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San Mateo Municipal College

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FINAL EXAMINATION IN READINGS IN THE PHILIPPINE HISTORY / GE002

Name: ________________________ Course / Section: _______________ Date: _____

Direction: This is a 50-item test, Choose the letter of the correct answer and write it
on the blank provided on the right side of the test paper.

1. The following are excerpts from ______________________ La Soberania Monacal en

Filipinas, first published in Barcelona, Spain in 1889, and reprinted in Manila in 1898.
Its publication in Spain was hailed by Spanish liberals and former Spanish
administrators in the Philippines.
a. Jose Rizal
b. Marcelo H. Del Pilar
c. Andres Bonifacio
d. Juan Luna

2. The interference of the friars in the government of the __________ is so ingrained that
without difficulty the friars control the status quo of the country in defiance of the nation
and the institutions.
a. Government of the Korea
b. Government of the Philippines
c. Government of the Japan
d. Government of the Spain

3. It’s Religious Aspect: In the performance of their duties, the municipal officials depend
on the _________.
a. Parish Priest
b. Pope
c. Military
d. Barangay Leader

4. To report the conduct of a citizen the testimony of one hundred members of the
__________ is not enough.
a. Army
b. Principalia
c. Mutiny
d. Police

5. It’s Economic Aspect: The _________ finds a thousand obstacles in collecting taxes
from the tax-paying public; but the monastic orders empty without the difficulty the
purse of the same public in return for heavenly promises.
a. Government
b. Civilians
c. Police
d. Governor

6. The government worries about meeting its peremptory financial needs, but the
monastic treasuries are overflowing with money so that their only worry is how to send
away from the country their copious that foster the banking interest of foreign trade.
a. Civilians
b. Priest
c. Governors
d. Government
7. History is derived from the ______ word historia which means learning by inquiry.
a. Greek
b. Latin
c. Korean
d. Japanese.

8. The greek philosopher _____, looked upon history as the systematic accounting of a
set of natural phenomena that is taking into consideration the chronological arrangement
of the account.
a. Thomas Aquinas
b. Confucius
c. Lao-Tzu
d. d. Aristotle

9. Presents readers the plain and basic information vis-a-vis the events that took place
(what) the time and date happened (when) the place with which the events took place,
and the people that were involved (who).
a. History
b. Speculative History
c. Factual History
d. Theory

10. _____________, on the other hand, goes beyond facts because it is concerned about
the reasons for which events happened (why), and the way they happened (how)
a. Speculative theory
b. Speculative History
c. Theory
d. Fiction

11. History deals with the study of ________.

a. Event.
b. Past events
c. Wide event
d. Current events

12. The incompleteness of records has limited man's knowledge of history. Most human
affairs happen without leaving any evidence or records of any kind, no artifacts, or if there
is, no further evidence of the human setting in which to place ____________.
a. Evidence
b. Materials
c. Surviving artifacts
d. Archives

13. The historian's aim is verisimilitude ____________________________ about a past.

a. Truth, Legit, Facts
b. Truth, Authenticity, Plausibility
c. Facts, Evidence, Artifacts
d. All of the above

14. The sequence of events was taken from the chronicles of contemporary voyagers
and navigators of the sixteenth century. One of them was an Italian
nobleman________________, who accompanied Ferdinand Magellan in his fateful
circumnavigation of the world.
a. Juan luna
b. Ferdinand Magellan
c. Antonio Pigafetta
d. Ferdinand Marcos
15. ________________, the commander of the first ships to attempt to sail around the
world.
a. Ferdinand Marcos
b. Ferdinand Magellan
c. Fernando Poe Jr
d. Ferdinand Ramos

16. In 1517, he went to Spain to see the teenaged Spanish king, the future Holy Roman
Emperor ____________.
a. Charles Darwin
b. Charles V
c. Charles Angeles
d. Charles Philip

17. In ______, by then Spanish, Magellan set out from Spain in command of a fleet of
five ships.
a. 1577
b. 1600
c. 1905
d. 1519

18. The ___________ is one of their motivations to have different spices like nutmeg,
mace, cloves silk, and other goods from China and India things not found in Europe
alternative trade route to silk road; go by sea.
a. Spice mountains
b. Spice Village
c. Spice Islands
d. Spice Girls

19. _____ Treaty of Tordesillas that wanted to divide Portugal and Spain.
a. 1987
b. 1946
c. 1494
d. 1900

19. The five ships that they used in the navigation of their exploration are:
a. Trinidad, San Antonio, Titanic, Victoria, and La burgos
b. Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepcion, Victoria, and San Andres
c. Trinidad, San Antonio, San Antonio, Victoria, and Santiago
d. Trinidad, San Antonio, Concepcion, Victoria, and Santiago

20. The island they called Isla de La drones or island of the thieves is called ______ in
our present time.
a. Indonesia
b. Malaysia
c. Singapore
d. Guam

21. KKK, Qualifications for Female Members:

a. Wife of a Katipunero
b. Daughter of a Katipunero
c. Any close relative of a Katipunero
d. All of the above

22. During that time there are also prominent katipuneras who also served and took
responsibility for KKK.
a. Gregoria De Jesus
b. Gregoria De Dios
c. Gregoria Del Pilar
d. Gregoria De Ocampo
23. Founder of KKK is Andres Bonifacio, with the aid of his friends:
a. Teodoro Plata, Ladislao Diwata, Deodato Arellano and Valentin Diaz
b. Teodoro Plata, Ladislao Diwa, Deodato Arellano and Valentin Diaz
c. Teodoro Plata, Ladislao Diwa, Deodato Arellano and Valentin De dios
d. Teodoro Platama, Ladislao Diwa, Deodato Arevalo and Valentin Diaz

24. Andres Bonifacio also had three brothers and two sisters, namely:
a. Ciriaco, Procopio, Espiridiona, Troadio and Maxima
b. Jacinta, Procopio, Espiridiona, Troadio and Maxima
c. Ciriaco, Procopio, Imperial, Troadio and Maxima
d. Ciriaco, Matikas, Espiridiona, Troadio and Maxima

25. History is the study of the past, but a more contemporary definition is centred on how
it impacts the present through its ___________.
a. Consequences
b. Matter
c. Incident
d. Evolution

26. Geoffrey Barraclough defines history as "________________”, based on fragmentary

evidence, the significant things about the past.
a. The attempt to validate
b. The attempt to discover
c. The attempt to manipulate
d. The attempt to recreate

27. Sailing _________ along the coast of that large island of Seilani, they turned
southwest to a small island called "Mazava." That island is also at a latitude of 9 and
two-thirds degrees North.
a. Southwards
b. Northwards
c. Eastwards
d. Westwards

28. The people of that island of _______ were very good. There the Spaniards planted a
cross upon a mountain-top, and from there they were shown three islands to the west
and southwest, where they were told there was much gold. "They showed us how the
gold was gathered, which came in small pieces like peas and lentils.
a. Gada
b. Humonhon
c. Mazava
d. Cebu

29. From _______ they sailed northwards again towards Seilani. They followed the coast
of Seilani in a north-westerly direction, ascending to 10 degrees of latitude where they
saw three small islands.
a. Gada
b. Seilani
c. Isla de la drones
d. Mazava

30. From there they sailed westwards some ten leagues, and there they saw three islets,
where they dropped anchor for the night. In the morning they sailed southwest some
12 leagues, down to a latitude of l0 and one-third degree. There they entered a
channel between two islands, one of which was called "____" and the other "____."
a. Matan and Subu
b. Mactan and Cebu
c. Humonhon
d. Isla de la drones
31. They sailed down that channel and then turned westward and anchored at the town
_______ of Subu where they stayed many days and obtained provisions and entered
into a peace-pact with the local king.
a. La villa of Subu
b. La vida of Subu
c. La vista of Subu
d. La Isla pf Subu

32. The town of Subu was on an ________ direction with the islands of Suluan and
Mazava. But between Mazava and Subu, there were so many shallows that the boats
could not go westward directly but must go (as they did) in a round-about way.
a. north-west
b. south-west
c. east-west
d. western

33. ___________ At noon the natives returned. This time they were in two boats, and
they brought food supplies.
a. Friday, March 12
b. Friday, March 27
c. Friday, March 22
d. Friday, March 24

34. Magellan's expedition stayed ______ at Homonhon: from Sunday, March 17, to the
Monday of the following week, March 25.
a. seven days
b. eight days
c. four days
d. five days

35. _____________ In the morning of Holy Thursday, March 6, they anchored off an
island where the previous night they hadseen a light or a bonfire. That island "lies in
a latitude of nine and two-thirds towards the Arctic Pole (i.e., North) and in a longitude
of one hundred and sixty-two degrees from the line of demarcation. lt is twenty-five
leagues from the Acquada and is called Mazaua.
a. Friday, March 30
b. Thursday, March 28
c. Saturday, March 31
d. Wednesday, March 27

36. They remained seven days on _________.

a. Guam lsland
b. Aklan lsland
c. Mazaua lsland
d. Cebu lsland

37. Thursday, April 4-They left ________, bound for Cebu. They were guided thither by
the king of Mazaua who sailed in his own boat. Their route took them past five
"islands" namely: "Ceylon, Bohol, Canighan, Baibai, and Gatighan.
a. Mazaua Island
b. Humonhon island
c. Aklan island
d. Guam island
38. At ________, they sailed westward to the three islands of the Camotes Group,
namely, Poro, Pasihan and Ponson. Here the Spanish ships stopped to allow the king
of Mazaua to catch up with them, since the Spanish ships were much faster than the
native balangha-a thing that excited the admiration of the king of Mazaua.
a. Guam
b. Gatighan
c. Humonhon
d. Isla de la drones

39. From the __________ they sailed southwards towards "Zubu. Sunday, April 7 - At
noon they entered the harbor of "Zubu (Cebu). It had taken them three days to
negotiate the journey from Mazaua northwards to the Camotes Islands and then
southwards to Cebu.
a. Palawan Islands
b. Batanes Islands
c. Camotes Islands
d. Luzon Islands

40. It must be pointed out that both Albo and Pigafetta's testimonies coincide and
corroborate each other. Pigafetta gave more details on what they did during their
weeklong stay at ______.
a. Luzon
b. Palawan
c. Mazaua
d. Zambales

41. Many believed that one of the factors that ignited the Filipino sense of nationhood and
eventually led to the Philippine Revolution in ____ was the Cavite mutiny.
a. 1898
b. 1896
c. 1893
d. 1894

42. This event has been remarkable among Filipinos because it prompted to the
martyrdom of _______ (the acronym that represents the surnames of the priests
_____________________________, who were executed on February 17, 1872).
a. Gomburza - Mariano Goma, Apolonio Burgas, and Jacinto Zamara
b. Gomburza - Mariano Gomez, Apolonio Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora
c. Gomburza - Mariano Gonzales, Apolonio Bulao, and Jacinto Zamal
d. Gomburza - Mariano Gola, Apolonio Bulala, and Jacinto Zoriano

43. There are three versions that every Filipino student must read for them to articulate
arguments that would support their stand about the issue on the terms used, causes,
effects and the unravelling truth about the _________.
a. Luzon Mutiny
b. Tarlac Mutiny
c. Cavite Mutiny
d. Davao Mutiny

44. The year ____ is a historic year of two events: the Cavite Mutiny and the martyrdom
of the three priests: Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora, later
immortalized as GOMBURZA.
a. 1879
b. 1872
c. 1873
d. 1875
 45. The documentation of Spanish historian ___________ centred on how the event was
an attempt in overthrowing the Spanish government in the Philippines
a. Jose Marie Vidal
b. Jose George Vidal
c. Jose Monteroy Vidal
d. Jose Diaz Vidal

46. In his first version, he said that the prime staging point of the Cry was in Balintawak
on Wednesday of August 26, _______.
a. August 26, 1887
b. August 26, 1896
c. August 26, 1883
d. August 26, 1845

47. He held this account when the happenings or events are still vivid in his memory. On
the other hand, later in his life and with a fading memory, he wrote his Memoirs of the
Revolution without consulting the written documents of the Philippine revolution and
claimed that the "Cry" took place at Pugad Lawin on __________.
a. August 23, 1894
b. August 23, 1893
c. August 23, 1896
d. August 23, 1892

48. "The first place of refuge of ______________________, ProcopioBonifacio, Teodoro

Plata, Aguedodel Rosario, and myself was Balintawak, the first five arriving there on
August 19 and I, on August 20, 1896.
a. Andres San Juan, Emilio Del Pilar
b. Andres Bonifacio, Emilio Jacinto
c. Andres San Andres, Emilio Jacinta
d. Andres Fernandez, Emilio Juaquin

49. The first place where some 500 members of the Katipunan met on ___________, was
the house and yard of Apolonio Samson at Kangkong.
a. August 22, 1897
b. August 22, 1895
c. August 22, 1896
d. August 22, 1890

50. Aside from the persons mentioned above, among those who were there were
________________, ________________, Ramon Bernardo, Apolonio Samson, and
others. Here, views were only exchanged, and no resolution was debated or adopted.
a. Briccio Panta, Alejandro San Mateo
b. Briccio Pantas, Alejandro Santiago
c. Briccio Antas, Alejandra Santiago
d. Briccio Plata, Alejandrino Santiago

Prepared by: Checked by:

FRANCISCO C. TAPIA, JR. LPT, MAED Mrs. YOLANDA PATIO

Part time Instructor Focal Person – RPH

Noted by: Approved by:

Dr. TERESITA C. DELA CRUZ Dr. ESTRELLA J. CINCO

VP for Academic Affairs President