1. THIS IS A 90-ITEM EXAM.
PLEASE FOLLOW INSTRUCTION CAREFULLY.
INSTRUCTION:
 Use EXERCISE SHEET No. 2 and 3 from your workbook (p. 13 and 25) and staple them.
 Write your section above your name.
 Do not write anything at the back page.
 Do not write in CURSIVE, I prefer LONGHAND and please write LEGIBLY.
 Do not copy the questions, answer the questions directly.
 Submit on Monday, May 04, 2014 during our class. Late submission will receive a 5-point
deduction.
 Once you fail to follow my instruction I will give 2 pts. deduction.
POLITICAL SCIENCE 2
A VERY EASY TAKE HOME PRELIM EXAMINATION
Name: _____________________________________ Section: _____________
Faculty: ____________________________________ Date: _______________
I. Identification. Write the concept that is being defined by the statement. (20 items)
1.) The extent to which the public should be informed about government operations.
2.) A government by few religious elite is called Theocracy this is a government under what form?
3.) The capacity to produce an effect without coercion.
4.) It is the instrument that provides mechanisms in determining, formulating, and implementing the policies
of the state.
5.) It is the exercise of political, economic, and administrative authority in the management of political affairs.
6.) It involves the use of science and technology and the mobilization of all stakeholders in the management
of the environment.
7.) Form of government which is ruled by a civilian authority.
8.) Power exercised within the confines of established procedures, traditions, and practices.
9.) It is the capacity of an actor to compel or influence other actors to alter their behaviour or to do what they
would not do otherwise.
10.) It is the learned predisposition towards political objects.
11.) A classification if monarchy where there is a separate governing body who governs the state.
12.) It is a way of how political actor views his environment and the various stimuli within.
13.) These are the disharmonies that arise from stresses and strains due to some changes in the political
system.
14.) They are the inhabitants of the state.
15.) It is an effort to affect governmental decision-making by doing physical damage on persons or property
16.) Implementation of Law is carried out by this branch.
17.) The basic functions of the state that must be performed and are expected from them.
18.) It is a community of persons occupying a fixed territory completely free from external control and
possessing an organized government to which a great body of inhabitants render habitual obedience.
19.) It is not a fundamental element of the state, yet it is important for its survival and prosperity.
20.) This governance is the one who sees to it that public policies are implemented among different
government agencies.
II. Fill in the Blanks. (15 items)
1.) Conflicts are inevitable due to the competition of scarce ______________.
2.) Politics is considered as the ______ and science of government.
3.) Territory is the _________ portion on the surface of the earth.
4.) The Philippine Congress has two houses, the senate which is the upper house and the ___________ which
is the lower house.
5.) The Philippines is a (under the 1st criteria of Forms of Government )6.) (2nd criteria) and 7.) (3rd criteria) form
of government.

2. 8.) The nations mentioned in United Nations are actually _______________.
9.) The United Nations was founded after the ___________________.
10.) There are _______ permanent members of UN who were considered as the victorious countries after
WWII.
11.) United States of America is a _________state. Unlike the Philippines which is a Unitary state.
12.) In a Parliamentary form of government you cannot directly vote/choose the __________.
13.) In a Presidential form of government the Executive is __________ from the Legislature.
14.) _______ refers to the kind of soil, climate and natural resources present in a particular state.
15.) Power of eminent domain is also called as the _________.
III. True or False. (15 items)
1.) A group of individuals could be a nation even without a state.
2.) There can be a state with multiple nations occupying it.
3.) Nation is a juristic state.
4.) A state is legal or political concept.
5.) Cognitive is one of the 4 components of attitude.
6.) Article 6 of the Philippine Constitution is about the Executive Department.
7.) Oligarchy is the form of government in which the supreme and final authority is in the hands of a single person.
8.) Vatican City is an example of a state where there form of government is theocracy.
9.) In a Parliamentary form of government the PM or Chancellor may be removed through impeachment.
10.) Under existing laws there is a strict requirement as to the number of people to encompass a state.
11.) The principle of Separation of powers is present in a Parliamentary form of government.
12.) Members of the SC and judges of the lower courts hold office during good behavior until the age of
60.
13.) The removal of Chief justice is through Impeachment.
14.) The term limitation of the Vice President is until 2 successive terms.
15.) Constitute 25% of the total number of representatives, including those under the party-list system.
IV. Enumeration. (30 items)
1-4. Kinds of Sovereignty
5-7. Components of Attitude
8-10.Three forms of Oligarchy
11-12. Forms of participation (Give at least 12)
Executive Department
(referring to the
President)
Legislative Department
Judicial Department
Qualifications (give at least 2) (give at least 2) (give at least 2)
Composition (2) (2) (2)
Term of Office (1) (1) (1)
Vacancy President-elect dies or is
permanently disabled.
A senator dies during his
term.
Chief justice is impeached.
V. BONUS QUESTION:
1. Would you rather have a non-creepy secret admirer who sent you the occasional small gift and admiring note,
a private investigator who found out what people are saying about you and found out interesting things about
people you know, or a personal photographer to capture all your special moments in ways that always made
you look your best? Why? (Limit your answer in 3 sentences.)
2. In what way have you stubbornly refused to be open-minded?
“We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.”
- George Bernard Shaw