READINGS IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY-
______________5. An island in the province of
REVIEWER
PACKET 1- Meaning of History, Sources of
Historical Data and Historical Criticism
1. History-as-actuality simply means:
- All recorded human history
2. Which of the following does not fall under the Test
of Credibility?
- Identification of the author if famous or not
3. Which of the following cannot be considered as a
primary source?
- A weapon of indigenous people
4. Which of the following is not true about Testimonies
as a source of history?
- Are not reliable sources of history
5. What is a primary source?
- A source created at the time of an event took place.
Primary Source or Secondary Source
6. Oldest history text book found in the university
library.
7. Your grandmother’s engagement ring.
8. Your friend's story about the article that he read
regarding vaccine for COVID-19.
9. The latest model of your favorite pair of shoes
displayed in the mall.
10. A photocopy of your country’s constitution.
PACKET 2 - Antonio Pigafetta: His Chronicles on
the First Voyage Around the World
IDENTIFICATION
______________1. A person who has received
Christian baptism or is a believer in Christianity.
______________2. Rajah from Limasawa Island in
the Philippines managed to guide the ships of
Magellan, a potential threat, safely past his island
______________3. Is known to be the oldest
watercraft in the Philippines
______________4. Was a 16th-century Spanish
navigator, born in Fregenal de la Sierra, Badajoz.
Eastern Samar, Philippines, on the east side of
Leyte Gulf.
______________6. Defeated the Portuguese
explorer, Ferdinand Magellan.
______________7. Later baptized as Don Carlos,
was the Rajah of Cebu at the time of Portuguese-
born
______________8. Chief of Mactan, sent to
Magellan one of his sons with two goats as present
______________9. An ancient pagan symbol that
only later began its association with Christianity
some 300 years after Jesus' time
______________10. Was a Portuguese writer and
officer from Portuguese India. He was a christian
pastor and scrivener in a feitoria in Kochi, and an
interpreter of the local language, Malayalam.
PACKET 3- Juan de Plasencia’s Customs of the
Tagalogs
TRUE OR FALSE
1. Juan de Plasencia’s Customs of the Tagalog is a
primary source.
2. The dato is a chief who ruled a tribal gathering called
barangay.
3. Pandot means worship.
4. The nobles were freeborn whom they called
maharlica.
5. Filipinos were uncivilized and lacking in culture
before the coming of the Spaniards.
6. Plasencia’s Customs of the Tagalogs describes the
way of life of the Filipino before the Spanish and
Christian influence.
7. Dowries are given by women to men.
8. Fray Juan de Plasencia is a Dominican Priest who
served as a missionary in the Philippines, in 1578.
9. Customs of the Tagalogs is the first book printed in
the Philippines.
10. The natives believed that they had a supreme being
whom they called catalonan.
PACKET 4- EMILIO JACINTO, “KARTILYA NG
KATIPUNAN”
MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE
_________________ 1. It was Apolinario Mabini
who authored the “Kartilya ng Katipunan.”
_________________ 2. The Kartilya ng Katipunan
contains fourteen rules that the Katipuneros were
required to follow.
_________________ 3. Emilio Jacinto was the eldest
member of the Katipunan.
_________________ 4. Emilio Jacinto believed that
the Kartilya was much better than the Decalogue of the
Duties of the Sons of the People.
_________________ 5. The Decalogue of the Sons of
the People serves as the guidebook for the rules and
regulations of the Katipunan
PACKET 5- The 1898 Philippine Declaration of
Independence
PACKET 6- Filipino Grievances Against Governor
Wood
IDENTIFICATION
__________10. It abolished the Board of Control that
Gov. Gen. Francis Burton Harrison created during his
term.
PACKET 7- Alfred McCoy, Political Caricatures of
the American Era
TRUE OR FALSE
_____1. The cartoons illustrated the conditions of poor
Filipinos in the Philippines governed by the United
States. From the looks of it, nothing much has
changed.
_____ 2. Alfred McCoy’s Political Cartoon “The
Doctor is Busy” is a commentary on the Filipino
dislike for gambling.
_____ 3. Political cartoons and caricatures have been
considered as vehicles of history.
_____ 4. The political caricatures of the American era
are manifestations of modernization which demonstrate
an imperial American-assimilated Filipino society.

__________1. It is an executive body that usually deals _____ 5. Based from the caricatures, there is no
with financial and administrative matters of the relationship on the role of the cartoonist and the writer
government. in storytelling history of those times.

__________2. He replaced Gov. Harrison as the new PACKET 8- President Corazon Aquino’s Speech
governor-general on October 5, 1921. before the U.S. Congress Sept. 18, 1986 
__________3. This was formed between two opposing
political parties into common cause against Goverrnor
Wood.
__________4-5. The draft of the document of the
grievances against Gov. Wood was attributed to two
leading lawyers at that time, ___________ and
___________.
__________6. The document _______ is an example of
a joint resolution expressing the legislators’ disgust
with the way Gov. Wood was running the affairs of the
government.
__________7. The particular event when Filipino
members of the cabinet, Abad Santos among them,
relinquished their posts to protest Governor-General
Wood's handling of the Conley Case.
__________8. This is when the upper and lower house
of the Philippine legislature adopted the draft as a joint
resolution.

__________9. The document was originally published

as Appendix of Maximo M. Kalaw’s Philippine
Government under the Jones Law.