Chapter 3

Question 1

José Protasio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda was born on __________ in Calamba, Laguna. The seventh of eleven children born to a relatively well-off family in a Dominican-owned tenant land in Calamba, Laguna, Jose Rizal lived and died during the Spanish colonial era in the Philippines.

Answer 1

June 19, 1861

Question 2

In Jose Rizal’s early readings included the Spanish version of the ________

Answer 2

Vulgate Bible.

Question 3

Jose’s father, ___________, was a productive farmer from ______.

He was an independent-minded, taciturn, but dynamic gentleman from whom Jose inherited his “free soul”.

He became tiniente gobernadorcillo (lieutenant governor) in Calamba and was thus nicknamed ________. (Some students’ comical conjecture that the fictional character Kikong Matsing of Batibot was named after Don Francisco is, of course, unfounded)

Answer 3

Francisco Engracio Rizal Mercado
Biñan, Laguna
Tiniente Kiko