Worksheet No.

3: Text Navigation
Direction: Lets navigate the essay, Pliant Like the Bamboo, answer the questions
below. Type your answers within the gray areas. Save your answers in the folder you
created.
Name: Year & Section:
1. What are Filipinos likened to?
2. How do the Filipinos show that they are pliant like the bamboo?
3. What were the contributions of our colonizers to our country?
4. What is Bahala Na? How does this behavior affect us?
5. According to the essay, how can we escape from rigorous problems? Cite other
ways?
6. What does this sentence mean?
The past is already a dream and tomorrow is only a vision, but today, well-lived, make
every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a visitor of hope.
7. Why are Filipinos philosophers?
8. Why is the Bamboo tree the expression and symbol of Filipino national character?
Do you agree with the author?