Untitled Flashcard Set

RIZAL — QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Question: Name the reform movement of Filipino ilustrados based in Spain that sought changes such as Philippine representation in the Spanish Cortes and the secularization of parishes.

Answer: Propaganda Movement

Question: Name the brother-in-law of Rizal, husband of his sister Lucia, who was denied a Christian burial in 1889 because of his connection to Rizal.

Answer: Mariano Herbosa

Question: Name the eldest of the Rizal children, who married Manuel T. Hidalgo of Tanauan, Batangas.

Answer: Saturnina Rizal

Question: Give the surname the Mercado family originally intended to adopt in the 1840s, meaning “the green of young growth,” before settling on “Rizal.”

Answer: Ricial

Question: In the poem’s central argument, what single virtue does Rizal identify as the direct source of a nation’s honor and “luster”?

Answer: Education

Question: Rizal personifies education as a goddess associated with several virtues. Name at least two of the virtues this personified goddess embodies.

Answer: Nobility and virtue

Question: In this ivy-and-elm metaphor, which of the two elements, religion or education, is represented by the sturdy elm that gives support to the other?

Answer: Religion

Question: Name the Jesuit priest credited with first nurturing Rizal’s poetic gift and inspiring him to write pieces such as this one.

Answer: Father Francisco de Paula Sanchez, S.J.

Question: Name the literary-artistic society that sponsored the contest in which this poem won first prize.

Answer: Liceo Artístico-Literario de Manila

Question: Give the exact phrase Rizal uses in the poem to describe the Filipino youth as the nation’s future.

Answer: “Bella esperanza de la patria mía.”

Question: Name the character in “Junto al Pasig” who represents a young boy defending his Christian faith against Satan’s temptations.

Answer: Leonido

Question: To which image/title of the Virgin Mary did Rizal dedicate this one-act play?

Answer: Virgin of Antipolo

Question: Name the American anti-slavery novel that inspired Rizal’s approach to exposing social injustice in writing Noli Me Tangere.

Answer: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question: Name the friend from Bulacan who lent Rizal the money needed to have the novel printed in Berlin.

Answer: Dr. Máximo Viola

Question: Name the friar antagonist in the novel, later revealed as Maria Clara’s biological father who plots against Crisostomo Ibarra.

Answer: Padre Dámaso

Question: Give the pen name Rizal used when his essay was first published.

Answer: Laong Laan

Question: In the essay, Rizal compares the intensity of one’s love of country to what universal human bond?

Answer: The love of a child for his or her mother.

Question: Give the Tagalog title under which “El Amor Patrio” was published, as translated by Marcelo H. del Pilar.

Answer: Ang Pag-ibig sa Tinubuang Lupa

Question: Name the system of forced, unpaid annual labor exacted from male Filipino colonial subjects.

Answer: Polo y Servicio

Question: Give the term for the compulsory system requiring Filipino provinces to sell their produce to the colonial government at prices fixed below market value.

Answer: Bandala

Question: Give the term for the annual head tax paid by Filipino colonial subjects to the Spanish crown.

Answer: Tributo

Question: Give the family surname of Rizal’s mother’s line before it was changed to “Realonda” under the Claveria Decree.

Answer: Alonso

Question: Give the full name of José Rizal.

Answer: José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda

Question: Name the sister known by the pet name “Sisa,” who married a nephew of Father Leoncio Lopez and later discovered Rizal’s unmarked grave.

Answer: Narcisa Rizal

Question: Name the sister who, together with Josefa, remained unmarried and lived with her until death. She outlived all her siblings, dying in 1951.

Answer: Trinidad Rizal

Question: Give the exact date President Ramon Magsaysay signed the Rizal Bill into law as Republic Act No. 1425.

Answer: June 12, 1956

Question: Name the senator who, as chairman of the Senate Committee on Education, introduced the compromise amendment allowing students to seek exemption from reading the unexpurgated Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo on religious grounds.

Answer: Senator Jose P. Laurel

Question: Give the Senate Bill number of the original Rizal Bill filed in 1956.

Answer: Senate Bill No. 438

Question: Name the three secular priests whose execution following the Cavite Mutiny profoundly influenced Rizal’s nationalist consciousness.

Answer: Mariano Gomez, Jose Burgos, and Jacinto Zamora — GOMBURZA

Question: What was the Cavite uprising that led to the execution of GOMBURZA?

Answer: The Cavite Mutiny of 1872

Question: What is the exact/full title of Esteban de Ocampo’s essay defending Rizal’s title as the country’s foremost national hero?

Answer: Who Made Rizal Our Foremost National Hero, and Why?

Question: What is the system of forced labor imposed on Filipino men during Spanish colonial rule?

Answer: Polo y Servicio

Question: What was the forced-selling system in which Filipino farmers were required to sell products to the Spanish government?

Answer: Bandala