occur to ___________.

a. Multiculturalism and assimilation
b. Invention and discovery
c. Language and symbols
d. Diffusion and technology

_____15.The process that enables the culture to maintain equilibrium despite fluctuations in their culture is
known as ___________.
a. Adaptation b. enculturation c. Cultural integration d. Ethnocentrism

_____16. A place where people lived and/or worked and where the physical evidence of their existence can
be or has been recovered is:
a. a feature b. an ecofact c. an artefact d. a site

_____17. When the author refers to the 'detritus of past people' he is writing about their:
a. a debris b. a written records c. a gravestones d. all of the above.

_____18. Archaeology is a branch of_____________.

a. anthropology b. cultural anthropology c. biological anthropology d. palaeoanthropology

_____19. How does anthropology differ from other social sciences such as economics and sociology?
a. Anthropology is holistic and integrative in its approach.
b. The other social sciences are holistic and integrative approach.
c. Anthropology tends to specialize in the workings of specific system.
d. Anthropology is more important than other social sciences.

_____20. A person who studies human history and prehistory through the excavation of sites and the analysis of
artifacts and other physical remains.
a. an ethnographer b. archaeologist c. linguist d . paleoanthropologist

_____21. Which of the following is a characteristic of anthropology?

a. It is concerned both human biology and culture.
b. It is concerned with human variation, evolution, and adaptation.
c. It focuses only on prehistoric societies.
d. a and b
_____22. Culture is ____________________.
a. Entirely learned through our lifetime.
b. The full range of learned behaviour patterns and knowledge acquired by people as members of
the society.
c. what made it possible for humans to transform themselves from relatively insignificant plant and
dead animal scavengers in Africa to a truly global species capable of controlling the fate of all other
species.
d. all of the above

_____23. Which of the following best describe how anthropologists primarily learn new information about
humans?
a. field work b. laboratory experiments c. reading travellers accounts d. all of the above

_____24. Which of the following statements is true?

a. Unlike other animals, human infants are born with a culture.
b. Human infants come into the world ready to learn a culture but are not born with one.
c. Socialization is another word for acculturation.
d. b and c

_____25. A line of hereditary rulers of a country:

a. Dynasty b. Politics c. King d. Monarchy

_____26. All except one are definitions of politics:

a. Politics is the exercise of power.
b. Politics is not the resolution of conflict
c. Politics is the public allocation of values.
d. Politics is the competition among individuals.

_____27. It is defined as the fuel of politics.

a. Superpower b. power c. will d. leader

_____28. A study of authoritative allocation of public values or resources for a society.

a. politics b. power c. will d. government

_____29. An informal form of power.

a. Influence b. Authority c. Legitimacy d. Power

_____29. Right to exercise power and influence because of a particular position.

a. Influence b. Authority c. Legitimacy d. Power

_____30. Being considered to be correctly placed in a particular position.

a. Influence b. Authority c. Legitimacy d. Power

_____31. It is a property something that is inherited, passed on from previous generations.

a. Heritage b. Cultural heritage c. Culture d. Tangible

_____32. It indicates ‘the practices, representations, expressions, knowledge, skills – as well as the instruments,
objects, artefacts and cultural spaces
a. Tangible Cultural heritage
b. Intangible Cultural heritage
c. both a and b
d. none of the above

_____33. It is the scientific study of human behavior in groups and of the social forces that influence that
behavior.
a. Social b. Culture c. Sociology d. Group
_____34. These are forces which produce order and stability
a. Social statics b. Social dynamics c. Social d. Dynamics

_____35. These are forces which contribute to social change.

a. Social statics b. Social dynamics c. Social d. Dynamics

_____36. He is responsible for coining the term sociology.

a. Auguste Comte b. Herbert Spencer c. Karl Marx d. Emile Durkheim

_____37. Authored the first sociology text, Principles of Sociology.

a. Auguste Comte b. Herbert Spencer c. Karl Marx d. Emile Durkheim

_____38. A process of continuous change from a lower, simpler, or worse to a higher, more complex, or better
state.
a. Evolution b. Theory c. Conflict d. Change

_____39. A group of people who have learned to live and work together.
a. Social b. Society c. People d. Group

_____40. It is defined as any transfer of meaning, but general usage refers only to spoken and written messages.
a. Text b. Communication c. Art d. Language

II. TRUE or FALSE: Write T is the statement is true and F if false.

_____41. Society is controlling.
_____42. Non-material culture are those that are tangible.
_____43. Rules are essential tools in the society.
_____44. Culture can be shared.
_____45. Culture and society are inseparable.
_____46. Culture can be changed.
_____47. Society exist in the absence of interaction.
_____48. Culture can be learned.
_____49. Socialization is necessary in the development of an individual.
_____50. People gain both social and group identify by enculturation.

“HONESTY IS THE BEST POLICY. DON’T EXPECT IT FROM CHEAP PEOPLE”

“TRY AND FAIL, BUT DON’T FAIL TO TRY”

Prepared by: Noted:

POCHOLO R. GARCIA EMILIA D. MAURICIO
Subject Teacher OIC, HEAD TEACHER III