Republic of the Philippines

MARINDUQUE STATE COLLEGE

SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES
Tanza Boac, Marinduque

BACHELOR OF ARTS IN COMMUNICATION

Re - Accredited Level II – AACCUP, Inc.

MID-TERM EXAM
READINGS IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY
1st Semester 2019-2020
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Part I. MULTIPLE CHOICE: (45pts)

Direction: Read the questions very carefully. Choose the letter of the appropriate answer for each item. Write your
chosen letter on the space provided before the number. Erasure or any kind of change of answer will not be credited. (1
point each)
1. This word is Greek origin, meaning learning by inquiry. What is this term?
a) Istoria
b) History
c) Historia
d) Memoria
2. What is the process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past?
a) Historiography
b) Factual history
c) Historical method
d) Speculative history
3. What is the systematic rebuilding of the past for meaningful accounts of phenomena?
a) Historiography
b) Factual history
c) History
d) Speculative history
4. It is defined as the attempt to discover, on the basis of fragmentary evidence, the significant things about the
past.
a) History
b) Historians
c) Perspective
d) Historical Sources
5. This is the most important research tools of the historians.
a) Secondary Sources
b) Tertiary Sources
c) Historical Sources
d) Primary Sources
6. Who is this well – skilled person behind the writing of history?
a) Chronicler
b) Historiographer
c) Historian
d) Paleontologist
7. What is the difference between history and historiography?
a) History is the study of the past while historiography is the scrutinizing of content of the written history.
b) History is the study of the past in oral tradition while historiography is the inquiry about the content of
written history.
c) History is the systematic study of the past while historiography is the practice of historical writing.
d) History is the write ups of oral accounts of the past while historiography is the art of passing history from
one generation to another.
8. Which is the “motto” of a traditional historian?
a) “No document, no history.”
b) “Oral tradition is the sister of written history.”
c) “History is man’s history.”
d) “History is one – third fact and two – thirds fabrication.”
9. Which is NOT the characteristic of history?
a) Deals with past events.
b) Considers chronological arrangement of events
 c) Focus on the primitive people’s way of lives
d) Highlights the achievement of prominent people
10. Which historical materials are made by people long after the events being described had taken place?
a) Diplomatic source
b) Secondary source
c) Primary source
d) Scientific source
11. How will you categorize diaries, journals, letters, newspapers, magazine articles, sculptures, paintings and
drawings in reference of historical sources?
a) Diplomatic source
b) Secondary source
c) Primary source
d) Scientific source
12. Lito discovered monograph about Battle of Paye dated 1915 in their ancestral house at Barangay Balimbing.
What type of historical material is it?
a) Diplomatic source
b) Secondary source
c) Primary source
d) Scientific source
13. A historian named Ambeth decided to make an article out of the Rizalian information he found in the National
Archive by quoting from the original material and explaining them. What historical material will be the result
of his work?
a) Primary source
b) Quasi-judicial source
c) Secondary source
d) Tertiary source
14. What must be considered while doing internal criticism?
a) Investigate the material based on the time and place it is written.
b) Determine if the material is unaltered.
c) Cross – checked the material with the other evidences having the same subject.
d) Establish firmly the facts and information
15. If a historian wishes to study the Commonwealth Constitution Convention of 1935, which will NOT he/she
CONSIDERS as primary reference?
a) Minutes of the convention
b) Draft of the Constitution
c) Photographs of the event
d) Policy and Politics Book
16. Glenda and Mara wanted to write a narrative for their History class. They agreed that they will write about the
People Power Revolution. Which type of primary source is the best to use?
a) Ego document
b) Newspaper article
c) Hagiography
d) Panegyric
17. Which is the MOST CONCISE definition of primary historical source below?
a) It is original, firsthand account of event or period that are usually written or made during or close to the
event or period.
b) It is an authentic and credible work from the past that was constantly used from one generation to
another.
c) It is the most believable document that ever seen by humankind and was recognized by many people of
the same ethnic all over the world.
d) It is the fundamental source of cultural practices that were preserved rigorously by the previous
generation and was handed down to the recent generation.
18. It is a practice of verifying the authenticity of evidence by examining its physical characteristics; consistency
with the historical characteristic of the time it was produced; and the materials used for the evidence.
a) Internal Criticism
b) Primary Sources
c) External Criticism
d) Secondary Sources
19. Which of these countries colonized the Philippines?
I. England III. Netherlands V. America
 II. Spain IV. Portugal VI. Japan

a) I, II, III
b) II, V, VI
c) III, IV, V
d) IV, I, VI
20. Which of the following does not represent the eight rays of the sun?
a) Batangas
b) Laguna
c) Nueva Vizcaya
d) Manila
21. The following are the reasons for the creation of the Katipunan except for one.
a) racial discrimination
b) inequality
c) abuses of the friars
d) ignorance of the law
22. Rosa is looking for some of the records about the old curriculum in the Philippines.
This information will be available in?
a) National Museum
b) National Archive
c) National Library
d) National Historical Commission
23.Antonio Pigaffeta kept on mentioning gold on his travelogue, what is the reason for this matter?
a) He likes gold
b) He’s family is broke back in Italy
c) Their government needs gold
d) He lives in the time of mercantilism
24.When Magelan died on his fight with Cilapulapu’s men, they elected a new captain. Who was the new captain?
a) Antonio Pigaffeta
b) Duarte Barbosa
c) Johan Serrano
d) Johan Carvaio
25. Why the natives kept Magelan’s body?
a) They keep it as a tribute to the king
b) They keep it to be offered to their gods
c) They keep it to humiliate the Spaniards
d) They keep it as a sign of their victory
26.Who wrote the Declaration of the Philippine Independence?
a) Emilio Aguinaldo
b) Andres Bonifacio
c) Emilio Jacinto
d) Ambrosio Rianzares Bautista
27.The following sewn the Philippine Flag except;
a) Doña Marcela Marino de Agoncillo
b) Gregoria de Jesus
c) Lorenza Agoncillo
d) Delfina Herbosa de Natividad
28.The following are repositories of the primary sources except;
a) National Library
b) National Bookstore
c) Ruins
d) Museum
29. Nina is a researcher about the life of Emilio Aguinaldo, which is the best place for her to go on her research?
a) Archives
b) National library
c) Dambanang Aguinaldo
d) A book about Aguinaldo’s life
30.Antonio Pigaffeta kept on mentioning gold on his travelogue, what is the reason for this matter?

a) He likes gold
b) He’s family is broke back in Italy
c) Their government needs gold
 d) He lives in the time of mercantilism
31.What do you think is the biased on the accounts of Pigaffeta?
a) As a civilian, he just kept looking in the lives of the people
b) He always looks at gold
c) He is a man therefore he did not mention a lot about women.
d) He based his comments on the life of the Filipinos on European setting
32.Who read the Proclamation of the Philippine Independence?
a) Emilio Aguinaldo
b) Andress Bonifacio
c) Emilio Jacinto
d) Ambrosio Reanzares Bautista
33.Who hoist the flag during the Proclamation of the Philippine Independence?
a) Emilio Aguinaldo
b) Andress Bonifacio
c) Emilio Jacinto
d) Ambrosio Reanzares Bautista
34.He originally made the Kartilya ng Katipunan but realize that there is a better one, so they adopted the new one.
a) Emilio Aguinaldo
b) Andres Bonifacio
c) Emilio Jacinto
d) Ambrosio Reanzares Bautista
35.KKK is said to be the best revolt group in the Philippines, why is this so?
a) Because it is inspired by Rizal
b) It was the longest and greatest revolt
c) it aims not only to liberate but to unify the Philippines
d) it was aims to replace the government that time
36.Which of the following items are not valuable for the native Filipinos?
a) Rice
b) Coconut
c) Robes
d) Gold
37.When is the first time the Philippine flag was flown?
a) May 28, 1898
b) June 12, 1898
c) February 12, 1899
d) June 12, 1889
38.What was the possible reason why early Filipinos are wearing clothes that are different from the Europeans and
other countries?
a) Filipinos are uncivilized
b) Filipino’s fashion is not conservative
c) The weather is hot compared to them
d) For mobilization
39.Which of the following does not prove that Early Filipinos are civilized already before the Europeans came?
a) There are rituals in the Philippines
b) There is a system of government
c) There is a social hierarchy
d) The nature is unharmed and there are no establishments.
40.What do you call the process of critically examining and analyzing the records and survivals of the past?
a) Historiography
b) Historical method
c) Internal criticisms
d) External criticism
41.When did former President Cory Aquino deliver her speech in US?
a) September 18, 1986
b) September 18, 1987
c) September 19, 1986
d) September 19, 1987
42.Shiela is a history student and wants to analyze the maps in the Philippines during the Spanish period, which is
the best thing do?
 a) Look for in the Atlas
b) Look in the Archives
c) Go to Spain
d) Buy maps in the national bookstore
43.Former Pres. Cory Aquino mentioned that she felt the loss of his husband for three times. Among the options
are the instances, except_____________.
a) Ninoy’s detainment
b) Ninoy’s trial and fasting
c) Ninoy’s exile in US
d) Assassination of Ninoy
44.These are materials produced by people or groups directly involved in the event or topic being studied.
a) Primary sources
b) Secondary sources
c) Artifacts
d) Oral history
45. Europeans have advance technology that can be used to the war of Magellan and Cilapulapu, why did they
lose the battle?
a) Europeans are outnumbered
b) Cilapulapu have a good military logistics
c) There was a conspiracy on the people of Cilapulapu and Raja Humabon
d) Europeans didn’t have plan on the attack

Part II. ANALYSIS (15pts)

Direction: Select one word that does not belong to the cluster of words in each item. Encircle the word you chose.
Then, justify rationally in one sentence why did you choose the word. Please write legibly and avoid erasures. (3 points
each)
A. memos, letters, journals, legal document, biography

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B. ballad, folk song, interview, popular rituals

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C. signature, language, seal, stamp, handwriting,

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D. sketches, painting, photographs, pottery

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A. semantics, orthography, idiom, corroboration, hermeneutics

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Part III. Filling up of Matrix (20pts)

Directions: Below is a table that has four “controversial facts” because of the different sources from the past. Fill – up
the table as required. Write legibly. (5 points each)
Believable
Facts Prove/Justify (Synthesize your Ideas)
or Not
1. First Mass was
happened in
Limasawa,
Southern Leyte

2. Butuan was visited

by Magellan when
they accidentally
 re-discovered the
Philippines.

3. Cavite Mutiny is
mutiny by Filipino
soldiers and
laborers of Cavite
arsenal.

4. Proclamation of the
Philippine
Independence
clarifies some
“fallacious”
historical events
people are aware of
today.

Part IV. ESSAY (20pts)

Directions: Read carefully and analyze the excerpts/situation listed below. Answer the questions being asked for each
excerpt/situation by using maximum of five sentences. Be concise on your answers. You can use extra sheet in
answering the questions.

1. Lara loved to travel around the country. She liked bringing with her a travel brochure that informs her of
the different sites worth visiting in the area. Her travel brochure was usually produced by the tourism
department of the province. It shows pictures of destinations visited by tourist and few basic information
about the place like the origin of the name, the historical significance of the place, and some other
information acquired by the office’s researchers and writers.

Is a travel brochure a primary, secondary, or tertiary source? Explain your answer.

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“Thou must not look upon woman as a mere plaything but is a faithful companion who will share with thee
the penalties of life, her (physical) weakness will increase thy interest in her and she will remind thee of the
mother who bore thee and reared thee. (Ang babae ay huwag mong tingnang isang bagay na libangan
lamang, kundi isang katuwang at karamay sa mga kahirapan nitong buhay; gamitin mo nang buong
pagpipitagan ang kanyang kahinaan, at alalahanin ang inang pinagbuharan at nag-iwi sa iyong
kasanggulan.)
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2. What are the prevailing norms during the time of Jacinto which were manifested on this teaching above?
Prepared by:

JENNY ROSE J. BAUTISTA, LPT

Instructor I

Checked by/Recommending Approval: Approved:

CHERIE ANN M. LUNA HOMER L. MONTEJO, Ed.D.

Program Chair, AB English Dean