 Simoun’s character may be interpreted

as someone who represents the Filipino
revolutionaries that supported the idea
of a bloody revolution against the
Spanish colonial government. Simoun’s
death in the story made some readers
conclude that Rizal agreed with the idea
of a revolution.
Answer: Both statement are true
Answer: Both characters have been
victimized by the colonial system
 Which among the following factor
DOES NOT explain why Filipino turned
to be indolent during Spanish era?
Answer: They have difficulties in doing
their work under the burning sun that
made them easily tired and lazy.

 Sa Aking Mga Kababata was published  Which of the following statements

on ______. below explains the reason why it took 3
Answer: 1906 years of Rizal to publish his novel Noli
Me Tangere?

Answer: due to lack of funds

 A Franciscan friar and is quite abusive
in the story of Noli.
 Which among the following statements
below DOES NOT demonstrate the
Answer: FATHER DAMASO
reforms that Rizal wanted for the
country?
 In a letter to Rev. Father Vicente Garcia,
Answer: None of the above
a Filipino doctor of Sacred Theology,
Rizal stressed the idea of social justice
 What does the title “Noli Me
which will unify his people.
TANGERE” mean?
Answer: TRUE
Answer: Touch me not
 Few of the injustices that Rizal
 The plan of Rizal for nation building
experienced firsthand were the
embodies the significance of education,
imprisonment of his mother by persons
instilling radical pride and dignity
whom his parents considered as their
among people, the promotion of
friends, his experience of discrimination
international consciousness, the re-
during a literary contest held by the
orientation of values and attitudes and
Ateneo de Manila in 1880.
the willingness to sacrifice for the
country.
Answer: FALSE
Answer: TRUE
 Why did Rizal intend to awaken
Filipino’s passion in the quest of
 That body of knowledge relating to
national dignity through his writings?
society including the wisdom which
man’s experience in society has taught
Answer: Because he believed that the
him is ____________.
regenerated individual would easily
understand and feel a profound love for
Answer: SOCIAL PHILISOPHY
the country.
 Which among the following statements
 The following statement exemplify the
below exemplifies Rizal’s description of
analysis on Rizal’s essay The Young
the national ideals?
Women of Malolos, EXCEPT:
Answer: Love of the country
Answer: Woman should marry an
educated and affluent man to have a
 What did Rizal describe as his “Noble
good life.
Mission” when he wrote a letter to his
former mentor at the Ateneo, Father
 Although the characters of Crisostomo
Francisco Paula de Sanchez?
Ibarra and Elias have contrasting ideas
when it comes to addressing the social
Answer: To make men worthy
evils that surround them, what makes
them similar?
 Due to lack of funds, Rizal took three
years to write the book Noli Me
Tangere.
Answer: TRUE
 Which among the following is NOT true
about Rizal’s poem: “Sa Aking Mga
Kababata”?
Answer: The authorship of the poem
was proven to be of Rizal’s.
 In the novel El Filibusterismo, what
were the actions of Simoun to fulfill his
plan in exacting revenge on Spanish
officials?
Answer: He exposed the corruption
committed by political officials in San
Diego.
 Rizal began writing the El Fili in
Calamba and completed this in Biarritz
in what year?
Answer: 1891
 Although Rizal was the author of both
Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo,
the two novels differ in many aspects.
What is the most significant difference
between the two?
Answer: The differ on the setting and
over-all plot of the story
 He gradually overlooks the prolonged
repression of this fellowmen cause by
the listed factor namely, the absence of
national unconsciousness and the poor
training, and education of the people.
Answer: FALSE
 What was Rizal’s role in the Philippine
Revolution?
Answer: He proposed it
 Rizal targeted at the reversion if
individual’s integrity, the discernment of
individual rights and for the Filipino to
gain fair participation in the
government.
Answer: TRUE
 A character of Noli who lives in
Binondo and very skilled in business?
Answer: KAPITAN TIAGO
 What poem did Rizal write in honor of
his mother’s birthday?
Answer: MY FIRST INSPIRATION
 Which essay of Rizal explains the role
of women in restoring the Filipin dignity
and worth?
Answer: To the Young Women of
Malolos
 What should be the main function of the
government according to Rizal?
Answer: To promote the people’s
welfare
 To the young women of Malolos is an
essay written by Jose Rizal while he was
in London upon the request of Mariano
Ponce.
Answer: FALSE
 Rizal’s nationalistic mission was a
peaceful campaign for reform not a total
independence from Spain.
Answer: FALSE
 It was a nationalistic artwork of Rizal at
age of eight and have been published
many years after his death.
Answer: SA AKING MGA
KABABATA
 What was the ultimate reason why
Simoun used his power and wealth to
encourage corruption in the
government?
Answer: He wanted to provoke
economic distress to incite the people to
a revolution
 Rizal’s friend who titled the poem “My
Last Thought” and later referred to as
“My Last Farewell”.
Answer: MARIANO PONCE
 This is a book about revolution.
Answer: EL FILIBUSTERISMO
 What is the foundation of the society
and cure for society and cure for social
illness according to Rizal?

Answer: Education
 Both in the Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo, Ibarra who later became
Simoun in the latter, has always desired
to established an educational institution.
Which of the following is the reason
behind the said reflection?
Answer: Rizal has always seen
education as a way to enlighten Filipinos
and eventually push for reforms.
 A literary piece “footnote to Youth”
publish on August 20, 1882 was one of
Rizal’s early steps in setting an idea for
his people, the search from national
identity.
Answer: TRUE
 Which among the following statements
explains why the plan of Ibarra to
establish secular schools did not
happen?
Answer: Padre Salvi opposed it because
he was secretly worried that the school
project will threaten the power he wields
over their town.
 Just like Rizal himself. Crisostomo
Ibarra in the story of Noli Me Tagere,
has been an advocate of change and
progress through education. Which of
the choices best describes the concrete
plans of Ibarra in making this possible?
Answer: Build a school which teaches
quality education
 In mind those who were brutalized by
the Spaniards and delineate how this
mission enclosed to his letter to Mariano
Gomez and Campanions.
Answer: FALSE
 A friend of Rizal who partially funded
the publishing of El Filibusterismo.
Answer: VALENTINE VENTURA
 Noli Me Tangere has always been
attributed to deal with the “social
cancer” during Rizal’s time. Which of
the following is considered to be the
“social cancer” showed in the novel?
Answer: All of the above
 Which of the following characteristics
DOES NOT demonstrate indolence of
the Filipino?
Answer: The pursuit of education
 What was the national ideal of Rizal?
Answer: Love of Country
 What were the two factors that
prolonged the suffering of the Filipino
people from subjugation?
Answer: The absence of national
consciousness and the poor training and
education of the people.
 What is the most important lesson of
Rizal’s essay The Philippines a Century
Hence?
Answer: History does not record any
lasting dominion by one people, race or
ideal over another. One of the two had
to yield and succumb.
 The Noli Me Tangere was about
_____________.
Answer: Love, Religion and society
 Noli Me Tangere was published in
Berlin Germany and completed on
February 21, 1887.
Answer: TRUE
 The indolence of the Filipinos is an
inherent trait: it is a malady with its own
causes and curses.
Answer: First statement is false, second
statement is true
 It was written by Rizal to explain the
idleness of his people during the Spanish
colonization.
Answer: THE INDOLENCE OF
FILIPINO
 This novel was written by Rizal to
expose the injustices and inequalities of
the friars and the ruling government in
the Philippines during the Spanish
regime.
Answer: El Filibusterismo
 Which of the following DOES NOT
exemplify Rizal’s blue print for nation
building?
 Answer: Religion as the foundation of
values and attitudes

 Rizal’s work “The Philippines a Century

Hence” is an essay about how Rizal
perceives the future and destiny of the
Filipino people. Which of the following
predictions came true for the
Philippines?

Answer: Independence of the

Philippines was short-lived as the
United States will soon acquire and
colonize the country after the Spanish.

 The character in Noli Me Tangere who

studied in Europe and returns to the
Philippines to avenge his fellowmen for
all the injustices and discriminations.

Answer: CRISOSTOMO IBARRA

 This was written by Rizal which

describes the importance and different
roles of the women in the society.

Answer: TO THE YOUNG WOMEN

OF MALOLOS

 Who is the character in the novel Novel

El Filibusterismo who portrayed as
emotional and reactive?

Answer: Isagani