Republic of the Philippines
PANGASINAN STATE UNIVERSITY
Departmental Final Examination
1st Semester, SY 2018 -2019
Direction: From the given options, shade the letter corresponding to the
correct answer using the answer sheet provided.
1. Which of the following policies is NOT included in the Section 2 of RA
No. 3844 or Agricultural Land Reform Code?
a. Achieve a dignified assistance for the small farmers free from
pernicious institutional restrain and practices
b. Apply all labor laws equally and without discrimination to both
industrial and agricultural wage earners.
c. Provide a more vigorous and systematic land resettlement
program and public land distribution.
d. Provide expensive machineries and fertilizers to the farmers.
2. During the Marcos regime what is the title of Presidential Decree no.
27 that applies to tenant farmers of private agricultural land
primarily devoted to rice and corn under a system of share crop or
list-tenancy.
a. Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program
b. Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law
c. Agricultural Land Reform Code
d. The Code of Agrarian Reform of the Philippines
3. In 1939, the Commonwealth government drafted the National
Internal Revenue Code. What major changes in the new tax system
were introduced?
a. Dividends were made taxable.
b. Personal exemptions were increased
c. Taxes on liquors, cigarettes, forestry products, and mining
were reduced.
d. Benefits were not made taxable
4. What major reform in the tax system was introduced under the term
of President Aquino which aimed to promote equity by insuring that
similarly situated individuals and firms bear the same tax burdened?
a. Donations of the other Countries
b. Tributes from Filipino
c. Taxation
d. Value Added Tax
5. Which of the following is the first important Filipino document ever
produced by the people’s representative during the first Philippine
Republic?
a. Commonwealth c. Malolos Constitution
b. Biak na Bato d. 1935 Constitution
government
6. Which of the following acts provides authority and defined mechanisms
for the establishment of a formal constitution by a constitutional
convention.
a. Philippine Organic Act c. Philippine
b. Philippine Autonomy Independence Act
Act d. Malolos Constitution
7. Which among the following methods is NOT used by the landlords so
that they will be exempted from the agrarian program?
a. Landlords change their crops
b. Landowners hired workers to till their lands
c. Landlords evict their tenants and so they become landless
d. Landlords do not want to share their lands to the landless
workers
8. Due to the deficits from 2002 to 2004 under President Gloria Arroyo,
the government introduced Republic Act 9337. What is the title of this
Republic Act?
a. Taxation d. Expanded Value Added
b. Sin Tax Reform Tax
c. Value Added Tax
9. What do you call to the power of the President to postpone the
execution of a death sentence to a certain day?
a. Commutation c. Pardon
b. Reprieve d. Remission
10. Which of the following is NOT a process to revise the 1987 Philippine
Constitution?
a. Constitutional c. Constitutional
Assembly Convention
b. Citizen Assemblies d. People’s initiative
11. Which of the following is also known as the Freedom Constitution?
a. 1935 Constitution c. 1986 Constitution
b. 1972 Constitution d. 1987 Constitution
12. Who was the president who promised to lower income tax rates
shouldered by working Filipinos.
a. President Corazon c. President Diosdado
Aquino Macapagal
b. President Ferdinand d. President Rodrigo
Marcos Duterte
13. The Underwood – Simons Tariff Act of 1913 resulted to lower revenue
because of the lifting of the export taxes of the following:
a. sugar, tobacco, hemp and rice c. sugar, copra, rice
and coconut oil
b. sugar, tobacco, copra and hemp d. sugar, copra, rice
and tobacco
14.Which among the following is an administrative body that governed the
Philippine from 1935 to 1946?
a. Commonwealth of the Philippines
b. Constitutional Authoritarianism
c. Philippine Constitution
d. Malolos Constitution
15. Which of the following is NOT the role of the elected president under the
Constitutional Authoritarianism?
a. The president was to be elected us the symbolic and ceremonial head
of the state chosen from the members of the National Assembly.
b. The president would serve a six-year term and could be re-elected to
an unlimited number of terms.
c. The president would serve a four-year term and could not be re-elect
again.
d. All of the above
16.Who was the president who issued Presidential Decree No.73 setting the
date of the plebiscite to ratify or reject the proposed constitution?
a. Ferdinand Marcos
b. Diosdado Macapagal
c. Carlos P. Garcia
d. Manuel Roxas
17. Who was the succeeding president who formed a study
commission to investigate the issues surrounding charter change
focusing on the economic and judiciary provisions of the constitution?
a. Ferdinand E. Marcos c. Benigno Aquino III
b. Joseph Ejercito Estrada d. Rodrigo Roa Duterte
18. How many independent commissions did the 1987 Constitution create?
a. 2 c. 4
b. 3 d. 5
19. It is one of the non-legislative function of the congress in which includes
the selection of a Senate President and Speaker of the House.
a. Constituents c. Electoral
b. Executive d. Judicial
20.It is defined as a set of fundamental principles or established precedents
according to which a state or other organization is governed.
a. Constitution c. Rules
b. Law d. Document
21. Which among the following law created the Commonwealth of the
Philippines.
a. Jones Law c. Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act
b. Tydings-McDuffie Law d. Philippine Autonomy Act of
1906
22. Which of the following served as the upper house of the Philippine
bicameral legislature created under Philippine Organic Act of 1902?
a. House of Representatives c. Senate
b. Philippine Commission d. Philippine Assembly
23. He was unanimously elected as the President on the convention for the
creation of the 1935 Commonwealth Constitution.
a. Lorenzo Tañada c.. Don Benigno Aquino
b. Sergio Osmeña d. Claro Recto
24. Which of the following is NOT an organ of the government under the
Biak-na-Bato Constitution?
a. Consejo Supremo (The Supreme Council )
b. Camera de Representantes (House of Representatives)
c. Consejo Supremo de Gracia Y Justicia (Supreme Council of Grace and
Justice)
d. Asamblea de Representantes (Assembly of Representatives)
25. The Commonwealth Constitution was originally drafted to provide the
President with how many terms?
a. 6 year term with no re-election
b. 4 year term with one re-election
c. 6 year term with unlimited re-election
d. 3 year term with 2 re-election.
26. The following are grounds for the succession of the Vice-President to
President under the 1987 Constitution EXCEPT:
a. Death c. People Power
b. Permanent Disability d. Resignation
27. It is used in amending the CARL or the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform
Law to extend the program for another ten years.
a. RA No. 8532 c. PD No. 27
b. EO. 229 d. RA No. 6657
28. It is the power of the congress to pass a bill into a law rejected by the
President.
a. Veto Power c. Administrative Foresight
b. Supervisory Power d. Veto Override
29. Who was the first President of the Constitutional Convention ?
a. Elpidio Quirino c. Diosdado Macapagal
b. Carlos Garcia d. Ferdinand Marcos
30. How many articles does the 1987 Constitution have?
a. 17 c. 19
b. 18 d. 21
31 The following are the choices for numbers 31 – 40.
A. If both statements A and B are TRUE
B. If both statements A and B are FALSE
C. If statement A is TRUE while statement B is FALSE
D. If statement A is FALSE while statement B is TRUE
31. A. The 1899 Malolos Constitution was never enforced due to the on-going
Filipino – Spanish war.
B. The Biak-na-bato Constitution was never been implemented because
of a truce between the Spanish government and the Filipino
revolutionaries.
32. A. A bill can become a law without the approval of the President.
B. A Bicameral Conference Committee is constituted in case of a
conflicting provisions on the bill being passed by the lower and upper
house in order to reconcile differences.
33. A. The Judges appointed to the Supreme Court doesn’t need the approval
of the Commission on Appointments.
B. The members of the Supreme Court and judges of lower courts are
appointed by the President from a list of nominees prepared by the
Congress.
34. A. The alcaldes, gobernadores, and cabezas de barangay were the only
individuals exempted from payment of tributos.
B. Unlike the tribute, the payment of cedulas is by person, not by family.
35. A. From the hacienda system, the encomienda system was developed.
B. Filipinos in the encomienda were also required to render services to
their encomienderos that were unrelated to farming.
36. A. The Biak-na-Bato Constitution was first written in Tagalog before it was
translated into Spanish for promulgation.
B. The Biak-na-Bato Constitution written by Isabelo Artacho and Felix
Ferrer was borrowed from Cuba.
37. A. The Bajo de las Campanas is a concept that shows the importance of a
person depending on the location of his house from the Church.
B. During the Spanish colonization of the Philippines, the Chinese in the
Philippines were also made to pay their discriminatory cedula which
was bigger than what the Filipinos paid.
38. A. Cyberspace is a great resource for research if you know how to use it
properly.
B. Google and Yahoo were examples of search engines.
39. A. The first published book in the Philippines was the Doctrina Cristiana.
B. Students of history are usually expected to write historical essays
and/ or historical research papers, and this entails the collection of data
through primary sources.
40. A. The Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) is the digital version of the
forgone tedious and antiquated card cataloguing system.
B. The Facebook page of the Department of Agriculture and Department
of Communication were examples of government websites.
41. Who established the Consultative Commission which suggested such a
Charter Change but no action was taken by the Philippine Congress to
amend the 1987 Constitution?
a. DiosdadoMacapagal c. Benigno C. Aquino III
b. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo d. Fidel Ramos
42.Who signed the Code of Agrarian Reform of the Philippines into law which
established the Department of Agrarian Reform, effectively replacing the
Land Authority on September 10 1971.
a.Diosdado Macapagal c.Ramon Magsaysay
b.Rodrigo Duterte d.Ferdinand Marcos
43. It consists of revisions to the National Internal Revenue Code of 1997, or
the Tax Code.
a.Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (TRAIN)
b. Tax Reform for Acceleration and Institution (TRAIN)
c. Tax Reform for Acceleration and Incorporation (TRAIN)
d. Tax Reform for Acceleration and Information (TRAIN )
44. These were put up by the National Historical Commission of the
Philippines to provide the basic details on what makes a certain site
historical.
a. red cordons c. historical markers
b. identification markers d. identification insignias
45. Who was the founder of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front or MILF?
a. Khadaffy Janjalani c. Nur Misuari
b. Abdurajak Abubakar d. Hashim Salamat
46. Who was the painter from Dagupan Pangasinan and given a title of being
a National Artist in 1976.
a. Fernando Amorsolo c. Victorio Edades
b. Botong Francisco d. Benedicto Cabrera
47. What was the former name of the National Historical Commission?
a. National Historical Association
b. National Commission for History, Culture and Arts
c. National Historical Institute
d.Bureau of Philippine History
48.The Sin Tax Reform is a good example on how tax reform could impact
social services.
a. The above statement is true
b. The above statement is false
c.The above statement depends on the situation
d. The above statement is true only if properly implemented
49. Under whose administration was the Extended Value Added Tax or E-VAT
implemented?
a. Fidel V. Ramos
b. Joseph Estrada
c. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
d. Benigno Aquino III
50. Which statement prove that Federal Government has positive effect in
one country.
a. Each region my custom fit solutions to problems brought about by
their distinct geographic, cultural, social, and economic context.
a. A federal form of government could also solve a lot of decade-old
problems of the country.
b. Achieving unity in the country is not a challenge.
c. It can promote specialization, since the national government could
focus on
Answer Key
1. D
2. D
3. D
4. D
5. C
6. C
7. D
8. C
9. B
10. B
11. C
12. D
13. B
14. A
15. C
16. A
17. A
18. B
19. C
20. A
21. A
22. B
23. D
24. B
25. A
26. C
27. A
28. D
29. B
30. B
31. D
32. A
33. C
34. D
35. D
36. D
37. A
38. A
39. A
40. C
41. B
42. D
43. A
44. C
45. D
46. C
47. C
48. A
49. C
50. C
