ULTIMATE GENERAL EDUCATION [1- 100 ] Part 5

 

1.    Which among the following is the main theme of the El Filibusterismo?

 

A.    Curing the social cancer

B.    Ideal means of achieving social reform

 

2.    In his “La Indolencia del Filipino,” Rizal’s thinking was the rich natural resources of the Philippines and the favourable climate were not a blessing after all for the Filipino. Which explains this?

The rich natural resources and the favourable climate of the country ________ .

 

A.    Made the Filipinos compere against one another

B.    Encouraged the “get-by” mentality

 

3.    Based on the poem, “Sa Aking Mga Kababata” written by Jose Rizal as a young poet, what was he advocating?

 

A.    The use of both the native tongue and multilingual languages

B.    The use of one’s native tongue (mother tongue)

 

4.    Which of the environmental law requires industries to install anti- pollution devices and bans the use of incinerators?

 

A.    Clean Air Act

B.    Environmental Security Act

 

5.    How do you call the tax imposed on all employed and practicing professionals?

 

A.    Income tax   B.    Community tax

6.    Which concept best showcases social and environmental justice interconnection?

 

A.    Industrialized countries’ toxic disposed to poorer countries

B.    Desertification of verdant regions

 

7.    The fundamental  right invoked by filing the writ of amparo is ________ .

 

A.    Right to due process

B.    Right to life, liberty, and security

 

8.    The right invoked in the “writ of habeas data.” Is _________    

A.    Right to search for information

B.    Right to privacy of information

 

9.    The Philippine government is divided into three branches: executive, legislative and judiciary. Which among the following doctrines best describes the model of governance in the Philippines?

 

A.    Division of labor

B.    Separation of powers

 

10.  Which of the following represents the smallest subunit of government in the Philippines at present?

 

A.    Barangay      B.    Sitio

11.  In which form of government does power or authority reside in a few persons who govern for their own interest?

 

A.    Monarchy       B.    Oligarchy

 

12.  To which type of political system do we belong?

 

A.    Democracy    B.    Colonialism

 

13.  With the Batasang Pambansa performing legislative and executive powers in the Marcos regime, which form of government was implemented?

 

A.    Presidential  B.    Parliamentary

 

14.  In the decade of the 70s, one clamor of the activists who staged street demonstration on the streets was “Down with the oligarchs!” What did they accuse government of as suggested by the underlined word? Government was:

                    

A.    A rule of the few rich

B.    Elitist

15.  If the social system is based on meritocracy, which is a possible effect?

 

 

A.    Rule by wealthy and powerful

B.    Leadership by the people of talent

 

16.  Which among the following represents the political process involved in amending or revising the Philippine constitution to adapt to the present Philippine situation?

 

A.    Constitutional convention

B.    Charter change

17.  The tax required to be paid annually by all adult citizens of the Philippines is the ________ .

 

A.    Community tax    B.    Income tax

 

18.  Any individual has the right to question why he is being arrested, and to summon his accuses to court so that due process may be performed. This right is embodied in which of the following?

 

A.    Res ipsa loquitor

B.    Habeas corpus

19.  All Filipino citizens have the right to vote and to be voted upon as a government official. What is this constitutional right called?

 

A.    Suffrage        B.    Electoral right

 

20.  How is the crime of rape classified?

 

A.    Malicious mischief

B.    Heinous

 

21.  A losing senatorial candidate may file a protest against the winner. What body will assume jurisdiction over the case?

 

A.    COMELEC       B.    Electoral Tribunal

 

22.  Who has the power to declare the existence of a state of war?

 

A.    Congress             B.    President

 

23.  Which refers to the act of the President to stay the execution of a convict?

 A. Pardon                    B. Reprieve

 

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

 

A.    Creation of economic opportunities for all

B.    Sense of dependency among citizens

 

25.  Which is the fundamental law of the Philippines?

 

A.    The Philippine Constitution

B.    The Bill of Rights

 

26.  Which of the following is a way for the judiciary to check on the executive branch of government?

 

A.    Determining the salary of the president and vice president

B.    Declaring an act of the president unconstitutional

 

27.  If this principle is applied well, no branch of government will be too powerful or abusive.

 

A.    Check and balance

B.    Impeachment

 

28.  Which department has the authority to make laws and to alter them when needed?

 

A.    Legislative    B.    Administrative

 

29.  Which best describes the division of the Legislature in to the Senate and the House of Representatives?

            

A.    Bipartisanship

B.    Bicameralism

 

30.  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

 

31.  Which policy of the state provides preferential attention to the welfare of the less fortunate members of Philippine society?

 

A.    Distributive justice         B.    Social justice

 

 32. How many days are needed after which an enrolled bill becomes a law?

 

A.    90 days   B.    30 days

 

33.  One instance of taking away the life of another person without due process is _______  .

 

A.    Salvaging     B.    Euthanasia

 

34.  Where did the folk song “Atin Cu Pong Singsing” originate?

 

A.    Ilocanos         B.    Pampangos

 

35.  Who is considered as the father of Iloco Literature?

 

A.    Pedro Bucaneg

B.    Pedro Paterno

36.  He is considered as the “Father of the Local Government Code”.

 

A.    Jovito Salonga

B.    Aquilino Pimentel

37.  Who among the following Filipino statesmen was the most vocal to speak against the country’s foreign policy of close association with Americans?

 

A.    Claro M. Recto

B.    Cayetano Arellano

 

38.  In Philippine history, who was known as the “The Great Dissenter?”

 

A.    Manuel Roxas         B.    Claro M. Recto

 

39.  Who was among the last Filipino generals who fought the Americans and established the so-called “Tagalog Republic?”

 

A.    Macario Sakay

B.    Miguel Malvar

 

40.  Who was the American president who proclaimed the Benevolent Assimilation policy during the American colonial years of the Philippines?

 

A.    William Mckinley

B.    Franklin Roosevelt

 

41.  What contain the concrete promise of the Americans to Filipinos independence “as soon as stable government can be established”?

 

A.    Preamble of Jones Law

B.    Preamble of the Commonwealth Government

 

42.  Which law 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.    Cooper Act     B.    Jones Law

 

43.  Which law set a full-tree trade policy abolishing the quota limitations on Philippine exports to the United States?

 

A.    Payne-Aldrich Act

B.    Underwood-Simmons Act

 

44.  What law passed on August 1909 by the U.S. Congress established a partial free trade in the Philippines?

 

A.    Payne-Aldrich Act

B.    Underwood-Simmons Act

 

45.  Who was the orator of the Reform Movement and the first editor of La Solidaridad?

 

A.    Marcelo del Pilar

B.    Graciano Lopez Jaena

 

46.  Who was the founder and editor of the newspaper “La Independencia”?

 

A.    Antonio Luna

B.    Graciano Lopez Jaena

 

47.  He became the leader of the Magdalo faction.

 

A.    Mariano Alvarez

B.    Baldomero Aguinaldo

 

48.  Marcelo H. del Pilar condemned the hidden control and domination by Spanish religious priests over the colonial government using this term.

 

A.    Complace       B.    Frailocracia

 

49.  During the June 12, 1898 declaration of Philippine Independence, a band played the Marcha Nacional Filipino. What band was this?

 

A.    Malabon Band

B.    San Francisco del Monte Band

 

50.  Gregoria de Jesus saw her husband ______ charged for treason by fellow Filipinos who have formed the Philippine revolutionary force to fight Spain.

 

A.    Andres Bonifacio

B.    Jose Rizal

 

51.  Even after General Malvar’s surrender, there was a revolutionary leader who refused to surrender to the Americans. Instead, he declared himself President and Commander-in-chief of the supreme Government of the Tagalog Archipelago. Who was this person?

 

A.    Macario Sakay

B.    Artemio Ricarte

 

52.  During the Spanish era, who was the revolutionary leader who waged a long war against the government because it did not allow proper burial for his brother?

 

A.    Macario Sakay

B.    Francisco Dagohoy

 

53.  The last Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines

 

A.    Basilio Agustin

B.    Diego de los Rios

54.  Which Spanish policy provided the resettlement of Filipino communities to form town centers of cabeceras?

 

A.    Reduccion            B.    Bandala

55.  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.    Paying the bandala

B.    Paying the falla (exemption fee)

56.  Governor-General Narciso  Claveria  was responsible  for the _______ .

 

A.    Use of Spanish surname by Filipinos

B.    Establishment of the Tobacco Monopoly

 

57.  The Spanish mestizo priest was the pioneering leader of the native secular clergy in the Secularization Movement of 1861.

 

A.    Father Pedro Pelaez

B.    Father Gregorio Aglipay

58.  Which religious missionaries first arrived in the Philippines?

 

A.    Augustinians B.    Franciscans

 

59.  Which of the following was the first to happen?

 

A.    The Philippines was ceded to the US by the Treaty of Paris

B.    Guerilla warfare against the US was initiated

60.  1565, Legaspi concluded a blood compact with the chief of Bohol. Who is referred to?

 

A.    In Lakandula   B.    Sikatuna

61.  What economic policy in 16th century Europe influenced Spain’s expansion is policy to discover new lands?

 A. Mercantilism         B. Colonialism

62.  Through the Galleon Trade, the Philippines had extended contacts with ________ .

 

A.    Mexico   B.    Spice Islands

 

63.  What was the name of forced labor imposed during the Spanish regime?

               

A.    Bandala   B.    Polo

64.  The following were among the five ships involved in Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage, except:

 

A.    Trinidad   B.    Cartagena

65.  Who was the literary figure known as “Huseng Sisiw”?

 

A.    Jose dela Cruz

B.    Juan Matapang Cruz

66.  Who is Quijano de Martin in Philippine Literature?

 

A.    Nick Joaquin

B.    Jose Garcia Villa

67.  Angono, Rizal boasts a famous composer who became a National Artist. Who is this person?

 

A.    San Pedro     B.    Cayabyab

 

68.  Famous ballerina who brought ballet to children of various economic levels?

 

A.    Lea Salonga    B.    Liza Macuja

 

69.  Which among the following pertains to the passionate Filipino dance that makes use of a fan or handkerchief to illustrate a couple in romance?

 

A.    El Bimbo  B.    Carinosa

 

70.  She wrote the 1st Filipino modern English language short story, Dead Star, published in the Philippine Herald in 1925.

 

A.    Paz Marquez Benitez

B.    Ophelia Dimalanta

 

71.  This person served as the brains behind the “arena theater”.

 

A.    Montano B.    Avellana

 

72.  What building was the only one left intact after the destruction of Intramuros during the Battle of Manila?

 

A.    San Agustin Church

B.    Manila Cathedral

 

73.  This religious institution is the only living remnant of the Philippine Revolution of 1896?

 

A.    Philippine Independent Church

B.    United Church of the Philippines

 

74.  In July 1901, Isabelo delos Reyes founded the first labour union in the country. What was its name?

 

A.    Union Obrero Democratica

B.    Union Trabajadores de Filipinos

75.  The late president Ferdinand Marcos placed the Philippines under Martial Law through which of the following laws?

 

A.    Proclamation 1081

B.    Kautusang Tagapagpaganap blg. 25 S. 1974

 

76.  Who first introduced the Islamic religion to the Philippines?

 

A.    Mukdum        B.    Rajah Baguinda

 

77.  What is one of the man-made wonder of the Philippines?

 

A.    Rice terraces       B.    Manila Bay

 

78.  What is considered the earliest form of writing in the Philippines?

 

A.    Abakada         B.    Alibata

 

79.  Before migrants crossed the seas from the southern Philippines, there were already aboriginal settlers in the islands. Who were these?

 

A.    Negritos B.    Malayans

 

80.  The Philippines lies in the ________, an area where volcanoes are active.

 

A.    Wheel of fire          B.    Ring of fire

 

81.  Egyptian literature is identified as ________ literature.

 

A.    Mediterranean                   B.    African

 

82.  This person is the world’s first mythical geographer, and he was recognized due to his vivid descriptions of lands and people encountered by his hero Ulysses.

 

A.    Virgil              B.    Homer

 

83.  Indian sacred hymns are enshrined in this compendium

 

A.    Rig Veda              B.    Mahabharata

 

84.  Analects which are short and witty sayings that treat moral values and good human relation, are attributed to this Chinese writer:

 

A.    Confucius     B.    Lao-Tzu

85.  Where did the ancient civilization of China exist?

 

A.    Nile River        B.    Yellow River

 

86.  Hers is … “the face that launched a thousand ship”

 

A.    Helen of Troy

B.    Princess of the Nile

 

87.  Baghdad is to Iraq and _______ is to Syria.

 

A.    Jordan     B.    Damascus

 

88.  Of the seven continents comprising a continuous land mass surrounded by big bodies of water, the biggest (30.1 percent of the earth) is _______ .

A. Africa                B. Asia

89.  In the speech progress, which is concerned with amplifying and enriching the voice, using human amplifiers such as the nose, windpipe and chest?

 

A.    Resonation   B.    Phonation

 

90.  Among the kinds of listening, which is the type that most students do in the classroom?

 

A.    For information and ideas

B.    For enjoyment

 

91.  If a story is made out of an exchange of letters, it will be called _______ literature.

 

A.    Epistolary            B.    Episodic

 

92.  One famous Japanese poem is known as haiku. It consists of

 

A.    Three lines totaling 17 syllables with nature as topic

B.    Four lines that rhyme with love as topic

 

93.  What is a dramatic presentation that originated from the traditional armed encounter between the Christians and Muslim Filipinos?

 

A.    Moro-moro

B.    Comedia de Lara y Espana

 

94.  This Filipino writer in English used Hispanic-Filipino culture and traditions in his fiction works.

 

A.    Nick Joaquin        B.    Jose Garcia Villa

 

95.  Filipino migrant writer whose fiction stories reflect the Filipino’s concept of American culture?

 

A.    Bienvenido Santos

B.    Ambeth Ocampo

 

96.  The pen name of Samuel Clemens is _______ .

 

A. Mark Twain            B. George Elliot

 

97.  What are the greatest lyric poems in the literature of the world?

 

A.    The Psalms of Praises

B.    The Psalms of King David

 

98.  Who was the foremost French short story writer?

 

A.    Anatole France

B.    De Maupassant

 

99.  The Rubaiyat has the theme:

 

A.    Grasping pleasure while you can

B.    Creating your own world and beautify it

 

100. Which play by William Shakespeare features to ill-starred lovers who come from warring families?

 

A.    Rome and Juliet

B.    Anthony and Cleopatra


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