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Final Exams
Readings in Philippine History
2nd Semester/A.C.— 2019-2020

Name: ______________________________Date: ___________________ Score: _________________

Course/Year: ________________ Student ID No# ______________ Permit No# __________________

TEST 1—Answer the following questions by selecting your answers from the GRID.
Definitely “NO ERASURES”.
Sanctorum Constitutional Monarchy Power of Eminent Domain
Tributos Pure Democracy Quorum
Falla Parliamentary Government Aliping Sagigilid
Diezmoz prediales Local Government Barangay
Encomienda Republican Democracy Government
Cedula Unitary Government State
Democracy Absolute Monarchy People / Population
Aristocracy Presidential Government Buwis/Handog
Monarchy Federal Government Preamble
Totalitarianism Dictatorship Aliping Namamahay

1. The type of Filipino slaves who were the real slaves—homeless, forbidden to form their own
families, were required to stay with their masters’ dwelling and may be used as payments of
debt. _______________________
2. The tax collected from native freemen during the pre-colonial period. __________________
3. The tax collected to support the government and church operations from the individuals who
were above 16 and below 60 sixty years of age during the Spanish period. ________________
4. This is also the community tax certificate which served as identification card, and an individual
has to carry at all times. ______________________
5. This refers to a special right bestowed upon a person by the king to possess and enjoy all the
fruits of a piece of land in a particular place including the power to impose and collecttax upon
inhabitants thereof, in recognition to his deeds and contribution for the country.
___________________
6. AKA as tithes collected which consist of one-tenth of all the products of one’s land. _________
7. Was the sum of money amounting to seven pesos, in order to be exempted from ‘polo’.
___________________
8. This is another form of tax included in tribute with an amount of three ‘reales’ that is used for
church purposes. ______________________
9. A form of government where its power or rule comes from the people, for the people and by
the people. _____________________
10. A government in which the supreme and final authority is in the hands of a single person
without regard to the source of his election or the nature of duration of his tenure. The single
person could be a member of a royal family. ______________________
11. A form of government in which political power is exercised by a few privileged class, and in
which form flourished in ancient Greece and Egypt. ______________________
12. This is a form of government in which there is a virtually complete governmental control and
surveillance of overall aspects of political and social aspect of the people. _________________
13. Another form of government in which one person has nearly total power to make and enforce
law whereby the model example of this was that of Marcos and Hitler. ____________________
14. A type of monarchy in which the ruler rules in accordance with constitution or with Council of
Ministries. Model examples of this were those of Spain, UK, Thailand,, Sweden, etc.
_____________________
15. The form of government which is a type of democracy, whereby the will of the state is
formulated and expressed through the agency of a relatively small and select body of persons
chosen by the people to act as their representatives. _______________________
16. Another form of democracy whereby the will of the state is formulated or expressed directly
and immediately through the people in a mass meeting or primary assembly rather than
through the medium of delegates or representatives chosen to act for them._______________
17. The form of government in which the control and powers of the government are divided
between two sets of organs, whereby one organ is for the national affairs and the other is for
local affairs, with each organ being supreme within its own sphere. USA is one model example of
this. ________________________
18. That type of monarchy in which the ruler rules by divine right—examples of this are Oman,
Bhutan, Norway and Qatar. _________________________
19. The form of government in which the control and powers of national and local affairs are
exercised by the central or national government. The Philippines despite having some
autonomous regions is still of this type of government. _____________________

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 20. That form of government in which the power and control of the government are chiefly held by
the president through its various departments and agencies. ______________________
21. The form of government whereby the Chief of State, the President, is the titular head of the
state and occupies ceremonial power while the Prime Minister is the head of the government or
chief executive and being so, he is responsible in running the affairs of the government. One
model country of this type of government is Canada. ________________________
22. This refers to a political subdivision in the Philippines which is constituted by law, and likewise
this is actually referred to the provinces, cities, municipalities and barangays. ______________
23. The power which the Chief Executive exercises pursuant to an ordinance for public use or
purpose or welfare for the benefit of the poor and landless and other pertinent laws.
____________________
24. This refers to the total number of inhabitants within the territorial jurisdiction of the local
government unit concerned. _____________________
25. A majority of all the members of an electorate body who were elected to transact a business.
___________________
26. It is the third element of the state whereby—the exercise of political authority of the state is
vested which may consist of the three respective branches: the executive, legislative and the
judicial. ________________________
27. It is a politically organized body of people occupying a definite territory and living under a
government entirely or almost free from external control and competent to secure habitual
obedience from all persons within it. ___________________________
28. This term was derived from the Latin word “preambularse” which means “to walk before”, and
serves as a prologue or introduction of a constitution, though is not an essential or integral part
of it. _______________________
29. A separate and independent village—state where early Filipinos used to lived during the pre-
colonial period. ______________________
30. A classification of a Filipino slaves who were not full-pledged slaves, and had their own
respective families and their own houses. ___________________

TEST 11—MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE

1. _____ The Internal Revenue Law of 1904, which was enacted by the Philippine Commission on
July 02, 1904, repealed all old Spanish laws, then remaining in force and imposing internal taxes.
____________________
2. _____ The Commonwealth Act No. 466,or the National Internal Revenue Code of 1939 was
enacted on June 15, 1939, and promulgated to revise, amend and codify the internal revenue
laws of the Philippines. ________________________
3. _____ “Donativo de Zamboanga was the tax imposed between 1635 up to the middle of the
19th century was collected to crush the Moro raids. _____________________
4. _____ “POLO” was the term used to mean the forced labor services rendered by theFilipino
natives which existed during the Spanish period. ______________________
5. _____ The First Philippine Republic or Malolos Republic was inaugurated on January 23 1999.
_____________________
6. _____ The Internal Revenue Law of Nineteen Hundred and Fourteen only broadened the
scope of internal revenue taxes. __________________
7. _____ “Tributos” were community tax certificate which served as identification card one had
to carry at all times. ___________________
8. _____ The TRAIN Law or the Republic Act No. 10963 was signed on December 19, 2017 by
President Duterte, by which the tax program overhauls the country’s 20-year-old tax regime to
make the tax system fairer and simpler. _____________________
9. _____ Net income includes gains, profits and income derived from salaries, wages, or
compensation for personal service of whatever kind and in whatever form paid, etc.
____________________
10. _____ Gross income means the total amount of all incomes less deductions. _____________

TEST 111—E S S A Y S ( choose only 2 topics = 20 pts. Each )

A. Compare the salient features of the 1899 Constitution with that of the 1935 Constitution—in
terms of the branches of the government.
B. Compare by discussing the Suffrage under the 1935 Constitution with thatof the Suffrage under
the 1987 Constitution.
C. What is the TRAIN LAW? Discuss briefly what this law provides to the taxpayers and the effects
to the government and to the Philippine Industries in general.

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