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THE STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF THE FILIPINO CHARACTER

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

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Class
Date
1.

These are the examples of Filipino Values:

a)

Family Orientation

b)

Passivity and lack of initiative

c)

Joy and Humor

d)

Hard Work and industriousness

e)

Colonial Mentality

2.

According to the anthropologist Leonardo Mercado, the Filipino worldview is basically (a)   .

3.

This Filipino value allows them to think on their feet and be creative in facing whatever challenge or task they have even when it is already right in front of them.

a)

Ability to Survive

b)

Flexibility, Adaptability, and Creativity

c)

Religious Adherence

d)

Hospitality

4.

Most foreigners who attend Filipino gatherings abroad testify to the warmth and friendliness of Filipinos as they experience that feeling of ”belongingness”. What value do Filipinos show to the foreigners to make them feel like that?

a)

Religious Adherence

b)

Family Orientation

c)

Hospitality

d)

Flexibility, Adaptability and Creativity

5.

It is the ability of Filipinos to find humor in everything.

a)

Family Orientation

b)

Passivity and lack of initiative

c)

Joy and Humor

d)

Hard Work and industriousness

6.

With resourcefulness comes hard work. Filipinos are very determined and persevering in accomplishing whatever they set their minds to. What Filipino value is this?

a)

Hospitality

b)

Ability to Survive

c)

Flexibility, Adaptability, and Creativity

d)

Hard Work and industriousness

7.

Filipino values are, for the most part, centered at maintaining social harmony, motivated primarily by the desire to be accepted within a group.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

The four core values of Values education program are maka-Diyos, maka-tao, maka-kalikasan and (a)   .

9.

Philippine schools should not intensify values education in the curriculum so that it will not be ‘more form than substance, as described in Senator Shahani’s report

a)

True

b)

Flase

10.

What is the basic and most important unit of a Filipino's life?

a)

Family

b)

Community

c)

Baranggay

d)

Government

11.

He identified two models of the Filipino value system: the exogenous or foreign model, and the indigenous or traditional model.

(a)  

12.

The report "A Moral Recovery Program: Building a People, Building a Nation" was submitted on _________.

a)

April 27, 1988

b)

April 21, 1998

c)

April 17, 1986

d)

April 27, 1986

13.

It results in a lack of concern for the common good and acts as a block to national consciousness.

a)

Colonial mentality

b)

Extreme family centeredness

c)

Passivity and lack of initiative

d)

Emphasis on porma rather than substance

14.

a)

Palusot Syndrome

b)

Mañana Habit

c)

Ningas Cogon

d)

Talangka Mentality

15.

The weaknesses of Filipino values are rooted in the following factors:

a)

Home

b)

Religion

c)

Educational System

d)

Entertainment

16.

Lack of discipline:_______________

a)

lack of precision and compulsiveness

b)

time management

c)

procrastination

d)

casual attitude toward time and space

17.

Done by tsismis, intriga, unconstructive criticism.

(answer in lower case)

(a)  

18.

Filipinos’ manifest colonial mentality in two dimensions:

a)

lack of patriotism or an active awareness, appreciation, and love for the Philippines

b)

submissiveness to those in authority and do not raise issues or to question decisions

c)

actual preference for things that are foreign

d)

fiercely loyal to the detriment of concern for the larger community or for the common good

19.

a)

Colonial mentality

b)

Talangka mentality

c)

Emphasis on porma

d)

Lack of self analysis

20.

The strengths of the Filipino character:

a)

Pakikipag-kapwa tao

b)

Family orientation

c)

Joy and humor

d)

Flexibility, adaptability, and creativity