Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education
Cristo Rey High School
Capas, Tarlac

PRE-TEST
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

Name:_____________________________________________________________Score:___________________
Year and Track:__________________________________________________ Date:______________________

I. Directions: Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it in the space provided before the number.
______1. Refers to the social position that a person holds.
a. Role b. Status c. Degree d. Ascribed status
______2. A working father is expected to work on time but is late because one of his children is sick. A role for his father status
dictates that he care for his sick child while a role for his employee status demands that he arrive on time talks about.
a. Status strain b. Role Strain c. Impression Mngt d. none of the above
______3. Which among the following is NOT a characteristics of the early civilization?
a. Well-defined city centers b. Organized and decentralized government
c. Job Specialization d. Advance Technology
______4. Dr. Benin is a mother of two, a Pediatrician, a Professor and a loving wife to his husband. The underline words refers to.
a. multitasking b. Variety of rolesc. Status Set d. all of the above
______5. Myra is a newly hired manager in a five star hotel. On her first day, Myra sees to it that she dress appropriately and smiles
to everybody to give a good impression. This is an example of
a. role manipulation b. impression mgmt. c. identity formation d. none of the above
______6. Refers to norm s that are widely observed and have great moral significance.
a. folkways b. mores c. normative d. status
______7. Pamamanikan is a Filipino practice that is done to ask for parents blessings before the wedding. This is an example of.
a. religious identity b. ethnic identity c. cultural identity d. national identity
______8. Lea Salonga is famous Broadway Singer and an International Award Winning Actress. The underline words refers to her.
a. Achieved status b. Ascribed Status c. Status Set d. Role Set
______9. Jerrys family migrated to Canada. While arranging their things, they heard a conversation outside. One was asking
Cynthia may pasalubong ako sayo. Jerrys family were able to recognized that their neighbors are Filipino. This is an
example of.
a. National identity b. Cultural identity c. Ethnic identity d. Religious identity
______10. Individual who reject both the cultural goals and the accepted means of attaining goals.
a. Retreatists b. Innovator c. Ritualists d. Rebel
______11. An effort by many people to change to the government leader of a country by the use of protest or violence.
a. Innovation b. Retreatism c. Rebellion d. Conformity
______12. A committee organize d to plan a holiday party at work. Members of the committee meet infrequently and for only a
short period of time.
a. Primary group b. Secondary Group c. Reference group d. Tertiary group
______13. Long lasting intimate relationship which binds the members together more than the goal.
a. Primary group b. Secondary group c. Reference group d. Tertiary group
______14. Agot is a member of an ethnic tribe but she decided to marry outside of her own group. What kind of marriage is being
practice?
a. Endogamy b. Exogamy c. Polygamy d. Monogamy
______15. A woman has a multiple male partners and mates.
a. Polygyny b. Polyandry c. Polygamy d. Monogamy
______16. Both parents of the couple, Mikee Cojuangco and Dudut Jaworski came from the elites and political families. Therefore,
the form of marriage occurs is an example of.
a. Child Marriage b. Diplomatic Marriage c. Exchange Marriage d. Modern arranged marriage
______17. A type of family where the parents have a child or children from the previous marital relationship but all the members
stay and congregate to form a new family.
a. Extended family b. Nuclear family c. Blended family d. Family w/ single parent
______18. Marriage partners are not referred but they are arranged by the parents of the groom and bride.
a. Fixed marriages b. Exchange marriages c. Diplomatic marriages d. Modern marriages
______19. It outlines the entitlements of all individuals to human dignity and the rights we possess that are important elements in
pursuing the common good.
a. United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights b. Bill of rights
c. Human Rights d. Universal Declaration of rights
______20. It is the content of the theory of evolution by Charles Darwin.
a. Survival of the fittest b. Evolution of man c. Natural Selection d. a,b, and c
______21. As the venues for the appreciation of the complexities of biocultural and social evolution.
a. museum b. art gallery c. arcade d. art show
______22. Considered as the oldest population of Homo sapiens in Europe.
a. Cro-magnon b. Neanderthal c. Homo Erectus d. Homo Habilis
______23. A dutch anatomist and geologist who discovered a fossil became known as the Java Man.
a. Eugene Eugenio b. Eugene Dubois c. Eugene Dela Torre d. Eugene Torre
______24. Considered as one of the modern humans earliest ancestors and remains as the famous hominid fossil discovered in
Hadar, Ethiopia by Dr. Donald Johanson.
a. Lucy b. July c. Billy d. Cindy
______25. The tendency when people reject their own group or some part of their culture.
a. Ethnocentrism b. Xenocentrism c. Absolutism d. none of the above.
______26. Refers to the human, plant, and animal remains that have been preserved through time.
a. Artifacts b. Fossils c. Fragments d. Ornaments
______27. The oldest and most basic way of economic subsistence.
a. Hunting and horticultural b. Hunting and pastoral
c. Hunting and agricultural d. Hunting and gathering
______28. Ardiphithecus means.
a. ape of the ground b. southern ape c. root d. western ape
______29. An example of intangible cultural heritage is
a. Folklore b. Films c. Archives d. instruments
______30. It is the belief that ones own culture is better than the other.
a. Relativism b. Mutualism c. Universalism d. Ethnocentrism
______31. It is the principle that an individual persons beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that
individuals own culture.
a. cultural universalism b. cultural relativism c. cultural absolutism d. cultural ethnocentrism
e. cultural minimalism
______32. It is the major turning point in human history when humans began to cultivate crops and domesticate certain animals.
a. Paleolithic period b. Neolithic period c. Pre-Neolithic d. Post-Paleolithic
e. Middle-Neolithic
______33. According to ____________, social differentiation is a normal feature of every know culture in the world.
a. sociology b. political science c. anthropology d. philosophy
______34. A set of imaginary coordinates that determine social actors opportunities and life chances in the social world.
a. social location b. social address c. social position d. social map
______35. A system of giving rewards for important tasks performed.
a. privilege system b. merit system c. skill-based system d. credit system
______36. It is considered the essence of society and is the enduring subject of social science explorations.
a. power relation b. the social c. the politics d. artifact
______37. A form of personal engagement in the issues of society. Its primarily aim is to affect change on situations and social
conditions considered to be unjust and unfair.
a. boycott b. violent activism c. rebellion d. social activism
______38. This social science discipline takes account of the equal but different ways of how people live in the world.
a. sociology b. anthropology c. political science d. psychology
______39. A social science that problematizes the unjust results of the exercise of power.
a. sociology b. anthropology c. political science d. psychology
______40. Served as the historical and cultural context of the birth of sociology.
a. renaissance b. reformation c. industrial revolution d. inquisition period
______41. A social science discipline pejoratively labelled as a child of colonization.
a. sociology b. anthropology c. political science d. psychology
______42.Conceived by Emil Durkheim as the counterpart notion of social phenomenon in terms of its external effects on individual
actions.
a. social fact b. deviance c. inequity d. manifest function
______43. Coined the term Sociology and credited to be the father of the said discipline.
a. Karl Marx b. Emile Durkheim c. Max Weber d. August Comte
______44. The systematic study of government and politics.
a. Sociology b. culture c. political science d. anthropology
______45. Sociologist who demonstrated the role of conflict in the evolution of the society.
a. August Comte b. Emile Durkheim c. Max Weber d. Karl Marx
______46. Which of the following is NOT a characteristics of culture.
a. Culture is shared b. Culture varies from society to society
c. Culture is learned d. Culture provides behavior patterns
______47. School of thought that looks at social order. It argues that society is made possible by cooperation and interdependence.
a. Symbolic Interaction b. Conflict theory c. Social Order theory d. Structural Functionalism
______48. Term used to indicate the changes that take place in human interactions and interrelations.
a. Social change b. Social gap c. Social Web d. Social awareness
______49. A counterpart concept of socialization which refers to the gradual acquisition of the characteristics and norms of a culture
or group by a person.
a. Explicit culture b. Social gap c. enculturation d. Third culture shock
______50. The origin of Tarlac as the melting pot of Luzon can be best explain through
a. Cultural perspective b. Psychological Perspective
c. Sociological perspective d. Anthropological perspective