Rizal's Higher Education and Life Abroad

Flashcards about Rizal's life, higher education, and life abroad.

What school did Rizal attend in Manila where he won several prizes in literature?

Ateneo de Manila

Who accompanied Rizal to Manila to take the entrance examinations?

Paciano

Who refused to admit Rizal to Ateneo due to being late for registration and being sickly?

Father Magin Ferrando

Who helped Paciano get Jose reluctantly admitted to Ateneo?

Manuel Xerez Burgos

Who owned the boarding house where Rizal stayed on Caraballo Street?

Titay

What system did the Jesuits use to train students?

Rigid discipline, humanities, and religious instruction.

What were the two groups students were divided into under the Jesuit system?

Roman Empire (Internos) and Carthaginian Empire (Externos)

What was Rizal's first professor in Ateneo's name?

Fr. Jose Bech

Where did Rizal take private lessons to improve his Spanish?

Santa Isabel College

In what year did Rizal return to Calamba for summer vacation with excellent grades and a gold medal?

March 1874

Who brought Rizal to Santa Cruz to visit his mother in prison?

Neneng (Saturnina)

Who wrote the novel 'The Count of Monte Cristo'?

Alexander Dumas

Who wrote 'Travels in the Philippines'?

Dr. Feodor Jagor

Who was Rizal's best professor in Ateneo?

Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez

What did Dona Teodora know the fate of which made her not want Rizal to go to Manila for higher education?

GOM-BUR-ZA

Who was Rizal's first love?

Segunda Katigbak

Who was Segunda Katigbak engaged to?

Manuel Luz

In what year did Rizal enroll in the University of Santo Tomas?

April 1877

What course did Rizal initially enroll in at the University of Santo Tomas?

Philosophy and Letters

Who was the Rector of Ateneo that Rizal sought advice from regarding his career choice?

Father Pablo Ramon

What vocational course did Rizal enroll in at Ateneo while studying at the University of Santo Tomas?

Perito Agrimensor (expert in surveying)

Who did Rizal describe as fair with seductive and attractive eyes, whom he courted in Calamba?

Miss L

Who was the tall girl with a regal bearing whom Rizal courted while boarding at Dona Concha Leyva's house?

Leonor Valenzuela

Who was Rizal's cousin from Camiling Tarlac?

Leonor Rivera

What was Leonor Rivera's nickname for Rizal?

Taimis

What happened to Rizal that gave him his first taste of Spanish brutality?

He was slashed on the back by a lieutenant of the Guardia Civil for not saluting in the dark.

What was the name of Rizal's poem that won first prize at the Artistic-Literary Lyceum of Manila?

A La Juventud Filipina (To the Filipino Youth)

What secret society of Filipino students did Rizal found in the University of Santo Tomas?

Companerismo (Comradeship)

What were the members of Companerismo called?

Companions of Jehu

What was the name of Rizal's boarding house where Leonor Rivera tended to his wounds?

Casa Tomasina

Why was Rizal unhappy at the University of Santo Tomas?

Dominican professors were hostile, Filipino students were racially discriminated against, and the method of instruction was obsolete and repressive.