Initially Rizal thought of writing Noli Me Tangere in French because it was the language

of the civilized world; later he decided to write it in Spanish because he decided to write
it for his countrymen.
TRUE tama

By 1887, rizal was convinced that spain would not listen to the ilustrado’s reasonable demands;
hence he opted for the independence of the Philippines and thus political activity should be
pursued in the country rather than in Spain.
False

According to Schumacher, in addition to feeling depressed about events in Calamba and the
lack of progress in the campaign for Philippine representation in the cortes, rizal assumed
wrongly that his fellow Filipinos would accept the type of leadership he wished to impose on
them.
TRUE

Rizal’s speech in the 1884 banquet to honor Juan Luna and Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo praised
their work as bringing glory to the Philippines but not to Spain and insinuated that there would
be a time when the Spanish flag would no longer wave over the Philippines.
FALSE tama

According to Schumacher the universities and general intellectual life that Rizal and
other ilustrados encountered in Spain in 1880s were among the most advanced in
Europe.
False

Rizal argues in his essay that the hot climate makes the people of the Philippines predisposed
to laziness because the excessive heat thins the blood and wears out people.
TRUE

The Pacto de Sangre of Legazpi and Sikatuna was a historic ceremony between a
conquistador and a native chief who thereby became sworn brothers who sealed political treaty
between Spain and the Phililppines.
False

In 1883, while in Spain, Rizal’s sentiment against the friars was inflamed by the
unjust imprisonment of his mother, causing him to give up the practice of Catholicism
and influencing other youth from the Philippines to focus on their ire on the friars.
False

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 In his notes to Morga, Rizal observed that slaves in the preconquest islands were not always in
a terrible condition as they could eat with their master on the same table; besides, Rizal noted
that if there were brutal indigenous slave owners, the encomenderos were worse.

TRUE tama

In his notes to Morga, Rizal defended native women as chaste even if they believed in
the need for a lover who would help them cross a dangerous river to reach Kalualhatian,
and they would not simply follow their base instincts because of their high morality.
FALSE tama

Early in 1884, ilustrado activity in Madrid began to change in speeches and

newspaper articles they began to criticize Spain’s handling of the Philippines and
Graciano Lopez Jaena specifically attacked the friar priest as acting like “true feudal
lord” especially when not restrained by the presence of the provincial governor.
True

Schumacher asserts that Noli me tangere is more than just an expose of abuses: it is a
Charter of Nationalism.
TRUE tama

Rizal felt bad about the divisive elections in Madrid in early 1891 but denied he resented
the weak endorsement of his leadership and claimed he harbored no resentment against
del pilar, however our source for this is del pilar who could have been biased.
False

According to Schumacher, by the early 1880s, a clearly defined sense of nationalism

already existed among many of the young men from the Philippines in Spain, which
Rizal mobilized upon his arrival there.
False

Rizal chose to annotate Morga’s book over other early Spanish accounts because it
was the only one that survived from that early period of history and it was available
at the time Rizal was in Europe.
False

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