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2. Who is the highest American military official that was killed in action during the Filipino-American war?
a. Governor-General William Howard Taft
b. Commodore George Dewey
c. Brigadier General Francis V. Greene
d. General Henry W. Lawton
6. Who proposed the idea of the Philippine Autonomy Act which stated the intention of the United States
government to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippines as soon as a stable government can be established
therein?
a. William Atkinson Jones
b. Luke E. Wright
c. William Howard Taft
d. Henry A. Cooper
7. Who was the fourteen-year old Batangueña Jose Rizal met at the Ateneo and fell in love with?
a. Leonor Valenzuela
b. Leonor River
c. Consuelo Ortiga y Rey
d. Segunda Katigbak
8. Who was the Filipino president appointed by the Japanese during their occupation?
a. Manuel L. Quezon
b. Jose P. Laurel Sr.
c. Sergio Osmeña Sr.
d. Elpidio Quirino
Answer: d. Intramuros
10. What is considered the earliest form of writing in the Philippines?
a. Alibata
b. Baybayin
c. Asoka alphabet
d. Tagbanwa alphabet
Answer: b. Baybayin
Answer: a. Cabildo
13. What did ancient Filipinos call the supreme being in which they believed?
a. Bathala
b. Allah
c. Diwata
d. Anito
Answer: a. Bathala
Answer: b. Visayans
16. He arrived in Cebu in 1565 to establish the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines, marking the beginning of
Spain’s colonization and Christianization of the archipelago. Who was he?
a. Christopher Columbus
b. Ferdinand Magellan
c. Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
d. Antonio Pigafetta
18. Who of the following senators did NOT become Vice President of the Republic of the Philippines?
a. Carlos P. Garcia
b. Renato Cayetano
c. Joseph Estrada
d. Emmanuel Pelaez
20. How long was the approximate distance of the Bataaan Death March?
a. 45 miles
b. 60 miles
c. 90 miles
d. 110 miles
Answer: b. 60 miles
23. What kind of a settlement did Manila grow from in the 16th century?
a. Muslim
b. Spanish
c. Visayan
d. English
Answer: a. Muslim
24. Diariong Tagalog was founded by _______.
a. Marcelo del Pilar
b. Juan Luna
c. Pedro Laktaw
d. Gregorio Sanciano
25. How many ships did Ferdinand Magellan use during his voyage that eventually found the Philippines?
a. 10
b. 5
c. 15
d. 1
Answer: b. 5
In epistemology, or the question of knowledge, which of the following knowledge requires the testing of
observation?
a. A posteriori
b. A priori
c. Experimental
d. Revealed
Answer: c. Experimental
Answer: a. Agnosticism
3. Critical thinking skill requires a teacher to support his/ her claim with a ground that warrants the reasonability of
the conclusion: What major premise is needed to validly complete this argument?
“But many moments in life are romantic events
Therefore, many romantic events are memorable.”
a. All moments in life are memorable
b. Romantic events are memorable moments in life
c. Some in life are memorable
d. None of the above.
4. The nature of knowledge in the curriculum, its certainty and its objectivity is founded on what branch of
Philosophy?
a. metaphysics
b. epistemology
c. axiology
d. logic
Answer: b. epistemology
5. In Ethics, Emmanuel Kant divided actions into two: acts done from inclination to non-moral and acts done from a
sense of duty-moral. For him, morality closely bound up with one’s duties and obligation. He also proposed the
Categorical Imperatives: (a) act only on the maxim that you can will that should become the universal law and (b) act
as to treat humanity as an end and never as means. Which one below applies Kant’s moral philosophy?
a. One must search for knowledge for immorality is caused by ignorance.
b. One must resolve before acting if one wants others to do the very action that one is about to do.
c. One must see to it that one’s action serves a particular purpose.
d. One must make sure that his action results into pleasure and avoidance.
Answer: b. One must resolve before acting if one wants others to do the very action that one is about to do.
6. How do philosophers explain the existence of change and permanency’? How is it that in spite of the changes,
there is something that remains to be permanent? This is due to the principle of _______.
a. Act and potency
b. Essence and existence
c. Cause and effect
d. Hylemorphism
8. This is the systematic consistent explanation of all the facts of experience. Its technical term is reason. It is
considered as the best criterion of truth.
a. Pragmatism
b. Consistency
c. Correspondence
d. Coherence
Answer: d. Coherence
9. “Every non-man is immortal since every mortal being is man.” Suppose the premise is true, the conclusion of this
immediate inference will be _______.
a. True
b. False
c. Doubtful
d. Invalid
Answer: a. True
10. To develop creative thinking skill, the teacher asks “What if…” questions. To what metaphysical principle is this
grounded?
a. primacy of existence
b. consciousness
c. identity
d. causality
Answer: b. consciousness
11. What is the specific role of a teacher’s philosophy of education in the teaching-learning process?
a. It determines the aims, mission and vision of the educative process.
b. It influences the professional development that the teacher undertakes.
c. It qualifies the objective, the content, the methodology and the context of the teaching process.
d. It identifies what kind of learners the teacher is going to teach.
Answer: c. It qualifies the objective, the content, the methodology and the context of the teaching process.
12. This philosophy posits the knowability of the world and everything in it as they are in themselves and their
existence is independent of the human mind.
a. Existentialism
b. Idealism
c. Materialism
d. Realism
Answer: d. Realism
Answer: b. A Fortiori
14. Why is that a teacher should address the uniqueness of each pupil, cater to individual interest, and adapt the
lesson to the experience of the learner?
a. Because of the axiom of causality
b. Because of the axiom of consciousness
c. Because of the axiom of identity
d. Because of the axiom of supremacy of existence
15. In the argument, “We cannot punish this man because he is the only one who supports his family”, what is
wrongly appealed to?
a. People
b. Ignorance
c. Advantage
d. Pity
Answer: d. Pity
16. Aristotle contended that the goof life is a life of happiness. Happiness is an activity, not a goal, and men ought to
behave so as to achieve happiness. Thus, men must act moderately and they must act so as to be striving for the
mean between two extremes. As a teacher, how are you going to interpret this?
a. You will provide your students moral dilemmas.
b. You will develop a sense of duty in your students.
c. You will develop the cognitive ability of your students.
d. You will provide your students opportunities to develop virtues.
17. If the statement “Some philosophies are irrational” is true, what statement below will be false?
a. Some rational things are not philosophies.
b. Some irrational things are philosophies.
c. No irrational thing is not philosophies.
d. No irrational things is a philosophy.
18. “Some scientists are religious” is false then it follows that _______.
a. All scientists are religious is true.
b. No scientist is religious is false.
c. Some scientists are not religious is true.
d. Some non-religious people are non-scientists is true.
Answer: c. Some scientists are not religious is true
19. What kind of opposition exists between the propositions “No man is above the law” and “Some men are not
above the law”?
a. Contraries
b. Sub-alternates
c. Contradictories
d. Sub-contraries
Answer: b. Sub-alternates
20. What kind of opposition exists between the propositions “No man is above the law” and “Some men are not
above the law”?
a. Contraries
b. Sub-alternates
c. Contradictories
d. Sub-contraries
Answer: d. Sub-contraries
21. John Locke contended that the mind is a “white paper” or “tabula rasa” void of any characters and without any
ideas and all things anybody knows comes from experience. What would be the logical implication of this tenet?
a. There is no inherent idea.
b. We can only know our perception of reality and not reality itself.
c. Reality is in the mind.
d. Reality is what it appears to be.
22. What is the contraposit of the contradictory of the statement “Life is precious” and what is its truth value?”
a. Some precious things are life. False
b. Some non-precious things are not death. False
c. Some non-life is not precious. True
d. Some life is not precious. True
24. “My grades should be high for I got high grades in the final exam.” What Fallacies are present in this argument
a. Division, Composition, False Cause
b. Composition, A fortiori, Hasty Generalization
c. False Cause, A fortiori, Hasty Generalization
d. A fortiori, Hasty Generalization, Division
2. May was relating her experience of a party she attended last night to her bestfriend Diane. May said that she was
asked to sing a song at the party. Before she could tell Diane the title of the song, Diane said, “You sang ‘Tell Me’”,
which was the correct song. This form of extra sensory perception is called ________.
a. psychokinesis
b. clairvoyance
c. pre-recognition
d. telepathy
Answer: d. telepathy
3. A child aged one year old realizes that things continue to exist even when it is no longer present to the senses.
According to Piaget, the child has achieved _______.
a. object movement
b. object permanence
c. concrete permanence
d. concrete movement
6. Which of the following psychologists proposed that human behavior is motivated according to a hierarchy that
ascends from the basic biological needs to the more complex psychological motivations that become important only
after the basic needs have been satisfied.
a. Maslow
b. Freud
c. Piaget
d. Kohlberg
Answer: a. Maslow
7. Mary is a highly creative person who has deep concern for the welfare of humanity. She has also attained other
characteristics which place her on the highest level of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This level is called _______.
a. self-determination
b. self-actualization
c. self-acceptance
d. self-achievement
Answer: b. self-actualization
8. An infant experiences the need to eat, drink, eliminate wastes, and other basic needs that seek immediate
gratification. Freud terms this personality as the _______.
a. super ego
b. ego
c. id
d. libido
Answer: c. id
9. Freud believed that these two drives were the most important instinctual determinants of personality throughout
life.
a. punishment and sexual drives
b. sexual and assertive drives
c. punishment and aggressive drives
d. sexual and aggressive drives
10. The internalized representation of the values and morals of society as taught to the child by the parents and
other authoritative figures is part of the personality called _______.
a. ego
b. super ego
c. id
d. libido
11. This part of human personality develops as a young child learns to consider the demands of reality.
a. ego
b. super ego
c. id
d. libido
Answer: a. ego
12. Behavior is the result of a continuous interaction between personal and environmental variables. Which
approach to personality best describes the above statement?
a. Humanistic approach
b. Psychoanalytic approach
c. Social learning approach
d. Cognitive approach
Answer: d. generalized
15. To control hypertension, John was trained to take note of his thoughts, actions and other aspects of his biological
state, during moments when he experienced normal blood pressure. Then he was told to repeat those moments to
maintain a normal blood pressure. This procedure is called _______.
a. shaping
b. biofeedback
c. reinforcement
d. control
Answer: b. biofeedback
16. A child who is learning to draw is slapped on the hand every time he draws on the table and wall. This form of
punishment is used _______.
a. to increase the likelihood of an undesirable behavior
b. to decrease the likelihood of an undesirable behavior
c. to decrease the likelihood of desirable behavior
d. to increase the likelihood of desirable behavior
17. This approach believes that the crux of intelligence lies in an organism’s ability to mentally represent aspects of
the world and then to operate on these mental representations rather than on the real objects of the world.
a. Behavioral approach
b. Psychoanalytic approach
c. Cognitive approach
d. Humanistic approach
18. Which of the following is not an assumption of the behavioristic approach to conditioning?
a. Simple associations are the building blocks of all learning.
b. The laws of association are the same from all species and situations.
c. Learning is better understood in terms of external causes than internal ones.
d. Learning is constrained by its genetically determined traits.
19. Childhood amnesia is a phenomenon whereby a person has no recall of his first years of life/ The following could
be possible causes for childhood amnesia except ________.
a. repression of sexual and aggressive feelings that a child experiences towards parents
b. the hippocampus which consolidates memory is not mature
c. encoding experiences of language and organized thoughts are incompatible
d. memory space of a child is very limited as the brain size is small
Answer: d. memory space of a child is very limited as the brain size is small
20. One important distinction of memory concerns the three stages of memory. These stages are ________.
a. chunking, encoding, storage
b. encoding, chunking, retrieval
c. encoding, storage, retrieval
d. storage, chunking, retrieval
22. “If information in short term memory is to persist, it must be transferred to long term memory.” Which theory
illustrates the above transfer?
a. Transfer-retrieve theory
b. Dual-memory theory
c. Memory-retrieval theory
d. Dual-transfer memory
24. A partial or total loss of memory caused by accidental injuries to the brain, strokes, alcoholism, etc. is called
________.
a. stereotyping
b. forgetting
c. amnesia
d. decay
Answer: c. amnesia
25. Most people find they are unable to remember events during their early childhood. According to Freud, this
phenomenon is called _________.
a. childhood amnesia
b. oral stage
c. anal stage
d. phallic stage
Answer: b. symbol
Answer: c. medium
4. Balance, movement, pattern/ repetition, unity, variety and emphasis are classified as the _______.
a. Elements of Design
b. Principles of Art
c. Design Elements
d. Principle of Elements
5. A line when used by an artist suggests meaning. What meaning is associated with a vertical line?
a. motion and mobility
b. continuity and grace
c. honor and dignity
d. depression and chaos
Answer: a. paint
Answer:
10. When we refer to a color value that is darker than the hue, we call that its ________.
a. shade
b. tint
c. saturation
d. intensity
Answer: b. tint
Answer: b. analogous
12. Textbook images that are drawn by illustrators to help students learn about concepts serve what function of art?
a. Educational
b. Physical
c. Personal
d. Spiritual
Answer: a. Educational
14. Website designs such as Twitter and Facebook serve what artistic function?
a. Social
b. Personal
c. Physical
d. Educational
Answer: a. Social
15. The Creation of Adam and other works on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel painted by Michelangelo were painted
using _______.
a. tempera
b. fresco
c. oil
d. ink
Answer: b. fresco
16. The relative lightness and darkness that gives impression of solidity and illusion of depth is ________.
a. hue
b. chiaroscuro
c. intensity
d. value
Answer: d. value
17. Line, value, texture, shape, space and color are classified as the ________.
a. Principles of art
b. Elements of art
c. Principles of design
d. Elements of design
Answer: d. Texture
19. Which among the following film genres does not belong to the group?
a. action
b. adventure
c. mystery
d. Western
Answer: d. Western
20. This film belongs to a game that portrays reality. It is called a _______.
a. documentary
b. biography
c. history
d. sports
Answer: a. documentary
21. It is the simultaneous sounding of a group of tones, the vertical relationship between a melody and its
accompanying chords
a. timbre
b. harmony
c. syncopation
d. accent
Answer: b. harmony
22. This art form is the most personal of all art forms because of the nature of its main medium.
a. music
b. dance
c. drama
d. cinema
Answer: b. dance
23. This dance form emerged in the 15th century in Europe and started the trend of dancing in couples, nowadays. It
is also called ballroom dancing.
a. folk dance
b. social dance
c. ballet
d. communal dance
24. This art form combines dramatic literature for scripts, architectures, sculptures, painting and its related art for
set design, costumes and makeup, music and live performance for heightening the emotional impact of a particular
scene. What art form is this?
a. theatre arts
b. dance drama
c. dramatic art
d. musicale
Answer: image