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The purpose of Rizal in writing the Indolence of the Filipinos was to enlighten the Filipinos
kept in ignorance by the friars & awaken the masses to an awareness of themselves as
thinking human beings.
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False
2. Rizal propagated the idea of Fatherland as a means of uniting the Filipinos in his famous
Letter to the Young Women of Malolos.
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False
3. Rizal's concept of national consciousness consists of the spirit of common struggle seeking
promotion of a common welfare.
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False
6. One reason cited by Rizal why Filipinos lost the passion for work is due to the
establishment of the Galleon Trade.
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False
7. Rizal interprets the conquest by Spain as a process in which the Filipinos came to lose
their legitimate culture in his famous essay Indolence of the Filipinos.
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False
8. Rizal's Noli Me Tangere blasted the historical heresies of Spanish writers who claimed that
the early Filipinos were savages and were of low mentality.
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O False
9. According to Antonio Morga the early Filipinos were already accustomed to wine drinking
which make them unruly and violent when drunk.
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False
10. Rizal agrees with Morga's observation that the pre-colonial practice of giving dowry
already equated to a sale or purchase of the bride on the groom's part.
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O False
11. Rizal attributed the depopulation of Pampanga and Panay to the Spanish colonial policies
of Forced Labor and Bandala system,
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O False
12. Rizal's annotation of Morga's book enabled the people's self-confidence in their pre-
conquest past to be rekindled.
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O False
13. According to Rizal Great Britain is one possible European power that will likely to grab the
Philippines from Spain.
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O False
14. Rizal wrote that transformation will be violent and fatal if it proceeds from the ranks of
the upper classes.
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O False
15. Rizal's first interest in the importance of history started when he was in London reading
the work of Morga. .
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O False
17. Rizal attributed the ignorance and servitude of Filipina women during his time to the lack
of proper education.
O True
O False
18. Rizal's main thesis in his essay "Indolence of the Filipinos" was that the Filipinos" are by
nature indolent.
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O False
19. Rizal frankly stated that Fipino mothers should stop bearing children if they don't
educate themselves.
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False
20. Jose Rizal was ordered to be executed facing the fring squad.
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False
21. Jose Rizal was asked by the Spanish colonial government to volunteer as a military doctor
to Cuba.
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False
23. In Rizal's Letter to the Young Women of Malolos, he rejected the history of the Philippines
as
portrayed by the colonialists.
O True
O Fase
24. In Rizal's annotation of Morga's book he pointed out that tooth filing and coloring is
connected to the native's concept of beauty.
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O False
25. Rizal corrected Morga's claim that the mining industry did not develop due to the natives
abandonment but rather to the rapacity of the Spaniards.
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False
26. Filipino mothers should become human beings who taught rationality for themselves &
discen truth was emphasized by Rizal in his work
O Noli Me Tangere
Indolence of the Filipinos
Letter to the Young Women of Malolos.
27. The work that became the basis of Rizal for the rewriting of Philippine history
Sucesos Delas islas Filipias
O Indolence of the Filipinos
O Noli Me Tangere
28. Longest essay of Rizal
O Philippines A Century Hence
O Indolence of the Filipinos
O Amor Patrio
29. One reason cited by Rizal why the Philippines remain stagnant
OChinese - Hindu Traders Strong Competition
Filipino-Revolts-Muslim Piratical Attacks
Filipinos were by nature lazy.
30. Rizal asked in his work "Of what use is life, ifthere is no security in the home, no faith in
justice and confidence, tranquility of conscience?"
Indolence of the Filipinos.
Noli Me Tangere
O The Philippines A Century Hence
31. Novel of Rizal dedicated to the memory of the three Filipino priests:
Makamisa
Noli Me Tangere
El Filibusterismo
33. Rizal's prediction to happen in the Philippines within a century if Spain fails to grant the
necessary reforms:
Great Britain will grab the Philippines
Mass Exodus of Filipinos
Outbreak of Revolution
34. Rizal's article which portrayed the deplorable conditions of the Filipino farmers that "They
have to struggle not only against petty tyrants and robbers. After the floods, locusts, fires, bad
harvests".
The Philippines A Century Hence
Los Agricultores Filipinos
O Indolence of the Filipinos.
35. The Jesuit priest who claimed that Jose Rizal retracted
Fr. Bernardino Nozaleda
Fr. Vicente Balaguer
O Fr. Federico Faura
Rafael Isquierdo
Eulogio Despujol
Ramon Blanco
37. The flower mirasol in the cover design of Rizal's Noli Me Tangere represents
Purity
Youth seeking the sun
Courage
40. Rizal was able to read Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas in:
Berlin Museum
London Museum
Bibliotique National of Paris
41. Rizal enumerated the reasons why prosperous communities were depopulated except
one:
Failure of the Spanish government to protect the natives from Muslim Pirates
Outbreak of diseases
Abuses of the Encomienderos
42. Spain's colonial rule to the country for more than 300 years according to Rizal resulted to
except one:
Brought civilization to the natives
Destruction of the native industries
Destruction of our legitimate culture
43. The following factors contributed why the Filipinos did not work hard during the Spanish
colonial period except one
Promotion of gambling
Spaniards despise manual labor
Surplus of laborers
44. Noli Me Tangere which is a Latin phrase which means "Touch Me Not" was taken from
Bible
Dasalan at Toksohan
O Ten Commandments
47. Antonio Morga's Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas mentioned already the existence of the
following customs of the natives except one:
Burial customs
Huge maritime ships for international trade
Religious beliefs
48. The food that Antonio Morga referred to as spoiled that the natives were accustomed of
eating is:
Bagoong
Kilawin
O Daing
49. Rizal argued that Indolence was being fostered and sustained by the following factors
except one:
Introduction of fiesta celebration.
Friars taught the natives about miracles
O Lack of liberty
50. The dominant controversial issue that followed after Rizal's execution:
Rizal's retraction
Josephine Bracken's future
Future of Spanish colonial rule.