AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION AND COMMUNICATION EXAM

Post Test

1. Which of the following is not the definition of Agricultural c. Leadership

Extension? d. interests and needs
a. Non-formal system of education, which organized to provide 5. Majority of the Filipinos lives in this area and are involved in
rural people useful and practical knowledge/technology in agricultural economy
agriculture and teaching them apply these on their a. Urban area
farms/homes b. Rural area
b. Teaching and influence process c. Rurban area
c. Technology transfer d. Agricultural area
d. The introduction of “technical know-how” to the farming 6. This refers to the extent to which an innovation or its results can
population to increase agricultural production and thereby be seen
raise the standard of living. a. compatibility
b. relative advantage

2. This is considered as a lifelong process of learning c. observability

a. Education d. triability

b. Administration 7. This is the principle of extension, which considers the level of

c. Management knowledge and economic status of the people

d. Extension a. Grassroot approach

3. When the Republic Act No. 3844 otherwise known as Land b. Cooperation

Reform Code of the Philippines was approved in 1963, The c. Participation

Bureau of Agricultural Extension was renamed d. Leadership

a. Agricultural Productivity Commission 8. This is known for being basically pictorial using drawings and/

b. Department of Agrarian Reform or photographs with a text as brief and vivid as possible. Its
c. Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources size and appearance are similar to a poster but often contains
d. Department of Local Government and Community more written material and a variety of information.
Development a. newsletter

4. This principle considers the involvement of the people in the b. circular letter

planning, implementation and evaluation of extension activities c. wall paper

a. Participation d. sign

b. Cooperation
9. These are systematic displays of models, specimens, charts, 14. Extension work in the Philippines started in 1565 thru the
posters, etc. in a sequence to create awareness and interest establishment of modern farms by this group
to increase people’s knowledge and to stimulate action. a. Spaniards
a. newsletter b. Americans
b. exhibits c. Japanese
c. wall paper d. Taiwanese
d. publications 15. The degree in which an innovation or new idea is superior to
the one it intends to replace is
10. The Philippines is composed of regions a. Compatibility
a. 13 b. Observability
b. 17 c. Complexity
c. 20 d. Relative advantage
d. 15 16. This was created on April 24, 1952 with signing of Republic Act
11. At this stage of the adoption process, the individual develops 680
curiosity or concern in the new idea/practice. a. Bureau of Agricultural Extension
b. Agricultural Productivity Development
a. awareness
b. interest c. Rice and Corn Administration
d. Presidential Assistance for Community Development
c. evaluation
17. A moderated meeting in which a limited number of experts
d. trial
12. The first person in a locality to adopt an innovation are called
or specialists representing different fields of discipline give
a. early adopters
short presentations on the same subject.
a. informal group discussion
b. innovators
b. panel discussion
c. early majority
c. general meetings
d. laggards
d. symposium
13. An attribute or characteristics of a technology/innovation
18. The Agricultural and Fisheries Modernization Act of 1997 was
that refers to the extent to which a new idea or practice fits created by this law
into the farmer’s view about what ought to be, what he does a. RA 8435
on a farm and how he does it. b. RA 8345
a. Compatibility
c. RA 4385
b. Relative advantage
d. RA 4835
c. Complexity
19. This involves the meeting individually with the farmer at the
d. Triability
farm or home to give an extension worker an opportunity to
work out practical solutions to specific problems.
 a. Farm and home visit c. democratic
b. Model farmer d. autocratic
c. Informal contact 25. This is the best method of extension teaching
d. Office calls a. Demonstration
20. The art or scale of performance is referred to as b. Field trip
a. Method c. Farm and home visits
b. Technique d. A variety of methods
c. Device 26. The new paradigm in agriculture is to look at farming as a/an
d. Instruction materials a. way of life
b. family traditions to uphold
21. An extension approach, which promotes the production of
certain important crop by emphasizing the available c. business

production factors d. art

27. An extension worker is rolled into one being such of the
a. area approach
b. farming system approach
following except
a. Adviser
c. commodity approach
b. planner
d. participatory extension approach
c. insulter
22. These methods of extension teaching are particularly useful
d. teacher
in making large group of people aware of new ideas and
28. When one’s action is not according to one’s beliefs the feeling
practices or alerting them to sudden emergencies.
a. group
that will be experienced is called
a. Affective resonance
b. individual
b. Cognitive dissonance
c. mass
d. media
c. Active-reactive-resonance
23. Communication barriers are so called because they d. Experiential imbalance
29. Process through which an individual pass from first knowledge
a. accelerate
b. hasten
of it until he confirms its use is called
a. evaluation
c. facilitate
b. innovation-decision
d. impede
24. Extension is described as this process because it starts where
c. implementation
the people are and with what they have and gradually works d. planning
30. The element of the communication process, which generates
up to what they ought to be
a. educational
the development-oriented technology, is
a. channel
b. continuous
b. receiver
 c. message b. attitude toward receiver/source
d. source c. socio-cultural environment of the teaching-learning
31. Possible consequence/outcome of the communication process
process is called d. subject matter to be taught
a. effects 37. This stage refers to the large scale and continuous use for the
b. receiver technology, characterized by feeling of satisfaction on the part
c. message of the user
d. source a. evaluation
32. Which of the following is/ are goals of AFMA? b. adoption
a. Poverty Alleviation and Social Equity c. interest
b. Global Competitiveness d. trial
c. Food Security 38. Which of the following does not affect the choice of an
d. A, B and C extension method?
33. First and foremost an extension worker must be a. facilities available
a. client-centered b. interests and abilities of extensionist

b. reward-centered c. subject matter/technology taught

c. self-centered d. teaching techniques
d. innovation-centered 39. The guiding principle in integration of the community organizer

34. The Bureau of Agricultural Extension was created by virtue of is ____

Republic Act No. 680 on a. Rapport building among the people
a. August 8, 1963 b. Cooperation
b. July 16, 1952 c. Unification
c. June 16, 1952 d. Conversion
d. November 1, 1972 40. Every barangay has IRA wherein 20 percent development fund
35. The law that decentralizes the authority to manage and is allocated. IRA means
supervise the country’s extension service to the provincial, a. internal Rural Appraisal
municipal and village levels is b. Internal Revenue Allotment
a. RA 7016 c. Internal Rapid Appraisal
b. RA 7601 d. None of the Above
c. RA 7160 41. Which of the following is not among the barriers in
d. RA 7610 communication?
36. The values, standards, perceptions and positions of the a. Sensational dimension
extension officer and farmer are part of the b. Social dimension
a. attitude of the source toward the subject matter
 c. Cultural dimension detailed _ with an approved budgetary requirement
d. Time and space dimension a. Work plan/plan of work
42. Information superhighway is the term give to the b. Proposal
a. South/North expressways c. Monitoring plan
b. Lightrail superhighway d. Outline
c. Internet 48. The technology can be described as effective if the
d. Use of cell phones magnitude of expected benefits like increased net income,
43. LAN means more employment, higher foreign exchanged
a. Land Area Network earnings/savings are met
b. Local Area Network a. Technically feasible
c. Latin American Network b. Economically stable
d. Local Art Network c. Socially acceptable
44. The evaluation stage of the adoption process is sometimes d. Environmental
called 49. The technology helps maintain ecological balance, does not
a. confirmation stage have harmful environmental consequences, it is characterized
b. implementation stage to have
c. knowledge stage a. Technically feasible
d. Mental trial stage b. Economically feasible
45. This is the evolving planning strategy wherein low-level c. Socially acceptable
officials of the barangay or rural people and members of the d. Environmental soundness
community participate in planning 50. In the Philippines, agricultural extension works started in the
a. Top level planning 19th century through the induction of
b. Grassroots planning a. Communal irrigation System
c. Joint planning b. Cooperative organization for farmers
d. Team planning c. “granjas modelos” (model farms)
46. Programs/ Projects must be this means continuity and d. sorjan farming
viability of projects for a long time and with minimum
destruction from the environment
a. Sustainable
b. Adaptable
c. Productive
d. Acceptable
47. The agency/barangay development plan is made
operational and ready for implementation by preparing a