Name: Clarisse Querijero Date: April 28, 2023

Course and Major: BSED ENGLISH 2A

Title: Rotten beef and stinking fish: Rizal and the writing of Philippine history
Reference: https://archium.ateneo.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1039&context=history-faculty-pubs
Questions:
1. How Morga’s described the food of the Indio’s?
Their daily fare is composed of rice crushed in wooden pillars and when cooked is
called morisqueta (this is the staple throughout the land); cooked fish which they have in
abundance; pork, venison, mountain buffaloes which they call carabaos, beef and fish which
they know is best when it has started to rot and stink (Emphasis supplied.)
2. What is/are the responses of Rizal regarding with that?
Rizal critique on how Spaniards eat snails, how Morgan called the dishes. Rizal also
corrected Morga on what was the food stated on his letter. He also stated how food are
good with it.
Title: Aparato Bibliografico de la Historia General de Filipinas
Reference: https://read.dukeupress.edu/hahr/article/45/3/500/158785/Historia-de-la-provincia-del-
Santo-Rosario-de-la
Questions:
1. Discuss profoundly the family scandal wherein Retana’s commented on Morga’s hard
character.
The family scandal is a significant and crucial piece of literature that portrays the importance of the
Filipino family, in which this ties in to the complex character study of Manuel Retana and his wife Mercedes
Morga. Due to a lack of understanding about her husband's financial situation, Mercedes Morga began to
spend money without any consideration for Manuel's inability to make more than what he was already
making.
2. Describe the first seven chapters of Sucesos de las islas Filipinas.
The first seven chapters of Sucesos de las islas Filipinas describe the arrival in the
Philippines of Magellan, who was commissioned to sail around the world by King Charles
I of Spain. It was a long journey that took an expedition years and sometimes decades to
complete.

3. Did Jose Rizal agree to his description? Cite the responses of Rizal.
"I don't suppose that anyone will take his word for it, and even if he were to swear
before God, people would say he was mistaken," said Rizal in a letter dated November
1892 "I am not satisfied with myself." He then went on to describe it as a "bad
novel".