PHILIPPINE POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE PRETEST

Direction: Choose the letter of the correct answer.

1. What is politics?
A. the art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy
B. the art of science concerned with the personality of political leaders
C. running for president of the republic is called politics
D. all of the above
2. Why politics is important?
A. Because politics involves making common decisions for a group of people.
B. Because politics is the rules of the game of life.
C. Because politics affects just about everything in your life.
D. All of the above
3. How politics help us in our existence?
A. It help us feel safe while walking down the street
B. It helps us consume food foods without worrying of contamination
C. It helps us to control our negative intentions
D. All of the above
4. What is direct democracy?
A. Each citizen has an equal say in the government operations, such as town hall meetings where
residents vote on a government businesses
B. Citizens elect representatives who make laws
C. Citizens are expected to participate in the process of government
D. The majority decide on laws and determines who is charged with making them
5. What kind of political systems that the power are rest with the people where leader are elected rather
than appointed or inherited?
A. Dictatorship
B. Republic
C. Democracy
D. Communism
6. A kind of political systems where a leader is an authoritarian, and only one is holding an absolute power
ruling the country.
A. Dictatorship
B. Republic
C. Democracy
D. Communism
7. What kind of dictatorship that have a figurehead leader backed by a military organization, or the military
holds and inordinate amount of power throughout the government.
A. Military Backing
B. No individual voice
C. Human rights violations
D. Communism
8. Which of the following concept of communism that the power and function of the government are often
shared by a single group.
A. A Classes society
B. Distribution based on need
C. Collective leadership
D. Lack of personal freedom
9. Why in dictatorship form of political system dictators frequently remove basic individual rights, such as
freedom of speech and freedom to assemble?
A. To secure and control the citizen
B. To avoid criticism against the government
C. To avoid revolution against the government
D. All of the above
10. Who is the dictator of Germany during the World War II?
A. General Yamashita of Japan
B. Adolf Hitler
C. General Yushikusi
D. All of the above