RIZAL 10 FE OT

25 QUESTIONS

Question 1: In his notes to Morga, Rizal stressed that, unlike what

Spaniards thought, indios enjoyed to take a bath in rivers and
streams at any time of the day whenever they wanted to feel clean.

CORRECT ANSWER: FALSE

Question 2: Anderson argues that one obvious absence in the Fili is

any direct reference to political institutions, classes and ideologies
which Anderson explains due to Rizal’s lack of knowledge of political
thought and theories and his being fundamentally a moralist.

CORRECT ANSWER: TRUE

Question 3: According to Hau, because Noli me tangere is a realist

novel, it can be fictional as well as history like.

CORRECT ANSWER: TRUE

Question 4: In the fili, argues Anderson, the word creole begins to be

identified with Spaniards rather than with Filipinos.

CORRECT ANSWER: TRUE

Question 5: Nick Joaquin argues that the Philippine creole was

defined not in terms of “blood purity” but in terms of their culture,
social position and political wealth.

CORRECT ANSWER: TRUE

Question 6: At the outset, Rizal stresses in his essay that real evil
about indolence is not that it exists but that it is fostered and
magnified by Spanish misrule.

CORRECT ANSWER: TRUE

Question 7: Rizal argues in his essay that real evil about indolence is
not that it exists but that it is fostered and magnified by Spanish
misrule.

CORRECT ANSWER: TRUE

Question 8: Joaquin considers the Creole’s greatest achievement as

starting a revolution that failed so that 1896 could be the Filipino’s
legitimate moment to shine.

CORRECT ANSWER: FALSE

Question 9: Anderson’s quantitative analysis of words in the Fili

revealed that it is more racialized than the Noli, with many racists,
mainly anti-chinese episodes, and an assertion of the indio as
vertically above the chino.

CORRECT ANSWER: FALSE

Question 10: According to Hau, his willingness to sacrifice his life

makes Elias the bearer of the nationalism moment in Noli.

CORRECT ANSWER: TRUE

Question 11: In his notes to Morga, Rizal said that the indigenous
practice of not punishing an adulterer but simply asking the guilty wife
to pay the aggrieved husband a fine was more sensible than the
European custom of challenging the adulterer to a duel, which
exposed the husband to ridicule and the risked of being killed.

CORRECT ANSWER: TRUE

Question 12: According to Rizal, the principle and most terrible cause
of the indolence of the Filipino is the suppression of the teaching of
the Spanish language.

CORRECT ANSWER: FALSE

Question 13: Rizal chose to annotate Morga’s book over the 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.

CORRECT ANSWER: FALSE

Question 14: The Philippine A Century Hence appeared in

__________________.

CORRECT ANSWER: la solidaridad

Question 15: Although Rizal admits that gambling is innate among

Malaya, he argues that the Spaniards really introduced gambling,
made it into a vice and fostered the native dislike for work.

CORRECT ANSWER: TRUE

Question 16: Schumacher asserts that Noli me tangere is more than

just an expose of abuses: it is a charter of patriotism.

CORRECT ANSWER: FALSE

Question 17: In his essay, Rizal admits that prior to the Spanish
conquest, the inhabitants of these islands were sometimes indolent
because indolence in the Philippines is a chronic sickness and can be
hereditary.

CORRECT ANSWER: FALSE

Question 18: 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.

CORRECT ANSWER: FALSE

Question 19: Based on the conclusions of Rizal’s essay, two causes

of indolence were (a) defective education and (b) lack of patriotism.

CORRECT ANSWER: FALSE

Question 20: 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.

CORRECT ANSWER: TRUE

Question 21: According to Hau, the Noli’s social and political impact
depend on misunderstandings and rumors.

CORRECT ANSWER: TRUE

Question 22: 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.

CORRECT ANSWER: FALSE

Question 23: In the Noli, Elias describes himself as the Filipino voice
of the persecuted.

CORRECT ANSWER: FALSE

Question 24: According to Hau, colonial oppression and gaining

freedom is the Noli’s central problematic.

CORRECT ANSWER: FALSE

Question 25: Initially Rizal thought of writing his novel in ______

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.

CORRECT ANSWER: french

*Question not found and compiled from OT that appeared in my test:
•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-My answer->Correct Answer
False