Republic of the Philippines
Department of Education
REGION V
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF CAMARINES SUR
PILI NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
PAWILI, PILI, CAMARINES SUR
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS (Senior HS)
NAME:__________________________________________________ GRADE & SECTION: ______________
Please take a chance to read the instructions and answer the test items religiously. By doing so, you will help yourself,
your parents and your future. However, it does not mean that you will cheat in order to pass.
Multiple Choice
Directions: Read and analyze each item carefully. Write the letter of the correct answer right before the number.
______1. It is the systematic study of politics which Andrew Heywood describes as the activity through which people,
make, preserve and amend the general rules under which they live.
a. Public Administration b. Sociology
c. Political Science
d. Politics
______2. Which of the following best describe how anthropologists primarily learn new information about humans?
a. field work
b. laboratory experiments
c. reading travelers accounts
d. none of the above
3. It is the ability or right to control people or things.
a. Regime
b. Authority
c. Power
d. Politics
______3. Fields of Anthropology that are interested in learning about the cultural aspects of human societies all over the
world.
a. Cultural Anthropology
b. Linguistic Anthropology
c. Biological Anthropology
d. Archeology
______4. _______are interested in recovering the prehistory and early history of societies and their cultures.
a. Cultural Anthropology
b. Linguistic Anthropology
c. Biological Anthropology
d. Archeologist
______5. Fields of anthropology that studies of the non-cultural aspects of humans and near-humans.
a. Cultural Anthropology
b. Linguistic Anthropology
c. Biological Anthropology
d. Archeologist
______6. It is the changes in the culture of society.
a. Traditional Change
b. Customs Change c. Charter Change
d. Cultural Change
______7. It is a new perception of an aspect of reality that already exists.
a. Discovery
b. Inventions
c. Diffusions
d. Acculturations
______8. It is derived from the Latin word "colere," which means to tend to the earth and grow, or cultivation and
nurture.
a. Beliefs
b. Culture
c. Traditions
d. Customs
______9. It is the spreading of cultural traits from group to another group.
a. Discovery
b. Inventions
c. Diffusions
d. Assimilations
______10. It is the combination or new use of existing knowledge to produce something that did not exist before.
a. Assimilations
b. Inventions
c. Diffusions
d. Acculturations
______11. It is the process of combination of two cultures in to one culture with comprising cultural traits.
a. Assimilations
b. Diffusions
c. Inventions
d. Discovery
______12. According to sociologists, culture consists of;
a. values, beliefs, systems of language, communication b. values, customs, traditions, religion
c. values, education, beliefs, norms
d. None of the above
______13. Why is Culture Important to Society?
a. Culture is constructed by society. A person cannot understand one without the other because one shapes the
other, the way people interact with one another and perceive their environment is all part of culture.
b. Culture reflects the inner workings of an individual society.
c. Society could not function without cultural norms that assist in governing behaviour and values, and culture
could not exist without societal influences to create it.
d. All of the above
______14. Cultural relativism doesn’t mean that ___________ can’t be compared .
a. feelings b. language
c. cultures
d. symbols
______15. Cultural relativism, the opposite of the idea that moral truth is ____________ and objective, contends there is
no such thing as absolute right and wrong.
a. general
b. valid
c. assuming d. universal
______16. Who stated that, “The notion of the mask over the face of nature is…. what I have called “relativism”.
a. Plato
b. Karl Marx
c. Aristotle
d. John Grote
______17. In the Philippines, premarital sex is morally ____________.
a. acceptable
b. unacceptable c. ignored
d. defined
______18. ____________________ warns us, quite rightly, about the danger of assuming that all of our practices are
based on some absolute rational standard.
a. Cultural relativism b. Ethnocentrism c. Culture lag d. Xenocentrism
______19. Karen used to tease her newly transferred Mangyan classmates because of his kinky hair and tanned skin.
What king of cultural view karen has?
a. Cultural relativism b. enthnocentrism
c. culture
d. society
______20. It is the communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary symbols.
a. tools
b. language
c. culture
d. symbols
______21. ___2. An object, word, or action that stand for something else with no natural relationship that is culturally
defined.
a. culture
b. practices
c. symbols
d. belief
______22. Sociology concentrates on society while anthropology focuses on____.
a. Culture b. Genetic make-up c. Politics
d. Social structures
______23. The following are aspects of culture except_____.
a. Shared and contested
b. Patterned social interactions
c. Dynamic, flexible and adaptive
d. It does not require languages and other forms of communication.
______24. Mommy and Daddy taught their one -year old son Sky how to play ABC song with the use of their mobile
phone. Now, Sky can able to open the phone and sing the ABC song. What characteristic of culture is shown in the
situation?
a. culture is learned b. culture is integrated
c. culture is shared
d. culture is symbolic
______25. “Sabong” is a vice which lolo Tomas has been indulged with until this year. This kind of gambling was
brought in the Philippines during Spanish colonization. This only proves that culture is?
a. learned
b. integrated
c. shared d. symbolic
II. IDENTIFICATION: Identify the terms being referred to in the following statements. Write your answer in the space
provided.
______________________1. Governmental system where the existing institutions are maintained, emphasizing freeenterprise and minimal governmental intervention.
______________________2. Extreme left wing ideology based on the revolutionary socialist teachings of Marx. Collective
ownership and a planned economy.
______________________3. Supreme political power is in the hands of one person whose decisions are unregulated.
______________________4. The privilege of social class whose members possess a disproportionately large percentage
of society's wealth, prestige and political influence
______________________5. Society without government, laws, police or other authority. A system of self-control.
______________________6. is a set of ideas, beliefs, values, and opinions, exhibiting a recurring pattern, that competes
deliberately as well as unintentionally over providing plans of action for public policy making in an attempt to justify,
explain, contest, or change the social and political arrangements and processes of a political community.
_______________________7. deals extensively with the analysis of political systems, the theoretical and practical
applications to politics, and the examination of political behavior.
_______________________8. Studies the ways groups of people interact with each other and how their behaviour is
influenced by social structure, categories.
_______________________9.It is shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs and understanding
that are learned by socialization.
_______________________10. Appreciation of the relationship between culture and topographic area
III. PARAGRAPH WRITING
1. What role does cultural relativism play in our daily lives? (4 points)
2. If given a chance to be born again biologically (after death), What type of society would you like to live again?
Why? (6 points)
3. What do you think is the significance of cultural, social, political and economic symbols and practices in our time?
(5 points)
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Prepared by:
DAISY P. DE JESUS
Teacher I
Checked and reviewed by:
SHERLINA H. DELA TORRE
Asst. School Principal II
Approved:
ERMA D. ESCURO, PhD
Secondary Principal IV