MEDICAL COLLEGES OF NORTHERN PHILIPPINES

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

Alimannao Hills, Peablanca,Cagayan
MIDTERM EXAMINATION
PHILIPPINE GOVERNMENT WITH CONSTITUTION
S.Y. 2015-2016
Name: _____________________
Year/ Section: _______________

Score:_________________
Proctor:________________

MULTIPLE CHOICE: Read and analyze carefully. Write the letter of your choice before each item.
Please avoid erasures.
1. What comprises Philippine territory?
a. Philippine archipelago and all other territories over which Phils.has sovereignty or
jurisdiction.
b. It comprises the 7,107 islands
c. It comprises its aerial, fluvial and terrestrial domain
d. It includes the high sea or open sea.
2. What is the doctrine of effective occupation?
a. It implies conquest after a colonial state has succeeded its object.
b. Discovery alone is not enough because it merely gives the discoverer an inchoate right.
There must be an effective occupation.
c. There must be employment of military force in all its island including its body of water.
d. Occupation involves discovery first.
3. To what extent is right of innocent passage applicable?
a. It applies to exclusive economic zone only.
b. It applies only to territorial sea of the Philippines considered as maritime domain.
c. It applies to all bodies of water.
d. It applies only to high sea or open sea since it is res communes or a water belonging to
everyone.
4. The following are modes of acquiring land except:
a. Cession
c. accretion
b. Prescription
d. avulsion
5. The International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea aims to:
a. Resolve problems on claims of overlapping use of bodies of waters.
b. Avoid subjugation by superpower states to inferior states.
c. Prevent foreign states from intruding ones own territory
d. Continue claiming title to future territories.
6. The equal protection clause is violated by:
a. A law granting Value Added Tax exemption to electric cooperatives that sells electricity to
the homeless poor.
b. A law prohibiting motorcycles from plying on limited access highways
c. A law prohibiting higher salaries to teachers in public schools who are foreign hires.
d. A law that grants rights to local Filipino workers but denies the same rights to overseas
Filipino workers.
7. The following are steps involved in making changes to the Constitution except one:
a. The proposal to amend or revise
b. the ratification of the draft
c. there must be 3/4s concurrence of the congress
d. NOTA
8. The Association of Senior Citizens (ASC) proposed a law on priority lane for senior citizens
transactions. The ASC through their reserved power on initiative should:
a. sign or vote a petition of at least 12% of the total number of registered voters, of which
every legislative district must be represented by at least 3% of the registered votes therein

b. sign or vote a petition of at least 10% of the total number of registered voters of which
every legislative district must be represented by at least 5% of the registered votes therein
c. seek the 2/s concurrence of congress and should be approved by the president
d. should be ratified by the people
9. The following are manifestations of a democratic and republican state except:
a. The existence of rule of law
b. The existence of a bill of rights
c. The observance of the law on public officer
d. The presence of elections though popular will.
10. Non-establishment clause means:
a. The state shall have no official religion
b. The state cannot set up a church
c. Every religious minister is free to practice his calling.
d. Every person is free to profess his disbelieve in any manner without restrictions
11. What is the essence of a republican state?
a. The essence of a republican is indirect rule because the government by representatives is
chosen by the people at large.
b. Its essence is to conduct election as part of indirect democracy.
c. Its essence is that, the officers from the highest to the lowest are the servants of the people
and not their masters.
d. The essence of a republican state is to make those elected officers part of the law making
body who will speak in behalf of the people.
. 12. The declaration in Art. 2, Section 2 refers only to the;
a. Renunciation by the Philippines of aggressive war, not war in defense of her national honor
and integrity.
b. Renunciation of defensive war so that Philippines would not appear as an aggressive state.
c. Philippines is a member of the warlord states in order to be feared by all states
d. That Philippines does not invoke defensive war because it submits itself to the will of other
states.
13. You are a natural born citizen if you belong to any of the classes mentioned in Article 4,
Section 1 except:
a. Those who are born at the time of the adoption of this constitution.
b. Those whose fathers or mothers are citizens of the Philippines.
c. Those who are naturalized in accordance with law.
d. Those who are born in the Philippines regardless of being a naturalized citizen.
14. It is a term denoting membership of a citizen in a political society.
a. Citizen
b. citizenship
c. political affiliation
d. none of the above
15. He is a member of a democratic community who holds the title of citizenship and who enjoys
full civil and political rights.
a. Citizenship
b. membership
c. citizen
d. Filipino citizen
16. Prior the granting of Philippine Independence by the U.S in 1946, the Filipinos were deemed
American Nationals because:
a. They owed allegiance to the U.S government but not citizens thereof
b. Filipinos were ruled by the American government who gives them full civil and political
rights to America
c. They owe education and values to America
d. We follow their constitution
17. In the preceding number, we therefore conclude that:
a. All Filipino citizens are American nationals but not all nationals are American citizens.
b. All American citizens are Filipino nationals but not all nationals are Filipino citizens.
c. American government was controlling and powerful
d. Americans framed our political system because of successful conquest.
18. He is not given the full rights of citizenship but is entitled to receive protection as to his
person and property.
a. Alien b. naturalized citizen c. rebel d. imprisoned person
19. It is when the place of birth and blood relationship serve a basis of acquiring citizenship.
a. Voluntary method b. involuntary method c. naturalization d. jus sanguinis
20. The following are kinds of citizen except:

a. repatriated citizen b. natural born citizen c. naturalized citizen d. whose parents are
citizens of the Philippines
21. Mr. A was born in China of Filipino parents. What is his citizenship applying the principle of
jus soli?
a. Filipino citizen
b. American citizen c. Chinese citizen
d. He will acquire dual
citizenship
22. In the same example referred in the preceding number, what is the citizenship of Mr. A
applying the principle of jus sanguinis?
a. Chinese citizen b. Filipino citizen c. Both Chinese and Filipino citizen d. Pilipino
23. Who are citizens at the time of the adoption of the new constitution?
a. Those who are born during the 1935 constitution who elect citizenship upon reaching the age
of majority.
b. They refer to those who are born under the 1973 constitution at the time of the adoption or
effectivity of the new constitution.
c. They refer to those who are born under the 1935 constitution.
d. They refer to those who are born under the 1987 constitution.
24. What is the purpose of Section 1 (1)?
a. To protect the status of those who were already citizens at the time the new constitution took
effect.
b. To give full civil and political rights to the natural Filipino citizen.
c. To give protection to foreigners who want to apply for naturalization.
d. To widen the mass electoral base in the exercise of their political right.
25. The following are the ways of acquiring citizenship by naturalization except:
a. By judgment of the court
b. By direct act of congress
c. By administrative proceedings
d. By civil proceedings
26. Who are citizens of the Philippines through election?
a. They refer to those who apply for citizenship before reaching the majority age.
b. They refer to those born of Filipino mothers before January 17, 1973 who, upon reaching the
age of majority elect Philippine citizenship after the ratification of the 1973 constitution.
c. They are those not otherwise disqualified by law
d. They are those naturalized citizens in accordance with law.
27. Why is the constitution silent regarding dual citizenship and why does it arise?
a. Because we have weak laws and fearful legislators.
b. Because our laws cannot control the laws of other countries on citizenship.
c. Because dual citizenship is already a right
d. NOTA
28. The following are the modes of acquiring citizenship except one:
a. Jus soli
b. Jus sanguinis
c. Renunciation
d. Naturalization
29. The following are punishable by the Revised penal code since it is a mala inse act except one:
a. Murder
b. Homicide
c. Traffic violation
d. Theft
30. The following are the substantive requirements for naturalization except:
a. Age
b. Property
c. Wealth
d. Good moral character
II. Identify what is asked. Write your answer on the space provided before the number.
1. It is the act of formally adopting a foreigner into the body politic and clothing him with the
rights and privileges of citizenship.
2. It is an act of recovering your original citizenship.

3. It is a special law otherwise known as the Citizenship Retention and Re-acquisition Act of
2003.
4. This refers to the possession of two citizenships by an individual, that of his original
citizenship and that off the country where he became a naturalized citizen.
5. It is an act of turning your back from your original citizenship.
6. Is a person having the title of citizenship
7. It is the name given to a vote expressing their choice for or against a proposed law or
enactment submitted to them.
8. It is a method by which a public officer may be removed from office during his tenure or
before the expiration of his term by a vote of the people after registration of apetition signed
by a required percentage of the qualified voters.
9. It is the process whereby the people directly propose and enact laws.
10. It is the submission of a law or part thereof passed by the national or local legislative body to
the voting citizens for their ratification.
III. Modified True or False. Write:
A- If only the first statement is correct,
B- If only the second statement is correct.
C- If both statements are correct
D- If both statements are incorrect
1.
a. To be a citizen, a person must belong to any of the classes enumerated in Section 1,
Article IV
b. A person can be called a naturalized Filipino citizen even without undergoing the
process of naturalization.
2.
a. The Philippines in accordance with Section 1 (2) follows the principle of jus sanguinis.
b. An alien does not have a natural, inherent or vested right to be admitted to citizenship
in a state.
3.
a. Naturalized citizens are those who were new citizens of another country but have
acquired citizenship in only one country.
b. There is automatic naturalization without fulfilling the substantive and procedural
requirements for naturalization.
4.
a. Repatriation is an act of renouncing your original citizenship
b. As a general rule, a Filipino woman who marries an alien retains her citizenship except
to certain conditions.
5.
a. The minimum age for voting is 21.
b. The law requires that a voter must be educated, should present property and his
taxpaying ability is also investigated.
6.
a. A person is disqualified to vote if he has been serving a sentence of not less than 1
year and;
b. Who committed rebellion, sedition, crime against national security unless restored to
his full civil and political rights in accordance with law.
7.
a. The reason for the lowering of voting age from 21 to 18 is in order to broaden the
mass electoral base and emphasize the role of the youth.
b. Insane or incompetent persons but have met all the requirements of a qualified voter ia
also allowed to vote.
8.
a. Absentee voting extends to Filipinos abroad provided they possess all the qualification
and non of its disqualifications provided by law.
b. Suffrage is only focused on the right of a citizen to vote.
9.

a. No literacy, property, or other substantive requirement shall be imposed on the

exercise of suffrage.
b. Suffrage is a mere civil right but not a political right.
10.
a. A voter must have resided in the Philippines for at least 6 months and 1 year to the
place where he ought to vote.
b. We are the sovereign authority because we bring our officials into a political position
by virtue of our right to vote.
Fill in the blanks: Write the word on the space provided. (20 points).
We the _____________ Filipino people, ______________ the aid of almighty God, to
build a ______ and ___________ society and establish a _____________ that shall embody
our ________ and ___________, promote the common good, ___________ and develop our
____________, and secure to ourselves and our ___________ the ___________ of
______________ and ___________ under the rule of law and a ________ of ______,
_________, freedom, _______, equality, and ________, do ________ and promulgate this
_____________.
Prepared by:

SAMMUEL A. AQUINO, Ll.B-MBA

Instructor
LEOMAR LIBAN, Ll.B., MST
Instructor
BEVERLY A. CANNU, MPA
Instructress

Recommending Approval:

BEVERLY A. CANNU, MPA

Chairperson, Social Science Cluster

Approved by:

PRESENITA C. AGUON, Ph.D

Vice President for Academic Affairs