Rizal Course

November 20, 2023

BTLEDHE 4-1

I will be sending a copy of our lesson today. All you have to do is just read for you to answer the
given questions below.

Your answer should be uploaded in our drive for output till Dec. 15, 2023 in a same format e.g.
(suniega-midterm-assignment-Rizal)

1. Describe the political, economic, and social conditions in Calamba during 19th Century.
2. How was Rizal influenced by the panoramic beauty of Calamba?
3. Prove that Rizal came from a mixed ancestry, Support your answer with a genealogy of
Rizal’s family from both his father and mothers’ sides.
4. Cite specific proofs to show that Rizal’s family belonged to the principalia class of
Calamba.
5. How did Don Francisco and Donya Teodora influence the development of Rizal’s
character as a younng boy?
6. In what particular ways did the following shape Rizal’s character and personality as a
young boy:
6.1 stories told by his personal servant;
6.2 frequent play sessions with Concha;
6.3 family prayer during angelus ;
6.4 frequent visits to Father Leoncio Lopez; and
6.5 regular reveries at Laguna de Bay?
7. Cite evidences to prove that Rizal as a young boy was talented lad.
8. What was Rizal’s message in his poem, Sa Aking mga Kababata? Can the poem be
considered as an expression of his nationalistic sentiment? Why? Or why not?
9. How was Rizal affected by the incarceration of Donya Teodora in 1871?
10. How was Rizal influenced by the martyrdom of GOMBURZA in 1872?
11. How was Rizal prepared by his family for formal schooling?
12. How was Rizal prepared by his family to become an ilustrado or a middle class
intellectual. How did it affect Rizal?
13. What is the ideal school for children as stressed by Rizal in his Noli Me Tangere?
14. How was Rizal influenced by his daily life in the village school and his stay at his aunt’s
home?
15. What is the method of teaching was employed in the village school at Binan? Why did
Rizal detest such kind of instructional method?

Prepared by:

PAMELA V. SUNIEGA, PhD

Professor