Republic of the Philippines

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
Region IX, Zamboanga Peninsula
DIONGAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
Diongan,Siayan, Zamboanga del Norte

1st QUARTER EXAMINATION

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

Name: _____________________________________________ Date: ___________

Grade and Section: __________________ Score: __________

I. Multiple Choice
Directions: Read the questions carefully and encircle the correct letter of your answer.
1. It is the study, analysis, and description of humanity’s past and present. Questions about the past
include prehistoric origins and human evolution.
A. Sociology C. Anthropology
B. Politics D. Psychology
2. Which of the following nature of anthropology can be viewed from a global discipline involving
humanities, social sciences and natural sciences.
A. historical perspective C. human’s evolution
B. economic development D. psychological perspective
3. Which of the following is not a goal of Anthropology?
A. to find out about both the natural and social parts of humankind all throughout the planet and
all through time.
B. to comprehend the fossil record of early people and their precursors just as the archeological
record of later ancient social orders.
C.to comprehend the conduct of monkeys and gorillas in their regular settings.
D. is to describe how various political systems function, and to find more effective political
systems.
4. “In cultural anthropology, we compare ideas, morals, practices, and systems within or between
cultures. We might compare the roles of men and women in different societies, or contrast how different
religious groups conflict within a given society.” Which of the following anthropological perspective
does it represent?
 A. holism C. comparison
B. cultural relativism D. legal force

5. It is the scientific investigation of human culture and social behavior. It is a discipline in social sciences
concerned about human society and human social activities.
A. anthropology C. political science
B. sociology D. paleontology
6. As Samuel Koenig has pointed out the ultimate aim of sociology is ” to improve man’s
______________ to life by developing objective knowledge concerning social phenomena which can be
used to deal effectively with social problems”. What is missing word?
A. status C. life
B. development D. adjustment
7. Fill in the missing term, “Understand the _______ and ______ of social change in terms of general
causes and effects as well as unique historical circumstances.”
A. problem & solution C. direction & outcome
B. cause & consequence D. status & life
8. It is the study of the nature, causes, and consequences of collective decisions and actions taken by
groups of people embedded in cultures and institutions that structure power and authority
A. political Science C. humanities
B. sociology D. governance
9. Political Science has a few subfields, which of the following subfields should be disregarded?
A. political hypothesis C. human rights
B. religion and beliefs D. public policy
10. Political Science uses diverse methods that originates in the following given information, which is
not included?
A. psychology C. social research
B. neuroscience D. constitution
11.This refers to a group of people whose members interact, reside in a definable area and share a culture.
A. culture C. society
B. residents D. ethnosphere

12. What term refers to the shared practices, values, beliefs, norms and artifacts of the society?
 A. culture C. society
B. residents D. experience
13. Culture is diverse because of its aspects that develop man’s social interaction, under the aspect of
Actions, which of the following should not be included?
A. justice C. work
B. religion D. dialect
14. Society is a system of stratification, what does it give in a given situation?
A. man’s past culture C. arrangement of definition
B. cooperation & conflict D. collaboration & struggle
15. Culture is learned and acquired, which is the major factor for justification?
A. books C. heredity
B. news D. language

II. True or False

Directions: Assess whether the statements are true or false. Write T if the statement is true and F if false.
Write your answer on the space provided before the number.

__________16. Cultural relativism refers to giving value to a familiar cultural value from one’s own
perspective.
__________17. Ethnocentrism is confining one’s beliefs.
__________18. A group’s culture is the centre of everything and others are just nothing in a perspective
of ethnocentric individual.
__________19. Ethnocentric individuals appreciate other culture that they encounter along their way.
__________20. In cultural relativism’s point of view, no culture is superior than another culture when
compared to systems of morality, law, politics, etc.
__________21. In practicing the norms and values of society, behaving as a cultural relativist individual
is appropriate.
__________22. Cultural relativism and ethnocentrism is the same.
__________23. Cultural relativism discourage the understanding of cultural practices that are unfamiliar
to other cultures such as eating insects, genocides or having multiple wives.
__________24. Ethnocentrism behaviour makes a culture strong and durable.
__________25. In a cultural relativist perspective, a trait is right or wrong depends on the setting or
culture that it is practice or use.
III. Matching Type
Directions: Connect the following sentences from column A to column B that will make sense about
Cultural Relativism.

Column A Column B

Cultural relativism refers to the A. which alone could be the basis

26. for judging the merits and
practice of assessing a culture by
morality of the
its own standards
culture’s practices
27. Culture has an internally consistent
B. rather than viewing it through
pattern of
the lens of one’s own culture.
thoughts and actions,

28. Multiculturalism refers to both the C. one may experience

fact of the existence of a diversity disorientation & frustration
of cultures
Ethnocentrism can be so strong
29.
that when confronted with all the D. is better than all others (1906).
differences of a
new culture

Ethnocentrism, as sociologist E. within one territory and to a

William Graham 30.
way of conceptualizing and
Sumner (1840-1910) described the
managing cultural diversity.
term, involves a belief or attitude
that one’s own culture

IV.
Directions: Choose from the box the words that represent Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science.

Evolution Socialization
Language Status
Government Law
Church President
Culture Arts

ANTHROPOLOGY
31.
32.
33.
34.
SOCIOLOGY
35.
36.
37.
POLITICAL SCIENCE
38.
39.
40.

V.
Directions: Arrange the jumbled letters in the box. Write your answer on the space provided.

U U C T L E R
41.
_____________________________

G O S O Y C O I L
42.
_______________________________

O I T L S P C I
43.
_______________________________

C Y I O S E T
44.

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O A T G N H R Y L O P O
45.
__________________________________

VI. ESSAY
1. How do you differentiate Culture, Society and Politics in your own perspective? (10pts)
2. As a member of the Subanen Tribe (or any tribe), how will you preserve your culture? (10pts)

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” -Abraham Lincoln
GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS 
Ma’am Ingrid

Answer Key
1.c
2.a
3.d
4.c
5.b
6.d
7.b
8.a
9.b
10.d