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The document contains a quiz for Grade 11 students in the HUMSS track, focusing on disciplines and ideas in the social sciences. It includes multiple-choice questions, true or false statements, and fill-in-the-blank items related to key concepts and philosophers in social science. An answer key is provided at the end for self-assessment.

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NAME: GRADE 11 - HUMSS

DISCIPLINES AND IDEAS IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES

Instructions: Answer the following questions.

Multiple Choice (1 point each)


1. What is the primary focus of social science?
a) Human culture and philosophy
b) Group life and socio-physical environments
c) Observational evidence of natural phenomena
d) Documenting historical experiences
2. Which discipline uses empirical and scientific methods to study natural phenomena?
a) Humanities
b) Social Science
c) Natural Science
d) Linguistics
3. Which philosopher developed the idea of a "social contract"?
a) Plato
b) Jean-Jacques Rousseau
c) Montesquieu
d) John Locke
4. Who developed the idea that absolute monarchs are essential to enforce the will of people but
argued that the monarchs’ power came from the people, and not from divine right?
a) Émile Durkheim
b) Thomas Hobbes
c) Aristotle
d) Ibn Khaldun
5. What branch of natural science studies life and living organisms?
a) Physics
b) Astronomy
c) Life Science
d) Geography
True or False (1 point each)
6. The humanities focus primarily on the study of human conditions through analytical and
speculative methods.
7. Aristotle's philosophy was heavily influenced by Plato's theory of forms, which he accepted
without criticism.
8. Natural science primarily deals with studying social behaviors in group contexts.
9. Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that governments should function for the "common good."
10. Economics, as a discipline, emerged from early philosophical discussions on morality and
markets.
Fill in the Blanks (1 point each)
11. ___________ is the study of physical features of the Earth and its atmosphere, as well as human
interaction with these.
12. ___________ argued that power of the state to govern is the power given by the people to
protect their rights.
13. ___________ was a medieval scholar who documented the lives and cultures of early Middle
Eastern and South Asian populations.
14. ___________ developed the principle of separation of powers within a government system.
15. ___________ wrote The Rules of Sociological Methods and conducted a comparative study of
suicide rates.
Answer Key:

1. b

2. c

3. b

4. b

5. c

6. True

7. False

8. False

9. True

10. True

11. Geography

12. John Locke

13. Al-Biruni

14. Montesquieu

15. David Émile Durkheim

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