RIZAL Quiz

1-2
The Jose Rizal National Centennial Commission, which --centennial / centenary of Rizal’s birth
provided the Literary Works Bibliography became
operational in 1961. What is the relevance of this year
(1961)?
3-5
What was the main message of Rizal’s “Sa Aking mga --love for our own language
Kabata”?
6-8 --the existence of a native tongue is synonymous to freedom
To Rizal, what is the ultimate significance of having a native
tongue?
9-10
It literally means “My Last Thoughts,” and was the first title -“Mi Ultimo Pensamiento”
provided to Rizal’s original Spanish version of Huling
Paalam.
11-12 --Andres Bonifacio
Who first translated Mi Ultimo Adios to Tagalog?
13-14
As embodied in his Mi Ultimo Adios and other works, how --Eden, paradise, etc
did Rizal perceive of our motherland prior to the advent of
Spanish colonialism?
15 --Valeriano Weyler
Who was the Gov-Gen whom the young women of Malolos
addressed their request letter on December 12, 1888?
16-17 --permission to open a night school where they could be taught
What was their specific request? Spanish
18-20
What was the strong nationalistic philosophy being upheld --A man is a not her own; it is the son of the country.
by Spartan women that made them attractively a model in
the eyes of Rizal?
21-24 --honor, honesty, love of fellowmen, respect for God
Throughout his letter, Rizal reiterated that a good mother is
the one who teaches four functional values. What are these?
1. The tyranny of some is possible only through
25-38 cowardice and negligence on the part of others.
2. What makes one contemptible is lack of dignity and
What were the seven major points of Rizal’s abject fear of him who holds one in contempt.
letter to the young women of Malolos which he 3. Ignorance is servitude, bec. as a man thinks, so he is.
reiterated conclusively at the end of the letter? 4. He who loves independence must first aid his fellow
man.
5. If the Filipina will not change her mode of being, let
her rear no more children, let her merely give birth to
them.
6. All men are born equal, naked, without bonds.
7. Consider well what kind of religion they are teaching
you.
39-40
Notwithstanding the fact that indolence does exist in the --magnified / pinasagwa
Phils, what was particularly disturbing is the type of
Indolence that then can be observed among Filipinos.
According to Rizal, what type of indolence was it?
41-42 --1hour in tropical = 1 day in temperate countries
What was Rizal’s equivalence measure of the work loads in
countries of different climate?
43-45 --indolence as a chronic illness
What was Rizal’s strong characterization of indolence, that
such requires a carefully-formulated treatment?
46-49 --limited training and education
On the whole, what were the two factors that caused --lack of national sentiment
indolence?
50-53 --education and liberty
What were the two solutions prescribed by Rizal to combat
indolence?
54-56 --To work in his garden, fields and construction projects in the
In Rizal’s school in Dapitan, what were the sweat equities community
required of the students as a trade-off for accommodating
them?
57-58 --education
Even before the human capital theory of dev’t came into
fore, Rizal already insisted that _____ must be taken as a
social commitment of any government.
59-60 --education
To Rizal, this stands as the foundation of society.
61-100 --that the Phils will inevitably break away from Spain:
What was Rizal’s fearless forecast on the fate of the Phils’ legitimization through the matter-of-fact of the annals of history,
connectedness to Madre Espana? Provide his legitimization the present (then) conditions of the Filipino people—bound by
of this most probable destiny. colonial bond to Spain, but ingrate Spain was first to break the
“social contract” that the loyal Filipinos hold on to for years…
among many other possible supporting arguments..