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Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS-0000)

Anthropology is divided into two ________ anthropology and ________

anthropology

a.
Social and Emotional

b.
Cultural and Economical

c.
Physical and Cultural

d.
Environmental and Cultural

Clear my choice
Plato’s work _________ that deals with the proper management of the state,
which included proper allocation of resources.

a.
The Wealth of Nations

b.
The Republic

c.
Politics

d.
Oeconomicus
The Father of modern economics is _________, the author of An Inquiry into the
Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations and the titular founder of the
economic system of Capitalism.

a.
Herodotus

b.

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Adam Smith

c.
Plato

d.
Aristotle
Other notable works of political science include ___________ by Thomas Hobbes.

a.
The Republic

b.
The Prince

c.
The Social Contract

d.
Leviathan
It is the study of the earth’s surface; a specialized investigation of the physical
structure of the earth, including its terrain and its climates, and the nature and
character of its contrasting inhabited portions.

a.
Geography

b.
Economics

c.
History

d.
Demography
Oikonomika itself comes from the Greek word (oikos meaning ________).

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a.
School

b.
Money

c.
“house” or “home”

d.
Government
Who was the first to call Herodotus of Halicarnassus the Father of History?

a.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus

b.
Cicero

c.
Franz Boas

d.
Eratosthenes
___________ is considered the father of modern anthropology.

a.
Adam Smith

b.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus

c.
Émile Durkheim

d.
Franz Boas

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 Clear my choice

Other notable work of political science include _____________ by Niccolo

Machiavelli.

a.
The Prince

b.
The Social Contract

c.
Leviathan

d.
The Republic
The most concrete origin can be found in Ancient China with the writings of Fan
Li (also known as Tao Zhu Gong) who wrote a “golden body of _____” for
businessmen. (Wang, 2012)

a.
Household Management

b.
Economy

c.
Politics

d.
Laws

Clear my choice
It is a study of the past, one that describes/narrates and analyzes human
activities in the past and the changes that these had undergone.

a.
Demography

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b.
History

c.
Economics

d.
Geography
It is the systematic study of politics. This means that this social science concerns
itself with how society is governed, ruled, and managed by a prevalent body of
different forms.

a.
Linguistics

b.
Psychology

c.
Political Science

d.
Demography
Wilkins mentions that “____________ wear a variety of hats which carry such
different labels as sociologist, economist, psychologist, anthropologist, or
political scientist.”

a.
Environmental scientists

b.
Anatomists

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c.
Industrial/applied scientists

d.
Social scientists
_____________ is considered the father of geography. He is known as the first
person to actually use the term.

a.
Eratosthenes

b.
Adam Smith

c.
John Graunt

d.
Noam Chomsky
“The discipline does attempt to study ___________ a sequence of related events –
or a number of such sequences – for the purpose of learning about, verifying,
and establishing meaningful relationships among them.”

a.
sequentially

b.
systematically

c.
chronologically

d.
randomly

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 Clear my choice

Social Science is naturally divided into separate “disciplines,” all of which share
an interest in _____________(Harrison & Dye, 2008).

a.
Human Rights

b.
Human Behavior

c.
Human Evolution

d.
Human Resources
Considered the father of modern linguistics.

a.
Noam Chomsky

b.
Wilhelm Wundt

c.
Auguste Comte

d.
John Graunt
Ta Oikonomika meaning “science of the _________”

a.
Household

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b.
Government

c.
Money

d.
Politics

Clear my choice
Geography comes from the Greek word geōgraphia meaning ___________.

a.
earth writing

b.
finding out

c.
earth map

d.
writing of the people

Clear my choice
__________ is the study of the earth’s surface; a specialized investigation of the
physical structure of the earth, including its terrain and its climates, and the
nature and character of its contrasting inhabited portions.

a.
Demography

b.
Political Science

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c.
Geography

d.
History
It comes from the Latin word lingua which means “language.”

a.
Demography

b.
Linguistics

c.
Psychology

d.
Political Science
History can be derived from two Greek terms: histōr meaning “__________,” and
histōria meaning “finding out.”

a.
affairs of the cities

b.
human being or human kind

c.
learned or wise man

d.
science of the household
______________ is considered to be the father of modern psychology.

a.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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b.
Saint-Simon

c.
August Comte

d.
Wilhelm Wundt
__________ is the lack of proper resources for the needs of a person or a group of
people.

a.
Surplus

b.
Commonness

c.
Scarcity

d.
Adequacy

Clear my choice

For John and Erna Perry, an important part of political science is international
relations, which tries to uncover patterns of behavior among the nations of the
world. (Perry & Perry,

Select one:
True

False
____________ is the systematic study of society itself. If psychology is more
inclined to studying human behavior within a society, sociology relies more on a
systematic study of all social factors.

a.
Anthropology

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b.
Psychology

c.
Sociology

d.
Demography
The chief concern of political science is the study of _______.

a.
Government

b.
Wealth

c.
Power

d.
Function
It is the study of populations, including increases and decreases in size,
composition, age grouping, and future trends.

a.
Sociology

b.
Psychology

c.
Demography

d.
Anthropology

Clear my choice

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Which has traditionally dealt with the study and comparative analysis of
preliterate societies.

a.
Social Anthropology

b.
Physical Anthropology

c.
Environmental Anthropology

d.
Cultural Anthropology
In the West, the Greek writer Xenophon wrote __________, a dialogue on
household management and agriculture.

a.
Freakonomics

b.
Oeconomicus

c.
The Wealth of Nations

d.
The Republic

Clear my choice
Psychology comes from two Greek words:psyche meaning __________ and (logos
meaning “study”).

a.
body and mind

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b.
None of the above

c.
mind or spirit

d.
body and spirit

Clear my choice
Anthropology, considered as the science of humanity, originated in the region
we commonly refer to as ‘the West’, notably in four ‘Western’ countries:

a.
France, New Zealand, USA and Britain

b.
Germany, Britain, China and France

c.
Australia, Britain, New Zealand and USA

d.
France, Britain, the USA and Germany
____________ is the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. This
commonly known social science deals specifically with human behavior, one of
the key definitions and concerns of social science.

a.
Sociology

b.
Psychology

c.
Anthropology

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d.
Demography
It is the study of humans; the social science that seeks to understand human
origins and adaptation, and the diversity of cultures and worldviews.

a.
Sociology

b.
Demography

c.
Psychology

d.
Anthropology
Other notable work of political science include ___________ by Jean-Jacques
Rousseau.

a.
The Social Contract

b.
Leviathan

c.
The Prince

d.
The Republic

Clear my choice
The anthropologist is more likely to concentrate on the study of a single culture
which he observes subjectively – he may even live as a member of the
community and become an active participant in what he is studying.
Select one:
True

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 False
__________________ is considered to be the “father of history.”

a.
Franz Boas

b.
Herodotus of Halicarnassus

c.
Cicero

d.
Eratosthenes

Clear my choice

Anthropology comes from two ancient Greek words: Anthropos meaning

_____________ and logos meaning “study”

a.
“human being” or “human kind”

b.
“human behavior” or “human kind”

c.
“human evolution” or “human kin

d.
None of the above
The earliest traces of the study of language begins with ancient Greece, with the
study of __________ regarding language as the path to reality (Law, 2003)

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a.
Aristotle

b.
Eratosthenes

c.
Plato

d.
Herodotus

Clear my choice
The earliest traces of political science as a critical study can be found in the
writings of some very important Greeks. One very good example is The
Republic, a short treatise on how a good state should be governed, which was
written by the Greek philosopher _______.

a.
Aristotle

b.
Eratosthenes

c.
Plato

d.
Herodotus
The _______ were known for its establishment of the city-states, and our
knowledge of their culture and way of life is due to the fact that anthropologists
have studied them extensively.

a.
Romans

b.
Greeks

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c.
Latins

d.
Persian
It is the scientific study of human language. It studies the nature of
communication, and how the use of language can be studied scientifically and
with a fixed method.

a.
Psychology

b.
Political Science

c.
Demography

d.
Linguistics
The best-known Babylonian world map, however, is the _________ of 600 BC. It is
one of the most notable proponents of the study of geography and is still
recognized today as an intellectual treasure.

a.
Mercator Projection

b.
Navigation Chart

c.
Topographic Map

d.
Imago Mundi
Social Science is only composed of one science or one subject.

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Select one:
True

False
___________ limit their study to that of how individuals and societies make use of
the productive resources available to them and of how goods and services are
shared. (Wilkins, 1979).

a.
Anthropologists

b.
Economists

c.
Sociologists

d.
Psychologists

Clear my choice

___________ limit their study to that of how individuals and societies make use of
the productive resources available to them and of how goods and services are
shared. (Wilkins, 1979).

a.
Anthropologists

b.
Economists

c.
Sociologists

d.
Psychologists

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_____________ wrote the famous work The Histories.

a.
Herodotus

b.
Franz Boas

c.
Cicero

d.
Eratosthenes

Clear my choice

____________ is a social science that deals with the optimum allocation of scarce
resources among its alternatives to satisfy the unlimited human wants and
needs of the people.

a.
Economics

b.
Demography

c.
Political Science

d.
Sociology
Which concerned principally with human biological origins and the variations in
the human species.

a.
Social Anthropology

b.
Cultural Anthropology

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c.
Environmental Anthropology

d.
Physical Anthropology
The root word of politika is (polis meaning _____).

a.
City

b.
Study

c.
Affairs

d.
Space
It is a mixture of two Greek words gē meaning “_______” and graphia meaning
“writing.”

a.
Companion

b.
Earth

c.
Spirit

d.
Population

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