Republic of the Philippines

SORSOGON STATE COLLEGE

Sorsogon Campus
Sorsogon City

MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL

NAME: KENT MICHAEL D. MATABUENA DATE: NOVEMBER 19, 2020

COURSE/SECTION: B.S ARCHITECTURE 3A SEM/AY: 1st / 2020-2021

General Direction: Don’t convert this into word or other file type. Use the typewriter tool and the
highlighter (for test II) in answering this pdf.

I. Test your knowledge.

Direction: Write True if the statement is true, write False if the statement is false.

True
__________ 1. Claro M. Recto was the first author of Senate Bill 436 which became the RA 1425 after being
signed into law.
False
__________ 2. Ambeth R. Ocampo is one of the senators who formulated the amendments of the 1956 Rizal
Bill.
True
__________ 3. Jose Rizal is a Doctor without a diploma.
False
__________ 4. Rizal experienced discriminations because he is the only Filipino Student in Biñan.
True
__________ 5. Chinese who settled near Intramuros are Catholics.
True
__________ 6. Jose Rizal belongs to the group of mestizos de sangley.
False
__________ 7. The three priests executed had nothing to do with the revolt.
True
__________ 8. Rafael de Izquierdo was the Governor-General in the Philippines during the period when Duke
Amadeo was the King in Spain.
True
__________ 9. Marcelo Del Pilar was the first editor of La Solidaridad.
False
__________ 10. La Liga Filipina established by Rizal became a successful league.

II. Test your Understanding.

Direction: Choose and highlight the most appropriate answer.

1. What could be the main reason of the Catholic hierarchy for opposing the Bill 436?
a. The belief of Pilosopong Tasyo in Noli Me Tangere that purgatory does not exist.
b. The inclusion of compulsory reading of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo in the curricula of
all private and public schools, colleges and universities.
c. Rizal violated Canon Law 1399 which forbids or bans books that attack or ridicule the Catholic
doctrine and practices.
2. Why despite of controversy in passing the Bill 436, it was still signed into law?
a. Because it is not about religion but keeping the memory of the national hero alive in every
Filipinos mind.
b. Because revised amendments were made which end the arguments.
 c. Because the reading of the two novels of Rizal were given with conditions.
3. If Jose Rizal was born in June 19, 1861 and was left in Biñan to study in 1869, how young is he then?
a. 11 years old
b. 14 years old
c. 8 years old
4. How old was Rizal when he experienced his first love and broken heart?
a. 11 years old
b. 14 years old
c. 8 years old
5. What were forgotten by the people according to Jose Rizal during the Spanish rule due to their blind
imitation of things foreign and incomprehensible which resulted in losing all confidence in their past, all
faith in their preset, and all hopes in their future?
a. Their native alphabet, songs, poetry, and laws.
b. Their old traditions, culture, and society.
c. Their native sports, dances, religion, and clothing.
6. During the American rule, there is mention of Rizal as reincarnated in fanatical leaders, as the object of
communication in seances, as the object of worship in churches, in general, as literally the spirit behind
the unrest, among them are?
a. Lantayug and Rolando Comon
b. Lantayug and Flor Intrencherado
c. Flor Intrencherado and Rolando Comon
7. The barring of Filipinos from priesthood and government service during the Spanish period shows that?
a. No Filipino priests was ordained before 1698
b. Filipinos are still too new in the faith
c. There is a racial discrimination
8. How old was Jose Rizal during the execution of the three martyr priests (GomBurZa)?
a. 11 years old
b. 14 years old
c. 8 years old
9. The fact that the propagandists desire for the Philippines is to become a province of Spain, means:
a. They like the Spanish government.
b. Philippine Independence is not in their agenda.
c. They believe that Filipinos are not capacitated to operate as one nation.
10. Rizal’s cousin who was the head of La Solidaridad.
a. Galicano Apacible
b. Marcelo Del Pilar
c. Graciano Lopez Jaena

III. Synthesis.
Direction: Complete each sentence with the exact given choices.

bravery Bill supporter El Filibusterismo

entrepreneurial acumen hiding the truth La Solidaridad
Noli Me Tangere Philippine nation separatist revolution
subversion
 1. The walking out of a mass by Mayor Arsenio Lacson when the priest read a pastoral letter from the
Bill Supporter
Archbishop denouncing the Rizal Bill is an expression that he is a …….
2. The proposal of Catholic Church to use the expurgated novels of Rizal as textbooks and put the original
copies under lock and key in the school libraries is similar to hiding
….. … the truth
3. Rizal was never a quarrelsome or trouble maker but he never ran away from a fight. This denotes that
bravery
even in young age has …. ..
4. Maestro Justiniano Cruz practices barbarous punishment in making the pupils learn his lessons which
Noli
Rizal emphasized in his novel …. … Me Tangere
enterpreneurial
5. Spaniards were threatened by Chinese in the Philippines because the Chinese are known for… acumen
Philippine
6. According to Anderson, the imagined community in Rizal’s novels represent the miniature copy of the ….
Nation
subversion
7. The three Filipino priests were executed by the Spanish colonizers on charges of …..
separist
8. The revolt in Cavite was not a mere mutiny, but part of a planned …. .. revolution
9. There were two organizations created in 1872, these were composed by Filipino elites called the
La Solidaridad
Propaganda Movement and by and the Filipino liberals called …..
El Filibusterismo
10. In 1891 Rizal wrote a novel about the greediness ruling entitled …..

IV. Test your memory.

Direction: Answer the question precisely.
President Ramon Magsaysay
1. Who signed the revised amendments of the Rizal Bill into law? _______________________
2. Who said these lines? The people who would eliminate the books of Rizal from the schools…would bot
out from our minds the memory of the national hero…this is not a fight against Recto but a fight against
Rizal…now that Rizal is dead and they can no longer attempt at his life, they are attempting to blot out his
Claro M. Recto
memory”. __________________________
the death of his sister Conception
3. What was Rizal’s first sorrow? _____________________________
Francisco Mercado
4. Who was the first to use the surname “Mercado” in Rizal’s family? ___________________________
Limahong
5. Who led the Chinese revolt against the Spanish government in Manila in 1574? ____________________
Chinese Mestizos
6. Who do the Spaniards saw as politically untrustworthy but economically necessary? ________________
7. What served as a catalyst which brought together the liberal reformist elements in the Philippine society
with the growing self-awareness of a people into a movement that before long would be directed at
Katipunan
independent nationhood? _____________________________
8. Who was the Governor-General of the Philippines during the Cavite Mutiny who was famous for his use
Rafael de Izquierdo
of iron fist? _______________________________
Graciano Lopez Jaena
9. Who was the orator, pamphleteer and author of Fray Botod? __________________________
Ferdinand Blumentritt
10. Who was the Austrian Geographer and Ethnologist contributor in La Solidaridad? __________________

V. Analysis
Direction: Fill-up the Worksheet below using the attached scanned copy of La Solidaridad as reference.
 In town of Kalamba two stone school houses for boys and girls were constructed at the cost of the
people's and the town governor's money.
The children in spite of all this, still have no schoolhouses; the buildings are used today for court and jail.
A few, very rare few, perhaps the foolish ones, fight also dreaming of improving the town, introducing
reforms, justice, honor, but these persons if they win do not realize their dream because they are either
deposed or sent into some exile.

I think it was written to raise people's awareness, maybe dedicated to the spanish government, about
the current situation of the Filipinos in the hands of the abusive friars at that time.

"In conclusion, we repeat: there is much corruption in the Philippines: the proud ministers of God and the
propagators of light, have not planted and do not sow Christian morality; they have not taught faith but rites
and superstitions. The nation that they called a "child" has bad teachers, has learned bad examples."

1. Some Filipinos are contemotible slaves

2. Filipino People are not free of their actions

How did the Filipinos cope with the situations at that time?
This is 50 items + 10 = 60 BUT you can only obtain the =10 points if you follow the instruction 100%