Customs of the Tagalog

Question 1

Customs of the Tagalogs was written by _ or _. (Birth: _; Death _)

Answer 1

Juan Porfocarrero or Miguel Juan De Plasencia (1520, 1590)

Question 2

Juan Porfocarrero was one of the writers of _ which is the first book ever printed in the Philippines.

Answer 2

Doctrina Cristiana

Question 3

_ are also cale chieftain who governed as many as a hundred houses called barangay.

Answer 3

Datos

Question 4

Datos govern only few people between _ and _.

Answer 4

30 and 100

Question 5

_ don’t settle far from others, are not subject o one another, except friendship and relationship as they help one another in wars.

Answer 5

Datos

Question 6

In the three castes, _ are the nobles or warrior class, free men who were not obligated to pay tribute or taxes.

Answer 6

Maharlica

Question 7

In the three castes, _ served the dato in time of war and had higher social status. Thought they were expected to aid in communal duties, they had more autonomy and rights compared to lower classes.

Answer 7

Maharlica

Question 8

In the three castes, _ are class of dependent who lived in their own homes, typically on the property of their master. They were not fully slaves but rather tenants who owed labor or a portion of their product to the datu or master.

Answer 8

Aliping Namamahay

Question 9

In the three castes, _ could not be sold, and they retained certain rights, such as having their own family and property.

Answer 9

Aliping Namamahay

Question 10

In the three castes, _ is the lowest class of dependents. These individuals lived in their master’s house and had significantly fewer rights.

Answer 10

Aliping Saguiguilir

Question 11

In the three castes, _ were closer to slaves, fully dependent on their masters for food and shelter, and could be sold or traded. Their freedom were severely limited compared to the Apiling Namamahay.

Answer 11

Aliping Saguiguilir

Question 12

If two persons married, of whom one was a maharlica and the other a slave, whether namamahay or sa guiguilir, the children _.

Answer 12

were divided

Question 13

In marriage, the maharlicas could not, after marriage, move from one village to another, or from one barangay to another, without _, as arranged among them.

Answer 13

Paying a certain fine in gold

Question 14

The reasons for penalty are the following:
1. Investigations made and sentences passed by the dato must take place in the presence of those of his barangay. They condemned no one to _, unless he merited the death penalty.
2. As for the witches, they _, and their children and accomplices became _, after he had made some recompense to the injured person.
3. All other offenses were punished by _, which, if not paid with promptness, exposed the culprit to serve, until the payment should be made, the person aggrieved, to whom the money was to be paid.

Answer 14

The reasons for penalty are the following:
1. Investigations made and sentences passed by the dato must take place in the presence of those of his barangay. They condemned no one to slavery, unless he merited the death penalty.
2. As for the witches, they killed them, and their children and accomplices became slaves to the chief, after he had made some recompense to the injured person.
3. All other offenses were punished by fines in gold, which, if not paid with promptness, exposed the culprit to serve, until the payment should be made, the person aggrieved, to whom the money was to be paid.

Question 15

When the parents gave a dowry to any son, and, when, in order to marry him to a chief’s daughter, the dowry was _.

Answer 15

greater than the sum given the other sons

Question 16

In the rules of inheritances:
1. The legitimate children inherited _, except in the case where the father and mother showed a slight _.
2. If one had children by two or more legitimate wives, each child received the _.
3. If a man had a child by one of his slaves, as well as legitimate children, the _ had no share in the inheritance.

Answer 16

In the rules of inheritances:
1. The legitimate children inherited equally, except in the case where the father and mother showed a slight partiality.
2. If one had children by two or more legitimate wives, each child received the inheritance and dowry of his mother.
3. If a man had a child by one of his slaves, as well as legitimate children, the former had no share in the inheritance.

Question 17

In the rules of inheritances:
4. When there were no children by a legitimate wife, but only children by an unmarried woman, or inaasava, the _ inherited all.
5. In the case of a divorce before the birth of children, if the wife left the husband for the purpose of marry another, all her dowry and an equal additional amount fell to the _; but if she left him, and didn’t marry another, the dowry was returned.
6. In one case, upon the death of the wife who in a year’s time had borne no children, the parents returned _ to the _. In the other case, upon the death of the husband, _ was returned to the _.

Answer 17

In the rules of inheritance:
4. When there were no children by a legitimate wife, but only children by an unmarried woman, or inaasava, the latter inherited all.
5. In the case of a divorce before the birth of children, if the wife left the husband for the purpose of marry another, all her dowry and an equal additional amount fell to the husband; but if she left him, and didn’t marry another, the dowry was returned.
6. In one case, upon the death of the wife who in a year’s time had borne no children, the parents returned one half the dowry to the husband whose wife had died. In the other case, upon the death of the husband, one-half the dowry was returned to the relatives of the husband.

Question 18

In the worship of the Tagalogs, they did not have permanent temples for worship but instead used large houses of chiefs to celebrate festivals called _, where they preformed worships known as _.

Answer 18

Pandot, Nagaanitos

Question 19

In their idols and deities, _ was the supreme deity, representing the “all-powerful” or “maker of all things.”

Answer 19

Bathala

Question 20

In their idols and deities, _ was revered for its beauty and the _ was celebrated especially when new. _ were also honored, with the _ known as Tala and the _ referred to as the “seven little goats”.

Answer 20

the Sun, moon, starts, morning star, pleiades

Question 21

In their idols and deities, _ is a deity for lovers and fertility.

Answer 21

Dian Masalanta

Question 22

In their idols and deities, _ are deities related to agriculture and husbandry.

Answer 22

Lakapati and Idianale

Question 23

In their idols and deities, _ are offered food to avoid harm.

Answer 23

Buaya

Question 24

In omens, the Tagalogs believed in omens, especially if the encountered certain animals such as serpents, rats or birds (_). These encounters could either _ their journey of give them _ to proceed.

Answer 24

tigmamanuguin, stop, confidence

Question 25

In time, these natives determine time by cultivation of soil, counted by moods, and other more effects of the nature; all these helps to make the year. The winter and summer were named as ‘’ and’’.

Answer 25

sun-time and water-time

Question 26

In their priests and practitioners, _ are honorable, one among the natives and was held ordinality by people or rank. This rule being general in all the islands.

Answer 26

Catolonan

Question 27

In their priests and practitioners, _ are witches who deceived by pretending to heal the sick.

Answer 27

Mangagauay

Question 28

In their priests and practitioners, _ are priests who had the power of applying such remedies to lovers that they would abandon and despise their own wives.

Answer 28

Manyisalat

Question 29

In their priests and practitioners, _ are priests who emitted fire from themselves during rituals.

Answer 29

Mancocolam

Question 30

In their priests and practitioners, _ are powerful witches capable of killing without the use of medicine, and by simply saluting or raising the hand.

Answer 30

Hocluban

Question 31

In their priests and practitioners, if _ saw anyone clothed in white, they tear out livers and eat them, causing death.

Answer 31

Silagan

Question 32

In their priests and practitioners, _ are devils who walked about carried, or pretended to carry his head to different places and in the morning returned to its body, remaining as before alive.

Answer 32

Magtatanggal

Question 33

In their priests and practitioners, _ are sorcerers believed to murder and eat flesh.

Answer 33

Osuang

Question 34

In their priests and practitioners, _ made charms for lovers out of herbs, stones, and wood which would infuse the heart with love.

Answer 34

Mangagayoma

Question 35

In their priests and practitioners, _ are preachers who helped predict the afterlife.

Answer 35

Sonat

Question 36

In their priests and practitioners, _ are soothsayers who predicted the future.

Answer 36

Pangatahojan

Question 37

In their priests and practitioners, _ are men inclined towards femininity, often holding special roles.

Answer 37

Bayoguin

Question 38

In their beliefs in spirits and the afterlife, _ was a seen as a place of rest for the just, and _ as a place of suffering for the wicked.

Answer 38

Maca, Casanaan

Question 39

In their beliefs in spirits and the afterlife, _ are ghosts and phantoms, believed to be wandering spirits.

Answer 39

Vibit at Tigbalaang

Question 40

In their beliefs in spirits and the afterlife, _ are women who died in childbirth who would become lamenting spirits at night.

Answer 40

Patianac