THE LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL

Midterm Examination

Name of Student: Joshua D. Rogador

Section: BSED2 Filipino
Instructor: Merdy Mae D. Delavin

Directions: Read each question carefully and give the best answer. Your exam is answerable in
3 hours which output should be submitted in our google classroom. In the event that you
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Part I.

1. The poem “Sa Aking Mga Kabata” is a written work attributed to Rizal when he was at age eight.
However, there are speculations and controversy that it is not Rizal who wrote the poem, give, and
explain your stand.

 As on my thought I know that Rizal was a brilliant and genius man and we know that on his background
when he was young he did more wisdom. The fact is Rizal spoke and wrote in Tagalog fluently, but he
was unable to write a whole novel in his mother tongue. Rizal had 35 years to publish or assert
authorship. In 1892, Jose Rizal began a new novel in Tagalog. I believe that he did not create the whole
novel. According to some research, the truly provenance to its sources was a bosom friend of Rizal and
teacher. It was forwarded and received by other some people who became as a close friend of Rizal.
When we were looking for his 8 years standing, he was studying the tagalog like alphabet and letters but
prioritize the pre Spanish and various language. Overall, I believe Rizal doesn’t aware from the colonial
condition at his early childhood stage and we know that there are some people who had been received
from the poem , the provenance were from those his closest friend.

2. Explain the role of Paciano in the different aspect of Rizal’s life.

 When I was assigned to report the Rizal’s life, I had been analyzed and studied the most person who had
been influenced by Jose Rizal. Probably, his brother Paciano was one of the most influenced on him from
his childhood until he stepped up on college life he is always with him. Paciano was a brilliant and genius
man like Rizal. He was a proud Filipino Makabayan and he is the one who had been made to Rizal as
being a Filipino. Being a patriotic person. Paciano was immortalized as a Pilosopo Tacio on Noli me
tangere written by Rizal because he inspired Rizal to be a generous and philosopher man.

3. La Liga Filipina was Rizal’s organization against the Spanish rule, what happened to this organization
during Rizal’s travel abroad up to his execution.

 There are a lot of he’s kababayan suffered from the Spanish times and when the time passed he returned
to Manila and created La liga Filipina lead by Bonifacio. But unfortunately, Rizal was exiled to the island of
Mindanao. During his four years there, he practiced medicine, taught students, and collected local
examples of flora and fauna while recording his discoveries. Even though he lost touched with others who
were working for Filipino independence, he quickly denounced the movement when it became violent and
revolutionary. They aim and built a united whole archipelago into one vigorous and homogenous
 organization, making mutual protection in every want and necessity and implement defense against all
violence and injustice.

4. How will you compare Rizal’s childhood to your own experiences as a child and what are the
similarities and differences? Elaborate.

 Well, Jose Rizal, just like on me, had many beautiful memories of childhood. He have a happy home,
filled with parental affection, impregnated with family joys, and sanctified by prayers. In the midst of such
peaceful, refined, God-loving family, he spent the early years of his childhood there are merely fact on my
life experiences comparing on his life. If we were talked about to my life since early childhood stage like
Rizal we are the same us to wondering somewhere near on the house. In fact, we are the same as
having a siblings but barely more from me unlike on him. same us the youngest brother, I have one
brother and 4 sisters they inspired me being a disciplinary and having an integrity. Comparing to his father
to my father’s gone, they’re the same diligent and hardworking. The differences from us is to being a
genius, brilliant and diligent person to studying. Oftentimes I was atribilious of laziness. But we have the
same a mindset especially discovering and deep studying. We are the same to be a religious people,
influences by his mother like to my mother but the differences we are a born again Christian unlike them
they’re Catholic.

Part II. Exam Questions & Answer’.

1. What are the values that the young Rizal gained from his significant others and how these
values mold him to a character? Enumerate these values and add these up to identify
character traits which you think Rizal developed in his childhood and early education.

 There are a lot of values we gained on his character traits.

a. Rizal grew up to be religious, prayerful, and god-fearing. His love for arts and literature also
started sparks in his childhood.
b. Rizal acquired his inspirations: his love for country, God, family, justice, freedom, education and
language. These were the foundations in his childhood that strengthened him and guided him.
c. For Rizal, the mission of education is to elevate the country to the highest seat of glory and to
develop the people's mentality. Since education is the foundation of society and a prerequisite for
social progress, Rizal claimed that only through education could the country be saved from
domination.
2. The ‘retraction’ of Rizal was a controversy discovered after his death, what do you think are
the effects of the discovery of retraction of Rizal in the Philippine History?

 In the modern time, several investigations occur, analyzing if the retraction papers of Jose Rizal were
valid. Ricardo Pascual who studied many documents of Rizal claimed that the retraction letter was not
written by Jose Rizal. Famous personalities like Senator Rafael Palma believe that Jose Rizal I has a
mature personality and retraction is not Jose Rizal’s thing. This controversy cannot be ignored
especially that we are talking about a man who has been recognized as the national hero of the
country. One of the definitions of a hero and also my definition, is a person who is willing to die for the
sake of others while a national hero is a person willing to die for the country, the point is if Rizal’s
retraction papers were true, it only proves that he could not die for our country and I would be
disappointed that he was declared as our national hero.
 3. Compare the life of Rizal in his higher education in the schools where he attended and
explain his achievements in these schools.

Part III.
1. Sacred Heart- Sculpture of Jose Rizal given by Father Luiz\
2. Teodora Alonzo- a mother of Rizal, his first teacher ;
Francisco Mercado- A father of Rizal, a landowner,
3. Rizal’s Retraction letter- discover after death of Rizal, It was supposed to have been signed by Jose
Rizal moments before his death. There were many witnesses, most of them Jesuits
4. The story of the moth- made the profoundest impression on Rizal “died a martyr to its illusion”
5. Josephine Bracken- Spouse of Jose Rizal.