LIRIO M.

ESCAÑO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Carit-an, Patnongon, Antique

Midterm Examination
S.Y. 2023-2024
Understanding Culture, Society and Politics 11
Directions: Read each question carefully and choose the letter of the correct answer. Write your answer on a
separate sheet of paper. STRICTLY NO ERASURES.

1. It is a behavioural science that deals with the C. Ethnocentrism

study of culture. D. Social Differences
A. Sociology
B. Anthropology 8. Aspect of culture that is being practiced in the
C. Political Science day to day activities in the home.
D. Social Science A. Culture is shared
B. Culture is everywhere
2. The following are the goals of Anthropology C. Culture changes
except one....? D. Culture is adaptive
A. Discover what people have in common
B. Produce new knowledge and new theories 9. A type of gender that has no preference and
about humankind willing to have relationship in any type of
C. Expose our mind on the perspective in sexual orientation
attaining the truth A. Pansexual
D. Looks at one’s own culture more B. Asexual
objectivity C. Polysexual
D. Bisexual
3. Its deals with the study of politics or
governement. 10. What is the unique characteristic of mankind
A. Sociology that proved that human is highly skilled than
B. Anthropology animals?
C. Political Science A. Gripping Capacity
D. Social Science B. Thinking Capacity
C. Speaking Capacity
4. It is the process of accommodating the D. Walking Capacity
desirable traits from other culture.
A. Enculturation 11. It refers to the socially constructed roles,
B. Acculturation behaviors, activities and attributes given by
C. Deculturation the society.
D. Adaptation A. Sex
B. Lesbian
5. The K-Pop is a widespread phenomenon C. Gender
especially to the Asian teens. One barangay D. Gay
adopts the Korean clothes, foods and even
the design of the homes and roads. How 12. What conclusion can you draw when a
cultured described foreigner stayed in the Phillipines for the 5
A. Culture is adaptive years and adopts the Filipino culture of eating
B. Culture is everything rice with bare hands as he went back to
C. Cultured is learned America?
D. Culture is maladaptive A. Enculturation
B. Acculturation
6. It is a behavioural science that deals with the C. Decultaration
study of society. D. Adaptation
A. Sociology
B. Anthropology 13. Lito is a young teenage boy. He used to go to
C. Political Science school and was a good student but recently he
D. Social Science is always absent at school. The teacher
learned that Lito engaged in “sabong” because
7. A belief that one’s ethnic group is superior that he used to go with his father. What aspects of
others culture is shown in this situation?
A. Cultural relativism
A. Culture is adaptive
B. Cultural Variation
B. Culture is shared
 C. Culture is learned
D. Culture is integrated 22. Ana wants to pursue her study in college but
her mother wants her to work instead of
14. A type of society that is characterized by studying, what human rights does her mother
technology like computer and internet deprived?
A. Constitutional Rights
A. Post Industrial Society B. Civil Right
B. Agricultural Society C. Statutory Rights
C. Industrial Society D. Natural Rights
D. Pastoral Society
23. It is the traditional behavior or way of life of a
15. How would you classify Mary who rejects particular community or group of people.
male suitors and had no commitment to love? A. Norms
A. Lesbian B. Folkways
B. Homosexual C. Laws
C. Asexual D. Taboos
D. Pansexual
16. A branch of anthropology that analyze a social, 24. It refers to the human capacity to wrap up
political and economic problems and develop things and object in his hands
solutions to respond to present problems. A. Gripping Society
A. Biological Anthropology B. Thinking Society
B. Linguistic Anthropology C. Speaking Society
C. Applied Anthropology D. Walking Society
D. Cultural Anthropology
25. How would you categorize the Philippines in
17. It refers to the scientific study of human
terms of Socio economic class.
society and social relationships.
A. Global South
A. Society
B. Norms B. Global West
C. Social Science C. Global North
D. Laws D. Global East

18. Where does the process of socialization 26. It is the discipline under which identity,
begins? culture, society and politics are studied.
A. At home A. Social Science
B. At the community B. Political Science
C. At School C. Sociology
D. At Work D. Anthropology
19. Which situation DOES NOT describe the
27. Which of the following statement give the
concept of cultural relativism
A. Confronting a foreigner on having tatoo. significance of studying Politics?
B. Wearing Korean dress in school. A. Describe how and why we belong to a
C. Buy Ukay Ukay clothes. bigger global society.
D. Eating pasta instead of rice in the meal. B. Gives meaning to the meaning importance
of the self in relation to others.
20. Serve as the guarantor of all people to C. Provides a bigger context on how
acquire basic needs especially life, liberty and government works and how rules,
equality. regulation and laws maintain social order,
A. Civil Rights cohesion and unity
B. Social Rights D. Broadens our perspectives on how we
C. Economic rights value our own and others.
D. Human Rights
28. The sociology was derived from word term
21. It is an individual position in his society, which
carries with it a set of defined rights and “LOGOS” which means ______.
obligations. A. Group/ partner
A. Roles B. Study
B. Status C. Man
C. Norms D. Science
D. Values
29. The term culture was first used by the English/ D. Our power is inherent in the rights
American Anthropologist ______________in guaranteed and protected by our State.
his book, Primitive Culture.
A. Emile Durkheim 36. This species is also known as the “Upright
B. Karl Max Man”.
C. Edward Burnett Tylor A. Homo Sapiens
D. Arnold Radcliff Brown B. Homo Erectus
C. Homo Habilis
30. What is the meaning of the greek word D. Australopithecus
anthropo?
37. It refers that culture is been lost and it is the
A. Group
process being forgotten.
B. Study
A. Acculturation
C. Man
B. Enculturation
D. Science
C. Deculturation
D. Assimilation
31. It is the process of learning your own culture.
A. Acculturation 38. A type of gender that has no preference and
B. Enculturation willing to have relationship in any type of
C. Deculturation sexual orientation.
D. Assimilation A. Pansexual
B. Asexual
32. Jane, a 16-year-old Filipina student has been C. Polysexual
nominated to be an exchange-student in D. Bisexual
Australia during winter season. In her
preparation of things, she excluded her shorts 39. It is a complex whole which encompasses
and sleeveless and start pulling out her jackets beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws,
and boots on her cabinet. How culture norms, artifacts, symbols knowledge and
everything that s person learns and share as a
described?
member of society.
A. Culture is Everything
A. Society
B. Culture is Adaptive B. Culture
C. Culture is maladaptive C. Ethnic Group
D. Culture is change D. Nationality

33. It is the process of accommodating desirable 40. What types of gender that sexually and
traits from other culture. romantically attracted to male?
A. Acculturation A. Lesbian
B. Enculturation B. Gay
C. Deculturation C. Pansexual
D. Assimilation D. Polysexual

34. It refers to a person who studies human 41. Karen used to tease her new transferred
history and prehistory through the excavation Mangyan classmate because of his kinky hair
of sites and analysis of artifacts and other and tanned skin. What kind of cultural view
physical remains. Karen has?
A. Archeology A. Culture
B. Anthropologist B. Cultural Relativism
C. Evolutionist C. Ethnocentrism
D. Archeologist
D. Society

35. How would you conclude that human as a

42. It refers to the legacy of physical artifacts and
social being?
intangible attributes of a group or society.
A. We carry our ancestor’s tradition and
A. Intangible culture
belief
B. Cultural Heritage
B. We speak the language of our parents,
C. Material culture
practice, faith and distinct way of life of
D. Physical artifacts
our community.

43. A belief about position that everything about

C. We always belong to the group and culture is wrong, unreasonable, detestable and
interact with people even wicked.
 A. Cultural relativism C. Auguste Comte
B. Cultural Variation D. Max Weber
C. Ethnocentrism
D. Chauvinism

44. It is the only currently existing species of the ________Good Luck! __________
genus Homo.
A. Homo Habilis
B. Homo Neanderthals
Prepared by:
C. Homo Erectus
D. Homo Sapiens
Ms. Nelissa Pearl S. Coloma, TI
45. It refers to the socially constructed roles, Subject Teacher
behaviors, activities and attributes given by
the society.
A. Lesbian
B. Asexual
C. Sex
D. Gender

46. Which of the following highlights the Metallic

stage in evolution of society?
A. Human skilled in fishing and hunting
B. Human learn to adopt to live on a certain
land
C. Human learn to plant and tend animals
D. Human learn to use weapons

47. It is a branch of anthropology that deals with

the study of communication’s origins, history,
and contemporary variation.
A. Applied Anthropology
B. Linguistic Anthropology
C. Cultural Anthropology
D. Biological Anthropology

48. This species is also known as the “Wise Man”.

A. Homo Sapiens
B. Homo Erectus
C. Homo Habilis
D. Australopithecus

49. Why it is important to study the significance of

Society?
A. Broadens our perspective on how we
value our own and others culture.
B. Educates us on the importance of
exercising our rights and maximizing our
political participation to sustain, maintain
or change society
C. Describe how and why we belong to a
bigger global society.
D. Provides a bigger context on how
government works and how rules,
regulations and laws maintain social,
order, cohesion and unity.

50. He is considered as the Father of American

Anthropology.
A. Edward Tylor
B. Franz Boas