Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Region VIII-Eastern Visayas
Schools Division of Eastern Samar
TAFT NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Taft, Eastern Samar
SIDN: 303529

MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN UNDERSTANDING CULTURE SOCIETY AND POLITICS

NAME:________________________________ GRADE & SECTION:____________ DATE:___________

A. MULTIPLE CHOICE
Directions: Read and analyze each item carefully. Write the letter of the correct answer on your paper.

1.The study of human biological and physiological characteristics and their evolution.
a. Sociology c. Culture
b. Anthropology d. Psychology
2. Which of the following best describe how anthropologists primarily learn new information about humans?
a. Laboratory experiments c. Field works
b. Reading travelers accounts d. None of the above
3. They are essentially detectives who search through many thousands of pieces of fragmentary pots and
other artifacts as well as environmental data in order to reconstruct ancient ways.
a. Archaeologist c. Linguistic anthropologist
b. Anthropologist d. Cultural anthropologist
4. Government by a single person with absolute control over the resources of the state.
a. Absolutism c. Dictatorship
b. Anarchism d. Communism
5. Government by the people, usually through elected representatives.
a. Dictatorship c. Autocracy
b. Democracy d. Conservatism
6. Governmental system where the existing institutions are maintained, emphasizing free-enterprise and
minimal governmental intervention.
a. Conservatism c. Absolutism
b. Anarchism d. Democracy
7. Extreme left-wing ideology based on the revolutionary socialist teachings of Marx. Collective ownership
and a planned economy.
a. Democracy c. Communism
b. Anarchism d. absolutism
8. System where the rulers have unlimited control.
a. Dictatorship c. Autocracy
b. Democracy d. Conservatism
9. It is a set of ideas, beliefs, values, and opinions, exhibiting a recurring pattern, that competes deliberately
as well as unintentionally over providing plans of action for public policy making in an attempt to justify,
explain, contest, or change the social and political arrangements and processes of a political community.
a. Political science c. Political system
b. Political Ideology d. Government
10. deals extensively with the analysis of political systems, the theoretical and practical applications to
politics, and the examination of political behavior.
a. Political science c. Political system
b. Political Ideology d. Government
11. He defined political science as the study of the state.
a. Plato c. Homans
b. aristotle d. Piaget
12. Studies the way groups of people interact with each other and how their behavior is influenced by social
structures, categories.
a. Culture c .Anthropology
b. Society d. Sociology
13. The differences among the individuals on the basis of social characteristics and qualities.
a. Social practice c. Social differences
b. Social change d. Social qualities
14. It is the ability or right to control people or things.
a. Power c. Love
b. Authority d. Politics
15. It is derived from the latin word “colere,” which means to tend to the earth and grow, or cultivation and
nurture.
a. Beliefs c. Traditions
b. Culture d. Customs
16. It is the changes in the culture of society.
a. Tradition change c. Charter change
b. Customs change d. Cultural change
17.It is a new perception of an aspect of reality that already exists.
a. Discovery c. Diffusion
b. Invention d. Acculturation
18.It is the spreading of cultural traits from group to another group.
a. Diffusion c. Acculturation
b. Invention d. Assimilation
19. It is the combination or new use of existing knowledge to produce something that did not exist before.
a. Assimilation c. Diffusion
b. Inventions d. Acculturation
20. It is the process of combination of two cultures in one culture with comprising cultural traits.
a. Assimilation c. Invention
b. Diffusion d. Discovery
21.It is the process that makes continuity of culture possible.
a. Inheritance c. Socialization
b. Genetics d. Education
22.This is man’s oldest doctrine that everything is alive and possesses mental faculties like those possessed
by man: desire, will, purpose, anger, love, and the like.
a. Christianity c. Animism
b. Islam d. Atheism
23.Why is culture important to society?
a. Culture is constructed by society
b. Culture reflects the inner workings of an individual in society
c. Society could not function without cultural norms that assist in governing behavior and values, and
culture could not exist without societal influences to create it
 d. All of the above
24. Cultural relativism wrongly claims that each culture has its own distinct but equally valid mode of
perception, thought, and _____________.
a. Feelings c. Choice
b. Ideas d. Lesson
25. Cultural relativism, the opposite of the idea that moral truth is ____and objective, contends there is no
such thing as absolute right and wrong.
a. General c. Assuming
b. Valid d. Universal
26. Within a particular society, a standard of right and wrong can be _____________.
a. Inviolate c. Unsuitable
b. Fradaulent d. Vulgar
27. In the Philippines, premarital sex is morally ____________.
a. Acceptable c. Ignored
b. Unacceptable d. Defined
28. It is the view that one’s own cultural elements such as norms, values, ideology, customs, and traditions
are dominant and superior to others.
a. Cultural relativism c. Culture lag
b. Ethnocentrism d. Xenocentrism
29. Warns us, quite rightly, about the danger of assuming that all of our practices are based on some
absolute rational standard.
a. Ethnocentrism c. Culture lag
b. Cultural relativism d. Xenocentrism
30. Cultural relativism doesn’t mean that ___________ can’t be compared.
a. Feelings c. Cultures
b. Language d. Symbols
31. What do sociologists call a continuing process whereby individuals acquire personal identities and learn
the norms, values, behaviors, and social skills appropriate to his or her social position?
a. Sociology c. Culture
b. Socialization d. A mouth full
32. Which of the following things is normally learned during the socialization process?
a. The roles we are to play in life c. The culture's norms
b. the language of the people around us d. all of the above
33. Which of the following cultural symbols of Philippines represents nationalism?
a. Philippine flag c. Sandata
b. Baybayin d. Mungul Jar
34. An object, word, or action that stand for something else with no natural relationship that is culturally
defined.
a. Culture c. Symbols
b. Practices d. Belief
35. A symbol that is perceived visible, external denotation of one’s social position and perceived indicator of
economic or social status.
a. Political symbol c. Social symbol
b. Economic symbol d. Cultural symbol
36. A symbol that people want to have or do because they think other people will respect or admire them
for it such as education, occupation, marital status, accomplishments, or other factors.
a. Political symbol c. Social symbol
b. Economic symbol d. Cultural symbol
37. An object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest.
a. Symbol c. Artifacts
b. Culture d. Dove
38. It is the change that occurs in population over time.
a. Culture c. Politics
b. Evolution d. Society
39. Types of societies that grow crops with simple tools and raise livestock.
a. Hunting and gathering c. Industrial
b. Horticultural and pastoral d. Post-industrial
40. These societies contained a strict hierarchical system of power based around land ownership and
protection.
a. Feudal c. Agricultural
b. Horticultural d. Industrial
41. Types of societies wherein advance forms of technology were applied and machineries are invented.
a. Agricultural c. Industrial
b. Horticultural d. Pastoral
42. These societies produce simple forms of tools used to hunt for animals and gather plants and vegetation
for food.
a. Agricultural c. Industrial
b. Hunting and gathering d. Pastoral
43. The first setting of socialization, has the greatest impact on attitudes and behavior
a. Family c. School
b. Peers d. Media
44. Piaget’s cognitive stage at which individuals first see causal connections in their surroundings.
a. sensorimotor stage c. preoperational stage
c. concrete operational stage d. formal operational stage
45. Mead’s concept of the generalized other is similar to what other concept?
a. the looking-glass self c. the superego
b. the id d. the sensorimotor period
46. Which of the following is NOT an agent of socialization?
a. mother c. Shopping
b. friends d. Television
47. It represents the human being’s basic drives.
a. Ego c. Superego
b. Id d. None of the above
48. He used the phrase looking-glass self to mean a self-image based on how we think others see us.
a. Jean Piaget b. George Herbert Mead
b. Sigmund Feud d. Charles Horton Cooley
49. It is a set of individuals who identify and interact with one another in a structured way based on shared
values and beliefs.
a. Group c. Social Group
b. Social organization d. Social status
50. Shared between inter-stimulation and reaction between at least two people and groups.
a. Social group c. Social status
b. Social interaction d. Social organization