PRELIM PERIOD

1. What is the aim of secularization movement?

Answer: Transfer of authority over parishes from regular priests to the secular priests.

2. What is the legal basis of including the study of the life and works of Rizal in the curriculum of
high school and college?

Answer: R.A. 1425

3. Who were the Filipinos who gained wealth from renting huge lands (haciendas) owned by the
friars like the Rizal Family?
Answer: Inquilinos
4. Filipino nationalism is shaped by the conglomeration of the events that happened in the world
and in the Philippines.
Answer: True
5. Who authorized the Rizal Law?

Answer: Sen. Claro M. Recto

6. What is the organization established by illustrados that aims to demand reforms and push for
the assimilation of the Philippines to Spain?

Answer: Propaganda Movement

7. What is the meaning of the Surname Rizal?

Answer: Green Fields
8. Why did the Catholic Church oppose the passage of Rizal Law?
Answer: Jose Rizal’s novels are anti-clerical and anti-Catholic
9. What movement was established by Illustrados that exposed the conditions of the Philippines
and asked for reforms from Spain?
Answer: Propaganda
10. What literary piece made Jose Rizal won the first prize in Ateneo?
Answer: Junto Al Pasig
11. Which describe the social conditions in the Philippines during the 19th century?
Answer: II and IV
12. What is the Full name of Jose Rizal?
Answer: Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado Y Alonso Realonda
13. How did Jose Rizal describe the feeling of ‘love of country”
Answer: It’s innate and constant feeling among human’s
14. What did Rizal bring with him when he left Manila for Europe?
Answer: III-IV
15. Who influenced Jose Rizal’s interest in folklores and legends”
Answer: His nanny
16. Jose Rizal , finished the Noli Me Tangere in Feb. 22, 1887. Who helped him in publishing the
novel?
Answer: Maximo Viola
17. Jose Rizal’s trip to Europe was known to all the members of Rizal’s Family
Answer: False
18. Spain was conquered by France during the 19th century
Answer: True
19. What inspired Jose Rizal in writing the poem To the Flowers of Heidelberg?
Answer: Longingness for his town and love ones
20. What is the title of the book read by Rizal and his mother when he was young?
Answer: Children’s friend
21. When was Jose Rizal born?
Answer: June 19, 1861
22. Who is Jose Rizal’s father?
Answer: Francisco Mercado
23. How many children were there in the Rizal family?
Answer: 11
24. What was the name of the ship that Rizal rode in from Singapore to Europe?
Answer: Djemnah
25. What school was known for its equal treatment of Filipino and Spanish students during Rizal’s
time?
Answer: Ateneo Municipal
26. In his passport, Jose Rizal was a resident of ________.
Answer: Sta. Cruz
27. Where did Jose Rizal start his formal education?
Answer: Ateneo Municipal
28. Rizal liked his education in UST because Filipino students were treated the same way like the
Spaniards.
Answer: False
29. What is the name used by Jose Rizal in his passport going to Europe?
Answer: Jose Mercado
30. The goal of Jose Rizal’s trip to Europe was to observe the European society and to acquire
knowledge that will be used in demanding reforms for the Philippines.
Answer: True
31. Who translated the “El Amor Patrio” when it was featured in the Diariong Tagalog in 1882?
Answer: Marcelo H. Del Pilar
32. Which literary piece made by Jose Rizal is about the love for one’s language?
Answer: Sa Aking mga Kababata
33. What is the El Amor Patrio all about?
Answer: An essay written by Rizal expressing his love for the country
34. What story ready by Rizal when he was child which had left an impact on him?
Answer: The Foolish Butterfly
35. In Madrid, Jose Rizal’s gave a toast to Juan Luna and Felix Ressureccion Hidalgo for winning in
the Exposicion Nacional de Bellas Artes de Madrid in 1884 which was interpreted by the
spaniards in Manila as an attack to the colonial regime?
Answer: True