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Question 1
The Banaue Rice Terraces are among the sophisticated products of engineering by Filipinos during the pre-Spanish
era.

Response: True

Question 2
While the ancient Greeks experienced the ‘making’ of something as ‘helping something to come into being’ – as
Heidegger explains that modern technology is rather a ‘forcing into being’.

Response: True

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Question 3
Filipinos were already aware of the medicinal and therapeutic properties of plants and the methods of extracting
medicine from herbs.

Response: True

Question 4
Epicurus' claims that a happy life will involve many and varied pleasurable experiences

Response: True

Question 5
The Spanish introduced formal education and founded scientific institution.

Response: True

Question 6
A crude version of which of seismograph was in use in China in the 2nd century A.D.

Response: True

Question 7
Eudaimonia is primarily associated with this philosopher

Response: Aristotle

Question 8
The Chinese, Sumerians and Egyptians were the first to use the potter's wheel.

Response: True

Question 9
The Romans used the abacus for counting purposes.

Response: True

Question 10
The Philippines ranks 1st among the 26 lower middle-income economies.

Response: False

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Question 11
According to Epicurus, the so-called “higher” pleasures such as friendship and study are as important as “pleasures
of the flesh".

Response: True

Question 12
Select the practices are done during pre-hispanic era.

Response: farming

Response: had an alphabet and a number system

Response: mining

Response: shipbuilding

Response: weaving

Question 13
A European, Roger Bacon was credited with the invention of gunpowder, a mixture of potassium or sodium nitrate,
sulfur and charcoal, however, it is now known that the Chinese developed and used gunpowder at a much earlier
date than the Europeans.

Response: True

Question 14
The Philippines performs the best in Knowledge & technology outputs.

Response: True

Question 15
The abacus was invented in China.

Response: False

Question 16
For Aristotle, a happy life is a full-filled life.

Response: True

Question 17

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The development of industrial technology was not given priority due to free trade policy with the United States
thus, it nurtured an economy geared towards agriculture and trade

Response: True

Question 18
The word "hedonist" suggests that a person is devoted to what some have called the “lower” pleasures such as sex,
food, drink, and sensual indulgence in general.

Response: True

Question 19
The state of science and technology does not determine the socioeconomic progress of a country.

Response: False

Question 20
For the behaviorist, "happiness" comes from ____

Response: experience of doing something good or positive

Question 21
Alexander Fleming was a Scottish bacteriologist who was known for his discovery of penicillin.

Response: True

Question 22
Around 1200 B.C., iron was first smelted and worked somewhere in the Greece.

Response: False

Question 23
Charles Goodyear was famous for his vulcanization process that he discovered accidentally in 1839.

Response: True

Question 24
One of the outcomes identified in the Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022 is to decrease the country's potential
growth by building the foundation for a globally competitive knowledge economy where accelerated technology
adoption and stimulated innovation are envisioned to be achieved.

Response: False

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Question 25
Paper money was first developed in China.

Response: True

Question 26
The Philippines performs the weakest in Business sophistication.

Response: False

Question 27
Republic Act No. 10532 or the Philippine National Health Research System (PNHRS) Act of 2013 recognizes and
mandates the Philippine Council for Health Research and Development
(PCHRD-DOST) as the national coordinating body for Natural Resources Research in the country.

Response: False

Question 28
The HNRDA, articulates our national priorities and will serve as guide for public investment in R&D while
ensuring a cohesive convergence and integration of R&D efforts.

Response: True

Question 29
The DOST, in consultation with government and private research and development institutions, the academe,
industry and other concerned agencies, prepared the Harmonized National R&D Agenda (HNRDA) 2017-2022 to
ensure that results of S&T endeavors are geared towards and are utilized in areas of maximum economic and social
benefit for the people.

Response: True

Question 30
Aristotle says, the only will to get away from the dangers of technology is to have “the will not to will”.

Response: False

Question 31
An English scientist is credited as having invented the World Wide web in 19th century.

Response: False

Question 32
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The Philippines performs better in Innovation Outputs than Inputs.

Response: True

Question 33
We need to open up the possibility of relying on technologies and it is natural to become enslaved to them.

Response: False

Question 34
Tabon man, the earliest human fossil remain in the Philippines was discovered in Cotabato.

Response: False

Question 35
The Harmonized National Research and Development Agenda (HNRDA) is divided into six (6) sectors.

Response: False

Question 36
Tell whether the following idea of society and human flourishing is an Eastern or Western Conception.

Response: focus is community-centric => Eastern Conception

Response: individual should sacrifice himself for the sake of society => Eastern Conception

Response: Encourage studies of sciences for a greater cause => Eastern Conception

Response: Confucian system => Eastern Conception

Response: human flourishing as an end => Western Conception

Response: Aims for eudaimonia as the ultimate good => Western Conception

Response: Aristotelian view => Western Conception

Response: more focused on the individual => Western Conception

Question 37
The early calendar of the Romans was a lunar calendar that contained 304 days.

Response: True

Question 38

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Filipinos were able to study in Europe who were probably influenced by the rapid development of scientific ideals
brought by the Age of Enlightenment.

Response: True

Question 39
Bernard Courtois was a French chemist who was best remembered for his discovery of chlorine.

Response: False

Question 40
Match the following description that will best describe the philosophy of Good life

Response: being a virtuous person => The Moral Life

Response: religions conceive of the good life as a life lived according to God’s laws => The Moral Life

Response: what makes life worth living is that we can experience pleasure => The Life of Pleasure

Response: absence of sufferings or misery => The Life of Pleasure

Response: people who are able to pursue their calling are regarded as extremely fortunate => The Fulfilled Life

Response: to have exercised our uniquely human abilities and capacities means to have lived well => The Fulfilled
Life

Response: to devote ourselves to a good cause => The Meaningful Life

Response: to pursue a particular kind of work with great dedication => The Meaningful Life

Response: based from a greek saying "Call no man happy until he’s dead" => The Finished Life

Response: whether one lived a good life can only be revealed after his death => The Finished Life

Question 41
The Philippines produces more innovation outputs relative to its level of innovation investments.

Response: True

Question 42
The invention of paper was credited to Cai Lun, in China around 105 A.D.

Response: False

Question 43
In 1775, in Birmingham, England, Matthew Boulton and James Watt entered into partnership to manufacture
industrial versions of a pendullum clock, that made the Industrial Revolution possible.
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Response: False

Question 44
Einstein's general theory of relativity was published first before the special theory of relativity

Response: False

Question 45
A person who lives a moral life, obeying the commandments and performing the proper rituals, is pious.

Response: True

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