SAMAL ISLAND CITY COLLEGE

Datu Taganiog St., Brgy. Peñaplata, Samal District

Island Garden City of Samal, Davao del Norte

PRE-FINAL EXAMINATION
READINGS IN PHILIPPINE HISTORY

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS: This is a 50-item test, read each question carefully.

Use BLACK/BLUE BALLPEN only in writing your answers.
STRICTLY NO ERASURES and NO CHEATING!

TEST I. FILL IN THE BLANKS (2pts. each item)

_____________1. They utilize facts collected from primary sources of history and then draw their own
reading so that their intended audience may understand the historical event, a process that in essence,
“make sense of the past”.
_____________2. It can be defined as a way of looking at historical events, personalities, developments,
cultures, and societies from different perspective.
_____________3. It is a poem purportedly written by Jose Rizal when he was eight years old and is
probably one of Rizal’s most prominent works.
_____________4. Identified as a hero of the revolution for his writings that center on ending colonialism
and liberating Filipino minds to contribute to creating the Filipino nation.
_____________5. The first ever Christian Mass in the country on March 31, 1521 was celebrated in the
island of _________, south of Leyte.
_____________6. It is an aim of natives to get rid of the Spanish government in the Philippines.
_____________7. Is a rebellion against the Spanish colonial government.
_____________8. The year ______ is a historic year of two events: the Cavite Munity and the martyrdom
of the three priest.
_____________9. Is defined as everything that has been recorded or occurred from the beginning of time
to the last instant.
_____________10. Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos and Jacinto Zamora, later on immortalized as
_____________11. These are materials which directly point or discusses the subject matter.
_____________12. These are made by individuals who were not direct participants to the event or people
who got the information from somebody else or from the primary sources.
_____________13. Introduced rigid and strict policies that made the Filipinos move and turn away from
Spanish government out of disgust.
_____________14. The execution of ________ was a blunder on the part of the Spanish government, for
the action severed the ill-feelings of the Filipinos and the event inspired Filipino patriots to call for reforms
and eventually independence.
______________15. The __________ failed to conduct an investigation on what truly transpired but
relied on reports of Izquierdo and the friars and the opinion of the public.

TEST II. TRUE or FALSE

Direction: Write CHADA if the statement is true. Otherwise, write FORDA if false in your answer sheet.

__________ 1. Historical interpretation is based on the historian’s judgment on how the past should be
seen.
__________ 2. We make sense of the past through historical interpretation.
__________ 3. Multipespectivity is a quality of historical writing attributed to a variety of lenses that may
be used to view the past.
__________ 4. There is only one account of the First Catholic Mass in the Philippines.
__________ 5. The significance of the martyrdom of the GOMBURZA is questioned by historians.
__________ 6. The Cavite Mutiny is an event that led to the execution of the GOMBURZA.
__________ 7. Jose Rizal’s essays go against the Catholic Faith.
__________ 8. There is no doubt that Rizal retracted his writings to be able to marry Josephine Bracken.
__________ 9. The Cry of the Rebellion happened in present-day Quezon City.
__________ 10. The site of the monument to the Heroes of 1896 was chosen because this is the actual
place where the Cry of the Rebellion happened.

Test III. ESSAY (10 pts.)

 How to interpret historical event through primary sources?

God bless!!!
- Ma’am Elsie 😊