General Education - SET D - Part 1

1. Which refers to FUNNEL EFFECT?

A. The belief that every criminal gets caught and is punished.

B. The belief that crime is under control in the United States.
C. The idea that only a very few suspects arrested for committing a crime are actually punished.
D. The idea that all crimes put into the same criminal justice system.

2. One of the most outstanding accomplishments of the cooperative movement is the encouragement of thrift. Which maximum of God
puts this into practice?

A. “God Helps those who help themselves”.

B. “Look at the birds: they do not plant seeds, gather a harvest and put it in barns; yet your Father in heaven takes care of them!”
C. “He is near to those who call to Him, who call to Him with sincerity.”
D. “Happy are those who are merciful to others; God will be merciful to them!”

3. Which is NOT personal integrity?

A. Time 
B. Place 
C. Order
D. Harmony

4. Carter’s part in relinquishing U.S. control of the Central Zone to Panama is described as a victory for ________.

A. conservatism 
B. anti-imperialism 
C. isolationism
D. imperialism

5. Of the following changes in the socio-economic, political cultural and physical that have occurred in the Filipino family, which one
remains to be TRUE?

A. The loss of the traditional evening prayer and ritual of blessing (mano)
B. The unity of the family despite competing demands
C. The continued parental influence over children’s language dress and other behavior
D. The continued support for parents and siblings

6. Mang Tacio has been unemployed for quite sometime due to his negative attitude toward work. Which program of the Department of
Social Welfare and Services will help him?

A. Income in Kind Program 

B. Anti-Medicancy Program 
C. HRD Program
D. Social Insurance Program

7. The main message of the Moral Recovery Program launched by Leticia Ramos Shahani starts with the ________.

A. world 
B. family 
C. self
D. nation

8. Which are limited only to the sale of real property and stock transaction?

A. Business incomes 
B. Capital gains 
C. Employment incomes
D. Passive incomes

9. If a farmer would want assistance like pricing, guarantee for all agricultural produce or cooperative management training, where
would he go?

A. Support services of the Department of Agrarian Reform

B. Special Agrarian Court under the Regional Trial Court
C. DAR adjudication board
D. Land Bank

10. The Soviet Union’s attempt to establish a missile base in Cuba is interpreted as a direct violation of
A. The Truman Doctrine
B. The Monroe Doctrine
C. The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
D. The Declaration of Independence

11. As a representative of the Urban Poor Commission of the Association of Religious Superiors (ARS), which action will you most likely
take to resolve the long-term roots of structural inequalities-proliferation of child labor and child prostitution?

A. Raise views of human rights abuse.

B. Organize regular programs for information and discussion of human rights
C. Conduct skills training
D. Raise questions over the government’s commitment to rebuild human rights

12. What values are being given priority by juries in criminal cases?

A. The rights of the criminal over the strict interpretation of the law
B. The safety of the community over the sympathy for the criminal
C. The needs of the criminals over the advice of the judge
D. The punishment of the criminal over the safety of the community

13. Lucy’s husband has been a drug dependent. She wanted him rehabilitated to be economically productive. Where will she commit her
husband?

A. DARN 
B. Bukang Liwayway Ceter 
C. DARE
D. NFPI

14. Which will solve poverty caused by capitalism?

A. Fascism 
B. Communism 
C. Empirism
D. Socialism

15. Which family obligation is especially valued?

A. Supplying groceries to relatives in remote barrios

B. Providing health assistance to relatives living in the same locale
C. Sending to college relatives in remote barrios
D. Keeping immediate family members out of trouble

16. Which theory was asserted by the Pan-German belief in the superiority of the Aryan race and that the strength of the German
culture came from a strong, healthy and rustic lineage?

A. Dependency Theory
B. Culture of Poverty Theory
C. Social Darwinist Theory
D. Theory of Capitalism

17. Why was San Andres Cooperative Association of Paco, not exempted from taxation?

A. I accumulates reserves and undivided net savings of P8,000,000.00

B. I accumulates reserves and undivided net savings of P10,000.00
C. I accumulates reserves and undivided net savings of P9,000,000.00
D. I accumulates reserves and undivided net savings of P11,000.00

18. Juliet Villaruel was a landowner from Cabio, Nueva Ecija. Under the CARL, she was claiming 8 hectares, 5 hectares of which
represented the retention limit and the 3 hectares for her only child. Why was her child denied 3 hectares?

A. Her son was 15 years old who was actually tilting the farm
B. Her son was 17 years old who was managing the farm
C. Her son was 13 years old who has been helping till the farm
D. Her son was 19 years old who was actually tilting or managing the farm

19. Which part of the Allied action has been detailed in this passage?

After Saddam Hussein violated international arguments by sending Iraq troops to Kuwait and missiles into their neighboring countries, the Allies
responded with military action.
A. The Allied bases in Saudi Arabia
B. The ground was in the desert
C. The movement of Allied troops in Iraq
D. The campaign in the Baghdad area

20. Which one is the human right to life?

A. Peace 
B. Live in national and international order 
C. Own Property
D. Fair trial

21. Two days after Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Roosevelt made the following statements:
“In the past few years and most violently in the past few days, we learned a terrible lesson. We must begin the great task that is before us by
abandoning once and for all the illusion that we can ever again isolate ourselves from the rest of the humanity.”

In the statement, Roosevelt is expressing the ideas of ________.

A. an internationalist 
B. an anti-imperialist 
C. an imperialist
D. an isolationist

22. The following are defects present at the time of marriage which is voidable and annullable EXCEPT

A. impotence 
B. deceit 
C. fraud
D. threat

23. Why does a pendulum in a grandfather clock once set in motion continue to swing, thereby regulating the clock’s movement? This is
due to the Law of

A. Universal Gravitation 
B. Action and Reaction 
C. Applied Force
D. Inertia

24. New ponies, perennial plants that produce shows flowers can be propagated from the parent plant by dividing corns that grow
underground. The reproductive form resembles a _____________.

A. bulb 
B. runner 
C. seed
D. bud

25. The San Pascual Credit Cooperative of Quezon City wishes to apply for a loan of five pesos from one of the financial institution,
EXCEPT?

A. Development Bank of the Philippines

B. Central Bank of the Philippines
C. Philippine National Bank
D. Land Bank of the Philippines

26. The following are legitimate children EXCEPT?

A. those born by artificial insemination.

B. those legitimate.
C. those born during a valid marriage of parents.
D. those born out a valid marriage of parents.

27. Of the following, which is imposed a final tax of ten percent (10%)

A. PSCO and lotto winnings.

B. Books literary works and musical compositions
C. Currency banks deposit
D. Royalties

28. Which of the following foreign policy actions today is a direct result of early American imperialist policy?
A. Station of American troops in West Germany
B. American’s military support of Israel in the Middle East
C. American’s patrolling of waters of the Libyan coast
D. American’s establishment of military bases I nth Philippines

29. Which area of the brain controls feelings on the side of a person’s face?

A. The left occipital lobe 

B. The left parietal lobe 
C. The right parietal lobe
D. The right occipital lobe

30. Why does a bullet when discharged into the air eventually fall to the ground? This is due to the Law of ___________.

A. Universal Gravitation 
B. Applied Force 
C. Inertia
D. Action and Reaction

31. The principle under which thermostat operates is the same when?

A. a gas expands to fill the container in which it is held.

B. a pendulum swings when it is set into motion.
C. a chemical reaction occurs when two substances combine.
D. the level of mercury rises or falls in a glass tube.

32. Which explains the reason why there are continuous and increasing human rights violations?

A. The United Nation’s General Assembly approved only resolutions on human rights and the basic freedoms which are not binding
B. The solutions used are ineffective.
C. The United Nations as an international body is rather slow in the exercise of its powers
D. The United Nations uses as a single solution on all forms of human rights violations.

33. In an experiment, a vacuum is created when air is removed from a tube. A coin and bits of confetti are released in the vacuum at the
same time. They fall at the same rate and reach the bottom at the same time. The experiment proves that

I. In a vacuum, the rate of accelerator is the same for all objects regardless of weight.
II. Outside a vacuum air resistance is what makes different objects fall at different rates.
III. Gravity has no effect at all on objects that fall in a vacuum.

A. I and II 
B. I and III 
C. I, II and III
D. II and III

34. Thousands of street children in large Brazilian cities were murdered by parliamentary death squads which includes police officers.
What could be the reason why these operations were not suppressed by the government?

A. Totalitarian governments do not give protection

B. The business people even funded these operations to clean up their streets and neighborhoods.
C. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights was only lip service
D. To how they treat their people was nobody else’s business.

35. Which of the following procedures used by a farmer is NOT related directly to preventing erosion?

A. Contour plowing around a hill

B. Planting more seeds than are necessary to yield a bountiful crop.
C. Planting grass in gullies to act as a filter
D. Planting crops in alternate rows (Strip farming)

36. You buy a new refrigerator for P12,800.00 and make a down payment of P2,500.00. If you finance the remainder at 8% annually for
three years, how much will you actually pay for the refrigerator?

A. P12,190.00 
B. P10,309.00 
C. none of these
D. P12,772.00
E. P15,272.00
37.   4 1/5            or 4 1/5 + 3 2/7 = __________.
     + 3 2/7
   ________

A. 7 3/12 
B. 7 3/35 
C. 7 17/35
D. 7 1/35
E. none of these

38. In which kingdom should MOLD be classified?

A. Protista 
B. Plantae 
C. Fungi
D. Animalia

39. Which of the following BEST demonstrates the greenhouse principle?

A. A heated aquarium
B. A car with rolled-up windows
C. A microwave oven
D. A solar battery-powered calculator

40. Which of the following should you expect to be true about the rate of cellular respiration for a group of students who are the same
age, height, and weight?

A. Athletes would tend to have higher rates of cellular respiration than nonathletes.
B. Africans would have higher rates of cellular respiration than Asians.
C. Boys would have a higher rates of cellular respiration than girls.
D. Nonathletes would have higher rates of cellular respiration than Athletes.

41. Which kingdom should STREPTOCOCCUS be classified?

A. Protista 
B. Plantae 
C. Fungi
D. Monera

42. What is the function of DIFFUSION in the human body?

A. Regulates blood flow

B. Plays an insignificant role in the body’s functioning
C. Allows an even distribution of substances throughout all cells of the body
D. Comes into play in times of extreme illness

43. In an experiment, a drop of blue ink is placed on the surface of a glass of water. In a few minutes, the drop of ink is dispersed
throughout the water, turning it light blue. The result of the experiment proves that

A. molecules of ink and molecules of water are in constant motion

B. heat causes the ink to disperse
C. a new compound is formed by the combination of ink and water
D. ink molecules have less density than water molecules

44. Which Law of force and motion explains this occurrence, when a rocket is propelled upward by the powerful downward discharged
of exhaust gases?

A. Universal Gravitation 
B. Action and Reaction 
C. Applied Force
D. Inertia

45. An elderly woman suffered a stroke-a restriction of blood flow to the brain. if the stroke caused to the right side of her body to
become temporarily paralyzed, she most likely experienced a decreased blood flow to

A. the left side of her body 

B. the front of her brain 
C. the left side of her brain
D. the right side of her brain
46. Which of the following methods can all diabetics control their condition and avoid heart disease and blindness?

I. Regulates their intake of glucose

II. Increase the levels of insulin in the body by taking insulin injections
III. Maintaining a reasonable exercise regimen to keep weight down

A. I 
B. II 
C. I and II
D. I and III

47. Scientist also find that other stalky vegetables such as carrots also help lower pressure. This statement is BEST classified as

A. experiment 
B. nonessential fact 
C. finding
D. prediction

48. Each of the following objects is designed to employ the buoyancy principle EXCEPT a

A. life preserver 
B. kite 
C. submarine
D. canoe

49. What is the difference between the largest 4-digit number and the smallest 4-digit numbers?

A. 8999 
B. 8000 
C. 9998
D. 8888
E. none of these

50. Four mangoes cost P29.00 at that price what will 2½ dozen mangoes cost?

A. P217.50 
B. P188.50 
C. P348.50
D. P870.00
E. none of these