Instruction: Choose the letter of the correct answer. If there is no correct answer, write E.
1. This continent is the largest and it covers almost 33% of the earth’s surface. It is considered the most diverse continent and home for the earliest civilization and major religions of the world.
a. Africa
b. Asia
c. North America
d. Europe
2. What country is considered the largest producer of diamonds,
although few of its diamonds are of gem quality?
a. Botswana
b. Canada
c. Russia
d. Australia
3. Most of the people in Latin America during the colonial
period came from what known place in the world?
a. Amazon Rainforest
b. Andes Mountain
c. Iberian Peninsula
d. Scandinavian
4. It is common knowledge that all bodies of water are interconnected with one another but this ocean covers 1/3 of the world from the Arctic to Antarctica
a. the Arctic Ocean
b. Indian Ocean
c. North Atlantic Ocean
d. Pacific Ocean
5. The opening of the Suez Canal connects the trading
route between these two bodies of water.
a. the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
b. the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea
c. Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of Mexico
d. Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal
6. Manila has good medical facilities, but there is
a great need for medical people especially in the rural areas. The main factor
for this situation is:
a. Great exodus of medical practitioners like Nurses, Medical
Technician and Medical Doctors going abroad
b. Low quality of graduates that cannot pass both local
and international standards for medical practices
c. Political unrest and security of rural hospital across
the nation due to terrorism and local conflicts
d. Small number of medical graduates like medical doctors
and nurses to support the needs of the country
7. One of the major issues between the US and Mexico which
led the US government to take action against the growing population of Mexico.
a. Assist rapid economic growth of Mexico to eliminate
poverty
b. Control the great demand of farmers for the south
flowing Colorado River for the dry region
c. Control the increase of illegal crossing of Mexicans
to the US border in search of employment
d. Manifest a virtual veto power of the US towards Mexico’s
economic policy
8. The three leading financial centers of the world included
the following key cities of:
a. Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Seoul
b. London, New York, Tokyo
c. Beijing, Sydney, Washington DC
d. Berlin, Mexico City, Singapore
9. Based on the early historical accounts of Europe,
these two nations had strong ties with the European culture and the Asian
nations.
a. Australia and New Zealand
b. India and Sri Lanka
c. Turkey and Russia
d. Iran and Iraq
10. This is a known supercontinent that broke up million
and million of years ago.
a. Atlantis
b. Gondwanaland
c. Laurasia
d. Pangaea
11. It refers to the community of persons more or less numerous,
permanently occupying a definite portion of territory, having a government of their
own to which the great body of inhabitants render obedience, and enjoying
freedom from external control.
a. Sovereignty
b. State
c. Nation
d. Territory
12. What are the forms of government in which political
power is exercised by a few privileged class.
a. Oligarchy and Aristocracy
b. Theocracy and Fascismarchy
c. Theocracy and Fascism
d. Democracy and Tyranny
13. What is the first city to be established in 1565 in
the Philippines?
a. Manila
b. Davao
c. Cebu
d. Iloilo
14. What was the interim civil government established during
the Japanese occupation of the Philippines?
a. The Japanese Imperial Government
b. The Philippine Second Republic
c. The Puppet Government of Japan
d. The Philippine Executive Commission
15. There is no Constitution that is entirely written or
unwritten.
a. The statement is true and correct.
b. The statement is partially correct.
c. The statement is partially incorrect.
d. There is no basis to conclude.
16. This Republic Act created the Technical Education
and Skills Development Authority
(TESDA):
a. R.A. 7784
b. R.A. 7796
c. R.A. 7784
d. R.A. 1425
d. R.A. 8049
17. The poem is one of the two only poems that Rizal
wrote in his vernacular. He, however, denied authorship of such.
a. Remembrance to my Hometown
b. Our Mother Tongue
c. To Education
d. Intimate Alliance between
Religion and Education
18. The principle of checks and balances is intended to maintain balance among executive, legislative, and judicial departments of the government. Which one is a check on the executive department by the judiciary?
a. Determining the salaries of the President and the Vice
President.
b. Declaring a legislative measure unconstitutional.
c. Declaring an act of the President unconstitutional.
d. Impeaching the President
19. In which order did the following occupy the Philippines?
a. Spaniards, Americans, Japanese, British
b. Spaniards, Americans, British, Japanese
c. British, Spaniards. Americans, Japanese
d. Spaniards, British, Americans, Japanese
20. Which economic system is based on free enterprise?
a. Mixed economies
b. Capitalism
c. Communism
d. Globalism
21. Who led the first Europeans who arrived in the Philippine
history?
a. Miguel Lopez de Legazpi
b. Makhdum Karim
c. Ruy Lopez de Villabos
d. Ferdinand Magellan
22. The government under President Corazon C. Aquino was
initially
A. De facto
B. De jure
C. Both A & B
D. Revolutionary
23. As an insular country, to which principle does the
Philippines adhere when it comes to the territorial boundary?
a. Two hundred nautical miles of the country’s coast
b. Archipelagic doctrine
c. Three hundred fifty nautical miles from shore
d. Three-mile territorial limit
24. In what instance is the Filipino double-standard morality
shown?
a. A couple brings their sick child to the doctor then
later to the espiritista
b. Young parents bring up their children in a manner
different from how they were brought up.
c. A married man who flirts with someone else other
than his wife seems acceptable but a married woman who flirts with another man
is condemned.
d. Illiterate parents are eager to send their children to school even if they themselves did not go to school.
25. If the seven continents were arranged from largest to smallest, in which order does Australia fall?
a. 4th
b. 5th
c. 6th
d. 7th
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