1. Summarize important facts on chapter 1 “Jose Rizal-Birth of a Hero”.

Jose Rizal, born on June 19,1861, between eleven and twelve

o’clock at midnight, in Calamba Laguna, Philippines is the son of
Francisco Mercado Rizal, a hardworking and progressive farmer who
became well-to-do through industry with the assistance of his cultured and
talented wife, Doña Teodora Alonzo who has a remarkable talent in
mathematics, business and literature. Jose Rizal was baptized at a
Catholic Church of Calamba, on June 22 by a priest named Rev. Fr.
Rufino Collantes, a close friend of his family who also stood as his
godfather. The basis of the name Jose was chosen by his mother who
was a devotee of the Christian saint San Jose (St. Joseph). The Rizal
family was a respected and considered one of the richest families in
Calamba. In fact, the family belongs to the “principalia”, the town’s
aristocrat during Spanish times. They were able to build a big two-storey
house, rectangular in shape which was built of adobe stones and hard-
woods, and roofed with red tiles. They were one of the few families to own
a carruaje (horse-drawn carriage), the first to have a home library with
almost 1,000 volumes, and probably, the first to send their children to
Manila to study in college. They always participated in almost all social
and religious activities in Calamba for a noble cause. Don Francisco and
Doña Teodora loved their children, but they never spoiled anyone of them.
Jose Rizal is the seventh child of the eleven children with Paciano the
elder and only brother of Rizal, Saturnina also known as “Neneng,” the
eldest of the Rizal children, followed by Narcisa, Olympia, Lucia, Maria,
Concepcion also known as “Concha,” the eight children of the Rizals,
Josefa, Trinidad and lastly Soledad.

Rizal is a product of mixed ancestry for a fact that the blood flows in
his veins had both East and West – Chinese, Japanese, Malay and
Spanish. He was a sixth-generation patrilineal descendant of Domingo
Lam-co (Chinese: Ke Yinan), a Chinese immigrant entrepreneur who
sailed to the Philippines from Jinjiang, Quanzhou then arrived in 1690 and
decided to change the family surname to the Spanish surname "Mercado"
(market) which indicate their Chinese merchant roots, with a reason to
free his descendants from the anti-Chinese animosity of the Spanish
authorities. During his stay, Lam-co became a Christian and married Inez
de la Rosa, a Sangley native of Luzon and they were blessed with only
son named Francisco Mercado, who then married Cirila Bernancha, a
ChineseFilipino mestiza, where she had given birth to Juan Mercado
(Rizal’s grandfather), who married Cirila Alejandro also a Chinese-Filipino
mestiza, blessed with thirteen children, the youngest was Francisco
Mercado, Jose Rizal’s father. Aside from indigenous Filipino and Chinese
ancestry, Rizal’s maternal great-greatgrandfather, Eugenio Ursua was a
descendant of Japanese settlers, who married a Filipina named Benigna.
They gave birth to Regina Ursua who married a Sangley mestizo from
Pangasinán named Atty. Manuel de Quintos and then had bear a
daughter named Brígida de Quintos married a Spanish mestizo named
Lorenzo Alberto Alonso, the father of Teodora. In 1849, Governor-General
Narciso Claveria ordered all Filipino families to choose new surnames
from a list of Spanish family names. José's father, Francisco adopted the
 surname "Rizal" (originally Ricial, the green of young growth or green
fields), which was suggested to him by a provincial governor, whom José
described as "a friend of the family."

2. Outline the important facts on Chapter 2 “Early Childhood Memories and Early in
Calamba”.

I. Early Education in Calamba

A. His mother taught him alphabet and how to read

B. Leon Monroy taught Jose the beginnings of Latin
C. His uncles influenced him travel and explore the world, lectured the
foundations of success and developed his physique
II. The Story of the Moth

A. The tragic fate of the young moth, which “died a martyr to its illusions’’
III. Early Education in Biñan

A. Continued Rizal’s studies in Latin under Maestro Justiniano Aquino Cruz

B. Jose learned painting in the shop of an old painter named Juancho
IV. Literary Talents

A. Wrote a poem in Tagalog entitled “Sa Aking Mga Kabata” (To My Fellow
Children)
V. First Taste of Injustice

A. His mother, Doña Teodora Mercado was thrown into prison

a) Was forced to walk nearly fifty kilometers over a rough road to the
prison at Sta. Cruz, the capital of Laguna Province.
b) She had to face trial for one false charge after another -- six charges in
all.
VI. Awakening of Jose Rizal’s Concept on Love of Country

A. Filipino priests GOMBURZA were sentenced to death by means of garrote

a) Father Mariano Gomez was a strong advocate of the rights of the
secular clergy.
b) Father Jose Burgos was liberal and had strong nationalist views.
c) Father Jacinto Zamora loved playing cards

3. Outline the important facts on Chapter 3 “School Life at Ateneo Municipal and
The
University of Santo Tomas”
I. Jose Rizal’s First Day and First Year in Ateneo
A. His first teacher was Fr. Jose Bech
B. He was awarded a saint’s picture
C. At the end of the term he obtained marks of excellent in all the subjects
and in the examinations
II. The Next Four Years in Ateneo de Municipal (1873 – 1877)
A. Release of his mother, Doña Teodora in prison
B. Began to win prizes in the quarterly examinations
 C. Devoted his self in reading novels like Alexander Dumas’ the Count of
Monte
D. Cristo
E. Fr. Francisco de Paula Sanchez inspired him to study more and write
poetry
F. Fr. Leoncio Lopez apologize to Jose
G. Jose has the guidance of Don Augustin Saez in drawing and painting
H. In sculpture, Romualdo de Jesus was his instructor
I. Fr. Villaclara in philosophy advised him once to leave his devotion in
poetry but Jose still continue to write during his vacant time
J. Gained recognition as the most brilliant Atenean of his time and the “pride
of the
K. Jesuits”
a) Graduated with highest honor and an active member of the Marian
Congregation
III. “My First Inspiration”
A. A poem written for his mother’s birthday
a. Mi Primera Inspiracion
B. A poem inspired by Fr Sanchez
a. Felicitation (Felicitation)
b. El Embarque: Himno a la Flota de Magallanes (The Departure:
Hymn to
Magellan’s Fleet)
c. Y Es Español: Elcano, el Primero en dar la Vuelta al Mundo
(And He is
Spanish: Elcano, the First Circumnavigate the World)
d. El Combate: Urbiztondo, Terror de Jolo (The Battle: Urbiztondo,
Terror of Jolo)
C. A poem inspired with topics on religion, education, childhood memories
and war
a. Un Recuerdo a Mi Pueblo (In Memory of My Town)

b. Alianza Intima Entre la Religion y la Buena Educacion (Intimate

Alliance
Between Religion and Good Education)
c. Por la Educacion Recibe Lustre la Patria (Through Education
the Country
Receives Light)
d. El Cautiverio y el Triunfo: Batalla de Lucena y Prision de
Boabdil (The
Captivity and the Triumph: Battle of Lucena and the
Imprisonment of
Boabdil)
e. La Entrada Triunfal de los Reyes Catolicos en Granada (The
Triumphal Entry of the Catholic Monarchs into Granada)
D. Wrote more poems and Jose’s last year in Ateneo Municipal
a. El Heroismo de Colon (The Heroism of Columbus)

b. Colon y Juan II (Columbus and John II)

 c. Gran Consuelo en la Mayor Desdicha (Great Solace in Great
Misfortune)
d. Un Dialogo Alusivo a la Despedida de los Colegiales (A Farewell
Dialogue of the Students)

IV. Jose Rizal Enters the University

A. Matriculated in the University of Santo Tomas as a medical student

a. Reason to led on this profession was the cataracts that caused his
mothers' blindness
b. The desperate need of his country to cure illnesses.
B. Dominican professors seemed hostile
a. Failed to maintain high scholastic honors
b. Some of his scholastic grades in medical education were not excellent,
however, they were all passing
C. Submitted a poem for the poetry contest which had been organized for
Filipinos by the
Manila Lyceum of Art and Literature
a. “A La Juventud Filipina” (To the Filipino Youth), won first prize, a
silver pen

V. Jose Rizal’s Love Life

A. Pleasure and pain of first love

a. Segunda Katigbak
B. Founded “Compañerismo” (Comradship)
a. A brotherhood whose main objective is the protection of Filipinos from
the abusive
Spanish students and Dominican professors
b. Jose had his head beaten and was led bleeding and covered with dirt
to his boarding house, where his cousin Leonor Rivera resided. They
fall in love and conceal their relationships for 11 years.
C. Left the University and decided to study abroad
a) No longer endure the discrimination and hostility of the friars
b) No longer happy in his stay in the Dominican-owned school