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2nd Monthly Examination

Understanding Culture, Society and Politics
Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. It refers to a group of people sharing common culture.

a. society b. socialization c. social d. socio-economic
2. It refers to a complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols and
knowledge.
a. society b. socialization c. culture d. social
3. Which of the following is a characteristic of culture according to Taylor?
a. culture is learned b. culture is shared c. culture is symbolic d. all of these
4. What is the function of culture?
a. determine what is proper to eat c. provides us a design for living
b. establish appropriate clothes to wear d. all of these
5. It is the view that one group is superior to another group.
a. relativism b. ethnocentrism c. ethnocentric d. relativeness
6. These are the negative effects of ethnocentrism
a. genocide and oppression c. suicide and oppression
b. depression and genocide d. depression and suicide
7. Which of the following are the positive effects of ethnocentrism?
a. solidarity and loyalty c. happiness and cooperation
b. pride and identity d. oppression and genocide
8. Which of the following statements id ethnocentric?
a. we possess the true religion c. our way of cooking adobo is the best
b. our country is the center of development d. all of these
9. It focuses on the formation of new species.
a. Microevolution b. Macroevolution c. Macevolution d. Maroevolution
10. It is when certain environmentally adaptive biological features are perpetuated.
a. Natural election b. National Selection c. Natural Selection d. Nature selection
11. It is the golden age of Hominoids.
a. Miocene b. Moicene c. Paleolithic d. Neolithic
12. Aside from larger brains, what other characteristic separates man from apes?
a. larger skull b. homeobox c. bipedalism d. solving problems
13. Aside from standing straight, they were also able to solve problems of survival.
a. Homo Habilis b. Homo Erectus c. Homo Sapiens d. Hominoids
14. The first fossil apes are called ________.
a. Homo Erectus b. Hominoids c. Homo Sapiens d. Australopithecus
15. They were the earliest ancestors of man according to the evolutionists.
a. Australopithecus b. Hominoids c. Homo Erectus d. Homo Habilis
16. They were the first to exercise higher abilities and created the first stone tools.
a. Australopithecus b. Homo Habilis c. Homo Erectus d. Homo Sapiens
17. Homo Sapiens lived during this period and created more efficient tools using flakes of rocks.
a. Lower Paleolithic Period c. Upper Paleolithic Period
b. Middle Paleolithic Period d. Neolithic
18. The blade was developed during this period.
a. Lower Paleolithic Period c. Upper Paleolithic Period
b. Middle Paleolithic Period d. Neolithic
19. It literally means the New Stone Age Revolution.
a. Paleolithic b. Mesolithic c. Neolithic Revolution d. None of these
20. It is the most significant change that happened during the Neolithic Revolution.
a. Food Production b. Hunting c. Tools development d. None of these
21. Which of the following is true about the Neolithic Revolution?
a. It was the time when food production started
b. It was the time when people started to raise farm animals
c. It was the time when people started to settle in one place.
d. All of these
22. Before the Neolithic Revolution, what did people do for food?
a. hunting b. gambling c. planting d. cultivating
23. It refers to societies in which large numbers of people live in cities.
a. civilization b. civilize c. civilizing d. civic
24. The Latin word _______ means “a person who lives in cities”.
a. civis b. civil c. cities d. civets
25. Hammurabi was a Babylonian king who lived in _____________.
a. Peru b. Iraq c. India d. Mesopotamia
26. This was a set of law codes developed by Hammurabi.
a. Law of Hammurabi b. Rule of Hammurabi c. Code of Hammurabi d. Bill of Hammurabi
27. The following were the places where civilization began except one.
a. Mesopotamia b. Indus Valley c. Nile Valley d. Meso-America
28. What do you call the priests in the Indian caste system?
a. Kshatriya b. Vaisya c. Sudra d. Brahmin
29. The emergence and governing elite also characterized early civilization.
a. Diversification of labor c. Central Government
b. Social Stratification d. Agricultural Innovation
30. If you were a warrior in the Indian Caste System, what is your primary duty and responsibility?
a. protect the priests b. serve the society c. to be a leader d. to make a war
31. In the Indian Caste System, a Sudra was a ____________.
a. priest b. warrior c. servant d. merchant
32. One of the key characteristics of early civilization during the rise of cities where a variety of specialized workers were
developed.
a. diversification of labor c. central government
b. agricultural innovation d. social stratification
33. It is one of the changes during the rise of cities where ancient Sumerians built an extensive system like dikes, canals and
reservoirs to irrigate their farmlands.
a. diversification of labor c. central government
b. agricultural innovation d. social stratification
34. He was an Ancient historian who proposed the three characteristics of Democracy.
a. Apluleius b. Thucydides c. Aristotle d. Areopagus
35. Defined as a complex, multi-linear process operating under certain contexts and structures and also the building of political
institutions, common interests and new forms of legitimation.
a. Democratization b. Democratic c. Democracy d. Democratisation
36. It is the highest human achievement in Political Development and the peak of civilization because it gives the people a
collective voice in the art of governance.
a. Democratization b. Democratic c. Democracy d. Democratisation
37. The idea of Democracy originated in __________.
a. Inca Civilization b. Mesopotamia c. Asian Country d. Ancient Greece
38. Form of Government that was characterized by significant concentration of Political and economic power.
a. Authoritarianism b. Monarchy c. Democratic d. Aristocracy
39. If you were a “hectemoroi”, you can classify yourself a ___________.
a. land owner b. farmer c. middle class d. leader
40. The following are the characteristics of democracy except one.
a. self-judging b. autonomous c. independent d. inferiority
41. Who was the first female president of the Philippines and was the one who restored the democratic rule after the EDSA
people power revolution?
a. Corazon C. Aquino b. Gloria Arroyo c. Leni Robredo d. Miriam Defensor Santiago
42. It is a diffusion of one’s culture to another through diverse means like learning.
a. Democratization b. enculturation c. interaction d. socialization
43. It is a form of interaction by which people acquire personality and learn the way of life in their society.
a. democratization b. integration c. interaction d. socialization
44. These are the rules that guide people regarding what is right, wrong, proper or improper. Also refers to the standards of
society.
a. behaviour b. norms c. traits d. values
45. It is the label that implies certain roles that must be performed in a society.
a. behaviour b. mission c. roles d. status
46. It refers to patterns of relationship among basic components of social system.
a. socialization b. enculturation c. norms d. meaningful interaction
47. Which of the following is NOT a result of meaningful interaction?
a. Identity formation b. information c. statuses and roles d. norms and values
48. When someone slipped or tripped in front of you, you do not laugh. What popular norm do you practice?
a. appropriateness b. industry c. tact and courtesy d. conventionality
49. It is when Filipinos take pride to their work.
a. value of industry b. utang na loob c. value of pride d. value of appropriateness
50. Gender is a label that is acquired by birth. What type of status is gender?
a. achieved b. ascribed c. role d. none of these
51. What type of status did Ms. Catriona had when she reigned as Ms. Universe?
a. achieved b. ascribed c. role d. none of these