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Our Lady of the Pillar College- San Manuel Inc.

San Manuel, Isabela


Basic Education Department
S.Y. 2020-2021

Second Preliminary Summative Evaluation


PHILIPPINE POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE

Name: _____________________________________________________ Score: ______________________


Course and Section: ________________________________________ Date: ______________________

Learning Objectives:
 Analyze the roles and powers of the executive branch of the government
 Differentiate the roles and responsibilities of the Philippine Senate and the House of Representatives
 Analyze the roles and responsibilities of the Philippine Judiciary
GENERAL RULE: ALL ANSWERS SHOULD BE WRITTEN IN CAPITAL LETTERS. ERASURES
OR ANY KIND OF ALTERATIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED WRONG.

PART I: MULTIPLE CHOICE. Read and understand each question carefully then write the letter that
corresponds to your answer on the space provided before each number.

_____ 1. What kind of government do we have in the Philippines?


A. Authoritarian
B. Anarchy
C. Republic
D. Communist

_____ 2. What is the most powerful branch in the government?


A. Legislative
B. Judicial
C. Executive
D. Republic

_____ 3. What is the main work of legislative branch?


A. Decides if laws are constitutional
B. Signs laws
C. Makes laws
D. Pardons people

_____ 4. What is the job of executive branch?


A. Interprets laws
B. Carries out laws
C. Passes laws
D. Parliament

_____ 5. What is the job of judicial branch?


A. Appoints federal judges
B. Approves presidential appointments
C. Interprets laws
D. Enforce the laws

_____ 6. Who heads the legislative branch?


A. President
B. Congress
C. Vice President
D. Supreme Court
_____ 7. Who heads the judicial branch?
A. Supreme court
B. Congress
C. Senate
D. President

_____ 8. Which position is not included in the Cabinet Secretaries?


A. Secretary of Science and Technology
B. Executive Secretary
C. Secretary of Media and Press
D. Secretary of the Interior and Local Government

_____ 9. Which of the following is true about the executive branch?


A. There shall be a Vice-President who shall have the same qualifications and term of
office and be elected with and in the same manner as the President. He may be
removed from office in the same manner as the President.
B. The Senate shall be composed of twenty four Senators who shall be elected at large by the
qualified voters of the Philippines, as may be provided by law.
C. The Members of the Supreme Court and judges of lower courts shall hold office during good
behavior until they reached the age of seventy years or become incapacitated to discharge
the duties of their office.
D. None of the above

_____ 10. This branch includes Congress (the Senate and House of Representatives) and several agencies
that provide support services to Congress. Which branches of government is being termed in the statement?
A. Legislative branch
B. Executive branch
C. Judicial branch
D. All of the above

_____ 11. Which of the following features the functions of House of Representatives?
A. It is composed of about 250 members elected from executive districts in the provinces,
cities, and municipalities, and representatives elected through a party-list system of
registered national, regional, and sectoral parties or organizations.
B. It is composed of about 250 members elected from executive districts in the provinces,
cities, and municipalities, and representatives elected through a party-list system of
registered national, regional, and sectoral parties or organizations.
C. It is composed of about 350 members elected from executive districts in the provinces,
cities, and municipalities, and representatives elected through a party-list system of
registered national, regional, and sectoral parties or organizations.
D. It is composed of about 250 members elected from judicial districts in the provinces, cities,
and municipalities, and representatives elected through a party-list system of registered
national, regional, and sectoral parties or organizations.

_____ 12. Which of the following features about party-list representatives?


A. It shall constitute twenty per cent of the total number of representatives including those
under the party list.
B. For three consecutive terms after the ratification of this Constitution, one-half of the seats
allocated to party-list representatives shall be filled, as provided by law, by selection or
election from the labor, peasant, urban poor, indigenous cultural communities, women,
youth, and such other sectors as may be provided by law, except the religious sector.
C. All of the above
D. None of the above
_____ 13. Which of the following is true about the judicial branch?
A. It holds the power to settle controversies involving rights that are legally demandable and
enforceable.
B. This branch determines whether or not there has been a grave abuse of discretion amounting
to lack or excess of jurisdiction on the part and instrumentality of the government.
C. It is made up of a Supreme Court and lower courts.
D. All of the above

_____ 14. Which of the following is the role of Cabinets members?


A. Advises the president
B. Selects the Vice President
C. Runs the government when the President travels
D. Negotiates treaties with foreign nations

_____ 15. What is a government that is run by the people, either directly or indirectly?
A. Oligarchy
B. Communism
C. Monarchy
D. Democracy

_____ 16. What is the term for a type of government in which one person possesses unlimited power?
A. Democracy
B. Autocracy
C. Socialism
D. Communism

_____ 17. If both the President and the Vice President can no longer serve, who becomes President?
A. President of the Senate
B. Speaker of the House
C. Governor of the most populous state
D. Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

_____ 18. What stops one branch of government from becoming too powerful?
A. The President
B. Checks and balances
C. The people
D. Freedom of speech

_____ 19. What is the “rule of law”?


A. Everyone but the President must follow the law
B. Government does not have to follow the law
C. All laws must be the same in every state
D. Everyone must follow the law

_____20. What does the Constitution do?


A. Defines the government
B. Sets up the government
C. Protects basic rights of Filipinos
D. All of these answers

_____ 21. How old do citizens have to be to vote for President? Choose one:
A. Thirty-five (35) or older
B. Sixteen (16) or older
C. Twenty-one (21) or older
D. Eighteen (18) or older

_____ 22. Who signs bills to become laws?


A. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
B. The Vice President
C. The Secretary of State
D. The President

_____ 23. What is the supreme law of the land?


A. The Articles of Confederation
B. The Constitution
C. The Emancipation Proclamation
D. The Declaration of Independence

_____ 24. Who is the Commander-in-Chief of all armed forces of the Philippines last 2019?
A. Air Force Commanding General Jeffrey Delgado
B. Rodrigo Duterte
C. Chief Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno
D. AFP Chief Lieutenant Gen. Emmanuel Bautista

_____ 25. Which form of government where one leader has absolute control over citizens’ lives?
A. Democracy
B. Anarchy
C. Oligarchy
D. Dictatorship

For items 26 – 30.

_____ 26. Letter “A” represents which form of government?


A. Anarchy
B. Monarchy
C. Oligarchy
D. Direct Democracy
_____ 27. Letter “B” represents which form of government?
A. Anarchy
B. Monarchy
C. Oligarchy
D. Direct Democracy

_____ 28. Letter “C” represents which form of government?


A. Anarchy
B. Dictatorship
C. Oligarchy
D. Direct Democracy

_____ 29. Letter “D” represents which form of government?


A. Anarchy
B. Dictatorship
C. Oligarchy
D. Direct Democracy

_____ 30. Letter “E” represents which form of government?


A. Anarchy
B. Dictatorship
C. Oligarchy
D. Democracy

For items 31 – 40, identify what is being shown in the statements below. Choose the letter of your
answer then write it on the space provided before each number.

A. Legislative E. House of H. Senate


B. President Representatives I. Executive
C. Judicial F. Vice President J. Supreme Court
D. Mayor G. Governor

_____ 31. Leader of the local government.


_____32. It is composed of a chief Justice and 14 associate justices who serve until the age of 70, the highest
court in the land.
_____ 33. It is composed of 24 people who are elected at-large with the country as one district under
plurality-at-large voting.
_____ 34. The branch of the government that makes the laws.
_____ 35. The leader of the state government.
_____ 36. The person who becomes president if the president dies.
_____ 37. The branch of the government made up of the court system.
_____ 38. The branch of the government that makes sure the laws are obeyed.
_____ 39. 250 people in total depending on population.
_____ 40. The leader of the national government and the head of the executive branch.
PART II: ESSAY. Explain each question or statement carefully. Your answer should be as well
organized and as legibly written as you can make it.

A. In what ways are the Philippines and American government systems similar, and in what ways are
they different?

41-50. Executive Power


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51-60. Legislative Power


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61-70. Judicial Power
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RUBRICS:
Organization of ideas 3
Content 3
Straightforwardness 2
Cleanliness 2
TOTAL 10 POINTS

Prepared by: Checked/Noted by:

ELVIS P. VIERNES, LPT MARIJOE M. PIMENTEL, MA.Ed.


Teacher SHS Coordinator/Principal

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