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ANNOTATION
ANNOTATION
ANNOTATION
Rizal said that he shall not have labored in vain If the work (of Morga) serves to
awaken in you consciousness of our past, and to blot from your memory or to rectify
what has been falsified or is calumny.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
ANSWER: A
Rizal was giving credit to the work of Governor Antonio de Morga when he said that
the latter was not only the first to write but also the first to publish Philippine
history.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
ANSWER: A
Antonio de Morga’s book's primary goal was to document events during the Spanish
colonial period in the Philippines as observed by the him.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
ANSWER: A
The book includes Filipino customs, traditions, manners, and religion during the
Spanish conquest.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
ANSWER: A
Rizal's purpose in creating his own annotations regarding Morga's book was to let
the Filipino people realize that they were not equal to Spanish colonizers because
they have their own unique civilization but were only destroyed by the colonizers.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
ANSWER: A
Antonio de Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas was first published in Manila in
1609.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
ANSWER: B
Antonio de Morga’s Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas was written during the pre-
colonial period. The book is considered worthless in the sense that it reflects the
first formal record of the earliest days of the Philippines as a Spanish colony.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
ANSWER: B
Rizal’s manuscript was not published.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
ANSWER: B
Antonio de Morga’s book was a document of observations about the Filipinos and the
Philippines from the perspective of the Spaniards.
A. TRUE
B. FALSE
ANSWER: A