PRE-TEST IN MAPEH 8

I-MULTIPLE CHOICE. Directions: Read and understand the statement carefully. Choose the best answer from the possible options.
Write your answer on your answer sheet.

1. How is Chinese music described?

a. It is gentle and lyrical c. It is slow in tempo and very peaceful
b. It is slow and melancholy d. It is meditative and highly ritualized
2. What is the traditional Japanese folk song depicting spring, the season of cherry blossoms.
a. Mo Li Hua b. Arirang c. Rasa Sayang d. Sakura
3. What is the art of beautiful hand writing?
a. Painting b. Sketch c. Calligraphy d. Drawing
4. Who is the legendary inventor of Chinese writing?
a. Jiaguwen b. Cangie c. Confucious d. Zheng
5. What is the most economical type of traditional Chinese architectural roof?
a. Sweeping b. Multi-inclined c. Straight-iclined d. Roof guards
6. Which of the East Asian country focuses on flowers and birds in their painting?
a. North Korea b. South Korea c. Japan d. China
7. What is the most popular ensemble or orchestra in Indonesia/
a. Gamelan b. Pinpeat c. Hsaing Waing d. Piphat
8. What is referred to as the ancient Chinese writing symbols that are engraved on shoulder bones of large animals?
a. Logographs b. Calligraphy c. Cangjie d. Symbols
9. What fabric is most common among the countries of Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore?
a. Batik b. Silk c. Wool d. Cotton
10. Which of the following instruments does not belong to the classification of instruments from India?
a. Ghan b. Avanaddh c. Sushir d. Punjabi
11. What is admiration for someone that may include the desire to get to know that person better?
a. Attraction b. Crush c. love d. feelings
12. What period in couples relationship which precedes their engagement and marriage or it is an establishment of an agreed
relationship of a more enduring kind?
a. Courtship b. Infatuation c. Marriage d. Dating
13. What province in the Philippines is practicing “Tapat” as a form of courtship?
a. Ilocos b. Batangas c. Bulacan d. Kalinga
14. When is the time were in the suitor can court a woman through the use of cellular phones, internet, or social media sites?
a. Courtship b. Age of technology c. Dating d. Going Steady
15. What social activity involves two or more people generally assessing each other’s suitability for potential relationship?
a. Marriage b. Courtship c. Engagement d. Dating
16. What type of dating involves any number of couple enjoying a date?
a. Standard date b. Double date c. Group date d. Blind date
17. What term defines a man or a woman based on biological characteristics?
a. Sex b. gender c. sexuality d. androgyny
18. Which of the following symbols refer to masculinity?
a. b. c. d.
19. What is the oldest known classification of instruments in India which is composed of bowed string instruments?
a. Vitat b. Sushir c. Tat d. Ghan
20. What Chinese instrument is used in announcing prosperous occasions?
a. Sona b. Siao c. Siao-lo d. Ti-its
21. Which Korean music category is traditionally associated with the lower class?
a. Tang-ak b. chong-ak c. sog-ak d. a-ak
22. What Pakistani vocal music refers to traditional expression of love, separation and loneliness which can be sung by both
men and women?
a. Qawwali b. Ghazal c. Punjabi d. Rubab
23. Which West Asian country has a distinctive vocal style of guttural and throaty enunciation?
a. Pakistan b. Israel c. India d. Arabia
24. What kind of Jewish music that is almost entirely vocal and features during Sabbath and other Holy days?
a. Communal b. Mystic Rituals c. Devotional d. Secular
25. What Israeli vocal style refers to special call to prayer and repentance, and sounded on the High Holidays?
a. Hazan b. Bar Mitzvas c. Shofar d. Bat Mitzvas
26. What country is known for making printed table cloth, curtains, bed spreads, and shawls?
a. Uzbekistan b. Kazakhstan c. Tajikistan d. Pakistan
27. What Asian festival is said to be the longest and most important festivity in the Chinese calendar?
a. Chinese New year b. Dragon dance c. Loy Krathong d. lantern Festival
28. Which of the following scrabble tiles have a value of five points?
a. D b. X c. K d. A
29. Which of the following is not a skill in playing baseball / softball?
 a. Throwing b. Pitching c. Catching d. Dribbling
30. Which of the following chess piece is the most important piece and only moves one square in any direction.
a. Queen b. Rook c. Pawn d. King
31. Who invented the game basketball?
a. James Naismith b. James Smith c. James Nicemith d. James Smitten
32. What is the flat thin piece marked with characters used in board games?
a. Tiles b. Cards c. Coin d. Dice
33. How many points will be given to a player who is able to place all seven tiles on the board at the same time?
a. 50 b. 100 c. 150 d. 30
34. What do you call the microorganism that causes the most common diseases?
a. Bacteria b. Worm c. Illness d. Pathogens
35. Which of the following pathogens can cause tuberculosis?
a. Bacteria b. Virus c. Fungi d. Protozoa
36. What do you call the reproductive process where the male and female gemmate unite to form a new single cell?
a. Fertilization b. Ovulation c. implantation d. gestation
37. What is the Republic Act that is also known as the Philippine Aids Law?
a. RA 8504 b. RA 8405 c. RA 8605 d. RA 7719
38. What are legal drugs that a non-drug user might try, which can lead him / her to a more dangerous drugs.
a. Medicines b. Alcohol c. Gateway Drugs d. Marijuana
39. What stage of infection is the interval when acute symptoms of infection disappear and also called the recovery stage?
a. Illness Stage b. Prodromal Stage c. Convalescence Stage d. Incubation Stage
40. Which of the following describes as the place which microorganism can thrive and reproduce?
a. Pathogen b. Susceptible Host c. Reservoir d. Portal of Entry
41. What does the word “Kulit” means in Wayang Kulit?
a. Skin/leather b. puppet c. dalang d. lights
42. What is the most popular shamisen music which consist of twenty musicians in Japanese Kabuki?
a. Shamisen music b. Nagauta music c. Gamelan d. Siao
43. What Japanese verb where Kabuki is derived from, that means out of the ordinary?
a. Kabuki b. kabuku c. Kyoto d. Bakufu
44. What musical theatre of Asia is performed in a stylized manner which combines acting, singing and dancing?
a. Kabuki b. Peking Opera c. Wayang Kulit d. Nang Shadow Play
45. Who is the one controlling the puppet in the Wayang Kulit performance?
a. Clown b. Chou c. Mime d. Dalang/Dhalang
46. What character in Peking Opera is referred to as the clown?
a. Yaro b. Chou c. Onna d. Dalang
47. What Thai festival is about launching small hot air balloons?
a. Lantern Festival b. Loy Krathong c. Bali dance d. Chinese Spring
48. Who is the main male role character in Peking Opera?
a. Wusheng b. Sheng c. Dan d. Qingyi
49. What part of the stage is a platform that rises from below the stage in Kabuki performance?
a. Sewamono b. Hanamichi c. Suppon d. Hanmicho
50. What do you call the traditional dance perform during Chinese New Year?
a. Bali dance b. Folk dance c. Modern dance d. Dragon dance
51. What is referred to as the maximum amount of force a muscle can exert against an opposing force?
a. Strength b. Balance c. Speed d. Agility
52. What Asian country is influenced in the dance Sua-ko-Sua?
a. Burma b. China c. Cambodia d. Thailand
53. What is the prop used in the dance Sakuting?
a. Arnis Sticks b. Fan c. Sticks of 18 inches d. Match sticks
54. What is the place of origin of the Folk dance “Binislakan”?
a. Lingayen, Pangasinan b. Sulu c. Abra and Ilocos d. Jolo
55. What is the distance between the floor to the top of the head in standing position?
a. Height b. arm span c. leg length d. sitting height
56. What type of courtship dance originated in Jolo, Sulu?
a. Tiklos b. Sua-Ko-Sua c. Sakuting d. Pangalay
57. What do you call the ratio of body fat to lean body mass?
a. Force b. fitness c. body composition d. wellness
58. What is the colorless bitter tasting substance that comes from plants or fruits that underwent fermentation?
a. Alcohol b. Water c. Juice d. Coffee
59. What is the condition where the liver is not anymore functioning well to breakdown the fats due to excessive drinking?
a. Cancer b. Cirrhosis c. Emphysema d. Stroke
60. What do you call the process of extracting alcohol from plant or fruit?
a. Blending b. Squeezing c. Fermentation d. Juicing

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MAPEH GRADE 8 TEACHERS