Republic of the Philippines

Isabela State University

Jones Campus
NAME: __________________________________ SECTION: __________ DATE: _________
QUIZ ON CITIZENSHIP
I. IDENTIFICATION: Direction: Identify the following statements. Write your correct
answer on the blank provided before each statement. NO ERASURES AND
MISSPELLED WORDS.
_____________________ 1. A voluntary method of acquiring citizenship by renouncing
your former citizenship and embracing a new one.
_____________________ 2. Citizens of the Philippines from birth without having to
perform any act to acquire or perfect Philippine citizenship.
_____________________ 3. Defined as membership of an individual in a political
community enjoying political and civil rights.
_____________________ 4. A rule that a persons citizenship is determined by the place
of his birth.
_____________________ 5. It refers to a situation in which a person simultaneously
owes, by some positive act, loyalty to two or more states.
_____________________ 6. A rule that a persons citizenship is determined by his blood
or by the citizenship of his parents.
_____________________ 7. Another term for the intention to return.
______________________8. A citizenship as a result of the concurrent application of the
different laws of two or more states.
_____________________ 9. A law that says all inhabitants of the islands who were
Spanish subjects on April 11, 1898, and residing in the islands, who did not declare
their intention of preserving Spanish nationality between the said date and October
1900 were declared citizens of the Philippines.
II. ENUMERATION
A. Give five (5) qualifications for Naturalization
B. Give five (5) ways of losing and reacquiring citizenship
EXPLANATION: read the following situations carefully and explain it with basis.
One sentence is enough to explain each problem.
1. Mr. and Mrs. Cedric Lee went to the United States on working Visa. After a
year of stay there, child A was born. Mr. and Mrs. Lee are natural-born
Filipinos.
What is the citizenship of child A at the time of birth? Is it American or
Filipino citizenship, or both? Qualify your answer by citing the supporting
principle or principles.
2. Miss Deniece Cornejo was born on January 11, 1973, of a Filipino mother and
a Chinese father. Her parents got married on November 30, 1971. What is the
citizenship of Deniece during her minority? How about after reaching the age

of majority? Qualify your answer by citing the supporting principle or

principles.