Davao Wisdom Academy, Inc.

F. Torres Street, Davao City

Basic Education Department
Senior High School Unit

1st Quarter Examination

Subject: UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY, and POLITICS

Teacher: _______________________________ Date: ________________
Name: _________________________________ Score: _______________

I. Multiple Choice
Directions: Read and analyze the questions carefully and encircle the letter of
your choice.
1. Rica’s parent always tells her to wash the dishes whether she likes it or not, and
her mother keeps on telling her “do as I say or else…”. What parenting style is
described in the situation?
a. Authoritarian c. Neglectful
b. Permissive-indulgent d. authoritative
2. Niecole asked her papa why she is not allowed to go outside to play and her
papa replied, “because I say so”. What parenting style is shown in the situation?
a. Authoritarian c. Neglectful
b. Permissive-indulgent d. authoritative
3. Caren spurns the healthy breakfast her mother cooks up and instead settles for a
bag of chips and a can of soda. Her mother keeps quiet because she does not
want to upset her daughter. When she eats hard candies by the fistful after
school, she ignores the snacking. What parenting style is described in the
situation?
a. Authoritarian c. Neglectful
b. Permissive-indulgent d. authoritative
4. Shaena rushes off to school and leaves his homework behind. After a frantic call
from school, she drops everything, leave work, go home, retrieve the homework,
and take it to school. A couple of weeks down the line, Shaena will forget her
lunch and the routine repeats itself. What parenting style is shown below?
a. Authoritarian c. Neglectful
b. Permissive-Indulgent d. Authoritative
5. Joshua’s parent did not ask whether he is doing good at school or why did he not
go home last night. What parenting style is being describe?
a. Authoritarian c. Neglectful
b. Permissive-Indulgent d. Authoritative

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 6. What parenting style is when you have not attended any of your child’s play or
PTA meeting?
a. Authoritarian c. Neglectful
b. Permissive-Indulgent d. Authoritative
7. What parenting style is described in this situation, Kyle wants to play outside but
her dad wants him to finish first his homework?
a. Authoritarian c. Neglectful
b. Permissive-Indulgent d. Authoritative
8. What are the two groups of primates?
a. Presimians and prosimians
b. Prosimians and anthropoids
c. Anthropoids and mollusks
d. Presimians and mollusks
9. One major factor why our ancestors were able to develop the ability to talk is
because of the speech gene found on chromosome 7 of our DNA. What speech
gene is this?
a. FOXP2 c. FO2XP
b. FOXKOKO d. FOX2P
10. In what country is dog meat a delicacy?
a. China c. Philippines
b. Argentina d. Japan
11. What is defined as a product of a human group or society?
a. Socialization c. Norms
b. Culture d. Values
12. Who believe that human beings may have evolved a biological structure with the
forebrain that facilitates the learning of language?
a. Noam Chomsky c. Benjamin Lee Whorf
b. Edward Sapir d. Robert Merton
13. What type of norms is described when you wear short shorts and sleeveless in
the Philippines?
a. Norms c. Mores
b. Folkways d. Taboos
14. in every perfect score that you got you will receive a gift from your parents is an
example of what sanction?
a. Negative sanction c. Punishment
b. Positive sanctions d. Prescriptive
15. What is defined as an ethnic, regional, economic, or social group exhibiting
characteristics patterns of behavior that distinguishes from other?
a. Culture c. Material culture
b. Subculture d. Nonmaterial culture

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 16. Carla attended her graduation wearing an embodied dress made of abaca
because she wants to preserve her culture as a Manobo. Who are the two
sociologists that studies about indigenous people?
a. Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict
b. Alfred Kroeber and William Morgan
c. Bronislaw Malinowski and Margaret Mead
d. Charles Mills and Peter Berger
17. Nezuko believes that Santa Claus is real because she gets the toy, she wants
every Christmas. Whose study explains this belief?
a. Peter Berger c. William Isaac Thomas
b. Charles Wright Mills d. Max Weber
18. Amidst the hardships of this new normal class set up because of the pandemic,
the students were still able to graduate by adopting and surviving in this new
normal. Whose study explains this situation?
a. Max Weber c. Herbert Spencer
b. Emile Durkheim d. Auguste Comte
19. Elli is very curious about everything in her environment and wants to seek
explanations on everything backed up with solid evidence. What is she dealing
already?
a. Theory c. Anthropology
b. Sociology d. Political Science
20. Meliodas do not belief in the supreme being because he can’t see, feel nor touch
god. What ideology explains Meliodas beliefs?
a. Realism c. Rationalism
b. Extremism d. Idealism

II. Modified True or False

Direction: Write TRUE if the statement is CORRECT and change the UNDERLINED
word if it is INCORRECT.
__________ 21. A connection of the parts is known as chains-of-being from the
supreme being down to least being.
__________ 22. Eating using your left hand in Japan is considered as taboo.
__________ 23. The ideal way to view culture is Xenocentrism the tendency to value
other cultures than yours.
__________ 24. Norms that is proscriptive is it tells you what to do.
__________ 25. The three components of personality are cognitive, attitude, and
emotional.

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 III. Fill in the blanks
Direction: Complete the sentences below by writing the correct answers on the
blanks provided before each number.
26. Cheating in an exam is an example of _________ and this is enacted by the state.
27. Political economy facilitates the study of the relationship between _________ and
economics to come up with the better public policy.
28. The obedience to violation of norms may result __________ sanction.
29. To parents who considered their work career as more important is labeled as
__________ according to Diana Baumrind.
30. The child develops the concept of __________ in the game stage.

V. Essay. Read the situation and answer the question briefly and concisely.
Below is the rubric on how you will be graded.

5 4 3 2
Understanding of the Understanding of the
Understanding of the Lacks understanding
concept is clearly concept is evident
concept is limited and of the concept and
evident and uses and shows thinking
there is an attempt to shows no
logical thinking to skills to arrive at
show thinking skills. understanding.
arrive at conclusion. conclusion.

31-35. Explain the quotation and its ideology.

“Of all the responses of God and man to oppression, nothing is more effective than the
sacrifice of the innocent” (Mahatma Ghandi).
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36-40. LGBTQIA community is facing a problem in this current situation and society,
what is your stand about this issue as a citizen of a conservative country?
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