PRACTICE TEST

Direction: Read and examine the sentences then choose the letter of the correct
answer.
1. It refers to the declaration and enumeration of individual rights and privileges,
which the Constitution guarantees and protects.
a) Preamble
c) Human Rights
b) Magna Carta
d) Bill of Rights

2. Generally defined as those rights, which are inherent in our nature, and without
which, we cannot live as human beings.
a) Preamble
c) Human Rights
b) Magna Carta
d) Bill of Rights
3. These are the rights which are conferred and protected by the constitution.
a) Civil Rights
c) Natural Rights
b) Constitutional Rights
d) Statutory Rights
4. Article III Section 6 guarantees the right of a person to choose his residence and
to leave it whenever he pleases. This right is known as
a) Freedom of expression
c) Liberty of abode
c) Freedom of speech
d) Right to travel
5. Daniel Webster calls this law as one which hears before it condemns, proceeds
upon inquiry and renders judgement only after trial. This is a guarantee of the
person accused of committing a crime that will not be sentenced without being
heard.
a) Warrant of arrest
c) Freedom of expression
b) Right to counsel
d) Due process of law
6. This right is stipulated in Article III Section 1 of the constitution which requires
that all persons or things similarly situated should be treated alike in terms of rights
and responsibilities.
a) Right to liberty
c) Equal protection of the law
b) Right to life
d) Due process
of
law
7. It is a writ issued by a court of competent of jurisdiction ordering the arrest of a
person accused of committing a crime.
a) Warrant of arrest
c) Subpoena duces tecum
b) Search warrant
d) Habeas corpus
8. This constitutional right guarantees the freedom of the person to worship or not
to worship any Divine powers and is provided by Article III Section 5 of the
Constitution.
a) Freedom of assembly
c) Freedom of religion
d) Freedom of Speech
d) Freedom of the press
9. It is a guarantee against arbitrary detention of any person. It is a writ issued by a
court directed to a person detaining another commanding him to produce the body
of the prisoner at a designated time and place giving the reason for his detention.
a) Warrant of arrest
c) Search warrant
b) Writ of habeas corpus
d) Subpoena
10. The Bill of rights provides that no person shall be punished twice for the same
offense. This is a guarantee against __________.
a) Involuntary servitude
c) Due process of law
b) Equal protection of the law
d) Double jeopardy

11. The right to life, liberty and property as well as the pursuit of happiness are
basic human rights which are embodied in an international document signed by
different countries on December 10, 1948.
What is this document?
a) U.S Constitution
c) Magna Carta
b) Universal Declaration of Human Rights
d) Declaration of
Independence
12. Capital punishment or death is no longer imposed under the 1987 Constitution,
but with the enactment of Republic Act No. 7659, death is the punishment for
heinous crimes. Which of the following is an example of heinous crime ?
a) Adultery
c) Robbery
b) Homicide
d) Murder
13. A person, his house, property, papers and effects may not be validly searched
without an order from a court of competent jurisdiction contained in a document
called ___________.
a) Search Warrant
c) Warrant of Arrest
b) Subpoena
d) writ of Habeas Corpus
14. It is the power of the State to expropriate private property for public use after
paying just compensation to the owner.
a) Confiscation
c) Police power
b) Eminent domain
d) Taxation
15. He believed that the most important agent of history was the state, which is the
creator & protector of values, including rights of individuals.
a) George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
c) Karl Marx
b) Jeremy Bentham
d) Thomas Aquinas

16. It is enables the people to participate in running or influencing the administration

of the

government (e.g. right to vote, right to freedom of expression, right to free and
periodic elections, etc.)
a) Civil Rights
b) Economic Rights

c) Political Rights
d) Cultural Rights

17. Its pertain to access to resources- such as land, labor, physical, and financial
capital- that are
essential for the creation, legal appropriation, and market exchange of goods and
services.
a) Civil Rights
b) Economic Rights

c) Political Rights
d) Cultural Rights

18. It is neither positive nor negative. It depends on how we approach it.

a) Conflict
b) Violence against women

c) War
d) murder

19. He argued that if there was much evil in the world it could not be blamed on
mans natural inclinations but on social injustice and inequality w/c drove man to
commit every conceivable depraved act.
a) George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
b) Jeremy Bentham

c) Karl Marx
d) Jean Jacques Rosseau

20. Articles 3 to 21 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights set forth all the
following except ______.
a) the right of association and of assembly
b) freedom from torture or cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment
c) the right to standard of living adequate for health
d) the right to marry and to found a family
e) the right of equal access to public service