SOCOAL SCIENCE

1. Which best describes the division of the 6. Tax imposed on all employed and
legislature into the Senate and the House practicing professionals
of Representatives? A. Income tax
A. Bicameralism B. Reas estate tax
B. Bipartisanship C. Community tax
C. Unicameralism D. Inheritance tax
D. Co-legislative powers CORRECT ANSWER : A
CORRECT ANSWER : A
7. Which policy of the state provides
2. Who was the last Spanish Governal- preferential attention to the welfare of the
General of the Philippines? less fortunate members of the Philippines
A. Ramon Blanco society?
B. Diego de los Rios A. Social justice
C. Basilio Agustin B. Criminal justice
D. Fermin Jaudenes C. Distributive justice
CORRECT ANSWER : B D. Bill of rights
CORRECT ANSWER : A
3. Which demonstrates
interconnectedness between social and 8. What is the possible consequence of
environmental injustice? meritocracy in a social system?
A. Industrialized countries’ toxic disposed A. Rule by the wealthy and powerful.
to poorer countries. B. Leadership by people of talent.
B. Temperature warming and rise of sea C. Culture of elitism.
level. D. Rule by those with noble birth.
C. Desertification of verdant regions. CORRECT ANSWER : B
D. Extinction of rare animal species.
CORRECT ANSWER : A 9. Which constitutional safeguard
prevents one branch of government from
4. Participation in governance, including becoming powerful or abusive?
the right to vote and seek public office is A. Impeachment
secured within the citizenry’s B. Ombudsman
________________. C. Check and Balance
A. Political rights D. Laissez Faire
B. Right of suffrage CORRECT ANSWER : C
C. Socio-civic rights
D. Right to due process 10. What is the predominant characteristic
CORRECT ANSWER : A of eastern religion?
A. Optimism
5. Participation in governance, including B. Secularism
the right to vote and seek public office is C. Mysticism
secured within the citizenry’s D. Pessimism
___________________. CORRECT ANSWER : A
A. Right to due process C. political rights
B. Socio-civic rights 11. What economic policy in 16th century
C. political rights in Europe influenced Spain’s expansionist
D. right of suffrage policy to discover new lands?
CORRECT ANSWER : C A. Spice-trading
B. Capitalism A. Marcelo H. Del Pilar
C. Mercantilism B. Emilio Aguinaldo
D. Colonialism C. Andres Bonifacio
CORRECT ANSWER : C D. Jose Rizal
CORRECT ANSWER : C
12. The righ invoked in the “writ of habeas
data” is ________________________. 17. What did Nelson Mandela mean to
A. The right to information privacy. South African and the rest of thw world?
B. Right to gather information data. He gave up armed struggle and chose the
C. The right to search for information. peaceful way to freedom.
D. Right to transmit data. Nelson Mandela is a world leader who is a
CORRECT ANSWER : A model of _________________.
A. Black supremacy
13. Whose philosphy advocate the use of B. Armed struggle
reason in understanding the existence of C. Non-violence
God? D. Imprisonment
A. St. Benedict CORRECT ANSWER : C
B. St. Peter
C. St. John 18. Which band played the Marcha
D. St. Thomas Aquinas Nacional Filipino of the national anthem
CORRECT ANSWER : D on June 12,
1898 during the declaration of Philippine
14. Which is a check on the executive Independence?
department by the judiciary in the principle A. Pangkat Kawayan ng Pateros
check and balance among branches of B. Kawit Cavite Band
the government? C. Malabon Band
A. Impeachment of the Chief of Justice of D. San Franciscodel Monte Band
the Supreme Court. CORRECT ANSWER : C
B. Determining the salary of the Presiden
and Vice-President. 19. Agency tasked to nurture Philippine
C. Declaring a legislative measure Arts
unconsitutional. A. NBI
D. Declaring an act of the President B. CCP
unconstitutional. C. NCAA
CORRECT ANSWER : D D. NCCA
CORRECT ANSWER : D
15. Which is the fundamental law of the
land? 20. The ultimate objective of the
A. Bill of Rights comprehensive Agrarian Reform is:
B. Constitution A. Abolish share tenancy in favor of lease
C. Civil Criminal Code tenancy.
D. Ten Commandments B. Distribute all arable lands to the
CORRECT ANSWER : B landless.
C. Establish once cultivated land.
16. Gregoria de Jesus saw her husband D. Ensure the cultivation of an idle lands.
________ charge for treason by fellow CORRECT ANSWER : B
Filipinos who have formed the Philippine
Revolutionary force to fight Spain. 21. Which was the first labour union in the
country founded by Isabelop de los Reyes
on July 1901?
A. Association of the Philippine Labor
B. Union Obrera Democratica
C. Union Trabajadores de Filipinos
D. Association de Compania Tabacalera
CORRECT ANSWER : B

22. Through the Galleon Trade (1565-

1815), the Philippines had extended
contacts with ________.
A. Spain
B. Spice Island
C. China
D. Mexico
CORRECT ANSWER : D

23. How many days are needed after

which an enrolled bill becomes a law?
A. 75 days
B. 90 days
C. 60 days
D. 30 days
CORRECT ANSWER : D

24. What law passed on August 1909 by

the U.S. Congress established a partial
free trade in the Philippines?
A. Bell Trace
B. Payne-Aldrich Act
C. Treaty on General Relations
D. Underwood-Simmons Act
CORRECT ANSWER : B

25. In a martriarchal family which family

member plays the leading role?
A. Grandmother
B. Mother
C. Oldest sister
D. Aunt
CORRECT ANSWER : B