Chapter 1 - R.A. 1425

Question 1

Who wrote the article ‘Who made Jose Rizal our foremost national hero, and why?”

Answer 1

Esteban A. de Ocampo

Question 2

Who is the greatest hero and martyr of our nation?

Answer 2

Dr. Jose Rizal Mercado y Alonso (1861-1896)

Question 3

“The doctrines of Rizal are not for one epoch but for all epochs. They are as valid as today as they were yesterday…”

Answer 3

biographer Rafael Palma

Question 4

Some Filipinos believe that Rizal is a _________ national hero

Answer 4

“made-to-order”

Question 5

Who is the maker or the manufacturer of the belief that Rizal is a made-to-order national hero?

Answer 5

Americans, particularly Civil Governor William Howard Taft

Question 6

Who did Gov. Taft address the words “And now, gentlemen, you must have a national hero.”?

Answer 6

Messrs

Question 7

Who are the Filipino members of the Philippine Commission?

Answer 7

Pardo de Tavera
Legarda
Luzurriaga

Question 8

Who are the revolutionary heroes?

Answer 8

Marcelo H. del Pilar
Graciano Lopez Jaena
Jose Rizal
General Antonio Luna
Emilio Jacinto
Andres Bonifacio

Question 9

A prominent or central personage taking an admirable part in any remarkable action or event.

A person of distinguished valor or enterprise in danger, or fortitude in suffering.

A man honored after death by public worship, because of exceptional service to mankind.

Answer 9

Hero

Question 10

Why is Rizal a hero?

Answer 10

He took an “admirable part” as a towering figure in the Propaganda Campaign which roughly covered the period from 1882 to 1896.

Question 11

What writing contributed greatly in the Filipino nationality?

Answer 11

Rizal’s Noli Me Tangere (Berlin, 1887)

Question 12

Published La Soberania Monacal in Barcelona in 1889

Answer 12

Marcelo H. Del Pilar

Question 12

Published the novel Ninay in Madrid in 1885

Answer 12

Pedro A. Paterno

Question 13

Where and when did Pedro A. Paterno publish his novel Ninay?

Answer 13

Madrid in 1885

Question 14

Where and when did Marcelo H. Del Pilar publish his La Soberania Monacal?

Answer 14

Barcelona in 1889

Question 15

What novel did Pedro A. Paterno publish?

Answer 15

Ninay

Question 15

What did Marcelo H. Del Pilar publish?

Answer 15

La Soberania Monacal

Question 16

Published his Discursos y Articulos Varios in Barcelona in 1891

Answer 16

Graciano Lopez Jaena

Question 17

Where and when did Graciano Lopez Jaena publish his Discursos y Articulos Varios?

Answer 17

Barcelona in 1891

Question 17

Published Impresiones in Madrid in 1893

Answer 17

Antonio Luna

Question 18

What did Graciano Lopez Jaena publish?

Answer 18

Discursos y Articulos Varios

Question 19

Where and when did Antonio Luna publish Impresiones?

Answer 19

Madrid in 1893

Question 20

What did Antonio Luna publish?

Answer 20

Impresiones

Question 21

A Filipino exile of 1872 in London said, “the book was superior” and that “if Don Quijote has made its author immortal because he exposed to the world the sufferings of Spain, you Noli Me Tangere will bring you equal glory…

Answer 21

Antonio Maria Regidor

Question 21

Who wrote and congratulated Rizal saying “your work, as we Germans, has been written with the blood of the heart…

Answer 21

Prof. Ferdinand Blumentritt

Question 22

Who attacked and condemned the hero’s novel in the Philippines?

Answer 22

Faculty Committee of a Manila University and by the Permanent Censorship Commission in 1887.