BUKIDNON STATE UNIVERSITY

Fortich St., Malaybalay City 8700

COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES-SOCIAL SCIENCE DEPARTMENT

Follow the instructions provided in the test paper. Write your answers in a separate piece of paper.
You are only given 1 hour to finish the midterm examination so make sure you finish on time. No
talking with your classmates during the exam, just ask the instructor if there are things you like to
clarify. No cheating or else the instructor will be forced to implement a disciplinary action.
I. FILL IN THE BLANKS: Write the answer in the blanks given (20 points).
1. ______________________ This is the distinguishing characteristic of Man and the individual
quality of a person that sets him or her apart from others.
2. ______________________ This is the major factor in the formation of individual and group
character and refers to the common way of living, thinking and acting among a group,
community or nation.
3. ______________________ This is the condition in the culture of a people wherein they can be
observed to have imbalanced development resulting in one aspect getting too far ahead of
other aspects.
4. ______________________ This refers to the culture change in people who have been
exposed to dominant culture.
5. ______________________ The prohibition of sexual contact or marriage between parents and
offspring, between siblings, between cousins, and between uncles and nieces or aunts and
nephews.
6. ______________________ The scheme used by primitive societies in trading one product for
another in the absence of a medium of exchange.
7.

_____________________ The norm on marriage of one woman to one man.

8. ______________________ The study of Man from the past to the present, primitive or
civilized, ancient or modern which focuses on culture as a basis for studying and
understanding different groups of people in the world.
9. ______________________The study in Anthropology which deals with the cultural
development of a people.
10. ______________________ This study in Anthropology which deals with human physical
characteristics and human physical development.
II. SYNTHESIS: This test will measure your knowledge and skills in formulating principles from a
given set of facts by applying what you have learned in your study in this subject.
DIRECTIONS: Write the letter of the correct answer on the space provided. (20 points)

________1. Points of comparison within the culture in determining whether certains acts are good
or bad which is also known as human values.
________2. Family which normally includes the parents and the children only.
________3. The process of transfer of cultural elements from one group of people to another.
________4. Individual or group that cannot conform to the standards who are set apart from
others by their strange or uncommon behavior.
________5. Refers to the movement of the use of invention or innovation as part of the culture of
the people.
________6. These are personality factors which exert influence on the person's behavior such as
the environment and training.
________7. The outcome of cultural change and adaptation which brings about the formation of a
consistent whole.
________8. The reality of existing cultures that differ greatly from one another so that the
contrasting characteristic can be viewed in their way of life.
________9. Family structure which includes as members the grandparents, cousins, uncles, aunts
and other kins.
________10. These are personality factors that convey the biological characteristics already
determined for the individual in terms of what his parents pass on to him or her in pro-creation.

A. Genetic factors of personality

B. Non-genetic factors of personality
C. Cultural transmission
D. Cultural diversity
E. Deviants

F. Cultural integration
G. Cultural diffusion
H. Normative postulates
I. Nuclear family
J. Extended family

III. MATCHING TYPE (20 POINTS) Match Column A with Column B. Write the letters of your
choice on the left blank column.
Column A
1. Res nullius
_____
2. Public domain
_____
3. Inheritance

_____

_____
_____

4. Primogenature
5. Ultinogenature

Column B
A. The phenomenon of being disoriented and disturbed when
after living in one culture the individual is transplanted to
another as immigrant or as an expatriate worker.
B. The transfer of property from the dead to the living or from
the parents to children in anticipation of the death of the
parents.
C. The condition of people with different cultural background
living together in a common political system and economic
area, where they interact to constitute a kind of unity in
diversity.
D. The embellishment of ordinary objects or their representation
of emotion, ideas and life by work of hand.
E. Properties that exist but is not owned by anyone and

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6. Art
7. Ancestry

F.
G.

8. Material culture

H.

9. Culture shock

I.

10. Cultural
pluralism

J.

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_____

_____
_____

therefore belongs to everyone in society.

Properties that are not owned by anyone.
This refers to what people have made for themselves from
their environment to provide for comfort, safety,
entertainment, nourishment and social organization.
Succession to family property by which the inheritance is
given to the eldest son who is given the duty to support the
younger siblings.
Succession to family property by which major portion of the
parent's assets is given to the young child when they die to
ensure the survival of the youngest.
This is the basis of lineage from whom one is descended on
the mother's or father's side.
NOTHING FOLLOWS.

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