FIRST PERIODIC TEST IN UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND POLITICS

SY. 2021-2022
I. TRUE/ FALSE: Read and analyze the following statements. Click true if the statement tells correct facts ang click false if
the statement is incorrect.
1. Erik Erikson is a psychodynamic theorist who formulated his own theory as an extension of Freud’s.
2. According to supporters of the nature principle, human personality and identity is inborn and inherited.
3. Socialization is the lifelong social process where people develop their individual potentials and learn or adapt culture.
4. Contemporary social scientists argue that there is no correct option between nature and nurture as both instances are
salient in ensuring a person’s development.
5. Lawrence Kohlberg postulated that human beings also develop moral identities as influenced by their environmental
and interpersonal experiences.
6. Artifacts carry with them important cultural and historical meanings that no person in the present could bring back.
7. Practices that occurred in the past would not have been known if not for the discovery of artifacts.
8. Despite the seemingly great successes archaeologists have made in recent years, there is still more to discover about
history.
9. Archaeology is the study of personality, traits, and behavior that make up a person.
10. Howard Carter discovered Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1923.

II. MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read and analyze the following statements. Click the letter of the best answer.
11. This is defined as a conflict among roles connected to two or more statuses.
a. role conflict
b. role exit
c. status set
d. role strain
e. Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh
12. This is the process by which people disengage from certain roles.
a. role conflict
b. role exit
c. status set
d. role strain
e. Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh
13. This phenomenon occurs when there is tension involved among various roles within just one status.
a. role conflict
b. role exit
c. status set
d. role strain
e. Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh
14. It is term for the various statuses that a person holds at once.
a. role conflict
b. role exit
c. status set
d. role strain
e. Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh
15. She is a sociologist well-known for her work on social statuses and roles.
a. role conflict
b. role exit
c. status set
d. role strain
e. Helen Rose Fuchs Ebaugh
16. It is a political system where rulers of a country or a government are made up of the aristocracy.
a. Cleisthenes
b. Fertile Crescent
c. Neolithic Revolution
 d. Oligarchy
e. tyrant
17. It is an area in the ancient Middle East that is believed to be “cradle of civilization” and the birthplace of agriculture,
urbanization, trade, and science due to its fertile land area.
a. Cleisthenes
b. Fertile Crescent
c. Neolithic Revolution
d. Oligarchy
e. tyrant
18. It is the era in cultural evolution when people began to settle in specific areas to domesticate plants and animals.
a. Cleisthenes
b. Fertile Crescent
c. Neolithic Revolution
d. Oligarchy
e. tyrant
19. It is a positive terminology for a Greek leader that also translates to “boss.”
a. Cleisthenes
b. Fertile Crescent
c. Neolithic Revolution
d. Oligarchy
e. tyrant
20. He started out the democratic political system in Greece.
a. Cleisthenes
b. Fertile Crescent
c. Neolithic Revolution
d. Oligarchy
e. tyrant
21. It is referring to the alteration of mechanisms in a social structure characterized by changes in social organizations,
cultural symbols, patterns of behavior, and value systems.
a. anthropology
b. invention
c. participant observation
d. social change
e. structural-functionalist model
22. It is emphasizing the importance of various social structures in developing and driving change at both the individual
and societal levels.
a. anthropology
b. invention
c. participant observation
d. social change
e. structural-functionalist model
23. It occurs when things or concepts are put together and result into something that becomes useful
a. anthropology
b. invention
c. participant observation
d. social change
e. structural-functionalist model
24. It aims to scientifically examine the behavior, origin, social, physical, and cultural development of humans.
a. anthropology
b. invention
c. participant observation
d. social change
e. structural-functionalist model
25. It is the process where an anthropologist participates in the lives of locals and tries to live as one.
a. anthropology
b. invention
c. participant observation
d. social change
e. structural-functionalist model

Identify whether the following go against mores or folkways.

26. Basty purposely punched his Mathematics tutor after she explained to him that his answers to the exercise were all
incorrect.
a. mores
b. folkways
27. Regina does not go to mass every single day, even if she belongs to a devout Catholic family.
a. mores
b. folkways
28. Mariel habitually comes to the office late, turns in her assignments beyond the deadline, and avoids communication
with her workmates.
a. mores
b. folkways
29. Kristine got into a fight with a police officer because she refused to accept a ticket for over speeding.
a. mores
b. folkways
30. Mario committed burglary after he declared bankruptcy.
a. mores
b. folkways
31. Lower Paleolithic Period
a. Smaller and finer tools
b. Use of Mousterian tools
c. Domestication of plants
d. Sticks, sharp blades, and harpoons
e. Use of Oldowan tools
32. Middle Paleolithic Period
a. Smaller and finer tools
b. Use of Mousterian tools
c. Domestication of plants
d. Sticks, sharp blades, and harpoons
e. Use of Oldowan tools
33. Upper Paleolithic Period
a. Smaller and finer tools
b. Use of Mousterian tools
c. Domestication of plants
d. Sticks, sharp blades, and harpoons
e. Use of Oldowan tools
34. Mesolithic Period
a. Smaller and finer tools
b. Use of Mousterian tools
c. Domestication of plants
d. Sticks, sharp blades, and harpoons
e. Use of Oldowan tools
35. Neolithic Revolution
a. Smaller and finer tools
b. Use of Mousterian tools
c. Domestication of plants
 d. Sticks, sharp blades, and harpoons
e. Use of Oldowan tools
36. Robert Ardrey
a. Java Man
b. “Out of Africa”
c. Beginning of human biological evolution
d. paleoanthropology
e. South Asia
37. Africa
a. Java Man
b. “Out of Africa”
c. Beginning of human biological evolution
d. paleoanthropology
e. South Asia
38. Southeast Asia
a. Java Man
b. “Out of Africa”
c. Beginning of human biological evolution
d. paleoanthropology
e. South Asia
39. India d. paleoanthropology
a. Java Man
b. “Out of Africa”
c. Beginning of human biological evolution
d. paleoanthropology
e. South Asia
40. Hunting and Gathering
a. Java Man
b. “Out of Africa”
c. Beginning of human biological evolution
d. paleoanthropology
e. South Asia

41. The process of immersing oneself in a particular society and culture, even at birth.
a. disability
b. exceptionality
c. gender
d. minority group
e. socialization
42. It is a group of people who is singled out, distinguished, and treated as subordinates or inferior by the dominant or
majority group, because of its physical or cultural characteristics.
a. disability
b. exceptionality
c. gender
d. minority group
e. socialization
43. It is a condition wherein the loss of physical functioning (e.g., hearing, and vision), or impairments in intellectual,
social, and mental processes hinder normal growth and development of an individual.
a. disability
b. exceptionality
c. gender
d. minority group
e. socialization
44. It encompasses all the social, cultural, psychological characteristics that a culture assigns to males and females.
a. disability
b. exceptionality
c. gender
d. minority group
e. socialization
45. It describes how an individual’s specific abilities and functioning—physical, intellectual, or behavioral— are different
from the established normal or typical qualities.
a. disability
b. exceptionality
c. gender
d. minority group
e. socialization

IV. IDENTIFICATION: Read and analyze the following statements. Arrange the jumbled letter to create the answer of the
following statements. Type your answer in CAPITAL LETTER.
46. It is a socially constructed category attributed to people who share the same biological traits or attributes.
AECR
47. biological differences that distinguishes humans and other animals into two main categories: male and female.
ESX
48. It is a person’s belonging to a specific nation or nation-state.
AAIIOLNNTTY
49. It is a set of beliefs and ritual practices related to symbols, which are considered as sacred.
EIIOGLNR
50. It is a shared culture of these groups, which includes cultural heritage, language or dialect, religion, traditions and
rituals, norms, values, beliefs, and other practices.
EIICHNTTY
51. It is the process of developing physical and biological change in a species over a period of time.
EOOIULNTV
52. It a political system where members of the society are free to participate in the decision-making practices of the
state.
AEOCCDMRY
53. It is a process of increasing human control in breeding animals or plants to regulate certain traits that will make them
useful for other human needs.
AEIIOOCDMNSTT
54. This are objects made or modified by humans in the past.
AAICRFTTS
55. It is a place where all members of the group gather and share their resources.
ACMP
56. It is a culturally-defined standards that people see as good, acceptable, and desirable that serve as broad guidelines
of living.
AEULSV
57. It is the process where an individual or a group learns culture through experience or observation.
AIEOUULNNRTTC
58. It is a rules or expectations that guide the behaviors of members of the society.
OMNRS
59. It is a behavior expected of someone who holds a particular social status.
EOLR
60. It is a social position that a person holds.
AUSSTT