IHAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL DEPARTMENT

1st QUARTER EXAMINATION
Understanding Culture, Society, and Politics
2023 – 2024

NAME: _________________________________ SCORE: ____________

TEACHER: MICHELLE ANNE B. MONTICALBO YEAR&SECTION: ___________

GENERAL DIRECTION: Read the instructions carefully. STRICTLY NO ERASURES and

ALTERATIONS allowed.

1. Which of the following BEST describes the culture of the early Paleolithic period?
a. They lived in the city.
b. They hunted and gathered food.
c. They created tools made of iron.
d. They had belief in one god.

2. Which of the following is the earliest known species of humans?

a. Homo Erectus b. Homo Ergaster c. Homo Habilis d. Homo Sapiens

3. Which of the following early humans is thought to be the first migratory species?
a. Homo Erectus b. Homo Ergaster c. Homo Habilis d. Homo Sapiens

4. Which of the following species is considered the direct line of modern humans?
a. Homo Erectus b. Homo Ergaster c. Homo Habilis d. Homo Sapiens

5. Which of the following describes the role of women during paleolithic age?
a. They stayed home.
b. They hunted big animals.
c. They gathered fruits.
d. They tended gardens.

6. Which changes during the Neolithic age resulted in the creation of settled community?
a. cave painting
b. discovery of fire
c. development of agriculture
d. development of religion

7. Which of the following political structure is associated with an egalitarian culture?

a. bands b. divine kingdom c. chiefdoms d. tribe

8. Which of the following is the result of over production of food during the agriculture
period?
a. People migrated to a less populated area.
b. People started to conquer neighboring lands.
c. People returned to hunting and gathering of food.
d. People learned to develop new skill and became artisans.
9. Which statements BEST explains the relationship between development of agriculture and
the growth of town and cities?
a. Agriculture helped established bands.
b. Agriculture made hunting and gathering practices.
c. The development of agriculture made people settle in one place.
d. The development of agriculture made way to development of religion.

10. Which of the following is characterized by advance technology and fast pace life of
humans?
a. agriculture state b. chiefdoms c. divine kingdom d. industrial state

11. What is socialization?

a. It is a lifelong process of social interaction.
b. It is a process of accepting social norms
c. It is a methods of social interaction.
d. It is a process of developing citizen to function effectively.

12. What is the significant result of socialization?

a. self-actualization b. self-identity c. self-realization d. self-esteem

13. Who said that the human mind at birth is nothing but a blank slate, or tabula rasa?
a. Rene Descartes b. Immanuel Kant c. David Hume d. John Locke

14. What is the process of being socialized into a specific culture?

a. socialization b. enculturation c. internalization d.
acculturation

15. What is considered as the primary agent of socialization from infancy to childhood?
a. school b. peer-groups c. family d. mass
media

16. What is an influential agent of socialization that includes TV, newspaper, and films?
a. school b. family c. mass media d. peer -
groups

17. Where do we learn most of our values?

a. Friends b. Siblings c. Parents and extended families d. Neighbors
and friends

18. Is there a culture without society?

a. There is culture even without society.
b. is no culture if there is no society.
c. Maybe culture can survive without people.
d. None of the above.

19. This view sees society as a system with parts, and these parts have their respective
functions to perform.

a. Conflict theory
b. structural functionalism
c. symbolic interactionism
d. Sociology

20. It is the scientific study of society. It seeks to analyze human society and culture from a
sociological perspective.
a. Political science
b. Anthropology
c. Sociology
d. Archaeology

21. It is the scientific study of the origins of humans, how we have changed over the years,
and how we relate to each other, both within our own culture and with people from other
cultures.
a. Political science
b. Anthropology
c. Sociology
d. Archaeology

22. It is one important branch of social science and its concern is with the political behavior
of individuals, groups of individuals, agencies, institutions, and organizations, among others.
a. Political science
b. Anthropology
c. Sociology
d. Archaeology

23. Who is known as a founder of the discipline of sociology and the doctrine of positivism?
He is sometimes regarded as the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the
term.
a. Karl Marx
b. Franz Boas
c. Auguste Comte
d. Emile Durkheim

24. Which sociological perspective believes that culture represents the solutions that the
people of a society have worked out over time to meet the distinct environmental and
historical challenges?
a. conflict
b. functionalist
c. symbolic
d. none of the above

25. You want to study the culture of Filipino farmers who are the most underprivileged in the
agriculture sector in the country, what sociological perspective/ approach are you going to
use?
a. conflict
b. functionalist
c. symbolic
d. none of the above
26. Which sociological perspective/ approach views society as having a system of
interdependent and connected parts?
a. conflict b. symbolic c. functionalist d. none of the above

27. Is it a type of social influence that involves a change in belief or behavior to fit in with a
group?
a. Conformity b. Deviance c. Sanction d. Social Control
28. It is defined as a behavior that violates significant social norms and is disapproved by
the majority of people.
a. Sanction b. Conformity c. Deviance d. Social Control

29. It consists of the elite or wealthy families.

a. Lower class b. Upper class c. Ascribed status d. Achieved status

30. A status earned by the individual.

a. Status b. Statuses c. Ascribed status d. Achieved status

31. What do you call the working class that lacks control of the means of production?
a. proletariat b. bourgeoisie c. lower class d. middle class

32. What is a social division that is based on physical attributes?

a. Race b. Gender c. Ethnicity d. Differently able
individual

33. A type of culture that is tangible, it is about the physical and technological aspect of our
daily lives.
a. Non-Material culture b. Material Culture c. Physical Culture d. Intangible
Culture

34. serves as a vehicle for culture to be pass on from one generation to the next
a. Religion b. Language c. Tradition d. Art

35. It is the way of life of people, including their beliefs, customs, and practices.
a. customs b. Beliefs c. culture d. Social Classes

36. This means the tendency to assume one’s culture and way of life are superior to all
others, or a person sees his or her own culture as the center of all cultures.
a. Enculturation b. Acculturation c. Ethnocentrism d.
Xenocentrism

38. It refers to a preference for the foreign and has strong beliefs that one’s products, styles,
or ideas is inferior to those which originate elsewhere.
a. enculturation b. Acculturation c. ethnocentrism d.
Xenocentrism

39. He believed bureaucracy was the most efficient way to set up an organization,
administration, and organizations.
a. Emil Durkheim b. Max Weber c. Auguste Comte d. Karl Marx

40. Who is known as the father of American Anthropology?

a. Franz Boas b. Auguste Comte c. Karl Marx d. Bronislaw Malinowski
41. What were the primary occupations of people during the Paleolithic Era?
a. Hunters & Gathers b. Toolmakers c. Farmers d.
domistication of animals

42. How did the Stone Age people explain their stories?
a. Wrote a book b. Wrote in the dirt c. Wrote on cave walls d.
Used sign language

43. Which statement best describes hunters and gatherers?

a. They were experts at using their environment to meet their basis needs.
b. The tools they made from metal helped them to survive.
c. They domesticated animals to help with daily activities.
d. They developed ways to bring water to their crops.

44. the branch of agriculture concerned with the raising of livestock. It is animal husbandry:
the care, tending and use of animals such as camels, goats, cattle, yaks, llamas, and sheep.
a. Farming b. Domestication c. Horticulture d. Pastoralism

45. these are a person’s or a collectivity’s principles or standards of behavior and are
considered judgments of what is important in life.
a. Society b. culture c.values d. beliefs

46. The art or science concerned with guiding or influencing governmental policy
a. politics b. culture c. values d. society

47. Group of people sharing the same language, beliefs & culture
a. politics b. culture c. values d. society

48. This theory explores the issues of meaning-making and why this is crucial in
understanding order or conflict as processes that brought about society.
a. Conflict theory
b. structural functionalism
c. symbolic interactionism
d. Sociology

49. What does the term 'socioeconomic class' refer to?

a. The differentiation between rich and poor based on various factors
b. The categorization of people based on their age
c. The grouping of individuals based on their geographical location
d. The classification of individuals based on their hobbies

50. What does conflict theory state about society?

a. Society is based solely on cooperation
b. Society is always in a constant state of conflict
c. Society is always in harmony
d. Society is static and unchanging