SECOND PERIODICAL TEST IN DISCIPLINE AND IDEAS IN SOCIAL SCIENCES

HUMSS 1 AND 2
Name: __________________________________ Date: __________
Year and Section: ______________ Number of Items: 50 Score: ________

Direction: Read and choose carefully the correct answer on the following questions. Write your
answer on the space provided before the number.

_____1. It is an approach that aims to understand the nature of gender inequality.

a. Hermeneutical phenomenology
b. Human-environment system
c. Feminist theory
d. Sikolohiyang Pilipino
_____2. The concept of written history or important events chronologically.

a. Myth
b. Historia
c. Kasaysayan
d. Bagong kasaysayan

_____3. They are the Filipino educated class during the 19th century when the Philippines was
still part of the Spanish Empire, they were also called the Ilustrados.

a. Bright ones
b. Light ones
c. Enlightened ones
d. Obedient ones

_____4. He is the Father of Pantayong Pananaw.

a. Zeus A. Salazar
b. Virgilio G. Enriquez
c. Martin Heidegger
d. J. Howard Miller

_____5. Considered as the first Filipino collection of poems.

a. Los Itas
b. El Consejo de los Dioses
c. Ninay
d. Sampaguitas y Poesias Varias
_____6. It is an approach that deals with broader studies into the intricate nature of mutual
interactions and feedbacks between humans on the environment and the effect of the
environment on humans.
a. Pantayong Pananaw
b. Profession
 c. Human-environment system
d. Marxism
_____7. In Antigua Civilizacion Tagalog, Paterno descrided the _____.
a. Youth as an integral part of nation-building and hope of the country
b. Initial phase of the development of the “Luzonic Islands” and tries to show the
resemblance of this native civilization to the early cultures of European nations
c. Customs of the Negritos where Tagalog and the Visayans were said to have evolved
d. Pre-colonial past of the Tagalog until its downfall because of the arrival of the
Spaniards
_____8. One of the key concepts in understanding Sikolohiyang Pilipino is very different from its
English counterparts since it connotes “unity of the self and others”.
a. Kapuwa
b. Pakikipagkapuwa
c. Pakikisama
d. Pakikisangkot
_____9. What is the ultimate goal of feminism?
a. To empower women to have equal opportunities to make equal choices
b. To focus only on the rights of women ignoring men
c. To cater only those middle class women
d. To prove that they can do everything without the help of men
_____10. It is one of the key concepts in Human-environment systems that refers to the ability
for something to be maintained.
a. Feedback mechanism
b. Sustainability
c. Landscape
d. Spatial distribution
_____11. He wrote El Individuo Tagalog y su Arte en la Exposicion Historica-Americana, it talks
about Tagalog notions of personhood, gender, art, and psychology.
a. Pedro Paterno
b. Isabelo de los Reyes
c. Andress Bonifacio
d. Jose Rizal
_____12. It is an approach that refers to the art of understanding and the theory of interpretation,
it emphasizes the importance of language, the type of questioning, the value of prejudice, and
historicality.

a. Hermeneutical phenomenology
b. Pilipinolohiya
c. Sikolohiyang Pilipino
d. Feminist theory
_____13. She is considered as the Mother of Women’s Liberation.
a. Mary Wollstonecraft
b. Simone de Beauvoir
 c. J. Howard Miller
d. Betty Friedan
_____14. Refers to a person’s history or background.
a. Preunderstanding
b. Biography
c. Historicality
d. Hermeneutics
_____15. It is what Filipino value and it means accepting and dealing with the other person as an
equal.
a. Pakikilahok
b. Pakikisangkot
c. Pakikipagkapuwa
d. Pakikiisa
_____16. In 1986, he/she restored democracy in the country after more than two decades of
authoritarian rule by the strongman Ferdinand Marcos.
a. President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo
b. President Joseph Estrada
c. President Rodrigo Duterte
d. President Corazon Aquino
_____17. It is one of the key concepts in Hermeneutic Phenomenology which refers to a
meaning or organization of a culture that are already there before we understand.

a. Historicality
b. Gender ideology
c. Preunderstanding
d. Landscape

_____18. Concept related to sustainability that has the meaning of “the largest size that the
resources permit”.
a. Carrying capacity
b. Resilience
c. Stability
d. Feedback mechanism

_____19. He is an American geographer who believes that any landscape is composed not only
of what we see, but what we know. His most important work is the four-volume series “The
Shaping of America”.
a. Carl Sauer
b. Donald Meinig
c. Marry Wollstonecraft
d. Hans-Georg Gadamer
_____20. It is the oldest of all feminist theories, it argues that since women are rational like men,
they should be given equal opportunities with men like access to education, the right to vote, and
be elected in public office.
a. Radical feminism
 b. Socialist feminism
c. Marxist feminism
d. Liberal feminism

_____21. In determining the type of economic system, social scientists may proceed in
investigating four major directions. Which of the following is not included?
a. Economic theory
b. Methodology and measurement
c. Social distribution
d. Economic history
_____22. It is a major topic under the heading of social organization being an area of study of
sociology and also an interdisciplinary study according to the eminent Filipino sociologist Belen
Medina.
a. Family
b. Society
c. Country
d. World
_____23. The process by which towns and cities are formed and become larger as more and
more people begin living and working in central areas.
a. Migration
b. Urbanization
c. Modernization
d. Industrialization

_____24. Choose one of the aims of La Liga Filipina in helping Filipinos to have equal rights and
freedom under the cruelness of Spaniards?
a. The member who shall have suffered any loss shall be aided
b. The unity of whole archipelago into one compact, vigorous, and homogenous body
c. The member of his son who, while not having means shall show application and
great capacity, shall be sustained
d. The introduction of machines and industries, new or necessary in the country, shall
be favored

_____25. Isabelo de los Reyes books like Prehistoria de Filipinas and El-folklore Filipino were
initially published as newspaper articles aimed at _____.
a. Going back to Filipino roots, in establishing the Filipino identity, and in indigenizing
social ideas
b. Contributing to the growing literature of Filipino culture studies and history
c. Examining Spanish discourse about the Philippines and write about history of the
Philippines despite the unscientific background
d. Narrating the uniqueness of Filipino culture and the dynamism of Philippine history
with infusions of foreign civilizations
_____26. It is a program that discovered the importance of knowing and understanding the
culture, indigenous identity, and the environment of the people the organization is helping, to aid
in carrying out its program.
a. UNCEFI
 b. UNFICE
c. UNICEF
d. UNFECI

_____27. It is an approach that Filipino perspective in historiography which advocates a

discourse to be carried out only by, and among, Filipinos using their own language.
a. Sikolohiyang Pilipino
b. Filipino values
c. Hermeneutical phenomenology
d. Pantayong pananaw
_____28. When one is “walang pakikisama”, others might say that he/she _____.

a. Will eventually learn how to get along

b. Is considered hopeless, the worst kind of person
c. Will have unity of the self and others
d. Is considered shy, have fear in communicating to others
_____29. Why is it important to study the interconnectedness between humans and the
environment in Human-environment systems?
a. To have faith that human will change
b. To hoped that by a critical analysis of our role in environmental sustainability, we will
have glimpse on how humans have transformed the environment and vice-versa
c. To focus about the changes that happened in our world
d. To know what are the cause of these global environmental change that increased in
the past decade.

_____30. It is the newspaper of KKK that personified and appears to a youth mired in darkness
and introduces herself as “the origin of all things great, most beautiful and praiseworthy, precious
and dignified, that is possible for humanity”.
a. Kadakilaan
b. Kapayapaan
c. Kaligayahan
d. Kalayaan
_____31. He is the “Father of the Philippine Revolution” and one of the greatest Filipino heroes.
a. Jose Rizal
b. Andres Bonifacio
c. Emilio Jacinto
d. Graciano Lopez-Jaena
_____32. The state of a person who lacks material possessions, such as food, shelter, or
clothing.
a. Corruption
b. Over population
c. Family problem
d. Poverty
_____33. It refers to the sociocultural attributes associated with being a man and a woman and
the different roles that society assigns to men and women.
a. Sex
b. Gender inequality
c. Gender
d. Gender ideology
_____34. The German historian Leopold von Ranke argued that _____.
a. “no proof, no history”
b. “no life, no history”
c. “no document, no history”
d. “no faith, no history”
_____35. It pertains to the fundamental tenets of behavioral patterns of humans within the ambit
of economic system.
a. Economic policy
b. Economic history
c. Economic theory
d. Economic distribution
_____36. One of the Four Philippine Values that means being taken by one’s fellows for what a
person is, and is treated based on his or her social status and manifested when one is not
rejected or criticized by others.
a. Reciprocity
b. Social acceptance
c. Manileno’s mainsprings
d. Entrepreneurship in manufacturing
_____37. “We Perspective” means _____.

a. Pansilang pananaw
b. Pangkayong pananaw
c. Pangkaming pananaw
d. Pantayong pananaw

_____38. On what section of the 1987 Philippine Constitution states that “the State shall promote
a just and dynamic social order that will ensure the prosperity and independence of the nation
and free the people from poverty through policies that provide adequate social services, promote
full employment, a rising standard of living, and an improved quality of life for all.”

a. Section 11
b. Section 8
c. Section 9
d. Section 12

_____39. The acquisition of money in dishonest or questionable ways.

a. Graft
b. Taxes
c. Democracy
d. Poverty
____40. It is an important concept in the study of coupled Human-environment systems, refers
not only to the beautiful spot that you view from a scenic perspective but the mixture of
environmental and human phenomena that coexist together in a specific place on Earth.

a. Feedback mechanism
b. Sustainability
c. Landscape
d. Resilience

_____41. What book/work did Marry Wollstonecraft publish, which became a ground-breaking
work in feminism?
a. The Second Sex
b. A Vindication of the Rights of Women
c. The Feminine Mystique
d. The Women Oppression
_____42. He is the so-called “Brains of the Katipunan”, the right-hand man of Andres Bonifacio,
“eyes of the Katipunan”, and “soul of the revolution”.
a. Emilio Aguinaldo
b. Juan Luna
c. Emilio Jacinto
d. Pedro Paterno
(43-45) Consider the following scenarios. In the context of Spanish colonialism of the Philippines
from 16th century to 19th century, which language will be used in the following situations? Choose
the correct answer from the choices below.

a. Filipino
b. Spanish
c. Mandarin
d. English
_____43. A Spaniard talking to a fellow Spaniard about Philippine culture.
_____44. A native talking to a fellow native about Philippine culture.
_____45. A Madrid-educated mestizo talking to a Spaniard about Philippine culture.
_____46. A map which represents the perceptions and knowledge a person has of an area.

a. Thematic map
b. Spatial processes
c. Mental map
d. Spatial distribution
_____47. Which of the following has the wrong meaning?
a. Pakikiisa (being one with)
b. Pakikisalamuha (interaction with)
c. Pakikisama (being along with)
d. Pakikipagpalagayang-loob (in accord with)
_____48. They are integral in planning and formulating policies aimed at providing the needed
stimulus to boost the economy.
 a. Socialists
b. Economists
c. Scientists
d. Specialists
_____49. It pertains to more than one discipline.
a. Interdisciplinary
b. Human ecology
c. Ecological geography
d. Transdisciplinary
_____50. What does reciprocity mean?

a. Being taken by one’s fellows for what a person is

b. Being interested for the sake of family
c. Being able to accept any task, intentionally sought for or not, there should be a return
d. Being a person who is work-oriented