PORRAS
NOTRE DAME OF MARBEL UNIVERSITY January 21, 2018
*************************************************************************************************
INSTRUCTION: Select the best answer from the following choices. Encircle your answer.
1. What is the inherent power of the state to expropriate or take private property for public use called?
a. Power of expropriation
b. Power of eminent domain
c. Police power
d. Power to take property
2. What is referred to as the “heart of the liberal” ideology, which is closely identified with laissez-faire?
a. Justice
b. Freedom
c. Peace
d. Power
3. What is a racial concept denoting a common race, language, customs and traditions?
a. People
b. State
c. Government
d. Nation
4. A policeman hastily entered a house even without a court order. He was not ordered in contempt of the law and
no case was filed against him by the owner of the house. What could have been the reason?
a. The owner and the policeman are having an affair
b. It was merely an exercise of police power, as the owner of the house cried for help due to attempted homicide.
c. The policeman threatened the owner of the house.
d. The owner of the house was deaf and mute.
6. Revision of the constitution can take place in the case of what occurrence?
a. Switch from presidential to parliamentary system
b. Changing the age of qualified voters
c. That all presidential candidates should be college graduates
d. That special elections should not be allowed
7. What is the type of government in which the supreme authority resides in one person only?
a. Monarchy
b. Aristocracy
c. Democracy
d. Anarchy
1
8. Which among the following does NOT speak about the supremacy of the constitution?
a. It has the same rank with international law
b. All other lower laws must conform to it
c. Right or wrong, the constitution must be upheld as long as it has not been changed
d. The Constitution must ever remain supreme
11. What is composed of people living in a certain territory, with its own government, and exercising sovereignty and
independence?
a. Government
b. Ideology
c. State
d. Constitution
14. The constitution of the Philippines is not the same as the constitution of the United Kingdom in such a way that
the latter’s constitution is not codified in a single document while the former is the other way. What does this
tell of the kind of constitution that the Philippines has?
a. Cumulative
b. Written
c. Unwritten
d. Rigid
2
16. When was the Malolos Constitution proclaimed by President Aguinaldo?
a. January 29, 1899
b. December 10, 1898
c. November 9, 1899
d. September 13, 1899
17. What is the final act that would determine the validity of a newly drafted constitution?
a. Rejection
b. Ratification
c. Plebiscite
d. Referendum
19. What is the only word included in the 1987 constitution which is not included in most Preambles?
a. Truth
b. Justice
c. Aspirations
d. Love
20. It was the previous referral to the “Almighty God” in the 1973 Constitution.
a. Lord Almighty
b. Divine Providence
c. Father God
d. Almighty Father
21. When was the Preamble approved by the drafters of the 1987 Constitution?
a. August 30, 1986
b. June 11, 1986
c. February 2, 1986
d. April 24, 1986
3
24. This term was deliberated as that which might disregard the minority thus giving way for the term “common
good” in the Preamble.
a. Majority
b. Humankind
c. General welfare
d. All people
25. What is the mode of acquiring citizenship determined by the place of birth, irrespective of the citizenship of the
parents?
a. Naturalization
b. Jus soli
c. Jus sanguinis
d. Citizenship
27. For 27-31, supply the correct term for each blank to complete the Preamble of the Constitution. What is the
missing term for this line, in order to build a just and ______ society?
a. Truthful
b. Humane
c. Honest
d. Proper
29. Blessing of independence and ________ under the rule of law and a regime of truth?
a. Republicanism
b. Loyalty
c. Democracy
d. Constitutionalism
30. We, the sovereign Filipino people, ________ the aid of almighty God?
a. Seeking
b. Imploring
c. Pleading
d. Beseeching
31. Regime of truth, justice, freedom, love, equality and peace, do ordain and ________ this constitution.
a. Promote
b. Promulgate
c. Apply
4
d. Protect
32. Taking private property for public use upon payment of just amount should depend upon what?
a. Discretion of the government
b. The amount that the owner wants
c. Market value
d. Decision of DA
33. The Supreme Court declared the ascension of Gloria Macapagal Arroyo as constitutional despite claims of
conspiracy. What was the highest court’s basis?
a. They were all accomplices of GMA
b. Erap’s act of leaving Malacanang was an implied resignation
c. People did not like him anymore
d. International pressure
35. Who was the first President under the Commonwealth Government?
a. Ferdinand Marcos
b. Sergio Osmena
c. Manuel Roxas
d. Manuel Quezon
37. What is the former Batasan Buidling (before World War II) now called?
a. National Museum
b. National Library
c. GSIS Building
d. Lawton Terminal
5
40. Ferdinand Marcos changed his Political Party from Liberal to Nacionalista. What is this political situation called?
a. Political opportunism
b. Political horsetrading
c. Political turncoatism
d. Gerrymandering
41. What was the body that acted as both executive and legislative department during the American occupation?
a. American government
b. Independencia
c. Philippine Commission
d. Cabeza de barangay
46. What system of the government, according to the relationship between the legislature and the executive branch,
does the Philippines have?
a. Unitary
b. Parliamentary
c. Federal
d. Presidential
47. What is the form of the government in which the political power belongs to the few, particularly the elite of the
society?
6
a. Monarchy
b. Aristocracy
c. Democracy
d. Anarchy
49. What was the single dominant Political Party in the Philippines from 1907-1941?
a. UNIDO
b. PDP-Laban
c. Nacionalista
d. Liberal
50. What is the fundamental law of the land, which defines the powers of the government for the protection of the
populace?
a. Statute
b. Republic act
c. Constitution
d. Administrative order
END OF EXAM