TLA1: Deepening Activity

Expected Output: Answering Comprehension Questions

Instruction: Answer each question substantially.

1. Name at least four individual who were aware of Rizal's departure bound for Spain

a. Paciano Mercado Rizal, Saturnina Mercado Rizal

b. Antonio Rivera

c. Pedro Paterno

d. Mateo Evangelista

2. Identify two individuals who made personal sacrifices in order to help Rizal in his mission abroad.
Name the individual and explain their personal sacrifices.

a. His siblings – Paciano and Saturnina. Paciano primarily funded Rizal’s trip, who regularly sent
Jose money for his upkeep. He sent letters to Jose to inform him of the situation of the Philippines under
the friars. When the agrarian crisis in Calamba took place. Rizal's allowance was delayed, and he had
to pawn the diamond ring his sister Saturnina gave him before he left for Spain.

b. Maximo Viola – the biggest contributor to Rizal’s venture in writing. He financed the publication of
Rizal's first book Noli Me Tangere, 1887 with 2,000 initial copies. Copies were given to Viola and to
Rizal's friend in Spain, while others were shipped to the Philippines that then reached the hands of the
Governor General of the Philippines and the Archbishop of Manila.
After publication of Noli Me Tangere, Viola accompanied Rizal to Austria to finally meet Dr.
Ferdinand Blumentritt, with whom Rizal exchanged letters and books for several years and whom he
considered as one of his advisers.

3. List Rizal's missions abroad.

a. Rizal's secret mission was to observe the lives, cultures, laws, and governments of the countries in
Europe, in preparation for liberating the Philippines from Spain's tyrannical rule.
b. Rizal decided to leave the country to complete his language and medical studies in Europe and to make
a name for himself in the realm of journalism.
c. He wanted to become an ophthalmologist to aid her mother with her eye ailment.