Division of Masbate

PURO NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

Puro, Aroroy, Masbate

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

Final Exam

Direction: Read and analyze the questions carefully. Select the option that corresponds to your choice by MARKING an X
to the letter you have chosen.

1. What type of social group where members share close, personal, enduring or intimate relationships and is most
essential to our emotional well-being?
A. Secondary group B. Primary group
C. Social network D. Aggregate

2. A social group that is larger in size and there is no personal or intimate relationship amongst the individuals?
A. Secondary group B. Primary group
C. Social network D. Aggregate

3. Family, best friends, or childhood friends are part of what social group?
A. Secondary group B. Primary group
C. Social network D. Aggregate

4. A teacher forms a group within his student to accomplish a specific action or objective. What social group does it refer?
A. In group B. Out group
C. Special interest groups D. Task groups

5. Rural areas are an example of an intimate community in which everyone knows everyone else. They were united by
humility, faithfulness, tradition and communal goals. This kind of relationship built among the members of the community
is an example of what?

A. Gemeinschaft B. Gesellschaft
C. Formal group D. Informal group

6. Which of the following is an example of an in-group?

A. A grade 11 student in a grade 12 class C. A grade 7 student in a grade 8 class
B. A grade 12 student in a grade 12 class D. A grade 9 student in a grade 8 class

7. Supreme Student Government is an example of?

A. Group B. Family C. Community D. Society

8. In-group is a social group according to self-identification; Special interest group is a social group according to?
A. Purpose B. Social ties C. form of organization D. location

9. What kind of relationship is built among people in workplace where people work for their own self-interest rather than
the success of the company?
A. Gemeinschaft B. Gesellschaft
C. Formal group D. Informal group

10. Which among of the options is the reason why a student group may not function well?
A. Cooperation and communication among the members.
B. No participation from other members
C. All members deal openly with problems.
D. Members contribute and divides labor

11. What was the main purpose or the manifest function of education as a social institution?
A. Instilling of knowledge, values and norms in the society C. Job hunting
B. Social and political integration D. Prepare labor for capital
12. Which of the following best explains the latent function of education?
A. It is the expected activities and purpose of education
B. unintended goals and purposes or those not originally designed to be served in education
C. It refers to the reward system given to deserving students for them to continue their studies in college
D. It refers to the punishment given to deviant students to promote social order

13. Identify the best example for informal education as one of the types of education.
A. On-line education C. Alternative Learning System
B. Learning in a classroom D. Teaching your own child the alphabet

14. What is religion?

A. An organization that deals with money, goods, and services
B. Love thy self and thy country
C. A particular system of faith and worship
D. Providing meaning and purpose to life

15. Which of the following is not a manifest function of education?

A. Reduce the level of unemployment C. Selection and allocation of adult education
B. Political and social integration D. Inculcation of norms and values in society

16. Childcare and social control are what functions of education?

A. Non-formal B. Manifest C. Latent D. Formal

17. What does education do for a person?

A. It helps us build opinions and have points of view on things in life.
B. It gives us knowledge of the world around us and changes it into something better.
C. It helps us better understand things and life
D. All of the above

18. Why is education important to everyone?

A. To be able to get a job abroad.
B. To be able to use education to step on someone.
C. To be knowledgeable in different aspects of life.
D. To fight for the country if somebody tries to colonies.

19. What social institution was recognizes the union between two or more individuals that typically involves sexual and
economic rights and duties?
A. Government B. Economy C. School D. Marriage

20. What do you call to a marriage in which a widow marries the brother or the nearest male relative of the deceased
spouse?
A. Endogamy B. Exogamy C. Levirate D. Sororate

21. What is a polygamy kind of marriage?

A. Marriage of a man to two or more women
B. Marriage of a woman to two or more men
C. Marriage to more than one partner at a time
D. Marriage to only one spouse

22. What is the difference of matriarchal family from patriarchal family?

A. Patriarchal family is a family in which the couple and their children resides at the male’s residence while
matriarchal family is a family that resides in female’s family or residence
B. Patriarchal family is a family where the authority or power resides with men while matriarchal is a family where
power and authority reside at women.
C. Patriarchal family is a family where the male’s descent is only known by the children or family while matriarchal
is a family where the female’s descent is the only known to the children or family
D. Patriarchal family is a family in which the father has the only source of income in the family while matriarchal
family is a family in which the mother has the only source of income in the family
23. Nico and Nica are newlywed couple. They have agreed to settle down far from each other families’ residence. Nico’s
origin was in Manila while Nica is an aborigine of Baguio. They have agreed to start their family in a small town of
Masbate for both of them are working there. What family structure is described?
A. Nuclear B. Neolocal C. Bilineal D. Egalitarian

24. Family Balacoback is a happy family. No dull moment have passed each day for most of their closest relative are living
with them such as their cousins and aunts. Family Balacoback is what kind of family according to structure?
A. Nuclear B. Extended C. Classic Extended D. Modified extended

25. It is the custom of marrying outside a community, clan, or tribe.

A.Endogamy B. Exogamy C. Monogamy D. Polygamy

26. If a woman finds out that her spouse has someone else, she gets easily irritated, pissed off and will think for a legal
solution to correct the mistake. This is because every couple is expecting to have only one spouse, a husband and a wife.
If one has an affair to someone, it is viewed as immoral by the many. This situation portrays that marriage here in the
Philippines is what?
A. Monogamous B. Polygamous C. Endogamy D. Exogamy

27. Born-Again, Seventh - day Adventist and Baptist are examples of what type of religious organization?
A. Ecclesia B. Denominations C. Sect D. Cults

28. Iglesia ni Cristo, Roman Catholic and Protestantism are examples of what type of religious organization?
A. Ecclesia B. Denominations C. Sect D. Cults

29. A person who gives importance on the sacrament of marriage, shows what point of view of marriage?
A. Functionalist view B. Conflict view C. Legal point of view D. Religious point of view

30. Allah is for Islam; Christ is for Catholics and Yahweh for Judaism and this shows what type of religion?
A. Monotheistic B. Polytheistic C. Henotheistic D. None of these

31. Which of the following issues in politics is similar to the crime committed by Senator Trillanes during Arroyo’s
administration in which he was imprison for several years with his colleagues because of what they have done in Manila
Peninsula?
A. Creation of power elites and social class C. Military violation of human rights
B. Military Coup d’ etat D. Corrupt and unjust administration of justice

32. The power of politicians to make and impose law is what kind of source of power?
A. Informational B. Coercive C. Referent D. Legitimate

33. New People’s Army (NPA) holds a power which is not accepted as legitimate by those without power as the power
holders rule without the consent of those they govern. What type of power does it interpret?
A. Reward power B. Expert power C. Coercion D. Authority

34. Politicians who have been elected during elections to hold power and declared by the Commission of Elections hold
what type of authority?
A. Legal rational B. Charismatic C. Traditional D. Coercive

35 – 37. If you will be elected as the President of the Philippines, what reform (pagbabago) in the Philippine educational
system will you do or change that will benefit the lives of the people in the society? 3 points
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38 – 40. How will you promote education as a human right? 3 points

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Reference:

Evasco, K. Understanding Culture, Society and Politics. Nuprint Master. 2016.

Prepared by: Noted:

ARCHIMEDES M. LABOR MONINA S. FERNANDEZ

Teacher I Substitute Principal I