REVIEWER FOR SOCIAL SCIENCE

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I. Choose the best answer.

1. Which best describes the division of the legislature into the Senate and the House of Representatives?

a. Bicameralism b. Bipartisanship c. Unicameralism d. Co-legislative powers

2. Who was the last Spanish governor-general of the Philippines?

a. Ramon Blanco b. Diego de los Rios c. Basilio Agustin d. Fermin Jaudenes

3.Which demonstrates interconnectedness between social and environmental injustice?

a. Industrialized countries toxic disposed to poorer countries b. Temperature warming and rise of sea level

c. Diversification of verdant regions

4. Participation in governance, including the right to vote and seek public office is secured within the citizenry’s ________.

a. Right to due process b. Socio-civic rights c. Community tax d. Political rights

5. The right to vote and seek public office is secured within the citizenry’s________.

a. Right to due process b. Socio-civic rights c. Community tax d. Political rights

6. Tax imposed on all employed and practicing professionals.

a. Income Tax b. Real Estate Tax c. Community Tax d. Inheritance Tax

7.Which policy of the state provides preferential attention to the welfare of the less fortunate members of the Philippine society?

a. Social justice b. Criminal justice c. Distributive justice d. Bill of rights

8. What is the possible consequence of meritocracy in a social system?

a. rule by the wealthy and powerful b. leadership by people of talent c. culture of elitism d. rule by those with noble birth

9.Which constitutional safeguard prevents one branch of government from becoming powerful or abusive?

a. Impeachment b. Ombudsman c. Check and Balance

10. What is the predominant characteristic of eastern religion?

a. Optimism b. Secularism c. Mysticism d. Pessimism

11. What economic policy in the 16th in Europe influence Spain’s expansionist policy to discover new lands.

a. spice-trading b. capitalism c. mercantilism d. colonialism

12.The right invoked in the “ writ of habeas data” is ______.

a. the right to information privacy b. right to gather information data c. the right to search for information

13.Whose philosophy advocates the use of reason in understanding the existence of God?

a. St. Benedict b. St. Peter c. St. John d. St. Thomas Aquinas

14. Which is a check on the executive department by the judiciary in the principle of check and balance among branches of government?

a. impeachment of the Chief Justice b. determining the salary of the President and Vice President

c. declaring a legislative measure unconstitutional d. declaring an act of the President unconstitutional

15.What is the fundamental law of the land?

a. Bill of Rights b. Constitution c. Civil Criminal Code d. Ten Commandments

16. Gregorio de Jesus saw her husband ____ charged for treason by fellow Filipinos who have formed the Philippines Revolutionary force to fight Spain.

a. Marcelo H. del Pilar b. Emilio Aguinaldo c. Andres Bonifacio d. Jose Rizal

17. Which band played the Marcha Nacional Filipino of the national anthem on June 12, 1898 during the declaration of Philippine Independence?

a. Pangkat Kawayan ng Pilipinas b. Kawit Cavite Band c. Malabon Band d. San Francisco del Monte Band

18. What is the Agency tasked to nurture Philippine Arts?

a. NBI b.CCP c.NCAA d.NCCA

19. Which was the first labor union in the country founded by Isabelo de los Reyes on July 1901?
a. Association of the Philippine Labor b. Union Obrero Democratica c.
Union Trabajadores de Filipinos d. Association de Compania Tabacalera

20.Through the galleon trade (1565-1815), the Philippines had extended contacts with _________.

a. Spain b. Spice Islands c. China d. Mexico

21. How many days are needed after which an enrolled bill becomes a law?

a. 75 days a. 90 days c. 60 days d. 30 days

22. What law passed on August 1909 by the US Congress established a partial free trade in the Philippines?

a. Bell Trade b. Payne-Aldrich Act c. Treaty on General Relations d. Underwood-Simmons Act

23. In a matriarchal family, which family member plays the leading role?

a. grandmother b. mother c. oldest sister d. aunt

24. Who was the Spanish mestizo priest who first led the native secular clergy in the Secularization Movement in 1861?

a. Father Jacinto Zamora b. Father Gregorio Aglipay c. Father Pedro Palaez d. Father Jose Burgos

25. What was the term given by Marcelo H. del Pilar to hidden control and domination by Spanish religious priest over the colonial government?

a. pass region b. las swertepartidas c. complase d. frailocracia

26. While authority should be respected, its opinion maybe an error. Which of the following represents a more certain avenue of the truth?

a. replication(repeat and check) b. selective observation c. overgeneralization d. fallacious reason

27. Who is known as the “Father of the Local Government Code”?

a. Josy Lina b. Joseph Estrada c. Jovito Salonga d. Aquilino Pimentel

28. Which was the first editor of the La Solidaridad, and an orator of the Reform Movement?

a. Juan Luna b. Graciano Lopez-Jaena c. Jose Rizal d. Jose Rizal

29.The Philippines is the only _____ country in the world.

a. Communist b. Buddhist c. Christian d. Muslim

30. In the social trends, how do you call those who are for the revival of the classics?

a. Existentialists b. Rationalists c. Humanists d. Reformists

31. What happens to a good action when it is performed on account of an evil motive?

a. It becomes good. b. It becomes evil. c. It becomes morally good. d. It becomes an amoral act.

32. The tax required to be paid annually by all adult citizens is the ___________.

a. community tax b. income tax c. real estate tax

33. The fundamental right invoked by filling the “ writ of smparo” is ___________.

a. the right to due process b. the right to self-defense c. the right to be defended by attorney d. the right to life, liberty and security

34. What is one of the man-made wonders of the Philippines?

a. Rice Terraces b. Mount Makiling c. Manila Bay d. Taal Volcano

35. Governor General Narciso Claveria was responsible for the ___________.

a. abolition of the galleon trade b. establishment of the Tobacco Monopoly c. use of Spanish surname by Filipinos

36. Whose philosophy gives prominence to faith in understanding the existence of God?

a. St. Benedict b. St. Peter c. St. Augustine d. St. John

37. Of the seven continents comprising continuous land mass surrounded by big bodies of water, the biggest (30.1 percent of the Earth) is ______.

a. Asia b. Australia c. Europe d. North America

38. Where do historians say civilizations had first been born?

a. China b. Middle East c. Egypt d. Jordan

39. What is the largest country in Asia?

a. China b. Japan c. Indonesia d. Thailand

40. Which religious missionaries first arrived in the Philippines?

a. Dominicans b. Franciscan c. Jesuits d. Augustinians