Saint Columban College Pagadian City UNDERSTANDING CULTURE, SOCIETY AND POLITICS Pre-Final Examination
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NAME: _______________________________________________ DATE: ___________ SECTION: ______________________________ SCHEDULE:_________________________ I. MATCHING TYPE A. Read carefully and match the following scenarios of constitutional rights and/or violations presented from Column A to the appropriate provisions provision s in Column B. Write your answer in the space before each number. Article III: Bill of Rights Answer Scenarios Provisions 1. The Philippines passed a law requiring Filipinos to convert to a. Section 2 Catholic or else they will be persecuted by law. b. Section 3 2. Dexter, an OFW, after being maltreated in Saudi Arabia, was c. Section 4 prohibited by the government to participate in a labor union to d. Section 5 represent his claim. e. Section 6 3. Out of curiosity, Justin watches watches the investigation done by f. Section 7 Congress on the SAF44 massacre on the television. g. Section 8 4. Lea rented Tony’s apartment by signing a contract of lease. h. Section 9 5. Without prior notice of a search warrant, Regine’s property was i. Section 10 searched by the police. 6. Justin was warned not to publicly campaign against the present government and publish articles featuring corrupt officials, otherwise he will be assassinated. 7. Due to a much needed construction of an airport, the LGU took the property of Teri after payment of just compensation 8. Fifi was was barred by the government from travelling after it found she has a severe case of bird’s flu. 9. Leila’s diary was seized by the NBI authorities without the virtue of a warrant. 10. The evidence consisting of the 4 packets of shabu seized on Danny’s property was rendered inadmissible. B. Read carefully and match the following definitions of kinship kinship presented from Column A to the appropriate items in items in Column B. Write your answer in the space before each number. KINSHIP Answer kinship 1. One man marries one woman . a. Extended Family 2. A family where Grandparents or Aunts and Uncles play b. Monogamy major roles in the children’s upbringing. c. Polygamy 3. One man marries more than one woman at a given time. d. Unilineal Descent 4. Traces descent only through a single line of ancestors, ancestors, e. Reconstituted male or female. family 5. Found in tribal societies societies across the world where kin f. Matrilineal genealogy is applied to determine the system of Descent communal leadership. g. Nuclear Family 6. A family consisting of a married man & woman and their h. Politics of kinship biological children. i. Bilineal Descent 7. The form of unilineal descent descent that follows a female line. 8. A marriage taken from previous marriages who have been emancipated by divorce taking their offspring to the present marriage 9. This system system has simultaneous affiliation to both mother and father sides. 10. Means of survival is carried out mostly by the women. II. TRUE OR FALSE Instructions: Write TRUE if the statement is correct and
if FALSE if
the statement is wrong.
___________ 1. Kinship by marriage is built based on the classic principle: blood is t hicker than water. ___________ 2. If one person has only one partner at a time, and then moves on to another partner after severing the relationship with the first is called polygamy. ___________ 3. Marriage is an institutio n that admits men and wom en to family life. ___________ 4. In Matrilineal descent, only males pass on their f amily identity to their children.
___________ 5. Social recognition, as long as there is kinship by blood, is not important in determining consanguineous kinship. ___________ 6. Kinship creates society and society creates th e state. ___________ 7. When one becomes the member of the consanguineal relatives of both father and mother, it is known as bilateral descent. ___________ 8. As a primary group, the size of a family is necessarily limited and considered as a smallest social unit. ___________ 9. The family is guarded only b y social taboos and not by legal regulations. ___________ 10. There is no human society in which some form of the family does not appear. III. ESSAY Instructions: Read the following items carefully and examine the conditions that present a constitutional violation of each scenario. Write your answers legibly. Knowledge of certain constitutional provisions of Article III shall be heavil y credited. 1. While washing the dishes, Pekto received a knock from the door. He was about to open it when suddenly the door burst open causing him to be thrown on the ground with such force as to render him temporarily incapacitated to stand. Immediately, he was ushered to stand by two authorities who introduced themselves as NBI agents after showing him badges. They thereafter searched his property upon which they found 3 packets of marijuana and drug paraphernalia. Also, they took certain parcels of mail correspondents and documents. Pekto who was still absorbing the information in a state of shock, went along with the police who thereby placed him under custody inside a dark prison. a. What were the violations done against Pekto on his constitutional rights? Explain. b. What was supposed to be the proper act to be done by NBI agents before they raid Pekto’s house and arrest him? 2. Elsa and Anna, sisters who have been living in their house for nearly seventeen years, decided to go abroad to seek for better income to support their nephews and nieces from their brother, Jack. When they went home after five years, they were shocked to find that their house was converted into a railroad station. They complained for the conversion to the proper authorities in the government and asked for a just compensation but they were refused. They said that the just compensation was already given to Jack who managed to liquidate the value of their property upon their departure five years ago. a. Was there a violation of Section 9 of Article III from the situation experienced by the sisters, Elsa and Anna. Discuss. b. Would your answer be the same if you found out that the said property was inside a squatters’ area? Why?
