1. Which is NOT part of the contents of the La Solidaridad?

Answer: Spanish literature, culture and society

2. What story read by Rizal when he was a child which had left an impact on him?
Answer: The Foolish Butterfly

3. What was the name of the ship that Rizal boarded from Manila to Singapore?
Answer: Salvadora

4. The alleged retraction of Jose Rizal was a requirement for him to marry
Josephine Bracken.
Answer: True

5. n his work "To the Young Women of Malolos" why did Rizal praise the young women
of Malolos?
Answer: They petitioned the Governor-General for their right to be educated

6. What is the first organization joined by Jose Rizal in Europe?

Answer: Circulo Hispano-Filipino

7. Jose Rizal�s family did not approve his relationship with Josephine Bracken
because the thought Josphine was sent to spy on him.
Answer: True

8. Who gave the title �Mi Ultimo Adios� to Jose Rizal�s last poem?
Answer: Mariano Ponce

9. Essay which expresses Jose Rizal�s love for the country.

Answer: El Amor Patrio

10. Which of the following could be inferred about Jose Rizal in his poem �Mi
Retiro�?
Answer: Rizal's contentment of his life in Dapitan

11. Who is Jose Rizal's mother?

Answer: Teodora Alonso

12. What is the name used by Jose Rizal in his passport going to Europe?
Answer: Jose Mercado

13. All the members of the La Liga Filipia were Filipinos came from wealthy and
powerful families.
Answer: False

14. Essay which expresses Jose Rizal�s insight on the important role of women in
society.
Answer: To The Young Women of Malolos

15. Where was Jose Rizal detained after being brought back to the Philippines?
Answer: Fort Santiago

16. Where did Jose Rizal plan to establish a colony so that they could be free from
the Spaniards?
Answer: Borneo

17. Filipino nationalism is shaped by the conglomeration of the events that

happened in the world and in the Philippines.
Answer: True
18. The goal of Jose Rizal�s trip to Europe was to observe the European society and
to acquire knowledge that will be used in demanding reforms for the Philippines.
Answer: True

19. According the National Heroes Committee, for one to be considered as national
hero of the Philippines he/she must have a concept of nation and had contributed to
the nations destiny.
Answer: True

20. Which could be inferred about Filipino women during the Spanish colonial regime
from the story of the young women of Malolos?
Answer: Women were not allowed to be educated like men.

21. What is the title of the essay written by Marcelo H. Del Pilar that criticized
the power and influence of the friars in the Philippines?
Answer: Monarchism in the Philippines

22. Which work of Jose Rizal expresses his views about the roles of Filipino women?
Answer: To The Young Women of Malolos

23. Why did Jose Rizal issue a manifesto in December 15, 1896?
Answer: Defend himself from the accusations against him

24. Which proves Jose Rizal�s anti-revolution stance?

Answer: His Dec. 15, 1896 manifesto

25. In Madrid, Jose Rizal gave a toast to Juan Luna and Felix Ressureccion Hidalgo
for winning in the Exposici�nNacional de Bellas Artes de Madrid in 1884 which was
interpreted by the Spaniards in Manila as an attack to the colonial regime.
Answer: True

26. What is the full name of Jose Rizal?

Answer: Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda

27. In Europe, Jose Rizal found out that all Filipino expatriates were willing to
serve the country by exposing the social condition in the Philippines and demanding
reform from Spain.
Answer: False

28. Which DOES NOT describe the Noli Me Tangere according to the report of the
committee appointed by the governor-general to review the contents of the novel? It
is ________.
Answer: Anti-revolution

29. What was the name of the ship that Rizal rode in from Singapore to Europe?
Answer: Djemnah

30. What caused the disbandment of La Liga Filipina?

Answer: Jose Rizal was arrested and exiled to Dapitan

31. Why did Jose Rizal leave the Philippines for Europe in February 1888?
Answer: To avoid persecution from the Spanish authorities

32. What could be inferred from these lines in the Mi Ultimo Adios: �O lovely: how
lovely: to fall that you may rise! To perish that you may live! ...�?
Answer: Sacrificing one's life for the country is a great honor

33. Why did Jose Rizal write his third novel in Tagalog?
Answer: To be understood by the Filipinos
34. Jose Rizal was dubbed as an ambivalent hero because he never made a clear stand
about the Philippine revolution.
Answer: True

35. Who were the intended audience of Jose Rizal in his December 15, 1896
manifesto?
Answer: The revolutionaries

36. When Dr. Pio Valenzuela confided the plans of the Katipunan, Jose Rizal viewed
the revolution as premature.
Answer: True

37. How many children were there in the Rizal family?

Answer: 11

38. Evaluate the following statements:

I. College students are required to read the unexpurgated versions of the Noli Me
Tangere and El Filibusterismo as part of the Rizal course.
II. Students whose faith could be damaged are exempted to take the Rizal course.
Answer: Statement I is true.

39. Which statements are TRUE about Jose Rizal�s analysis on the indolence of the
Filipinos?

I. All the reasons for the indolence of the Filipinos could be attributed to
the Spaniards.

II. Filipinos have a predisposition of laziness but it was aggravated by the

Spanish colonization.

III. The Filipinos became indolent because they were miseducated, exploited
and deprived of their rights.

IV. Religion was used by the Spanish clergies to encourage the Filipinos to
work hard in order to gain miracles and salvation.
Answer: Statements I, II and III

40. In his passport, Jose Rizal was a resident of ________.

Answer: Sta. Cruz

41. Who authored the Rizal Law?

Answer: Sen. Claro M. Recto

42. Who helped Jose Rizal in the printing of the El Filibusterismo?

Answer: Valentin Ventura

43. Which was NOT part of Jose Rizal�s intentions in his December 15, 1896
manifesto?
Answer: Swear allegiance to Spain and remain a loyal subject

44. What is meant by Filibustero?

Answer: Revolutionary

45. Jose Rizal�s �On the Indolence of the Filipino� criticizes the incompetence of
the Spanish officials designated in the Philippines.
Answer: False

46. Which describe the social conditions in the Philippines during the 19th
century?
I. Civil unrest due to civil war
II. Ruled by incompetent officials
III. Occupied by the French
IV. Political and economic stagnation
Answer: II and IV

47. Why did Jose Rizal�s friends and family members wanted him not to go back to
the Philippines?
Answer: Spanish authorities will plot against him due to the Noli Me Tangere

48. Who influenced young Jose Rizal�s interest in folklore?

Answer: His Nanny

49. According to the National Heroes Committee, the position of national hero is
based from people�s continued veneration of the person.
Answer: False

50. Which event was viewed by the Spanish government officials as a move to
overturn the Spanish colonial rule in the Philippines?
Answer: 1872 Cavite Mutiny

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