Review Question (Part 1) Flashcards
It occurs when a government or other authority requires that a fee be paid by citizens and
corporations, to that authority.
a) Galleon trade
b) Trade
c) Taxing
d) Taxation
d) Taxation
The following are types of taxes, EXCEPT
a) Income
b) Computer
c) Property
d) Corporate
b) Computer
Tax occurs on physical assets, including _______ and transactions, such as a sale of
stock, or a home.
a) property
b) prosperity
c) transportation
d) transmission
a) property
In the contemporary world, taxation is a reality that all citizens must contend with for the primary reason that -
a) Governments raise revenue from the people they govern to be able to function fully.
b) Government mechanisms to raise funds developed and evolved through time, and in the context of the Philippines, we must understand that it came with our colonial experience.
c) Politicians lower revenue from the people they govern to be able to function fully.
d) Government mechanisms to lower funds developed and evolved through time, and in the context of the Philippines, we must understand that it came with our colonial experience.
a) Governments raise revenue from the people they govern to be able to function fully.
Taxation is an involuntary fee, and as opposed to other payments, not linked to any specific services that have been or will be provided.
a) True
b) Maybe
c) False
d) Sometimes
a) True
The following are the obligations to provide
labor services to the datus in some early Filipino communities in the Philippines that may resemble taxation, EXCEPT:
a) buwis
b) buhis
c) bigay-kaya
d) handug
c) bigay-kaya
Which of the following processes is NOT part of
the Subsistence Economic Model in the early
Philippine societies?
a) Datu
b) Producing popular
c) Producing population
d) Source of subsistence
b) Producing popular
Which of the following events altered the subsistence economic system?
a) The arrival of Spaniards
b) The arrival of Americans
c) The arrival of Japanese
d) Contemporary World
a) The arrival of Spaniards
What system was introduced by the Spaniards through the creation of pueblos?
a) Redundant
b) Reducti
c) Reduccion
d) Reducsi
c) Reduccion
The ______ was established by the Spaniards
toward the end of the 16th century through the
galleons to make sure that European presence
would be sustained.
a) Cavite-Acapulco
b) Trade
c) Manila-Trade
d) Manila-Acapulco Trade
d) Manila-Acapulco Trade
It is a tax on the annual rental value of an urban
real estate.
a) Renta tax
b) Urbanization
c) Urbana
d) Industria
c) Urbana
It is a tax on salaries, dividends, and profits.
a) Renta tax
b) Urbanization
c) Urbana
d) Industria
d) Industria
Forced labor was a character of ________ in
the Philippines and was required from the
Filipinos which proved to be useful in defending
the territory of the colony.
a) American colonial taxation
b) Spanish colonial taxation
c) Spanish colonel taxing
d) American colonel taxing
b) Spanish colonial taxation
A system where male Filipinos were obliged to serve, a burden that resulted in an increase in death rate and flight to the mountains, which
led to a decrease in population in the seventeenth century.
a) Polo system
b) Reduccion
c) Centralization
d) Encomienda system
a) Polo system
What positions were given to the principales in
the local government?
a) alcaldes or cabezas de barangay
b) teniente mayor
c) juez de paz
d) guardia civil
a) alcaldes or cabezas de barangay
Taxation during the colonial period is -
a) Progressive
b) Progressive but with notable disparity between the less taxed and heavily taxed
c) Regressive
d) Oppressive and often favors the moneyed, the indios paying
more than the illustrados
b) Progressive but with notable disparity between the less taxed
and heavily taxed
Taxes that are individually paid during the
Spanish colonization.
a) Customs duties
b) State monopolies
c) Cedula Personal
d) Tributo
c) Cedula Personal
When was income tax introduced?
a) 1914
b) 1920
c) 1923
d) 1919
a) 1914
When was Inheritance tax introduced?
a) 1914
b) 1920
c) 1923
d) 1919
d) 1919
From 1898 to 1903, the Americans followed the Spanish system of taxation with some modifications, noting that the system introduced by the Spaniards were outdated and _______
a) Progressive
b) Productive
c) Repressive
d) Regressive
d) Regressive
This tax was established to create more revenue for the government.
a) Tax revenue
b) Revenue taxation
c) National lottery
d) Lottery
c) National lottery
Created by Pres. Quezon – assigned public defenders to assist peasants in court battles for their rights to the land.
a) Court Industrial of Relations
b) National Land Settlement Administration (NLSA)
c) National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC)
d) Court Industrial of Alliance
c) National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC)
Created to exercise jurisdiction over disagreement arising from landowner-tenant relationship.
a
) National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC)
b) Court Industrial of Relations
c) National Land Settlement Administration (NLSA)
d) Court Industrial of Alliance
b) Court Industrial of Relations
Where did the homestead program continue
through?
a) National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC)
b) Court Industrial of Relations
c) National Land Settlement Administration (NLSA)
d) Court Industrial of Alliance
c) National Land Settlement Administration (NLSA)
Established by Pres. Elpidio Quirino to accelerate and expand the resettlement
program for peasants.
a) National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC)
b) Land Settlement Development Corporation
(LASEDECO)
c) National Land Settlement Administration (NLSA)
d) Court Industrial of Alliance
b) Land Settlement Development Corporation
(LASEDECO)
Created mainly to provide warehouse facilities
and assist farmers in marketing their products.
a) National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC)
b) Land Settlement Development Corporation
(LASEDECO)
c) Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financing
Administration (ACCFA)
d) Court Industrial of Alliance
c) Agricultural Credit and Cooperative Financing
Administration (ACCFA)
What Republic Act governs the relationship between landholders and tenant farmers.
a) Republic Act No. 34
b) Republic Act No. 1199
c) Republic Act No. 9165
d) Republic Act No. 1003
b) Republic Act No. 1199
What is the impact of Agrarian Reform on
Farmer Beneficiaries?
a) It designed to lift the economic status of the
beneficiaries
b) It is stated policy of the state
c) It increased per capita incomes
d) Reduce poverty
c) It increased per capita incomes
What is an Agrarian Reform?
a) It increased per capita incomes
b) It designed to lift the economic status of the
beneficiaries
c) It is stated policy of the state
d) Reduce poverty
b) It designed to lift the economic status of the
beneficiaries
What was the main focus of the
Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Law (RA 6657)?
a) To abolish farming taxes
b) To encourage foreign landowners
c) To give land to landless farmers
d) To modernize agricultural techniques
c) To give land to landless farmers
When was the New Agrarian Emancipation Act
(RA 11953) passed?
a) 2021
b) 2023
c) 2022
d) 2024
b) 2023
What does the term “sakdal” mean in the context of the Sakdal Uprising?
a) To rebel
b) To reform
c) To accuse
d) To demand
c) To accuse
What was the primary aim of the Philippine Bill
of 1901 regarding land ownership?
a) To limit foreign land ownership to 10 hectares
b) To grant private individuals up to 16 hectares of
land
c) To nationalize all agricultural land
d) To abolish corporate landholdings
b) To grant private individuals up to 16 hectares of
land
What system introduced by the Spaniards organized rural communities into pueblos for
agriculture?
a) Encomienda System
b) Leyes de las Indias
c) System of Pueblo Agriculture
d) Torrens System
c) System of Pueblo Agriculture
Which institution was created by President
Quezon to resolve landowner-tenant disputes?
a) National Rice and Corn Corporation (NARIC)
b) Court of Industrial Relations (CIR)
c) National Land Settlement Administration (NLSA)
d) Department of Agrarian Reform
b) Court of Industrial Relations (CIR)
What was the purpose of the Land Registration
Act (Act No. 496)?
a) To redistribute land to Filipino peasants
b) To limit corporate ownership of land
c) To implement the Torrens System for accurate
land surveys and titles
d) To establish the Homestead Program
c) To implement the Torrens System for accurate
land surveys and titles
What was the goal of CARP?
a) Build more plantations
b) Give land to farmers
c) Increase land taxes
d) Promote exports
b) Give land to farmers
What farming system did Spaniards
introduced?
a) Communal farming
b) Swidden farming
c) Pueblo agriculture
d) Plantation farming
c) Pueblo agriculture
Why did the Spaniards use the Encomienda
System?
a) To educate Filipinos
b) To reward Spanish officials
c) To redistribute land
d) To create communal farms
b) To reward Spanish officials
What did the Land Registration Act do?
a) Allowed farmers to own land
b) Stopped foreigners from owning land
c) Made land titles available
d) Gave free land to tenants
c) Made land titles available
It is a period of competition among European
rulers to conquer and colonize lands outside
their original domains.
- Age of Explanation
- Age of Colonization
- Age of Exploration
- All of the above
- Age of Exploration
Rizal is identified as a hero of the revolution for
his writings that centers on –
a) never ending colonialism
b) La Liga Filipina
c) agents of injustice
d) ending colonialism and liberating Filipino minds.
d) ending colonialism and liberating Filipino minds.
Maragtas claimed to have been written in 1433
and was discovered in Panay in 1614 by -
- Jose Rizal
- Jose E. Marco
- Josie Marco
- None of the above
- Jose E. Marco
All of them are the three priests executed in
Bagumbayan who were accused as
masterminds behind the Cavite Mutiny of 1872,
EXCEPT -
a) Fr. Mariano Gomez
b) Fr. Jose Burgos
c) Fr. Jacinto Zamora
d) Fr. Pedro Pablo Pelaez
d) Fr. Pedro Pablo Pelaez
A legendary warrior princess believed to be
from Pangasinan from the Philippine theory of
Ibn Battuta’s travel account.
a) Urduja
b) Ursua
c) Gabriela Silang
d) Gregoria Montoya
a) Urduja
He wrote the famous Primo Viaggio Intorno Al
Mondo.
a) Francisco Pizarro
b) Hernán Cortés
c) Antonio Pigafetta
d) Vasco Núñez de Balboa
c) Antonio Pigafetta
What is the goal of Age of Exploration?
a) To find alternative routes by sea to get to Asia
b) To find alternative routes by land to get to Asia
c) To find shortcut routes to get to Asia
d) To find alternative routes to get to Asia
a) To find alternative routes by sea to get to Asia
In this document, it is believed that Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal recanted all his writings about
the friars and the Catholic Church in the Philippines.
a) Noli Me Tangere
b) El Filibusterismo
c) Ultimo Adios
d) Retraction Document
d) Retraction Document