General Education (1-50)

1. “We listened to a LOQUACIOUS speaker.” The capitalized word

means___________.

A. Quiet

B. Simple

C. Verbose

D. Lousy

2. “Because of PROFANITY the program was suspended from television.” The

capitalized word means?

A. Obscenity

B. History

C. Decency

D. Falsehood

3. Vanessa has not forgotten that she was betrayed by her best friend and carried
such _________in her deeply offended heart for a long time.

a. Rancor

b. offense

c. Souvenir

d. Doubt

 
4. Even when her friends betray her. Perla bears no rancor in her heart because she
is not_________.

a. Embarrassed

b. Insulter

c. Bitter

d. Consoled

5. The _____________ lesson of the story is that honesty is the best policy.

a. Morality

b. Moral

c. Moralism

d. Morale

6. What figure of speech is: “O wild west wind!”

a. Irony

b. hyperbole

c. apostrophe

d. Metaphor

7. What is the figure of speech in the sentence: “The sun was a ball of fire over the
mountain”?

a. Personification

b. Hyperbole
c. Metaphor

d. Simile

8. “If you want the moon I will get it for you” is an example of ______________.

a. hyperbole

c. Irony

b. personification

d. synecdoche

9. For the synecdoche figurative expression “It was a black tie affair” what is the
equivalent meaning?

a. Party for men only

b. costume party

c. senior citizen’s meeting

d. Formal gathering

10. For the synecdoche figurative expression “My mother has a green thumb. I
can’t wait to show you her garden.” What is the equivalent meaning?

a. She grows a vegetable garden

b. She is good at gardening

c. She takes care of flowering plants

d. She cultivates a garden

 
11. Which of the following is a style of novel written as a series of records that
might include letters, newspaper articles, or diary entries?

A. Fictional diaries

B. Epistolary novels

C. Stream of consciousness

D. First-person narration

12. Imprisoned for 27 years, Nelson Mandela realized his dream of a free and non-
racial South Africa by forgiving his oppressors and negotiating in good faith for
the peaceful transition to democracy. Nelson Mandela demonstrated his trait of
________________.

a. Friendliness

b. Loyalty

c. Forgiving

d. Determination

13. Read the paragraph and answer the item that follows: Nelson Mandela
sacrificed so much in his life-family, friends and a big chunk of his life for thing he
believed in democratic south Africa, with equal rights and beacon of hope for the
rest of the world. Nelson Mandela’s dream for South Africa, which was realized
was______________,

a. Cooperation

b. Supremacy

c. Democracy

d. Unity
 

14. Tis mightier than the mightiest... and one is likened to God when mercy
seasons justice.” The main thought of the excerpt it that ___________________

a. Mercy is only for deserving

c. Mercy is spontaneous and freely given.

b. Mercy comes from the rain.

d. Mercy is limited in extent

15. The public school teacher gives much importance to her pupils’
_________________________.

a. Cleanliness

b. posture

c. Absence

d. Study

16. Select the most appropriate heading for the paragraph: “Stephen Crane was
born in 1971 in New Jersey, but his family settled in New York. His father, a
Methodist minister, died when Stephen was nine years old. He came to know New
York through its slum and street life, particularly in Bowery.”

a. Stephen’s family and boyhood

b. Stephen’s genealogy

c. Stephen as an Orphan

d. The New York Slums

 
17. He wrote ‘The Open Boat’ as a result of a shipwreck he experienced on his
way to Cuba to report a war in progress there”?

a. A shipwreck

b. Stephen’s Writings

c. The Open Boat

d. Stephen’s educational experience

18. Read the paragraph and answer the item that follows: “As far back as I can
remember, our family had always been an extended one. Our grandmother was the
mainstay in the family the silent strength behind our mother who is her daughter.”
The informal guide and honorary household chief in the extended family is
the________

a. Grandmother

b. aunt

c. father

d. Mother

19. What emotion or feeling is expressed in the following line? To be or not to be,
that is the question. Whether this nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows
of outrageous Fortune, or to take arms against a Sea of Troubles, and by opposing
end them?

a. Sadness

b. Indecision

c. Joy

d. Anger
 

20. Filipino writer whose stories and poems depict Filipino Spanish cultural beliefs
and traditions.

a. Edilberto Tiempo

b. Nick Joaquin

c. N.V.M. Gonzales

d. Bienvenido Santos

21. During the Hispanic era, native and Chinese male mestizos 16-60 years old are
obligated to do forced labor for forty days. How can exemption be made?

a. Getting a cedula personal

b. Give santorum tax to the church

c. paying the bandala

d. paying the falla (exemption fee)

22. Which Spanish policy provided the resettlement of Filipino communities to

form town centers of cabeceras?

A. Assimilation

B. Encomienda system

C. reduccion

D. bandala

 
23. How can Dr. Jose Rizal’s La Liga organization be likened according to present-
day social groups/movements?

A. National political party like LP, NP, Lakas

B. Shadow government

C. National socio-civic organization

D. Street parliamentarian movement

24. During the Spanish period, it refers to the privilege of the provincial governor
to engage in trade.

a. corregimientos

b. alcaldia

c. alcalde mayor

d. indulto de comercio

25. The Philippine president who was known as “the man of the masses” was

A. Fidel Ramos

B. Ramon Magsaysay

C. Manuel Quezon

D. Manuel Roxas

26. One of the pledges of the President of the Philippines is to defend its

A. Constitution
B. Land

C. Citizens

D. Islands

27. A recently awarded national artist for sculpture was

A. Blaco

B. Abueva

C. Alcantara

D. Luna

28. The stage actress who brought fame to her country through her international
awards for her stage performance was:

A. Isay Alvarez

B. Geneva Cruz

C. Lea Salonga

D. Sharon Cuneta

29. Art is product of man’s need to express himself with a high degree of
sensitivity towards his environment. Who is the painter of fisherfolks and farmers
of his hometown in Rizal?

A. Vicente Manansala

B. Carlos V. Francisco

C. Anita Magsaysay

D. Fernando Amorsolo
 

30. Which enacted by the U.S. Congress in 1916 established a bicameral

legislature in the Philippines with the senator (upper house) and House of
Representative (lower house) to be composed of elected Filipinos?

A. Philippine Legislative Law

B. Mckinley Law

C. Cooper Act

D. Jones Law

31. What contained the concrete promise of the Americans to Filipinos

independence “as soon as stable government can be established”?

A. Preamble of the Jones Law

B. Fairfield Bill of 1924

C. Preamble of the Commonwealth Government

D. First 1919 Parliamentary Mission to the U.S.

32. Which power of the state enables it to impose charge of burden upon persons,
property or property of rights for the use and support of the government in its
discharge of appropriate functions?

A. Eminent domain

B. Expropriation

C. Value added tax

D. Taxation

 
33. Which condition contradicts the social justice mandate in the 1987
Constitution?

A. Creation of economic opportunities for all

B. Sense of dependency among citizens

C. Elimination of cultural inequalities

D. Equitable distribution of wealth

34. Which state policy provides for preferential attention to the welfare of the less
fortunate members of the Philippine Society?

A. Bill of Rights

B. Social Justice

C. Distributive Justice

D. Criminal Justice

35. Which best describes the division of the legislature into the Senate and the
House of Representatives?

A. Bicameralism

B. Bipartisanship

C. Unicameralism

D. Co-legislative powers

36. Participation in governance, including the right to vote and seek public office is
secured within the citizenry’s ________________.
A. Political rights

B. Right of suffrage

C. Socio-civic rights

D. Right to due process

37. The right invoked in the “writ of habeas data” is ________________________.

A. The right to information privacy.

B. Right to gather information data.

C. The right to search for information.

D. Right to transmit data.

38. The fundamental right invoked by filling the “writ of amparo” is

________________.

A. The right to due process

B. The right to self-defense

C. The right to be defended by a public attorney

D. The right to life, liberty and security

39. Which is the fundamental law of the Philippines?

A. Bill of Rights

B. Constitution

C. Civil Criminal Code

D. Ten Commandments

40. The economic policy that good action is one that helps the greatest number of
peoples called:

a. Mercantilism

b. Colonialism

c. Capitalism

d. Utilitarianism

41. What kind of cooperative system sells farmer’s agricultural product?

a. Service cooperative

b. Producers cooperative

c. Marketing cooperative

d. Multi-purpose cooperative

42. What are the small hair-like structures that serve a sensory function in
eukaryotic cells?

A. Cilia

B. Centromere

C. actin filaments

D. plasma membrane
 

43. What are the thin structure essential for cytokinesis, amoeboid movement and
changes in cell shape?

A. Myosin filaments

B. Pseudo filaments

C. Monofilaments

D. Microfilaments

44. What is the pressure exerting on the plasma membrane against the cell wall of
bacteria, fungi and plant cells?

A. Osmotic pressure

B. Wall pressure

C. turgor pressure

D. plasma pressure

45. The protein shell of a virus is called____________.

A. Capsid

B. lambda bacteriophage

C. Virions

D. Capsomeres

46. Polysaccharides, triglycerides, polypeptides and nucleic acids are classified as

_______.
A. Carbohydrates

B. Acids and bases

C. Phospholipids

D. Macromolecular

47. This is true of recessive genes:

a. Will only have phenotypic expression if present as a homozygous phenotype

b. Should be paired with a dominant gene for it to be expressed

c. Will prevent a dominant gene from expressing its phenotype

d. Have more superior phenotypic traits

48. Because it will adversely affect the populations’ food supplies, the most
disadvantageous source of energy is ___________________.

A. Wind

B. Sun

C. geo-thermal

D. plants

49. Which of the following is the lowest rank of coal and is otherwise called brown
coal?

A. Bituminous

B. Lignite
C. anthracite

D. charcoal

50. Iron is what type of magnetic material?

A. Non-magnetic

B. Ferromagnetic

C. Paramagnetic

D. Diamagnetic