SAMAR NATIONAL SCHOOL

Catbalogan City, Samar

PHILIPPINE POLITICS & GOVERNANCE
FINAL EXAMINATION

Name: ____________________________ Course & Year: ____________ Score: __________

Direction: Answer for what is asked. Any written words, phrases and/or symbols irrelevant to the questions can render
your test paper VOID.

I. Fill-in the blanks. Identify the answers to the questions below by selecting the correct answers from the box
below indicated. Write the letter of the correct answer on the spaces provided before the number.

a. Two-third votes b. COA Commissioner c. Veto power d. Treaty e. July 2, 1892 f. Bill
g. Eminent Domain h. Tejeros Convention i. Revolutionary Government j. Manuel L. Quezon
k. 2nd Monday of May l. Tydings-McDuffie Law m. Malolos Constitution n. August 23, 1986
o. Party-list Representatives

______ 1. Andres Bonifacio together with the group of Filipino patriots established the Katipunan Government on
______ 2. The “Cry of Balintawak” precipitated on this period. It was said to be the onset of the Revolutionary movement.
______ 3. Emilio Aguinaldo was elected president of the Katipunan under this convention?
______ 4. To counter the chaotic situation of the country Gen. Aguinaldo instituted this Government
______ 5. The first Constitution ever promulgated in the whole of Asia.
______ 6. This act provides for a transition of 10 years during which the Philippine Commonwealth could fully operate.
______ 7. The president of the Philippines under the Commonwealth Government.
______ 8. They are representatives of the poor, peasant, indigenous cultural communities, women, youth and other sects in
Philippine legislature.
______ 9. Unless otherwise provided by law, National Election is held every.
______ 10. A draft of proposed bill submitted for the purpose.
______ 11. Vote requirement by which Congress may override the Veto Power of the President.
______ 12. ______________________ is an impeachable official.
______ 13. It is the power of the President to disapprove or deny a bill submitted for the purpose.
______ 14. A pact or covenant involving two or more sovereign states and international organization.
______ 15. The taking of private property intended for public use upon payment of just compensation.

II. Multiple Choice Question. Select the best answer from the listed choices below each item. Write the letter of the correct
answer on the space/s below provided. ERASURES are NOT advised.

__________ 1. Refers to the body of rules or regulations defining the relation between voting and the elected officials. What
is this?
a. Electoral System b. Electoral Process c. Electoral College d. None of the above

__________ 2. Refers a set of electors who are selected to elect a candidate to a particular office. Often these represent
different organizations, political parties, or entities, with each organization, political party or entity represented by a particular
number of electors or with votes weighted in a particular way.
a. Electoral System b. Electoral Process c. Electoral College d. None of the above

__________ 3. Is a principle in election law which means that, the candidate with the plurality of votes is the winner of the
congressional seat?
a. First-past-the post b. Mixed System c. Electoral College d. Proportional Representation

__________ 4. It is a system of voting in which each political party is represented in a parliament or legislature in proportion
to the number of people who vote for it in an election.
a. First-past-the post b. Mixed System c. Electoral College d. Proportional Representation

__________ 5. From the choices indicated below, select who amongst them is not allowed to run for a public post.
a. Poor b. Foundling c. Demented d. Transgender
__________ 6. What is the title of that law governing the Philippine electoral system?
a. Omnibus Law b. Election Law c. Omnibus Election d. Omnibus Election Code

__________ 7. What are the three Constitutional Commissions established by the Constitution?
a. CO, CHR, COA b. CA, CHR, CSC c. COLEC, COA, CSC d. COMELEC, CA, CSC

__________ 8. Who from amongst of the following choices is not allowed to vote?
a. OFWs b. Insane c. Blind & illiterate d. Deaf & Mute

__________ 9. Who from amongst of the following officials cannot be removed from office through impeachment?
a. President b. Chief Justice c. PNP Chief d. Ombudsman

_________ 10. What is not an example of an ordinance?

a. Anti-poverty council in the City of Bacolod b. Libreng Serbisyo Medikal under Orange Card System
c. Traffic Management Code d. Absentee Voting Act

_________ 11. What is the first step in the passage of a bill?

a. Second reading b. Sponsorship c. Draft d. Referral to other committee

_________ 12. Is a term denoting membership to a particular sovereign nation?

a. Nationality b. Citizenship c. Ethnicity d. None of the above

_________ 13. Students from Tulane University in New Orleans volunteer at City Park as part of efforts to restore the
devastated city following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Tulane made community service a graduation requirement after the
disaster and saw applications to the school shoot up. Nearly 90 percent of the nation's colleges provide service-learning
opportunities. (Tulane University Center for Public Service). What do you call this concept?
a. Youth volunteerism b. Solidarity & Unity c. Student Activism d. None of the above

_________ 14. From 2011 to 2013, Chile was rocked by a series of student-led nationwide protests across Chile,
demanding a new framework for education in the country, including more direct state participation in secondary education
and an end to the existence of profit in higher education. What do you call this in social science context?
a. Youth volunteerism b. Solidarity & Unity c. Student Activism d. Civic Engagement

_________ 15. In Finland new laws and policies are being ‘crowdsourced’. Crowdsourcing in Policy and Law-making aims
to include citizens in public discussions about a new law and includes their ideas in governmental decision-making process.
What do you call this strategy in social science context?
a. Youth volunteerism b. Solidarity & Unity c. Student Activism d. Civic Engagement

_________ 16. This type of social movement seeks limited, though still significant, changes in some aspect of a nation’s
political, economic, or social systems. What is this?
a. Reformative b. Revolutionary c. Alternative d. Religious

_________ 17. This type of social movement goes one large step further than a reform movement in seeking to overthrow
the existing government and to bring about a new one and even a new way of life. What is this?
a. Reformative b. Revolutionary c. Alternative d. Religious

_________ 18. It is the transfer of responsibility for the planning, financing and management of certain public functions from
the central government and its agencies to field units of government agencies, subordinate units or levels of government,
semi-autonomous public authorities or corporations, or area-wide, regional or functional authorities. What type of
decentralization this is?
a. Administrative b. Political c. Fiscal d. Economic

__________ 19. The transfer of authority and responsibility for public functions from the central government to subordinate
or quasi-independent government organizations and/or the private sector. What is this?
a. Delegation b. Deconcentration c. Devolution d. Decentralization

__________ 20. Is the statutory delegation of powers from the central government of a sovereign state to govern at a
subnational level, such as a regional or local level? It is a form of administrative decentralization. What do you call this
approach?
a. Delegation b. Deconcentration c. Devolution d. Decentralization
__________ 21. Is the conferral of the ability to exercise a power or duty to a person or body from a person or body that is
vested with the responsibility to exercise that power or duty? What is this?
a. Delegation b. Deconcentration c. Devolution d. Decentralization

_________ 22. What is not an approach sough to bring the government closer to the public as contemplated in the Local
Government Code of 1991?
a. Centralization b. Deconcentration c. Devolution d. Decentralization

__________ 23. From amongst of the following, what is not considered a role of the local governments?
a. Representation b. Planning & monitoring c. Land titling d. Service delivery

__________ 24. An administrative and political government unit subsidiary to the national government which could itself
consist of sub-units as in the case of a province or a municipality. What is this?
a. Corporation b. Local Government Unit c. NGO d. Community

__________ 25. From the roll of choices below, what is not a political subdivision?
a. HUC b. Component cities c. Province d. None of the above

__________ 26. Sar Riwa now the President of a public university, arranges to sponsor a number of research fellowships in
the subject he studied at the University. Shortly after this, he contacts the University about his son’s application to study at
the University and reminds the College Dean of his company’s generous donation. What is the crime committed by Sar
Riwa?
a. Bribery b. Graft & Corruption c. Plunder d. None of the above

__________ 27. Supposed in the above question Sar Riwa is a Chairman of the Commission on Appointments, can he be
removed from his post through impeachment?
a. No b. Yes c. Maybe d. Undecided

__________ 28. This Code establishes the system and defines powers of provincial, city, municipal and barangay
governments in the Philippines. It provides for a more responsive local government structure instituted through a system of
decentralization whereby Local Government Units are delegated more powers, authority, responsibilities and resources.
What is this?
a. RA 7160 b. RA 7610 c. RA 7061 d. None of the above

__________ 29. Is an indeterminate term used in the international development literature to describe how public institutions
conduct public affairs and manage public resources?
a. Good Governance b. System Management c. Public Management d. None of the above

__________ 30. From the choices indicated below the item, choose what is not an essential element in good governance?
a. Autonomy b. Democracy c. Advocacy d. None of the above

III. Application. Explain what you understand about the illustration below. Explain and apply the concepts you have learn in
Good Governance and Sustainable Development as the two concepts are intertwined together during decision-making
and/or adoption of policy interventions within the local level. Use any unutilized spaces of your paper. (5points.)