Module 1: Unit 2

Engage: (Formative) Pre-assessment Test

I. Choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on the space provided before each number. (10 points)

_____1. Several of the health and medical advances of the early contemporary period were due to the period's
improved emphasis on empiricism. Empiricism is the gaining of knowledge through _____. A. making hypotheses,
observation, and alchemy
B. reading, making hypotheses and analysis
C. observation, experimentation and analysis
D. reading, creating observation and analysis

_____2. In Tycho Brahe's model of the universe, the Earth_____.

A. was the only planet in the universe
B. was revolved by the sun
C. was one of few planets orbiting the sun
D. was nowhere nearby the middle of the universe

_____3. Which revolution served as the catalyst to influence scientific thinking away from age-long views about the
position of the Earth?
A. Newtonian Revolution
B. Freudian Revolution
C. Copernican Revolution
D. Darwinian Revolution

_____4. Charles Darwin believed that finches of dissimilar species on the Galápagos Islands have many alike physical
characteristics. This hypothesis backs the idea that the finches _____.
A. can interbreed
B. gain traits through use and disuse
C. came from a common ancestor
D. consume similar kind of diet

_____5. Nature has a means of making organisms that inherit beneficial traits to survive and reproduce more
successfully than the ones that do not. What mechanism is being described?
A. Genetic variation
B. Natural selection
C. Adaptation
D. Overproduction

_____6. Which statement best defines the manner of evolution?

A. Environmental circumstances limit the quantity of species on Earth
B. Populations can live in different places on earth
C. The characteristics of a species can be altered over time
D. Populations increase when resources are plentiful
_____7. Galileo Galilei, Francis Bacon and Isaac Newton reinforced the claim that knowledge should be grounded
on_____.
A. Sentiments and thoughts
B. Observation and experimentation
C. Practices of past civilizations
D. Lessons of the Catholic Church
_____8. Scientists started utilizing _____and_____ instead of putting their beliefs in faith. A.
Literature and Science
B. History and Logic
C. Reason and Logic
D. Math and History

_____9. Ideas that stunned the society in the beginning of the twentieth century included Sigmund Freud’s_____. A.
Theory of Evolution
B. Theory of Psychoanalysis
C. Theory of Special Relativity
D. Theory of Natural Selection

_____10. Which of the following refers to the part of an individual's mind that helps put the id in balance, making sure
the person will do and obey the norms and will not do impulsive and unacceptable acts? A. Id
B. Ego
C. Conscious
D. Superego