Assessment Task 9

A. True or False. Write TRUE if the statement is true and write FALSE if the statement is false.
(10 Points)
1. TRUE The Philippine revolution broke out on the year 1896.
2. TRUE Rizal played a major role in the struggle for reforms in the country.
3. TRUE Rizal was not an actual leader of the Philippine Revolution.
4. FALSE Dr. Pio Valenzuela made a lecture entitled “Veneration without Understanding”.
5. FALSE Dr. Renato Constantino was a revolutionist.
6. TRUE Rizal opposed the revolution in his Manifesto of 1896.
7. TRUE The Katipuneros were the revolutionist themselves.
8. FALSE Dr.Valenzuela sent Bonifacio to Dapitan to seek Rizal’s opinion of the revolution.
9. TRUE The revolution lasted for almost five (5) years.
10. FALSE Renato Constantino was a member of the revolution.
B. Identification. (10 Points)
1. Propaganda The reform and national consciousness movement
2. 1869 The year when the Suez Canal was completed.
3. Jaena The founder of La Solidaridad
4. 1892 The year when Rizal returned to the Philippines
5. August The month of the "Cry of Balintawak".
6. Maine The US battleship destroyed in Havana, Cuba.
7. 1872 The year the Propaganda Movement was formed.
8. Paris The city where Spain ceded the Philippines in favor of United State.
9. Tikbalang The pen name used by Mariano Ponce
10. Illustrados The name of Filipino elite in Europe that started the Propaganda Movemen.

C. Write a short essay on Rizal’s involvement and participation in the Reform Movement and the
Revolution. Limit your answer in a single page. (10 Points)
Rizal's role in the country's struggle for reform and independence cannot be overlooked. While most of us
believed that Rizal dedicated his life and labor to the cause of the revolution and venerated him to some
extent, a brave historian stood up against the tide and declared that Rizal was NOT an actual leader of the
Philippine Revolution. As a result, in a manifesto addressed to the Filipino people on December 15, 1896,
Rizal declared that when the plan of revolution came to his attention, he opposed it as an absolute
impossibility and stated his utmost willingness to offer anything he could to put down the rebellion. It
was absurd to Rizal, and he despised its alleged criminal methods. Rizal's flaw in this area was his
inability to fully comprehend his people. In launching the armed rebellion, he was unable to empathize
with the true sentiments of the people from below. He opposed the revolution because he believed that
successful reforms should come from above. Rizal may have disproved the revolution because he
believed that violence should not win. Rizal unintentionally underestimated the power of those from
below to force changes and reforms in this case.Dr. Pio Valenzuela's account of the revolution in 1896,
after he was sent by Andres Bonifacio to Dapitan to seek Rizal's opinion and approval in launching an
armed rebellion against the Spanish administration, backs up this claim. Valenzuela testified before a
military court in September 1896 that Rizal was adamantly opposed to the idea of an early armed
rebellion and used foul language in reference to it; the same statement was extracted from him in October
1896, with the exception that he overturned that it was Bonifacio, not Rizal, who used foul language in
reference to it.