Colegio de San Gabriel Arcangel

PACUCOA Accredited – Level 1 Status

SENIOR HIGHSCHOOL DEPARTMENT
City of San Jose del Monte, Bulacan
PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
Philippine Politics and Governance
A.Y. 1ST SEM 2019

Name: _____________________________________ Date: ________________

Grade & Section:________________ Score:______________

I. DEFINITION
Direction:Define the following terms. (3 points each)

1. Politics

2. Political Science

3. Politikos

4. Polis

5. Aristotle

6. Eminent Domain

7. Marxism

8. Legislative

9. Judiciary

10. Barangay

II. IDENTIFICATION.
A. Fill in the blanks with the correct answer. Choose the letter of your answers from the box. All answers should be
in capital letters. No erasures.

A. Politics F. Inputs K. Collectivism

B. Individualism G. Fascism L. Liberalism
C. Ideology H. Environmentalism
D. People I. Government
E. Globalization J. Anarchism

__________ 1. Is the exercise of power, the science of government, the making of collective decisions, the allocations of
scarce resources and the practice of deception and manipulation.
__________ 2. This term was conceived in 1796 by French Philosopher Destutt de Tracy to refer to new science that
endeavored to uncover origins of conscious thought and ideas.
__________ 3. It is the belief in the supreme importance of the individual over any social group or collective body.
 __________ 4. Is a movement that stands for outmoded, repressive social and political conditions rejecting democracy,
repudiates constitutionalism and stresses that all values arise from the state against which individual has
no rights.
__________ 5. Is an ideology focusing on the idea that environment is endangered and must be preserved through
regulation and lifestyle changes.
__________ 6. Is the term generally used to describe the formal institutions through which a group of people is ruled or
governed.
__________ 7. It refers to those whom the state is obliged to protect and provide services.
__________ 8. An ideology that is based on the belief that government and laws are not necessary.
__________ 9. A central tenet of socialism that is the belief in the capacity of human beings for collective action.
__________ 10. An ideology that stands in opposition to capitalism and proposes an alternative which is more humane
and equitable.
B. Classify the following Ideologies with their Perspectives stated on each item by writing A for Anarchism, S for
Socialism, L for Liberalism, C for Conservatism and F for Fascism.

__________ 1. As the state is inherently evil and oppressive, all states have the same essential character.
__________ 2. This ideology has contrasting views of the state.
__________ 3. It rejects the state outright, believing it to an unnecessary evil.
__________ 4. Sees the state as a neutral arbiter among competing interests and groups in society, a vital guarantee of
social order.
__________ 5. Links the state to the need to provide authority and discipline ad to protect society from chaos and
disorder, hence their traditional preference for a strong state.
__________ 6. An ideology that sees the state as a supreme ethical ideal, reflecting the undifferentiated interests of
the national community, hence their belief in totalitarianism.
__________ 7. This kind of ideology links the state to the need to provide authority and discipline and to protect
society from chaos and disorder.
__________ 8. An ideology that saw the state more as a vessel that contains, or tool that serves, the race or nation.
__________ 9. Regard the state as an embodiment of the common good and thus approve of interventionism in either
its social-democratic or state collectivist form.
__________ 10. This ideology stressed the link between the state and the class system, seeing it either as an
instrument of class rule or as a means of ameliorating class tensions.
III. True or False

1. ______________Politics is the actual process of how humans interact in groups.

2. ______________Political Science is the process by which people try to influence their government.
3. ______________Political science seeks to study the origin, nature and functions of the State, Government and its all
organs.
4. ______________ Politics is universal and is always the same.
5. ______________ Politics involve issues, problems, and activities taking place in the society.

Prepared By:
JohnRuth Anthony T. Haw I, LPT