Pretest-Understanding Culture, Society & Politics
Pretest-Understanding Culture, Society & Politics
Direction: Multiple Choices. Encircle the letter of the best answer. NO ERASURE.
1. It is the identity that is tied to being part of a nation or country, group of people who share the same history, traditions and
language
a. Spirituality
b. Nationality
c. Individuality
d. Scarcity
2. Nationality can be acquired by being born in a country or by the process of legal applications called __________
a. Enculturation
b. Industrialization
c. Naturalization
d. Socializatio
5. _____ is that complex whole which encompasses beliefs, practices, values, attitudes, laws, norms, artifacts, symbols, knowledge,
and everything that a person learns and shares as member of society
a. Culture
b. Politics
c. Society
d. Values
6. It is the scientific study of society, including patterns of social relationships, social interaction and culture
a. Anthropology
b. Sociology
c. Dynasty
d. Culture
7. This is the compilation of ways and means by which humans interact with each other within the confines of a society
a. Social media
b. Social war
c. Social interaction
d. Social gathering
9. The capacity to directly oppose your thumb with your other fingers is an exclusive trait of humans. It is called
a. Grasp
b. Clapping
c. Intelligence
d. Finger grip
10. This industry is also called the stone tool industry, is characterized by the use of “hard water-worn creek cobbles made out of
volcanic rock.”
a. Oldowan Industry
b. Acheulian Industry
c. Mousterian Industry
d. Aurignacian Industry
11. It refers to the process by which an individual is oriented and taught by his or her society’s norms
a. Learning
b. Socialization
c. Gathering
d. Orientation
12. They were labeled as such due to their display of animalistic behavior upon their discovery
a. Feral children
b. Lost children
c. Abandoned children
d. Wild children
13. The compilation of the values, attitudes, and beliefs that individuals receive from their family, peers, and community enables
them to create a personal identity that simultaneously separates them from the other members of the group and incorporates
them in its system
a. Personality
b. Identification
c. Reunion
d. Individualization
15. One of the famous caser of feral child is ____, he is popularly known as the “boy of Aveyron”
a. Wolverine
b. Viktor
c. Kingkong
d. Tarzan
17. The secondary biological component of humans that allowed for culture is the developed brain
a. True
b. False
18. The hand of a human has fingers that are straight, as compared with the curve ones of the other primates
a. True
b. False
20. Our forms of social ineractions are always within the context of our status and we don’t interact with people
a. True
b. False
23. Culture is a tool for survival that humans use in response to the pressures of their environment
a. True
b. False
24. The dynamism of culture is due to the changing needs of humans as they interpret and survive in their environment
a. True
b. False
25. Politics studies society to promote social change, create new theories and document human behavior
a. True
b. False
27. A ___ consists of teo or more people who identify with and interact with one another
a. Social group
b. Financial group
c. Communal group
d. Different group
30. The ___ is a small group whose members share personal and lasting relationships
a. Social group
b. Primary group
c. Society group
d. Secondary group
31. The ___ is a large and impersonal social group whose members pursue a specific goal or activity
a. Social group
b. Primary group
c. Society group
d. Secondary group
32. The most important primary group in any society is the ____
a. Church
b. Malls
c. School
d. Family
33. ___ a social group that serves as a point of reference in making evaluations and decisions
a. Social group
b. Primary group
c. Reference group
d. Secondary group
34. ___ is a social group toward which a member feels respect and loyalty
a. In-group
b. Out-group
c. Primary group
d. Secondary group
35. ___ is a social group toward which a person feels sense of competition or opposition
a. In-group
b. Out-group
c. Primary group
d. Secondary group
36. Reference group is considered as a primary group, as well as groups that we do not belong to, as in the case of a person
following fashion styles described in a fashion magazine.
a. True
b. False
37. ___ is a group containing people who come into occasional contact but lack a sense of boundaries and belonging
a. In-group
b. Out-group
c. Society
d. Network
38. Living in a society implies that we are not governed by a set of rules. Some rules are cannot be imposed while others are
negotiated
a. True
b. False
39. ___ is a social institution found in all societies that unites people in cooperative groups to care for one another, including any
children
a. Family
b. Teachers
c. Relatives
d. Students
40. The ___ is a family composed of one or two parents and their children. It is also known as conjugal family
a. Traditional family
b. Extended family
c. Nuclear family
d. Transnational family
41. ___ is a family composed of parents and children as well as other kin. It is also known as a consanguine family
a. Traditional family
b. Extended family
c. Nuclear family
d. Reconstituted family
42. ___ is a family whose composition and form of emotional care differ from those of the nuclear or extended family
a. Transnational family
b. Reconstituted family
c. Extended family
d. Traditional family
43. Family ties are also called ___, a social bond based on common ancestry, marriage, or adoption
a. Bonding
b. Relatives
c. Reunion
d. Kinship
44. ___ refers to parent-child relations such as the godparent-godchild relationship established through the baptism ceremony of
the Catholics
a. Ritual kinship
b. Bands
c. Tribes
d. Reunion
45. In many areas of the world, small groups of people connected mainly by kinship ties organize themselves into a community. This
form of organization is called ___
a. Relatives
b. Bands
c. Kinship
d. Reunion
48. ___ is “the population of groups formed for collective purpose primarily outside of the state and marketplace
a. Economy
b. Civil society
c. Nonstate actors
d. Education
ANSWER KEY
1. B 26. A
2. C 27. A
3. A 28. B
4. D 29. C
5. A 30. B
6. B 31. D
7. C 32. D
8. D 33. C
9. D 34. A
10. A 35. B
11. B 36. B
12. A 37. D
13. D 38. B
14. C 39. A
15. B 40. C
16. A 41. B
17. B 42. B
18. A 43. D
19. A 44. A
20. B 45. B
21. A 46. C
22. A 47. C
23. A 48. B
24. A 49. D
25. B 50. A