STI Colleges Lipa

Bachelor of Science in Tourism Management

Rizal’s Life and Works

Reinald Zach Ramos

BSTM 3.2A

Instructions

Directions: Read the items carefully and provide an argument or stand for each. Write your answers on
the spaces provided or at the back of this sheet, as needed. Use black or blue pen ink only. Avoid any
form of erasure, alteration, and superimposition on the final answer (4 items x 20 points).

1. In no more than three (3) sentences, cite and explain one (1) reason why the Catholic Church
actively discredits the Rizal Law’s content and prevents it from being passed.
 The Catholic Church asked its followers to contact legislators and express their
opposition to the bill. Catholic organizations held symposiums to explain why it should
not be become a law.
Fr. Jesus Cavanna allegedly said that the books will distort contemporary church
conditions. Cavanna wrote Rizal’s Unfading Glory: A Documentary History of Dr. José
Rizal’s Conversion, which was published in 1956 after the Rizal Law was passed. Jose
Rizal’s conversion to Catholicism is chronicled in this book.

2. What are the provisions and potential benefits of studying the Rizal Law? Justify your answer in
no more than seven (7) sentences.
 To reawaken youth’s commitment to the ideas of liberty and nationalism for which our
heroes fought and died. To honor our national hero for dedicating his life and efforts to
the development of the Filipino character. Through the study of Rizal’s life, works, and
writings, one might get an inspiring source of patriotism.

3. In Rizal’s literary piece, “The Council of the Gods (El Consejo del los Dioses),” what were the
reasons that the gods gave to justify Cervantes’ victory over Homer and Virgil? Justify your
answer in no more than three (3) sentences.
 They declared Cervantes as winner in terms of art and virtue, that Cervantes literary
works focuses around social reform and the rule of reason. His winning piece is Don
Quixote, the work has the content of "… the magic hand that strongly guides human
passions," and "the whip which punishes and corrects without bloodshed."

Rizal’s Life and Works

 4. What drove the Filipinos to actively pursue Rizal’s literary works in their quest for national
identity? Justify your answer in no more than three (3) sentences.
 It is the pressing need to be free of enslavement. Rizals’ works rouse Filipinos and bring
them together in order to achieve the freedom they deserve. His writings, particularly
the Noli me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, were viewed as the guiding force for other
patriots to rally for the country’s cause, and his writings, particularly the Noli me
Tangere and El Filibusterismo, were viewed as the guiding force for other patriots to
rally for the country’s cause. Our country’s national revolution, which lasted from 1896
to 1901, was a time when the Filipino people were most united, engaged, and zealous in
their battle for independence.

Rizal’s Life and Works