GENERAL EDUCATION - SET 2
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GENERAL EDUCATION - SET 2
1. This set contains 50 test questions.
2. Read each question carefully and choose the option that corresponds to your answer.
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1. I can’t find ________ calculator; may I use _________, Prince? *
1 point
A. My, yours
B. His, yours
C. My, his
D. Yours, mine
2. Let us campaign for the total ban ____________ of harmful insecticides. *
1 point
A. With the use
B. On the use
C. On using
D. With using
3. If I _____________ known you before, we could have arranged a joint project. *
1 point
A. Have
B. Could
C. Had
D. Will
4. Neither the teacher nor the students ________________ present in the affairs. *
1 point
A. Am
B. Was
C. Is
D. Were
5. When helping in the kitchen, I am always careful not to hurt _________________. *
1 point
A. Ourselves
B. Himself
C. Myself
D. Herself
6. We admire ___________ when Cynthia speaks English fluently with
_______________. *
1 point
A. Him, them
B. Her, us
C. Him, we
D. Him, me
7. The student’s request to re-set the test _____________ reasonable. *
1 point
A. Were
B. Are
C. Very
D. Is
8. Filipino writer whose stories and poems depict Filipino-Spanish cultural beliefs and
traditions. *
1 point
A. Edilberto Tiempo
B. N.V.M. Gonzales
C. Bienvenido Santos
D. Nick Joaquin
9. He is known as the father of English literature. *
1 point
A. William Shakespeare
B. Geoffrey Chaucer
C. Homer
D. Dante
10. What figure of speech is: “O wild west wind!” *
1 point
A. Irony
B. Apostrophe
C. Metaphor
D. Hyperbole
11. What was the term given by Marcelo H. De Pilar to hidden control and domination
by Spanish religious priests over the colonial government? *
1 point
A. Pase region
B. Complace
C. Las suerte partidas
D. Frailocracia
12. During the 17th-18th century Hispanic era, what was the highest post a native or
Chinese mestizo can attain at the municipal level, equivalent to local bureaucrats
namely the mayors today? *
1 point
A. Governadorcillo
B. Cabeza de barangay
C. Tanientes de justicia
D. Directorcillo
13. During the Hispanic era, native and Chinese male mestizos 16-60 years old are
obligated to do forced labor for forty days. How can exemption be made? *
1 point
A. Getting a cedula personal
B. Give santorum tax to the church
C. Paying the bandala
D. Paying the falla (exemption fee)
14. Who was the last Spanish Governor-General of the Philippines? *
1 point
A. Ramon Blanco
B. Basilio Agustin
C. Diego de los Rios 3
D. Fermin Jaudenes
15. The Philippine president who was known as the “Man of the Masses” was *
1 point
A. Fidel Ramos
B. Manuel Quezon
C. Ramon Magsaysay
D. Manuel Roxas
16. One of the pledges of the President of the Philippines is to defend its: *
1 point
A. Constitution
B. Citizens
C. Land
D. Islands
17. What contained the concrete promise of the Americans to Filipinos independence
“as soon as stable government can be established”? *
1 point
A. Preamble of the Jones Law
B. Preamble of the Commonwealth Government
C. Fairfield Bill of 1924
D. First 1919 Parliamentary Mission to the U.S.
18. What law passed on August 1909 by the U.S. Congress established a full free
trade in the Philippines? *
1 point
A. Bell Trade
B. Treaty on General Relations
C. Payne-Aldrich Act
D. Underwood-Simmons Act
19. Participation in governance, including the right to vote and seek public office is
secured within the citizenry’s ________________. *
1 point
A. Political rights
B. Socio-civic rights
C. Right of suffrage
D. Right to due process
20. The right invoked in the “writ of habeas data” is ________________________. *
1 point
A. The right to information privacy.
B. Right to gather information data.
C. The right to search for information.
D. Right to transmit data.
21. Science provides knowledge through disciplined observation. Which of the
following is NOT characteristic of scientific assertion? *
1 point
A. Logic and validity
B. Conformity with actual observation
C. Empirical support
D. Hearsay
22. Which of the following is an organism that feeds on necrotic and decaying
matter? *
1 point
A. Vulture
B. Algae
C. Parakeet
D. Yeast
23. Kingdom Plantae includes which organisms? *
1 point
A. Prokaryotes
B. Magnolidae
C. Fungi
D. Protozoa
24. Which of the following is a heterotroph? *
1 point
A. Algae
B. Grasshopper
C. Fern
D. Moss
25. What organism would most likely be in an arctic environment? *
1 point
A. Crocodile
B. Turtle
C. Walrus
D. Maya Bird
26. This demonstrated the feeding connections between all life forms. *
1 point
A. Nutrition cycles
B. Fossil cycle
C. Biochemical pathways
D. Food web
27. How are bats able to navigate in the dark without bumping into anything? *
1 point
A. They emit sound waves whose returning vibrations can detect the presence of objects
B. They are able to fluoresce in the dark
C. They have supersonic eyesight
D. They can disappear
28. An ant colony stores food in the summer defends itself by stinging enemies and
invades a competing ant colony and steals larvae and uses them as new workers.
What is the term to best describe how this species copes with everyday life? *
1 point
A. Ecological defeat
B. Ecological success
C. Environmental habitation
D. Ecological niche
29. Ecosystem is the relationship between the physical and biological environments in
a certain plain. Among desert ecosystems, the world’s largest ecosystem is
______________. *
1 point
A. Sahara
B. Tianshan
C. Sonoran
D. Antarctica
30. What is the molecule that allows plants to capture energy from sunlight? *
1 point
A. Oxygen
B. ATP
C. Carbohydrates
D. Chlorophyll
31. Activities connected by a computer system are described as
____________________. *
1 point
A. Virtual
B. Network
C. Distance
D. Online
32. Which symbol is used to open a document? *
1 point
A. Ctrl + V
B. Ctrl + D
C. Ctrl + S
D. Ctrl + O
33. Clara Ramos work as a sales clerk. She is paid a salary of P3, 000.00 a week plus
2% commission on sales over P4,000.00 Find her gross pay for a week in which her
sales are P9,500.00. *
1 point
A. P3,500.00
B. P3,110.00
C. P3,250.00
D. P3,210.00
34. What is the total amount after adding interest of 8% on P10, 000.00 for 3 years? *
1 point
A. P12,400.00
B. P13, 400. 00
C. P11, 000. 00
D. P15, 000. 00
35. The readings on a water meter in April and May are 417.8kl and 430.4kl. If there is
a basic charge of 23 pesos and the cost per kl is 20 pesos, how much is the billing for
water consumption between the two months? *
1 point
A. P2520
B. P2543
C. P272
D. P275
36. How many glasses of Cola each to be filled with 150 cu cm of the liquid can be
made from 5 family size bottles of cola each containing 1.5 liters? *
1 point
A. 60
B. 40
C. 45
D. 50
37. The greatest common factor (GCF) of 22, 15, and 7 is _______________. *
1 point
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
38. Find the least common multiple of 5, 2, 7 *
1 point
A. 35
B. 15
C. 140
D. 70
39. What is the least common multiple of 12 and 60? *
1 point
A. 340
B. 120
C. 140
D. 360
40. A rectangular block of steel has dimensions of 5 meters x 10 meters x 15 meters
and weights 1000 N. How should this block be placed on a surface to exert the least
pressure on the surface? *
1 point
A. On the 5 meters by 10 meters side.
B. All sides have equal pressure.
C. On the 5 meters by 15 meters side.
D. On the 10 meters by 15 meters side.
41. The edges of a cubical framer are made of plastic straws. How much longer is the
total length of the plastic edges of a cube whose edge is 10 cm compared to a cube
whose edge is 8 cm? *
1 point
A. 32 cm
B. 24 cm
C. 8 cm
D. 16 cm
42. Sa pangungusap na “Malakas ang boses mo,” ang salitang malakas ay isang
________. *
1 point
A. Pangatnig
B. Pang-uri
C. Panghalip
D. Pandiwa
43. Saan kabilang na uri ng tayutay ang pahayag na. “Kapalaran, huwag ka sanang
mailap.” *
1 point
A. Pagtawag
B. Pagmamalabis
C. Palit-saklaw
D. Palit-tawag
44. Kapapasok pa lang nya sa silid. Ang pandiwa sa pangungusap ay nasa aspetong
_____________. *
1 point
A. Imperpektibo
B. Pangnagdaan
C. Kontemplatibo
D. Perpektibo
45. Paraan ng pagbuo ng salita na ginagamitan ng tatlong uri ng panlapi. *
1 point
A. Kabilaan
B. Inunlapian
C. Laguhan
D. Hinulapian
46. Ano ang salitang ugat ng PINAGLABANAN? *
1 point
A. Laban
B. Labanan
C. Ilaban
D. Paglaban
47. Ano ang salitang ugat ng PATIRAHIN? *
1 point
A. Tira na
B. Tira
C. Tirahin
D. Patira
48. Pahayag na pasaklaw na nabubuo sa pamamagitan ng personal na panlasa o
pagpili. *
1 point
A. Probable generalization
B. Analytical generalization
C. Subjective generalization
D. Categorical generalization
49. Dulog pampanitikan na nagbibigay ng diin sa sariling panlasa ng bumabasa. Kilala
rin ito bilang reader-response theory. *
1 point
A. Antropolohiya
B. Patalambuhay
C. Impresyonista
D. Pansikolohiya
50. Ito ang rutang dinaraanan ng mensahe ng tagapagsalita *
1 point
A. Konteksto
B. Participant
C. Tsanel
D. Pidbak
