REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
RAMON ENRIQUEZ HIGHSCHOOL
LABUAN, ZAMBOANGA CITY

Senior High School Department

Midterm Examination
In
DISCIPLINE IN SOCIAL SCIENCE

Name: _________________________________________ Section: _____________

Teacher: _Ms. JEANALYN B. NIEVA_ Date: ________________ Score: _________

I. Choose the best answer from the given options. Write the letter of your answer on the space provided. No erasure!
_____1. Which academic discipline studies the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytical, critical, or speculative?
A. NATURAL SCIENCES B. SOCIAL SCIENCES C. HUMANITIES D. PHYSICAL SCIENCE
_____ 2. Which social science that analyzes the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services?
A. PSYCHOLOGY B. ECONOMICS C. ANTHROPOLOGY D. POLITICAL SCIENCE
______3. Political Science studies what?
A.MIND, BODY AND SOUL B. SOCIAL GROUPS AND INTERACTIONS
C.SOCIAL ARRANGEMENT TO MAINTAIN PEACE AND ORDER D. THE PAST
______4. To which science does geography fall under? A.PHYSICAL B. NATURAL C. SOCIAL D. HUMANITIES
______5. What does Linguistics study? A. THE EARTH B. LANGUAGE C. MIND D. SOCIAL INTERACTIONS
______6. What does history study? A.PAST B. PRESENT C. FUTURE D. MIND
______7. Who came up with the theory on cultural relativism?
A. BRONISLAW MALINOWSKI B. A.R. RADCLIFFE-BROWN C.HENRY MAINE D. FRANZ BOAZ
______8. Which describes cultural relativism best?
a.The ability to understand a culture on its own terms
b.To not make judgments using the standards of one’s own culture.
c.Promote understanding of cultural practices that are not typically part of one’s own culture.
d.All of the above
______9. Who were believed to embody “civilized” during the Victorian era?
A.EUROPEAN B. ASIANS C. AMERICANS D. MIDDLE EASTERNS
______10. According to the Theory of Needs society exist for what?
A.BIOLOGICAL B. PSYCHOLOGICAL C.SOCIAL NEEDS. D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
______11. Who was a follower of Charles Darwin? A.TYLOR B. MAINE C. FRAZER D. MORGAN
______12. Who had this belief that “white man’s burden” was to “civilize the savages” through colonialism and missionary work?
A.EUROPEAN B. ASIANS C. AMERICANS D. MIDDLE EASTERNS
______13. Who is not a classical economist? A.RICARDO B. MAITHUS C.TAYLOR D.MILL
______14. What did the great depression affect?
A.PERSONAL INCOME B. TAX REVENUE C.INTERNATIONAL TRADE D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
______15. What caused the great recession of 2008?
A.BAD MORTAGES B.INACCURATE, CREDIT RATING C.FRAUDULENT BANKING D. ALL OF THE ABOVE
______16. What was the purpose of the gold standard?
a.To unify nations b. To make currencies easier
c. To keep government spending and inflation in check d. To make sure that all countries had access to currencies
______17. What country is not included in Bretton Woods? A.CANADA B. USA C. JAPAN D. GERMANY
______18. Why did the Great Britain go back to the gold standard?
a.the pound over inflated b. the war was over c. they didn’t have enough money d. they wanted change
______19. Which question do geographers asked?
a.Why are spatial distributions structured the way they are b. Why things/people located where they are
c.Where should something be located d. all of the above
______20. How does geography help the military?
a.able to identify the country they are attacking b. what costume they need to use
c. know the lay of the land when attacking d. know how much they need to spend
______21. Who is the father of geography? A. ERATOSTHENES B. PTOLEMY C. STRABO D. ARISTOTLE
______22.What is Gerard Mercator’s greatest achievement?
a.discovered north America
b. able to discover a route through asia
c. solved some of the mathematical problems associated with transferring a sphere to a flat surface
d. study of space meant the study of places and the interactions of everything of significance within that space
______23. Who is the father of modern geography?
A. GERARD MERCATOR B. ELLSWORTH HUNTINGTON C. LEONARD DIGGES D. IMMANUEL KANT
______24. Who believed weather forecasting required acquaintance with the significance of celestial changes in the moon, stars, and
planets? A. JOHN DEE B. MARCO POLO C. LEONARD DIGGES D. KARL RITTER
______25. Who is responsible for classical conditioning? a. Skinner b. Watson c. Freud d. Pavlov
______26. Who developed client centered therapy? a.pavlov b. thorndike c. rogers d. Watson
______27.What famous experiment did Albert Bandura lead?
a.Obedience to Authority b. The nature of love c. Bobo Doll d. Animal intelligence
______28. Where was the first experimental psychology lab established?
A.Vienna, Austria b.Liepzig, Germany c. Paris, France d. Boston, USA
_____29. Who established the American Psychological Association? a.Freud b. Hall c. Milgram d. Thorndike
_____30. What theory did Abraham Maslow come up?
A.Psychoanalytic B. Behaviorism C. Hierarchy of Needs D. Tabula Rasa
_____31. What is the name of the book that Sigmund Freud publish?
A.Interpretation of Dreams B. The Psychology of Dementia Praecox.
C. The Language Instinct D. Experimental Studies of the Perception of Movement
____32. Who established the first experimental lab in psychology? A. Hall B. Pavlov C. Freud D. Wundt
____33. Who introduced empirical observation into the study of politics?A.Confucious B. Ibn Khaldūn C. Aristotle D. Plato
____34. What was Niccolò Machiavelli’s nationality? A. Spanish B. American C. Italian D. Portugese
____35. Which statement best describes Hobbes theory?
A. Humans, endowed with a natural right to self-preservation but living in an anarchic state of nature, would be driven by fear of
violent death to form a civil society
B. Submit to a single sovereign authority (a monarch) to ensure their peace and security through a social contract
C. An actual or hypothetical agreement between citizens and their rulers that defines the rights and duties of each
D. All of the above
_____36. Who believed that people form governments through a social contract to preserve their inalienable natural rights to “life,
liberty, and property? A.Hobbes B. Montesquieu C. Locke D. Smith
_____37. Who came up with the theory of sovereignty that viewed the state as the ultimate source of law in a given territory? A.Bodin
B. Burke C. de Tracy D. Lasswell
____38. What do you call the theory that Rudolf Kjellén developed?
A.Wealth of Nations B. Geopolitics C. theory of sovereignty D. international relations
____39. To what did Tocqueville give value? A. Power B. Territory C. Culture and values D. Military Force
____40. According to Marx capitalism gave rise to what religion? A.Islam B. Buddhism C. Protestanism D. Catholicism
____41.What does Linguistics study? A.Life B. Love C. Language D. All of the Above
____42. To what did Ferdinand de Saussure compare language to? A. Chess B. Basketball C. Race D. Life
____43. What study of the devices by which literary language makes itself distinctive?
A.Structuralism B. Formalism C. Distinctivism D. Descriptionism+
____44. Who argued that Man's language, they argued, mould his perception of reality?
A.Jacobson B. Whorf C. Mathesius D. Chomsky
____45. Who is not part of The Prague School? A. Jakobson B. Vilém C. Whorf D. Mathesius
____46. Who used computer modeling in his theory? A. Renin B. Reich C. Lamb D. Chomsky
____47. Who saw history as cyclical except? A. Toynbee B. Spengler C. Du bois D. Machiavelli
____48. According to Augustine history was a plan unfolding by? A. Man B. God C. Nature D. Time
____49. Which theory believes that history as being a record of the collective experience of the ordinary person?
A.Everyman B. Cyclical C. Linear D. Great Man
____50. Who among the following does not believe in the cyclic theory? A.Petrach B. Herodotus C. Carlye D. Thucydides
____51. What theory suggests that dominant personalities determine the course of history?
A.Everyman B. Cyclical C. Linear D. Great Man
____52. Who described history as a race between education and disaster, either as world cataclysm or a world state?
A.Wells B. Herodotus C. Carlye D. Thucydides
____53. Who is the father of sociology? A. Martineau B. Marx C. Weber D. Comte
____54. Which sociologist believed that it was difficult, if not impossible, to use standard scientific methods to accurately predict the
behavior of groups as people hoped to do? A. Engel B. Weber C. Mead D. Comte
____55. Which topic did Simmel address? A. social conflict B. function of money C. individual identity D. All of the above
____56. Which sociologist work focused on the ways in which the mind and the self were developed as a result of social processes?
A. Martineau B. Weber C. Mead D. Comte
____57. What does verstehen mean? A. Diversity B. Deeper Understanding C. Acceptance D. All of the Above
____58. Who co-authored the communist manifesto with Karl Marx? A. Engel B. Weber C. Mead D. Comte
____59. Why did Weber believe that it was difficult, if not impossible, to use standard scientific methods to accurately predict the
behavior of groups? A. Cultural Relativism B. Communism C. Anti-Positivism D. Cultural Biases
____60. Who wrote the book suicide? A. Comte B. Durkheim C. Engels D. Mead

GOOD LUCK!!!
PREPARED BY:

JEANALYN B. NIEVA
SUBJECT TEACHER