PASIAN NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL

1ST QUARTER EXAMINATION

UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS

Name:_______________________________ Grade & Section:_____________Score:__________

Direction: Read the questions carefully. Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it on the
space provided before the number.

____1. What is anthropology?

i. It is a compound of two Greek words,’anthropos’ and logos
ii. The systematic and scientific study of human social behavior and all the social systems that such
behavior creates
iii. The comparative study of cultural and social life.
iv. It means ‘reason about human’ or ‘knowledge about humans’
a. i only c. i & ii only
b. i,iii & iv only d. i,ii & iv only
____2. It has been described as one of the two or three most complicated words in the English
language.
a. anthropology c. culture
b. Society d. politics
____3. What is the central problem of anthropology?
a. Balance between similarities and differences.
b. Diversity of human social life.
c. Neglecting the very substantial commonalities that hold humanity together.
d. None of the above
____4. What is Politics?
v. It is the activity through which people make, preserve and amend the general rules under which
they live.
vi. An academic subject
vii. The exercise of power
viii. The exercise of authority
c. i only c. i & ii only
d. i,iii & iv only d. i,ii,iii & iv only
____5. What is a trouble?
i. It is a private matter
ii. Occur within the character of the individual and within the range of his immediate relations with
others;
iii. They have to do with his self and with those limited areas of social life of which he is directly and
personally aware.
a. i only c. i & ii only
b. i,ii & iii only d. i & iii only
____6. Who is the author of The Promise?
a. Thomas Hyland Eriksen c. C. Wrigt Mills
b. Tomas Hyland Eriksen d. C. Wright Mills
____7. They consider the state as the highest of all social organization.
a. Aristotle and Jean Jacques Rousseau c. G.W.F. Hegel and Karl Marx
b. Friedrich Engels and St. Augustine of Hippo d. St. Thomas and Harrison
____8. It is the arena of politics, the prize of politics, and, historically speaking, the residue of past
Politics (Miller 1962,19).
a. Polis c. Education
b. State d. Government
____9. According to St. Augustine of Hippo (A.D. 354-430), a medical Christian scholar, believed that
the state was
i. A necessary evil
ii. Like food: it is needed for a man’s nourishment
iii. Like medicine: it is needed because man is sick
a. i only c. i & ii only
b. i,ii & iii only d. i & iii only
____10. A Christian father who declared that spiritual matters belong to the church, and temporal
matters belong to the state.
a. Pope Gelasius c. St. Augustine of Hippo
b. St. Thomas d. St. Paul
____11. The following are the basic attitudes towards politics, EXCEPT.
a. Active Participation c. Impassive
b. Rejection d. Indifference
____12. According to Plato, what trainings are necessary in becoming a good ruler?
a. physical and mental training c. mental and moral training
b. physical and moral training d. physical, mental and moral training
____13. It is the most important factor that affects active participation or alienation of the political unit.
a. size c. time
b. small scale d. large scale
____14. What is the most sought-after form of the government?
a. totalitarian c. authoritarian
b. democracy d. federal
____15. Complete the statement of Claude Levi-Strauss, to say that societies function is _________,
but to say that everything in a society is functional, is_____________.
a. trivia: absorb c. absorb: trivia
b. absurd: trivial d. trivial: absurd
____16. A 20th political philosopher, who defined political power as ‘acting in concert’.
c. Hannah Arendt c. David Easton
d. Samuel Johnson d. Aristotle
____17. Which is NOT the view of politics?
i. as the art of government
ii. as public affairs
iii. as compromise and dissensus
iii. as power and the distribution of resources
a. i only c. i & ii only
b. iii only d. i,ii,iii & iv only
____18. A city – state, that often portrayed as the cradle of democratic government.
a. Greece c. Athens
a. Africa d. none of the above
____19. The word ‘politics’ is derived from__________.
a. pulis c. pollis
b. polis d. polish
____20. A political philosopher, who said that “Politics is not a science…but an art,”
c. Aristotle c. Niccolo Machiavelli
d. Hannah Arendt d. Chancellor Bismarck

PART II: MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE

Write TRUE if the statement is correct. If the statement is wrong write FALSE, underline the word/s that made it
incorrect and supply the correct answer on the space provided.

_________________21. Social structure defined as the dynamic aspect of structure.

_________________22. Social network refer to a set of relationships activated for a particular end,
with necessarily being organized around a single person.
_________________23. Social structure may thus be perceived as the matrix of society, emptied of
humans.
_________________24. Social organization can be defined as a set of social relations which are
regularly actualized and thus reproduced as a system through interaction.
_________________25. Mary Douglas was the first anthropologist to use the expression social
network.

PART III: IDENTIFICATION

Identify different thinkers who gave perspective about politics. Whose idea of politics is the following?

_____________________26. A human being is a political animal.

_____________________27. Politics is the authoritative allocation of values in a society.

_____________________28. Politics refer to any activity involving human beings associated together
in relationship of power and authority where conflict occurs.
_____________________29. Politics is a way of ruling in divided societies without violence.

_____________________30. Politics is reserves for statesmen and stateswomen.

PART IV:
Enumerate and explain the three types of persons towards politics.(15 points)

ESSAY (5 points)
Is the relationship between husband and wife, is outside the scope of the state? Why?
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1.b
2.c
3.b
4.c
5.b
6.d
7.a
8.d
9.d
10.a
11.c
12.d
13.a
14.b
15.d
16.social organization
17.without
18.true
19. social system
20. John Barnes
21. Aristotle
22. David Easton
23. Robert Dahl
24. Bernard Crick
25. Michael Oakeshott