DOŇA TEODORA ALONZO HIGH SCHOOL

Alvarez St., Sta. Cruz, Manila

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

LONG TEST I
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS
GRADE 12
Subject Teacher: Ms. ANNE ROSALIE V. BESIN

I. Multiple Choice
Directions: Read carefully and SHADE the letter of the correct answer.

1. UCSP is a multidisciplinary course that integrates and 7. Karen used to tease her newly transferred Mangyan
combines the contents, methods and theories of the classmate because of his kinky hair and tanned skin.
following EXCEPT: What kind of cultural view Karen has?
A. Mathematics A. cultural relativism B. ethnocentrism
B. Anthropology C. culture D. society
C. Sociology 8. Mommy and Daddy taught their one-year old
D. Political Science daughter Cloud how to play ABC song with the use of
2. Anthropology: Genetics and Evolution, etc. their Lenovo cell phone. Now, Cloud can able to open
Sociology: Groups and Organizations, etc. the phone and sing the ABC song. What characteristic
Political Science:_________________ of culture is shown in the situation?
A. Cultural Change A. culture is learned
B. Social Inequality C. culture is shared
C. Elections B. culture is integrated
D. Religion D. culture is symbolic
3. A research method that uses sample population and 9. “Sabong” is a vice which LoloTasyo has been
administers survey questionnaires to get responses and indulged with until this year. This kind of gambling was
answers from respondents. been brought in the Philippines during the Spanish
A. Interview colonization. This only proves that culture is?
B. Field Work A. learned
C. Ethnography C. shared
D. Survey Method B. integrated
4. The following are significance of studying society D. symbolic
except: 10. Sandra, a 16-year-old Filipina girl had been
A. Gives meaning to the importance of the self in nominated to be an exchange-student in Australia
relation to others during winter season. In her preparation of things, she
B. Gives us a full understanding of how social excluded her shorts and sleeveless and start pulling out
groups affect our thinking and behaviour her jackets and boots on her cabinet, while her
C. Acknowledges that social constitutions shape Australian exchange student began to take in her shirts
and affect how we live our life and shorts on her personal baggage bag. What does this
D. Broadens our perspectives on how we value show?
our own and others’ culture A. culture is adaptive
5. As a ____________ we carry our ancestors’ tradition C. culture is dynamic
and beliefs, speak the language of our parents, practice B. culture is abstract
faith and the distinct way of life of our community, create D. culture is symbolic
and showcase the arts and heritage of our people and
transmit some, if not all, of these to the next generation. II. Identify whether the following statement
A. social being concludes human as: SOCIAL being, CULTURAL
B. cultural being being or POLITICAL being. Write your answer on the
C. political being blank before the number.
D. spiritual being
6. The term culture was first used by the English _____11. Our rights and privileges are limited because
anthropologist ________ in his book, Primitive Culture. we are governed by rules and laws of our society.
A. Robert MacIver _____12. We carry our ancestors’ traditions and beliefs.
B. Charles Page _____13. We always belong to the group and interact
C. Talcott Parsons with people.
D. Edward B. Tylor _____14. We are always in company with others like our
parents and siblings.
_____15. Our power is inherent in the rights guaranteed
and protected by our State.
_____16. We relate with our childhood friends,
neighbours, and classmates.
_____17. We speak the language of our parents,
practice faith and the distinct way of life of our
community.
_____18. We become citizens, we elect our leaders, we
pay taxes, we receive welfare and support from the
government because our Constitution and our laws tell it
so.
_____19. We create or showcase the arts and heritage
of our people and transmit some, if not all, of these to
the next generation.
_____20. We will be having our co-workers or
colleagues in office, professional peers here and abroad.
III. Directions: Identify what is being described or
asked in each statement. Choose your answer from
the box below. Write only the letter of your answer
on the space provided before each number.
A. interview F. political being
B. culture G. Anthropology
C. symbolic H. ethnography
D. abstract I. Sociology
E. society
_____21. As a _________ weJ.are August Comte
subjected to power-
relations.
_____22. It is the systematic study of social behaviour
and human groups.
_____ 23. A qualitative research method that asks
questions to key informants and participants in the
research
______24. It is the study of humans’ past and present.
______25. Usually used by anthropologists, this is
oftentimes referred to a qualitative approach in doing
cultural research.
______26. Father of Sociology
______27. It is a collective behaviour of men arising
from a shared belief and value system based on
ideologies, way of life, norms and even identities.
______28. It is viewed a group of people with a shared
culture interacting within groups and institutions.
______29. Culture is ______ because there is no
tangible manifestation that can take the form of the
culture itself.
______30. Culture is ______ for all cultures in the world
are driven by symbols that stand for something
III. True or False
Directions: Read each statement. Identify whether it
is expressing correct idea or not. If it is, write TRUE,
if not, underline the word or phrase which makes the
statement incorrect and write the correct answer on
the space provided before each number.
______31. The society that we inhabit in is directly or
indirectly shaped and influenced by people, technology,
popular culture, government policies, domestic and
world economy, powerful institutions, nation-states and
international organizations.
_______32. Human beings have the same biological
features but each one of us is different.
_______33. Being humane means learning by doing to
live positively and to treat others with respect, genuine
love and compassion
_______34. FGD or Focus Group Discussion literally
means going out to the field to do research.
______35. Studying culture educates us on the
importance of exercising our rights and maximizing our
political participation.
______36. UCSP simply wants you to become human
and humane at the same time.
______37. Banaue Rice Terraces is one of the cultural
heritages found in the Philippines.
_______38. Culture and society are co-existent. That
one cannot able to exist without the other.
_______39. The manifestations of culture are cities,
villages, religious group and professional organizations.
_______40. According to UNESCO, cultural heritage is
the legacy of physical artefacts and intangible attributes
of a group or society that are inherited from past
generations, maintained in the present and bestowed for
the benefit of future generations.
_______41. Ethnocentrism promotes the idea that no
culture is superior over any other. It accepts and
understands why people act the way they do.
_______42. Culture is integrated when cultural parts and
aspects are interconnected in that when taken together,
a way of life is manifested.
________43. The manifestations of society are
language, arts, festival, clothing, cuisine, literature,
music, traditions and the like.
________44. The Maasai tribe from Tanzania and
Kenya touch each other’s heads as way of greeting each
other.
________45. In a democratic country like Philippines,
sovereignty resides in the people.
IV. Identify whether the following statement gives
the significance of studying: CULTURE, SOCIETY or
POLITICS.
____________46. Gives meaning to the importance of
the self in relation to others (kapwa)
____________47. Broadens our perspectives on how
we value our own and others’ cultures
_____________48. Educates us on the importance of
exercising our rights and maximizing our political
participation to sustain, maintain or change society
_____________49. Provides a bigger context on how
government works and how rules, regulations and laws
maintain social order, cohesion and unity
____________50. Describes how and why we belong to
a bigger global society