Multiple Choice Test: The Multiple Choice Test: Obu

Matigsalug Tribe Manuvu Tribe

1. Where is the Matigsalug tribe 11. What does the term “Manobo” or
primarily located? “Manuvu” primarily mean?
Answer: c) Mindanao Answer: C) Person or people
2. The term "Matigsalug" translates 12. The Obu Manuvu are a subtribe of
to which of the following? the Manobo community formed
Answer: b) People of the river through intermarriages between
3. What is the main subsistence which tribes?
activity of the Matigsalug people? Answer: A) Bagobo Klata and
Answer: c) Subsistence farming Bagobo Tagabawa
4. Who is the supreme god in 13. In which areas do the Obu
Matigsalug belief? Manuvu predominantly live?
Answer: b) Magbabaya Answer: C) River valleys, hillsides,
5. Which of the following is NOT a and plateaus
role of the Matigsalug Datu? 14. What is the main source of
Answer: c) Leading wars against livelihood for the Obu Manuvu?
neighboring tribes Answer: B) Farming
6. What is the justice system of the 15. The Obu Manuvu tribe’s cultural
Matigsalug tribe based on? and spiritual beliefs are strongly
Answer: b) Restorative justice tied to their:
focused on reconciliation Answer: C) Ancestral lands
7. How does the Matigsalug tribe 16. What is “Pusaka” in the context of
pass down their history and the Obu Manuvu culture?
cultural values? Answer: B) A sacred cultural
Answer: c) Through oral traditions, heirloom or property
storytelling, and chants 17. Which of the following is NOT
8. Which weaving technique is considered as part of Pusaka by
commonly used by the Matigsalug the Obu Manuvu?
people? Answer: C) Shopping malls
Answer: c) Tinilogas 18. The Pusaka declaration by Obu
9. Which gender roles are typically Manuvu helps in the protection of
associated with Matigsalug men? what type of habitats?
Answer: a) Hunting and protecting Answer: B) Wildlife habitats of
the community culturally significant species
10. Why is storytelling crucial to the 19. What species is culturally
Matigsalug culture? significant and protected under the
Answer: b) It preserves history, Pusaka framework?
laws, and cultural values Answer: A) Philippine Eagle
20. The Obu Manuvu’s Pusaka
initiative contributes to:
Answer: B) Climate change
mitigation and forest restoration
Multiple Choice Test: Manobo Tribe location in Mindanao?
Answer: b) Through their close
1. What is the believed origin of the relationship with rivers and mountains.
Manobo people, and where did they
possibly migrate from?
Answer: a) Mainland Southeast Asia
2. Which regions in Mindanao are Multiple Choice Test: Mansaka
considered part of the ancestral lands Tribe
of the Manobo people?
Answer: b) Agusan, Davao, Bukidnon,
Cotabato 11. Where is the Mansaka tribe
3. What does the term "Manobo" mean, located?
and what are some alternate names Answer: c) Mindanao
for this group? 12. What does the name "Mansaka"
Answer: c) "River people"; Manuvu, mean?
Minuvu Answer: b) First people to ascend
4. How far does the Manobo ancestral the mountains
land extend in the Mindanao island 13. What were the Mansaka people
group? known for historically?
Answer: b) From Sarangani Island to Answer: d) Potters and
Misamis
metalworkers
5. What is the significance of the term
"Mansuba" in relation to the Manobo 14. Which crops are part of the
people? Mansaka tribe's farming
Answer: b) It refers to the river and practices?
their connection to it. Answer: c) Rice and corn
6. What areas are included in the 15. What is a traditional weapon used
Manobo's ancestral domain, including by the Mansaka for hunting?
both islands and mainland regions? Answer: b) Sumpitan (blowgun)
Answer: a) Agusan, Sarangani, Davao, 16. What is the name of the Mansaka
Cotabato tribe’s warrior-leader responsible
7. How does the term "Manobo" reflect for protecting the clan?
the relationship between the people
Answer: b) Bagani
and their environment, particularly
rivers? 17. Which activity is part of the
Answer: b) It connects them to their Pyagsawitan harvest celebration?
roots as "river people." Answer: c) Singing and playing
8. What role did pre-colonial history indigenous instruments
play in shaping the origins and 18. Who typically officiates the
migration of the Manobo people? Mansaka's spiritual rituals?
Answer: b) It shaped their migration Answer: d) Balian (shaman)
patterns from mainland Southeast Asia. 19. What material is used to make
9. How do the alternate names for the traditional Mansaka clothing?
Manobo group (Manuvu, Minuvu) Answer: c) Abaca
reflect the linguistic diversity within
20. What offerings are made to the
their culture?
Answer: a) They show the influence of manaog gods by the Mansaka
neighboring tribes and dialects. tribe?
10. In what ways has the Manobo culture Answer: b) Betel nut, areca leaves,
been influenced by their geographical and wine
Comprehension Test: Mandaya Tribe Multiple Choice Test: Ata Manobo Tribe

2. The word Mandaya derives from the 1. Who serves as the religious leader,
prefix Man meaning _________. diviner, and healer in Ata Manobo
Answer: a) upstream society?
3. The _________, a sub principal group Answer: B) Baylan
of the Mandaya, inhabit dense, 2. Which type of pangayaw occurs when
forested mountain areas, relying on a man accidentally kills another out of
hunting, gathering, and shifting anger or grief?
cultivation, with cultural practices Answer: B) Panalowsow
tied to the forest. 3. What is the Ata Manobo’s traditional
Answer: 5) Sapionan way of settling conflicts, which may be
4. In Mandaya societal role, the waged between individuals, families,
_________, who are esteemed or communities and is triggered by a
warriors and leaders with high grievous transgression such as
authority. murder, dishonor, or violation of an
Answer: 10) Bagani agreement?
5. The wife sings the _____ if her Answer: A) Pangayaw
husband dies, and she must refrain 4. Under what condition is polygyny
from singing until she remarries. allowed among the Ata Manobo?
Answer: 15) Oman-oman Answer: A) Only if the first wife agrees
6. A person who becomes an enemy of and the husband can afford the bride-
the tribe is considered _________, price
meaning they are shunned and 5. Why do the Ata Manobo disapprove
excluded from the community. of using tubli for fishing?
Answer: 2) Persona non grata Answer: B) It kills not only the fish but
7. According to Mandaya law, the wife also eggs and fingerlings
cannot have more than ____ husband. 6. What is the purpose of the
Answer: 1) One thanksgiving panubad at the end of
8. The Mandaya marriage is celebrated the planting season?
with _______, which signifies the Answer: B) To offer thanks to the
formal conclusion of the marriage supreme deity and deities for a
process and the couple's transition successful crop
into married life. 7. What is the cultural significance of
Answer: 4) Da Pagtuod tattoos among the Matigsalug?
9. In Mandaya tradition, the body of the Answer: C) They help guide the soul in
deceased is laid straight with hands at the afterlife and express identity
the sides and covered with a _______, 8. What does the Ata Manobo woman’s
a cloth made from abaca fibers. ompak typically look like?
Answer: 1) Dagmay Answer: B) A red, short blouse with
10. In Mandaya social stratification, the striped patterns
_______, wealthy individuals with 9. Which term was historically used by
extensive agricultural holdings and the Spaniards to refer to the Ata
abundant harvests, reflecting their Manobo and other upland peoples?
economic success. Answer: C) Ata
Answer: 2) Sapinoan 10. What is the primary purpose of the
11. In Mandaya family dynamic, bilateral kinship structure in Ata
_________ comprises parents and Manobo families?
their children, forming a core unit in Answer: B) To strengthen familial ties
their social organization. and maximize limited resources
Answer: 5) Nuclear family
Multiple Choice Test: Bagobo Tribe Multiple Choice Test: Bagobo Klata
Tribe
2. What does the term "Bagobo" signify
in terms of its linguistic roots? 1. Which of the following best describes
Answer: B) New growth along the the traditional dwelling of the Bagobo
Davao Gulf coast Klata?
3. Which group was mistakenly included Answer: B) Bamboo and nipa palm
among the Bagobo by early structures
ethnographers and Spanish 2. The Bagobo Klata's homeland is
missionaries? known for which prominent
Answer: A) The Manuvu geographical feature?
4. What was the primary economic Answer: C) Mount Apo, the highest
activity of the Bagobo in their peak in the Philippines
traditional economy? 3. In Bagobo Klata society, what role
Answer: B) Swidden agriculture and does the 'datu' play?
trade Answer: B) A leader responsible for
5. What was Datu Manib’s response to decision-making and conflict resolution
the Spanish injunction against human 4. Which of the following best describes
sacrifices? the primary method of agriculture
Answer: B) He ignored it and continued practiced by the Bagobo Klata?
the practice, leading to his imprisonment Answer: B) Shifting cultivation and
6. During the American colonial period, terraced rice fields
which system was introduced to the 5. What is the primary purpose of the
Bagobo that significantly altered their Bagobo Klata’s traditional rituals?
traditional governance? Answer: B) To honor ancestors, seek
Answer: C) The municipal and barrio blessings, and ensure communal well-
government system being
7. What is the primary ritual performed 6. Which of the following best
by the Bagobo to mark the beginning characterizes the Bagobo Klata's
of the rice-planting season? justice system?
Answer: A) The balatik ceremony Answer: B) A customary system based
8. In Bagobo religious beliefs, what role on mediation and reconciliation
does Mandarangan play? 7. What is the primary language spoken
Answer: B) He is the god of war and by the Bagobo Klata?
resides in Mount Apo Answer: C) Klata
9. Which of the following is NOT a 8. The term "Klata" is derived from
characteristic of the traditional which of the following?
Bagobo political system? Answer: C) A long bamboo staircase
Answer: C) The slave class was used in their traditional houses
composed only of captured men 9. How do the Bagobo Klata integrate
10. What significant change did the their traditional knowledge with
Spanish colonization bring to Bagobo modern education?
settlements? Answer: B) By establishing tribal
Answer: B) Establishment of schools and integrating traditional
reducciones (colonized towns) knowledge with formal schooling
11. What is the primary ingredient in the 10. Which of the following is a significant
“langis” oil used in the Bagobo’s aspect of Bagobo Klata art and
syncretic religion? literature?
Answer: A) Coconut oil Answer: B) Intricate beadwork, woven
fabrics, and oral epics