QUESTION 1

1. According to Schumacher the universities and general intellectual life that Rizal
and other ilustrados encountered in Spain in 1880s were among the most
advanced in Europe.

True

False
QUESTION 2
1. According to Schumacher, by the early 1880s, a clearly defined sense of
nationalism already existed among many of the young men from the Philippines
in Spain, which Rizal mobilized upon his arrival there.

True

False
QUESTION 3
1. In 1883, while in Spain, Rizal’s sentiment against the friars was inflamed by the
unjust imprisonment of his mother, causing him to give up the practice of
Catholicism and influencing other youth from the Philippines to focus on their ire
on the friars.

True

False
QUESTION 4
1. Early in 1884, ilustrado activity in Madrid began to change in speeches and
newspaper articles they began to criticize Spain’s handling of the Philippines and
Graciano Lopez Jaena specifically attacked the friar priest as acting like “true
feudal lord” especially when not restrained by the presence of the provincial
governor.

True

False
QUESTION 5
1. Rizal’s speech in the 1884 banquet to honor Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion
Hidalgo praised their work as bringing glory to the Philippines but not to Spain
and insinuated that there would be a time when the Spanish flag would no
longer wave over the Philippines.

True

False
QUESTION 6
 1. Initially Rizal thought of writing Noli Me Tangere in French because it was the
language of the civilized world; later he decided to write it in Spanish because he
decided to write it for his countrymen.

True

False
QUESTION 7
1. Schumacher asserts that Noli me tangere is more than just an expose of abuses:
it is a Charter of Nationalism.

True

False
QUESTION 8
1. The Pacto de Sangre of Legazpi and Sikatuna was a historic ceremony between a
conquistador and a native chief who thereby became sworn brothers who sealed
political treaty between Spain and the Phililppines.

True

False
QUESTION 9
1. Rizal chose to annotate Morga’s book over other early Spanish accounts because
it was the only one that survived from that early period of history and it was
available at the time Rizal was in Europe.

True

False
QUESTION 10
1. In his notes to Morga, Rizal defended native women as chaste even if they
believed in the need for a lover who would help them cross a dangerous river to
reach Kalualhatian, and they would not simply follow their base instincts because
of their high morality.

True

False
QUESTION 11
1. In his notes to Morga, Rizal observed that slaves in the preconquest islands were
not always in a terrible condition as they could eat with their master on the same
table; besides, Rizal noted that if there were brutal indigenous slave owners, the
encomenderos were worse.
 True

False

QUESTION 12
1. Rizal argues in his essay that the hot climate makes the people of the Philippines
predisposed to laziness because the excessive heat thins the blood and wears
out people.

True

False
QUESTION 13
1. By 1887, rizal was convinced that spain would not listen to the ilustrado’s
reasonable demands; hence he opted for the independence of the Philippines
and thus political activity should be pursued in the country rather than in Spain.

True

False
QUESTION 14
1. Rizal felt bad about the divisive elections in Madrid in early 1891 but denied he
resented the weak endorsement of his leadership and claimed he harbored no
resentment against del pilar, however our source for this is del pilar who could
have been biased.

True

False

QUESTION 15
1. According to Schumacher, in addition to feeling depressed about events in
Calamba and the lack of progress in the campaign for Philippine representation
in the cortes, rizal assumed wrongly that his fellow Filipinos would accept the
type of leadership he wished to impose on them.

True

False
QUESTION 16

According to Rizal, all are means to achieve freedom except: - joining

revolutionary organizations

QUESTION 17

According to Wickberg, Rizal by lineage was a ____-generation Chinese mestizo

but his grandfather transferred the family from the list of mestizos to the list of
naturales by resorting to an administrative procedure. – 5TH
QUESTION 18
Evidence indicate that Manila Archbishop Rufino J Santos was open to the
possibility that students read Rizal’s novels as long as these were properly
annotated. FALSE
QUESTION 19
According to Rizal, the principal and most terrible cause of the indolence of the
Filipino is the suppression of the teaching of the Spanish language.- FALSE

QUESTION 20
Indios found it attractive to work in the friar-owned haciendas during the 17th
can 18th century because of higher pay. FALSE