Chapter 5

Question 1

Where did the name of the town where Rizal was born came from?

Answer 1

Born in Calamba Laguna

Calamba

• Calambanga translated to a big native jar
• almost owned of by the Dominican Friars

Question 2

What are the different nature views in Calamba?

Answer 2

On the east is the Laguna De Bay

On the south is the Mountain of Makiling

Question 3

What poem did he wrote to commemorate his love for his town?

Answer 3

Memories of My town in 1876 while he was studying in Ateneo de Manila

Question 4

What did he wrote that have a controversy for his uncle, leoncio Rizal is claiming that it was his kid, antonio who made it?

Answer 4

My first Inspiration

Question 5

What poem did he wrote that was published in La Solidaridad on December 30,1890?

Answer 5

Maria Makiling

- A tribute to the mountain

Question 6

What did he wrote when he was just 8 years old?

Answer 6

To my childhood companions

- message for the filipino youth to love and cherish the language they inherited from their ancestors

Question 7

What are the fruits that Rizal wrote in his diary?

Answer 7

Santol                       
Yellow tamput
Pink makopa
Plum tree
Casuy
Tamarind
Papaya
Lanca
Coffee

Question 8

What are the trees and animals seen in Rizal’s diary?

Answer 8

Trees
Orange trees
Iba
Balimbing
Pomegranate (may ganto? Ditoo?)

Animals
Yellow culiauan              Pipit
Maya
Culae
Maria capria
Martin

Question 9

Who taught Rizal to make prayers when he was three years old?

Answer 9

Doña Teodora Alonzo

Question 10

Why did Rizal’s family go to Antipolo to make devotion to the Virgin Mary?

Answer 10

They fulfilled the promised to go their because Rizal was born.
Don Francisco and Rizal always go together

Question 11

What was the effect of the death of Concepcion to Rizal?

Answer 11

He felt outmost sadness for the first time ever

Question 12

What was the favorite story thag Doña Teodora told Rizal for him to go to sleep?

Answer 12

The young moth and the Flame

Being obedient to his mother is one of the lessons of that the story gives.

Question 13

How did Rizal saw the oppressed filipino people?

Answer 13

The exposed brutalities of spanish authority especially the Guardia Civil

Question 14

Who was the first teacher of Rizal and what did she do?

Answer 14

Teacher: Doña Teodora Alonzo
Taught rizal the alphabet with patience when he was 3
Discovered his talent in poetry

Question 15

Who were Rizal’s private tutors?

Answer 15

maestro Celestino

Maestro Lucas Padua

Leon Monroy who taught him to write in Latin and Spanish

Question 16

Where did Rizal’s private schooling started?

Answer 16

In Biñan Laguna
With his brother, Paciano
Teacher: Maestro Justiano Aquino Cruz
- rizal was always hurt by the stick of the teacher

Question 17

Who did he fought in Biñan?

Answer 17

Almost all the boys in Biñan
First fight: the bully, Big Pedro, the teacher’s son

Andres salandanan
- who he arm wrestle with and of which he almost cracked his head

Question 18

What was the schedule of Rizal in Biñan?

Answer 18

4 am go to mass
5 am study his lessons and eat breakfast
7- 10 am school
11-2 pm going home for lunch and rest before coming back
2-5 pm afternoon schooling
5pm pray with his cousins , study his lessons

Question 19

Why did rizal went home on december 17,1870?

Answer 19

Maestro Justiano had taught him everything he had to learn

Question 20

What was the effect of the martyrdom of Gomburza to rizal?

Answer 20

He wrote his second novel, el Filibusterismo about them

Paciano told him about what injustice his favorite teacher had experienced.

Question 21

What was the form of injustice that his mother had experienced?

Answer 21

Doña Teodora was accused of connivance to poison her sister- in - law
She was arrested and was made to walk from calamba to Sta cruz and was put into prison for two and a half years.