FAR EASTERN POLYTECHNIC COLLEGE

Brgy. Sta. Lucia

Dasmarinas City, Cavite

Preliminary Examinastion
In
Rizal

Name: __________________________ Date: ___________________

Course and Year: _________________ Day and Time: ___________

Test I. MULTIPLE-CHOICE-TYPE. Below each of the following questions or statements are sets
of choices from which you are to pick out the one that completes and makes the statement
correct or that relates to the same statement. Write only the letter of your choice as answer
and every correct answer is good for two (2) points.

1. Jose Rizal’s earliest nationalist sentiment was portrayed in his poem titled:

a. To My Fellow Children
b. In Memory of My Town
c. None of the above

2. During the Rizal’s times, the Filipinos were unfortunate victims of the evils of an
unjust, bigoted, and deteriorating colonial power such as, except:

a. No equality before the law

b. Electoral frauds
c. Frailocracy

3. The real surname of the Rizal family was:

a. Sarmiento
b. Mercader
c. None of the above

4. The hero’s choice of “Rizal” was prophetic because “Rizal” in Spanish means:

a. Battlefield
b. World Stage
c. “a field where wheat, cut still green, sprouts again”
5. By ancestry, the national hero was predominantly:

a. Of Spanish blood
b. Of Chinese blood
c. Of Malayan and Asian manhood

6. Jose Rizal’s great great grandfather, his father’s side considered, was an immigrant
from:

a. Beijing
b. Fukien City
c. None of the above.

7. The national hero had his early education in:

a. Calamba
b. Binan
c. All of the above

8. The martyrdom of Gom-Bur-Za in 1872 inspired the national hero to fight against the
evils of Spanish tyranny and to write a novel dedicated to Gom-Bur-Za. This novel was
titled:

a. Noli Mi Tangere
b. Mi Ultimo Adios
c. None of the above

9. While he was yet in Calamba, the following were the national hero’s private tutors,
except:

a. Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz

b. Maestro Celestino
c. Maestro Lucas Padua

10. Socially and economically, the Rizal family belonged to the:

a. Elite class
b. Good Middle Class
c. Poor class
11. The second surname RIZAL was given to the national hero’s family by:

a. By Governor Rafael de Izqierdo

b. Father Rufino Collanter
c. The Alcalde Mayor of Laguna

12. Adolf Hitler was allegedly the illegitimate son of Rizal because:

a. Rizal had an affair with a the hotel chambermaid while he was in Austria
b. He had liaisons with them
c. All of the above

13. Rizal was considered the National Hero despite his non-participation in the physical
combat against the Spaniards because:

a. He cautioned Aguinaldo and Bonifacio against their fighting in the Revolution

b. He used his pen in waging a non-violent crusade and suffered political martyrdom.
c. None of the above

14. Rizal had his first sorrow when

a. His sister Saturnina died of sickness in 1865

b. His mother was incarcerated
c. His sister Concha died of sickness in 1865

15. Which of the following statements is valid?

a. The national hero was born on December 30, 1896.

b. The “Jose” for the national hero was chosen by Parish Priest Father Rufino
Collanter
c. None of the above

16. Which of the following statements is valid?

a. Mercado was the real surname of the Rizal family and was adopted on 1731 by
Domingo Lameo, the paternal great great father of the national hero.
b. “Mercado” was Spanish word for market
c. All of the above

17. Which of the following statements is valid?

a. A car was a status symbol of the ilustrados in Spanish Philippines

b. “Principalia” is a term which means town aristocracy in Spanish Philippines
c. None of the above
18. When the national hero was 15 years old and was a student of Ateneo de Manila, he
wrote a poem titled:

a. To My Fellow Children
b. To the Filipino Youth
c. None of the above

19. The following comprise the national hero’s earliest childhood memories, except:

a. His first brawl with a bully in Binan

b. Nocturnal walk in the town, especially when there was moon
c. His happy days in the family garden when he was three years old

20. Rizal stopped his schooling in Binan because:

a. He had several fights with his classmates

b. He received a letter from his sister Saturnina informing him about the arrival of the
steamer “Talim” which would take him home from Binan to Calamba
c. All of the above

21. Which of the following statements is not valid; that is, the poem To My Children
considered?

a. People who truly their language can pursue liberty

b. Tagalog is inferior to other languages
c. Person who does not love his or her native language is like a beast or evil smelling
fishy.

22. Which of the following statements is valid?

a. Rizal’s doctrines are not for one epoch but for all epochs for they are as valid today
as they were yesterday.
b. The bullets Rizal sustained during his execution destroyed his cranium his ideas
destroyed an empire.
c. All of the above.

23. The violent mutiny in Cavite was led by:

a. General Izquierdo
b. Sgt.Madrid
c. None of the above
24. The national hero was alleged to be an “American-made hero” because:

a. He was used by the colonialists to miseducate us and suppress our national

sentiments
b. The colonialists used him as model cooperating with the colonial power
c. All of the above

25. The national hero was born on:

a. June 16, 1816

b. June 19, 1861
c. June 29, 1816