SOCIAL SCIENCE MAJORSHIP
Joshua borrowed P10,000 from a
Session 2 – August 27, 2022
_____ 1. What is the fundamental problem
of economics?
A. How to ensure economic growth amidst
the pandemic
B. How to maximize profit at the same time
giving value to consumers
C. How to satisfy the needs of the people
while taking care of the environment
D. How to fulfill unlimited human needs and
wants despite having scare resources
_____ 2. Which of the following topics is a
concern of macroeconomics?
A. Economic behavior of individuals and
households
B. Economic phenomena such as inflation
and unemployment
C. Individual preference to purchase one
product over another
D. Decreasing customer demand due to
increase in price of a good or service
_____ 3. Considering the laws of supply and
demand, which statement is incorrect?
A. Demand level for a product or service
will decline as its price rises.
B. As price increases, consumers will
purchase less of the specific commodity.
C. As price increases, consumers will
purchase more of the specific commodity.
D. If the price of a good or service increases,
the quantity of goods or services that
producers or suppliers offer will increase.
_____ 4.
bank. After a year, Joshua has fully repaid
the loaned
amount for P10,550. What does the
additional P550 represent?
A. inflation
B. interest
C. investment
D. insurance
_____ 5. Which type of unemployment is
due to the mismatch between the skills
workers have and
the skills needed by employers?
A. Seasonal Unemployment
B. Cyclical Unemployment
C. Frictional Unemployment
D. Structural Unemployment
_____ 6. What is the total value of the goods
and services produced by the residents of a
country
regardless of the production location?
A. Gross Domestic Product (GDP)
B. Gross National Product (GNP)
C. Net Domestic Product (NDP)
D. Net National Product (NNP)
_____ 7. In economics, ______________
goods are goods or services that consumers
use together.
A. capital goods
B. substitute goods
C. unsought goods
D. complementary goods
_____ 8. A type of economic system where ______ 13. Social norms which determine
supply and demand regulate the economy what is considered moral and ethical
rather than behavior.
government intervention. A. laws
A. market economy B. mores
B. mixed economy C. taboos
C. traditional economy D. folkways
D. command economy ______ 14. A term in sociology which refers
to a socially defined position in a group or
_____ 9. It is the highest point at which society.
goods and services can be sold.
A. role
A. price floor
B. price ceiling B. status
C. maximum price C. deviance
D. suggested retail price
_____ 10. Consumers buy nearly the same D. interaction
amount of gasoline even as price continues
______ 15. This occurs when incompatible
to increase.
role demands are placed on a person by two
What does this illustrate? or more
A. inelasticity of demand statuses held at the same time.
B. price elasticity of demand A. role exit
C. inelasticity of supply B. role strain
D. price elasticity of supply C. role conflict
_____ 11. Who is the sociologist who D. role expectation
introduced the concept of ‘cultural lag’?
_____ 16. Sociological ____________
A. Antonio Gramsci allows people to see the relationship
between their personal
B. William Ogburn
experiences and broader social and historical
C. Charles Wright Mills events.
D. William Edward Du Bois A. theory
_____ 12. Sociological concepts such as B. inquiry
habitus and symbolic violence are attributed
to whom? C. imagination
A. Pierre Bourdieu D. consciousness
B. Robert Merton _____ 17. Who coined the term
‘ethnocentrism’?
C. Charles Horton Cooley
A. Max Weber
D. George Herbert Mead
B. Margaret Mead
C. George Peter Murdock D. Karakum Desert
D. William Graham Sumner _____ 22. Which of the following is the
densest layer of the earth?
_____ 18. It refers to the process through
which a person or group from one culture A. Crust
comes to adopt
B. Mantle
the practices and values of another culture,
while still retaining their own distinct C. Inner Core
culture. D. Outer Core
A. Assimilation _____ 23. What are we referring to with
B. Acculturation ‘Trucial States’?

C. Enculturation A. United States of America

D. Accommodation B. United Arab Emirates

_____ 19. Which of the following illustrates
achieved status?
A. Gaining popularity being a part of a
family of celebrities
B. Garnering recognition as son of a famous
politician
C. Working one's way to the top of the
military chain of command
D. Being renowned in the locality because
of the reputation of one’s parents
_____ 20. In Philippine context, a man
walking past women could be considered a
violation of which
C. Association of Southeast Asian Nations
D. Confederate States of America
_____ 24. Which of the following is
incorrect about the location of the
Philippines?
A. It lies below the equator.
B. It could be found east of the Pacific
Ocean.
C. It is located south of Taiwan.
D. It is in the eastern hemisphere.
_____ 25. All of these statements hold true
about the mesosphere except one.

social norm? A. It is coldest layer of the earth’s atmosphere.

B. It is located below the Thermosphere.
A. laws C. It is the atmospheric layer where airplanes
fly.
B. mores
D. It is where most meteors burn up before
C. taboos they can crash to the ground.
_____ 26. Which of the following does not
D. folkways belong to the group?
_____ 21. Geographically speaking, which A. Tokyo
does not belong to the group?
B. Beijing
A. Gobi Desert
C. Seoul
B. Arabian Desert
D. Phnom Penh
C. Sahara Desert
_____ 27. Our country is situated in the _____ 32. What do we call the forced labor
Pacific Ring of Fire. Which statement rendered by all Filipino males from 16 to 60
correctly follows years old
based on this premise? for 40-day periods during the Spanish
regime?
A. It is frequently visited by typhoons.
A. polo
B. It has a lot of gold deposits and other
metallic minerals. B. cabeza
C. It is vulnerable to earthquakes and C. bandala
volcanic eruptions.
D. tributo
D. It has a relatively high temperature, high
humidity, and abundant rainfall. _____ 33. Who was the Spanish governor
general who decreed that Filipinos should
_____ 28. Which is the capital city of take a Spanish
Venezuela?
surname as a step to improve census data
A. Bogota and tax collection?
B. Caracas A. Rafael Izquierdo
C. Paramaribo B. Narciso Claveria
D. Santiago C. Carlos Maria de la Torre
_____ 29. The Waves of Migration is one of D. Fernando Primo de Rivera
the widely known theories on the peopling
of the
Philippines. It is the brainchild of whom? _____ 34. Propagandists used pen names to
avoid being identified by Spanish
A. Robert Fox authorities. Which of
B. Manuel Santiago
the following is not one of the pen names
C. Henry Otley Beyer used by Jose Rizal?
D. Felipe Landa Jocano
_____ 30. What is the smallest country in A. Laong Laan
the world?
B. Dimasalang
A. Monaco
C. May Pagasa
B. Nauru
C. Tuvalu D. Madlang-Away
D. Vatican _____ 35. Who led the Spanish expedition
_____ 31. Where was the earliest sultanate following the one led by Ferdinand
in the Philippines established? Magellan?
A. Sulu A. García Jofre de Loaísa
B. Lanao B. Alvaro de Saavedra Ceron
C. Butuan C. Ruy Lopez de Villalobos
D. Maguindanao D. Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
_____ 36. Filipino lawyer and statesman _____ 41. What marks the beginning of the
who was given the title “Father of the historic age and separates it from prehistory?
Malolos Constitution’
A. the start of agriculture
A. Pedro Paterno
B. Benito Legarda B. the invention of fire
C. Felipe Calderon C. development of sedentary communities
D. Gregorio Araneta
_____ 37. Which historical event marked D. invention of writing and existence of
the beginning of the Philippine revolution written records
against Spain? _____ 42. Who founded the Communist
A. Execution of Dr. Jose Rizal Party of the Russian Federation?

B. The discovery of the Katipunan A. Vladimir Lenin

C. The Cry of Pugadlawin B. Joseph Stalin

D. Battle at San Juan del Monte C. Leon Trotsky

_____ 38. Which legislation outlawed the D. Georgy Malenkov

display of flags, banners, or any emblem _____ 43. Who fought in the Peloponnesian
that goes against War?
American authority in the Philippines? A. Greece and Persia
A. Flag Law B. Athens and Sparta
B. Sedition Act C. Greece and Troy
C. Brigandage Act D. Rome and Carthage
D. Reconcentration Act _____ 44. An inventor during Renaissance
_____ 39. Who opposed Bonifacio’s period who is credited with creating the first
election as Director of the Interior during the microscope
Tejeros Convention? in 1590.
A. Simonio Bernacotti
A. Artmemio Ricarte
B. Hans Lippershey
B. Jose del Rosario C. Zacharias Janssen
C. Daniel Tirona D. Johannes Gutenberg
D. Mariano Alvarez
_____ 40. What is the purpose of the Acta ______ 45. Who became the youngest
de Tejeros? pharaoh of Egypt?

A. It established new laws for the A. Pepi II

Katipunan. B. Tutankhamun
B. It legitimized the presidency of Emilio C. Amenhotep III
Aguinaldo.
D. Hatshepsut
C. It declared separation between Magdalo
and Magdiwang.
D. It aimed to declare the results of the
Tejeros Convention as null and void.
_____ 46. Military and political leader who
made France the greatest military power in
Europe
during his reign.
A. Gustavus Adolphus
B. Frederick the Great
C. Alexander the Great
D. Napoleon Bonaparte
______ 47. What was the name of the
atomic bomb dropped by USA on Hiroshima
during the
Second World War?
A. Little Boy
B. Little Girl
C. Little Bomb
D. Little Lamb
_____ 48. Which country will host the
Olympic Games in 2024?
A. Brazil
B. USA
C. Japan
D. France
_____ 49. Which country will host this
year’s FIFA World Cup?
A. Brazil
B. Canada
C. Qatar
D. South Africa
_____ 50. The longest surviving dynasty in
the world is in which country?
A. Japan
B. China
C. Egypt
D. England