Name: Vicky A.

Catabay Course/Year/Section: BSHM III-C

CHAPTER 6 RIZAL’S LIFE, WORKS AND WRITINGS

1. Who is the founder of Singapore?

Thomas Stanford Raffles

2. What is the reason and why they kept secret the departure of Jose Rizal in
Spain?
Rizal’s departure for Spain was kept secret to avoid detection by the
Spanish authorities and the friars. Even his own parents did not know
because he knew they, especially his mother, would not allow him to go.

3. Who are those people knew about the departure of Rizal in Spain?
Paciano, Antonio Rivera, Neneng, Lucia, Capitan Juan, Capitana Sanday,
Orang, Pedro A. Paterno, Mateo Evangelista, and some intimate friends
including Chengoy (Jose M. Cecilio).

4. Who is the man that Rizal describe in his travel diary as a affable man?
The ship captain, Donato Lecha

5. Who are the passengers in ship Djemnah going to Colombo?

These passengers were British, French, Dutch, Spaniards, Malays,
Siamese, and Filipinos (Mr. and Mrs. Salazar, Mr. Vicente Pardo, and
Jose Rizal.

6. How Rizal called the barren coast of Africa?

“inhospitable land but famous”

7. Who built the Suez Canal?

 Suez Canal was built by Ferdinand de Lesseps (French diplomat-
engineer)

8. What is the most famous street in Barcelona?

Las Ramblas

9. What is the title of nationalistic essay that Rizal wrote in progressive

Barcelona?
This entitled “Amor Patrio” (Love of Country), his first article written on
Spain’s oil.

10.Who is the publisher,that deeply impressed by “Amor Patrio”, and

congratulated Rizal, and requested for more articles?
Publisher Basilio Teodoro Moran