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5. Who is the devotee Christian Saint that chosen by his mother to name him “Jose”?
Answer: Saint San Jose (St. Joseph)
10. The youngest of Rizal children; her pet name was Choleng; she married Pantaleon Quintero
of Calamba
Answer: Soledad Rizal
CHAPTER TWO (2): CHILDHOOD YEARS IN CALAMBA
MY QUESTION
2. At what age Jose Rizal began to make sketches with his pencil and to mould in clay and wax
objects which attracted his fancy?
Answer: Five years old
3. What is the name of Jose Rizal’s uncle whom encourage him to develop his frail body?
Answer: Tio Manuel
8. What prayer does Jose Rizal pray every night when he was a child?
Answer: Angelus Prayer
9. According to biological science, there are inherent qualities which a person inherits from his
ancestors and parents.
Answer: Hereditary Influence
10. According to psychologist, environment, as well as heredity, affects the nature of the person.
Answer: Environment Influence
CHAPTER THREE (3): EARLY EDUCATION IN CALAMBA AND BIÑAN
MY QUESTION
1. How long did Rizal study at the private school he attended in Biñan?
Answer: 1869-1870
2. Young Jose’s private tutors.
Answer: Maestro Celestino and Maestro Lucas Padua
3. How long did it take for Rizal and Paciano to arrive at their destination in Biñan? With him at
the night of their arrival?
Answer: One and a half hours
4. Rizal’s cousin who went sightseeing in the town of Biñan with him at the night of their
arrival?
Answer: Leandro
5. Who sent a ltter to Jose in December, 1871 that informed him of the arrival of the steamer
Talim which woud take him from Biñan to Calamba?
Answer: Staurina
6. He was Frenchman on board the Talim steamer and a friend of Rizal’s father who took him
Answer: Arturo Camps
7. What jail was Doña Teodora sent to by the judge of Calamba and where is it located?
Answer: Provincial Jail in Sata Cruz
8. What is the distance between Calamba to Santa Cruz?
Answer: 50 kilometers
9. He was Filipino sergeant who lead the Cavite mutiny in January 20, 1872
Answer: Lamadrid
10. How long was Doña Teodora imprisoned in the provincial prison of Santa Cruz?
Answer: Two and a half years.
CHAPTER THREE (3): EARLY EDUCATION IN CALAMBA AND BIÑAN
CLASSMATE’S QUESTION
1. Who is Jose Rizal classmate who challenged him to an arm wrestling match?
Answer: Andres Salandanan
6. The Catholic town priest in Calamba who was esteemed and respected by Rizal
Answer: Leoncio Lopez
7. Helping financing Rizal’s studies in Europe. Can recite almost all poems of Rizal.
Answer: Narcisa Rizal
8. Helping financing Rizal’s studies in Europe. Can recite almost all poems of Rizal.
Answer: Narcisa Rizal
9. How long did it take for Rizal and Paciano to arrive at their destination in Biñan? With him at
the night of their arrival?
Answer: One and a half hours
MY QUESTION
1. This College had a bitter rivalry with the Jesuit-owned Ateneo Municipal
Answer: College of San Juan de Letran
2. Former name of Ateneo Municipal and was a school for poor boys in Manila which was
established by the city government in 1817.
Answer: Escuela Pia
3. When did Jose, accompanied by Paciano, leave Calamba for Manila to take the entrance
examinations of College of San Juan de Letran?
Answer: June 10, 1872
4. The college registrar of Ateneo Municipal who refused to admit Rizal in the college.
Answer: Father Magin Ferrando
5. He was the first of his family to adopt the surname ‘Rizal’ He registered under this name at the
Ateneo.
Answer: Jose
6. Where was the Ateneo Municipal located when Rizal studied there?
Answer: Intramuros
7. How much did Titay owe the Rizal family?
Answer: 300 pesos
8. Students in Ateneo where divided in to two groups which were?
Answer: The Roman Empire and the Carthaginian Empire
9. When did Rizal became an interno in the Ateneo?
Answer: June 16, 1875
10. What type of wood did Rizal use in sculpting an image of our Virgin Mary using his pocket-
knife?
Answer: Batikuling
CHAPTER FOUR (4): SCHOLASTIC TRIUMPHS AT ATENEO DE MANILA
CLASSMATE’S QUESTION
1. The name of the school that Jose Rizal studied under the supervision of the Spanish Jesvits
and was a bitter rival of the Domican-owned College of San Juan de Letran?
Answer: Ateneo Minicipal (also called now as Ateneo de Manila)
2. When is the Escuela Pia (Charity School) established by the City Government?
Answer: 1817
3. The father of Jose Rizal first wished him to study if letran but change his mind and
decided to send him of what school it is?
Answer: Send him to Ataneo
4. Nephew of father Burgos, he helped Rizal to be admitted to Ateneo.
Answer: Manuel Xerez Burgos
5. Subjects taken during his entrance examination
Answer: Christian doctrine, Arithmetic, Reading
6. Ranks of each empire in order.
Answer: 1) Emperor
2) Tribune
3) Decurion
4) Centurion
5) Standard-bearer
7. Color of the banner of the Roman Empire
Answer: Red
8. Color of the banner of the Carthaginian Empire
Answer: Blue
9. The name of the coat material.
Answer: Rayadillo
10. This valuable work was of great aid in his studies and enabled him to win more prizes in
Ateneo.
Answer: Universal History by Cesar Cantu
CHAPTER FIVE (5): MEDICAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS
MY QUESTION
1. It was equivalent to a high school diploma today during the Spanish times
Answer: Bachelor of Arts degree
2. What course did Rizal take when he matriculated in the University of Santo Tomas in April
1877 who was then nearly 16 years old?
Answer: Philosophy and Letters
3. What course did Rizal take after his first school term in the UST?
Answer: Medicine
4. Rizal was the secretary what exclusive society in the Ateneo?
Answer: Academy of Natural Sciences
5. The Patroness of the Ateneo
Answer: Immaculate Conception
6. Son of Mr and Mrs Manuel Regalado who was Rizal’s friend in Manila
Answer: Nicolas Regalado
7. In what chapter of Noli Me Tangere did Rizal mention the Turumba?
Answer: Chapter VI
8. The chief of the three musketeers: Rizal was chosen as him
Answer: Treville
9. The members of the secret organization “Compañerismo” called themselves what?
Answer: Comanions of Jehu
10. Rizals uncle and Leonor’s Father who encourage him to go to Soaun to finish his medical
course.
Answer: Antonio Rivera
CHAPTER FIVE (5): MEDICAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY OF SANTO TOMAS
CLASSMATE’S QUESTION
1. What are the two books that abounded Rizal’s sympathy for the oppressed and
unfortunate people?
Answer: 1 Beecher Stow’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin 2 Eugene Sue’s The wandering Jew.
2. Why does Rizal departure for the Spain remains a secret mission?
Answer: To avoid detection by the Spanish authorities and the traits.
3. What are the two courses did Rizal enrolled in Universidad Central de Madrid?
Answer: Medicine, Philosophy and Letters.
4. In lodge Solidaridad (Madrid) what diploma did he received on February 15, on Nov 3,
1882?
Answer: Mason
5. During hard times in Calamba, it caused much suffering to Rizal allowance in Madrid.
What does his older brother Paciano did to sent him money?\
Answer: Paciano was forced to sell his younger brother’s pony
6. What was the favorite past time of Rizal in Madrid?
Answer: Reading.
7. On may 3, 1882 In what Spanish Streamer does Rizal departed on board to be bound in
Singapore?
Answer: Salvadora
8. It is a french streamer that Rizal transferred from Singapore to Calamba.
Answer: Djemnah.
CHAPTER (7) PARIS TO BERLIN (1885-1887)
MY QUESTION
1. Rizal specialization?
Answer: Ophthalmology
2. Why Ophthalmology?
Answer: To cure his mother’s eye ailment.
3. His age and profession when he went to Paris.
Answer: 24 years old, he is already a physician.
4. Where was Rizal stop-over?
Answer: Barcelona
5. Who is the editor of La Publicidad?\
Answer: Senor Eusebio Corominas
6. Who was the pretty girl engaged to Juan Luna?
Answer: Paz Pardo de Tavera
7. What was the instrument Rizal that Rizal learned?
Answer: 1. Solfeggio 2. Piano 3. Flute
8. What was the song that Rizal wrote which asserts that any race aspires him for freedom?
Answer: Aling Mang Lahi (Any Race)
9. Club he joined during his stay with some German students when they found out that
Rizal was a good chess player.
Answer: Chess Player’s Club
10. Rizal worked with him at the University Eye Hospital; a distinguished German
ophthalmologist
Answer: Boarding house near University of Heidelberg
11. Attended lectures on history and psychology
Answer: University of Leipzig.
12. Who was the Famous German historian that Rizal’s befriended?
Answer: Professor Friedrich Ratzel
Answer: To his intimate friends he sent it, including Blumentrit, Dr. Antonio Ma. Rogidor,
Answer: He gave Viola the gallery proffs of the Noli carefully rolled around the pen in
8. What are reason why the bleak of 1886 was memorable in the life of Rizal?
Answer:
* First, it was a painful episode for he was hungry, sick and despondent in a strange city.
* Second, it brought him great joy, after enduring so much feelings in the novel of Noli Me
Tangere.
Answer:January 2,1889
10. when did Rizal went to Paris?
Answer: 1885
11.Where did Rizal finished the last fourth chapter of the Noli Me Taangere?
Answer: Germany
This friend of Rizal was a scion of a rich family of San Miguel, Bulacan.
When was the Noli Me Tangere finally finished and ready for printing?
Who are the close friends to whom Rizal sent the first printed copy of Noli Me Tangere?
Answer: Blumentritt, Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor , G. Lopez Jaena, Mariano Ponce, and
Felix R. Hidalgo
When did Rizal give Viola a token of appreciation, gratitude , and galley proofs for the
Answer: The Noli Me Tangere was a true story of Philippine conditions during last decades
of Spanish rule
20.What phrase does Rizal use to tell a true story to the readers of the Noli?
Answer: “ The facts I have narrate there, are all true and have happened; I can prove
them.” According to Rizal
1. How much was Paciano's remmitance that he sent to Juan Luna in Paris for him to
forward it to Rizal?
Answer: 1,000 pesos
2. How much is Rizal's debt to Dr. Maximo Viola which he paid immediately after
receiving the money remitted by Paciano in the Philippines?
Answer: 300 pesos
3. When did Rizal and Viola leave Berlin by train for Dresden?
Answer: May 11, 1887
4. Rizal was deeply impressed by this painting when they visited the Museum of Art in
Dresden and he recalled seeing a representation of the same idea in an art gallery in Paris.
Answer: Prometheus Bound
5. Rizal and Viola's next stopover after leaving Dresden.
Answer: Teschen (Decin, Czechoslovakia)
6. Where did Rizal and Viola go after leaving Teschen and arrive on May 13, 1887? They
visited Prof. Blumetritt in this town near Dresden.
Answer: Leitmeritz, Bohemia (Litomerice, Czechoslovakia)
7. How long did it take in order for Rizal to learn German
Answer: 11 months
8. An eminent naturalist. Blumentritt also introduced Rizal to him.
Answer: Prof. Robert Klutschak
9. When did Rizal write a letter in Brunn, Austria to Blumentritt where Rizal told him that
he forgot his diamond stickpin at Rizal's room in Hotel Krebs?
Answer: May 19, 1887
10. After Leitmeritz, Rizal and Viola visited what historic city?
Answer: Prague
11. When did Rizal write a letter in Vienna to Blumentritt where he expressed his and Viola's
concern for the illness of Dora, the professor's little daughter.
Answer: May 24, 1887
12. Rizal and Viola visited whose tomb in Prague? He was a famous astronomer.
Answer: Nicolaus Copernicus
1. Who was Jose Rizal’s Spanish bodyguard that is assigned by Governor General Emilio
Terrero?
2. Answer: Lt. Jose Traviel de Andrande
3. Who was Jose Rizal’s first patient in his medical clinic?
Answer: His mother, Teodora Alonso Realonda
4. Who warned Rizal not to go back to the Philippines?
Answer: Paciano Mercado
5. Why does Rizal deserve to be called the first Filipino?
Answer: because of the sacrifices he made were different
6. What is the poem for Lipa? To whom it was dedicated?
Answer: Himno AI Trabajo (Hymn to Labor) This is dedicated to the industrious folks of Lipa.
7. Who came to be called “Doctor Uliman” and why?
Answer: It was Rizal called to be “Doctor Uliman” because, he came from Germany, treated
patient’s aliments and soon he acquired a lucrative medical practice. His professional fees were
reasonable, even gratis to the poor.
8. What father Rodriguez said if you red the Novel?
Answer: Father Rodriguez said if you red the novel (noli) can commit a mortal sin.
9. What are Rizal’s last words?
Answer: “consummatum est” meaning ‘it is finished’
1. Febuary 3, 1888
Answer: Rizal left Manila for Hongkong.
2. Febuary 7.
Answer: Made a brief stop at Amoy.
3. Febuary 8.
Answer: He arrived in Hongkong.
4. Victoria Hotel.
Answer: Where Rizal stayed in Hongkong.
5. Jose Sainz de Varanda.
Answer: Former secretary of Gov. Gen. Terrero
6. Hongkong
Answer: Small but very clean city.
7. Jose Maria Basa.
Answr: He accompanied Rizal in going to Macao
8. Febuary 19.
Answer: He witnessed a Catholic Procession
9. Febuary 20.
Answer: Returned to Hongkong
10. Febuary 22, 1888
Answer: Rizak Left in Hongkong
CHAPTER ELEVEN (11) IN HONGKONG AND MACAO
CLASSMATE’S QUESTION
Answer: 27
Answer: Zafiro
Answer: Macao
Answer: Kiu-kiang
Answer: 2 Weeks.
Answer: 2 Days.
1. Japan
Answer: Also known as the Land of Cherry Blossoms
2. What name does rizal affectionaly call seiko?
Answer: O-sei-san
3. Tokyo
Answer: Rizal described this place as more expensive than paris.
4. Juan Perez Caballero
Answer: Secretary of Spanish legaation
5. On March 7
Answer: He started staying at the spanish legation.
6. 4 provinces in japan rizal visited.
Answer: meguro, nikko, hakone, miyanoshita.
7. 5 things he like in japan.
Answer: 1 beauty of the country
2 cleanliness, politeness and industry of the people
3 picturesque dress and simple charm of japanese women
4 few thieves 5 beggars rarely seen
8. Rizal left in japan.
Answer: april 13, 1888
9. Tetcho Suehiro
Answer: A japanese Journalist.
10. The duration of the trip from Japan to US
Answer: April 13- December 1,1888
CHAPTER TWELVE (12) ROMANTIC INTERLUDE IN JAPAN
CLASSMATE’S QUESTION
MY QUESTION
2. May 4, 1888
Answer: The day rizal was permitted to go ashore
3. Palace hotel.
Answer: A first class hotel in San Fransico where rizal stayed
4. Grover Cleveland
Answer: The president of the United States at the time 1888
5. May 6, 1888
Answer: Rizal left San Francisco for Oakland
6. New York
Answer: Rizal called this city the big town.
7. George Washington
Answer: Rizal wrote to ponce, He is a great man who, think, has no equal in this country.
9. Jose Alejandro
Answer: Rizal’s roommate in 38 Rue Philippe Champagne, Brussels who had never been to
America
10. America
Answer: (As per Rizal) the land par of excellence of freedome but only for the whites
CLASSMATE’S QUESTION
2. Ship doctor went ashore without protest on the part of the health officers
3. Customs employees ate several times on board the supposedly cholera-infected ship
2. Yo-yo
Answer: A small wooden disc attached to a string from the finger
Used by Filipino children as a toy Rizal manipulated it was a weapon of offense
3. American newspapermen
Answer: Rizal found them to be inadequate in geo-politics and could not enjoy their
companionship becuase they where intellectually inferior to him
4. Adelphi Hotel
Answer: A hotel in Liverpool where Rizal stayed
5. Liverpool
Answer: A big beautiful city and its celebrated port is worthy of its great time
6. Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor
Answer: An exile of 1872 and a practicing lawyer in London Rizal stayed at his home as a guest
7. Beckett Family
Answer: Owner of rizal boarding place
Mr. Beckett - orgainst of St, Paul’s Church
Mrs. Beckett - two sons and four daughters
8. Sucesos de las islas Filipinas
Answer: Historical Events of the Philippine island and Excellent Book
9. Paris
Answer: Where Rizal went for a week in order to search for more historical materials in the
Bibliotheque Nationale
Here he was entertained by Juan Luna and Wife
10. Pas Pardo de Tavera
Answer: Juan Luna’s Wife
1. Spring of 1889
Answer: Paris was bursting with gaiety and excitement because of the Universal Exposition of
1889
2. Por Telefono
Answer: A satire against Fr. Salvador Font that Rizal authored
3. May 6, 1889
Answer: Universal Exposition of 1889 was scheduled to open
6. Andres
Answer: Juan Luna and Paz Pardo de Tavera’s first child
8. Eiffel Tower
Answer: Was 984 feet high
9. Alexander Eiffel
Answer: A celebrated French engineer who built the eiffel tower