1st Quarterly Examination

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

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Name: ______________________________ Strand/ Grade/ Section: ___________________

Score
Date: __________
General Direction: NO ERASURE AND ALTERATION. READ THE DIRECTIONS CAREFULLY.
FAILURE TO FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS MEANS WRONG.

I. Multiple Choice. Read each question carefully and write the letter of the correct answer in the space
provided. Please use CAPITAL LETTERS for your answers.

_____ 1. UCSP is a multidisciplinary course that integrates and combines the contents, methods and theories of the
following EXCEPT:

A. Mathematics B. Anthropology C. Sociology D. Political Science

_____ 2. Anthropology: Genetics and Evolution, etc.

Sociology: Groups and Organizations, etc.
Political Science: _________________

A. Cultural Change B. Social Inequality C. Elections D. Religion

_____ 3. It encompasses all social aspects including our language, customs, values, norms, mores, education, etc……
A. Society B. politics C. culture D. political science

_____ 4. It is the system by which a state or community is controlled as to put order.

A. Political B. Constituents C. Government D. System

_____ 5. ________________ is the holistic “science of man”, a science of the totality of human existence.

A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Archaeology D. Etymology

_____ 6. _______________ is the study of relationships among people.

A. Anthropology B. Sociology C. Archaeology D. Etymology

_____ 7. _____________ are conceptions or ideas people have about what is true in the environment around them like
what is life, how to value it, and how one’s belief on the value of life relate with his or her interaction with others
and the world.

A. Beliefs B. Values C. Language D. Norms

_____ 8. _____________ describe what is appropriate or inappropriate in a given society or what ought to be.

A. Beliefs B. Values C. Language D. Norms

_____ 9. It is a shared set of spoken and written symbols.

A. Beliefs B. Values C. Language D. Norms

_____ 10. _________ are specific rules/standards to guide appropriate behavior.

 A. Beliefs B. Values C. Language D. Norms

_____ 11. Also known as customs, these are norms for everyday behavior that people follow for the sake of tradition
or convenience.

A. Mores B. Folkways C. Taboos D. Law

_____ 12. A person or practitioner who studies Anthropology.

A. Sociologist B. Psychologist C. Anthropologist D. Archaeologist

_____ 13. Karen used to tease her newly transferred Mangyan classmate because of his kinky hair and tanned skin.
What kind of cultural view Karen has?

A. cultural relativism B. ethnocentrism C. culture D. society

_____ 14. Mommy and Daddy taught their one-year old daughter Cloud how to play ABC song with the use of their
Lenovo cell phone. Now, Cloud can able to open the phone and sing the ABC song. What characteristic of culture is
shown in the situation?

A. culture is learned C. culture is shared

B. culture is integrated D. culture is symbolic

_____ 15. “Sabong” is a vice which Lolo Tasyo has been indulged with until this year. This kind of gambling was
brought in the Philippines during the Spanish colonization. This only proves that culture is?

A. learned C. shared
B. integrated D. symbolic

I. TRUE OR FALSE: Read each question carefully and identify whether it is TRUE or FALSE. Write T or F
for your answers, use the space provided before each number. (10 points)

_________ 1. Society is a group of people sharing a common culture.

_________ 2. Culture is a “complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms,
artifacts, symbols, knowledge, and everything that a person learns and shares as a member of society.”
_________ 3. Culture is a society’s (or group’s) system of shared, learned values and norms; as a whole, these values
and norms are the society’s (or group’s) design for living
_________ 4. Culture is expressed in language and symbols.
_________ 5. Cultures change through the action of persons whose ideas and behavior “fit” the culture.
_________ 6. Culture refers to the beliefs, values, behavior and objects that, together, form a people's way of life.
_________ 7. Culture includes the traditions we inherit and pass on to the next generation
_________ 8. Culture: totality of our shared language, knowledge, material objects, and behavior
_________ 9. Culture is very recent and was a long time in the making.
_________ 10. Culture refers to the universal human capacity to classify, & communicate their experiences
symbolically.

II. IDENTIFICATION: Identify what is being ask in the following questions below. Choose your answers on the box
and write your answers on the space provided. Write the terms, not the letter.
1. Rules defining acceptable and unacceptable behavior for a given culture
____________________ 2. Broad ideas about what is good or desirable shared by people in a group
____________________ 3. Things that stand for or represent something else
____________________ 4. Physical objects you can touch
____________________ 5. Intangible; can’t touch it
____________________ 6. A group of people who have learned to live and work together.
____________________ 7. Norms of little moral significance
____________________ 8. Norms central to functioning of social life
 ____________________ 9. This can be spoken and written messages.
____________________ 10. Plurality of historically conditioned cultures
____________________ 11. Relates to an abrupt transition from a familiar to an alien environment and often requires
adjustment.
____________________ 12. Is the belief that one’s own cultural practices and values are inherently correct or superior
to those of others.
____________________ 13. The practice of interpreting and judging other cultures in terms of their own internal
meaning and value systems.
____________________ 14. A group that deviates in certain areas or features with respect to values, beliefs, and
behavior from that of a dominant or parent culture
____________________ 15. It is said to be the way of life.

a. Culture f. Material Culture l. Cultural pluralism q. Religion

b. Norms g. Ethnocentrism m. Folkways r. Cultural variations
c. Sub- culture i. Non- Material Culture n. Mores s. Family
d. Values j. Culture Shock o. Language t. Community
e. Cultural Relativism k. Society p. Communication u. Lifestyle

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“Commit thy way unto the LORD; trust also in Him;

and He shall bring it to pass.” Psalm 37:5

Prepared by:

QUEENIE BELONIO-ORTIZ
Subject Teacher

Checked by:

CORAZON J. CLARO
Master Teacher I- SHS Coordinator

Noted:

JOSEPH HENRY L. TUNA

Secondary School Principal I