El Filibusterismo

Question 2

Meaning of Filibustero as per Rizal to Blumentritt.

Answer 2

A dangerous patriot who will soo be hanged or a presumptuous fellow.

Question 3

Who did Rizal dedicated El Filibusterismo to?

Answer 3

GOMBURZA

Question 4

Who is the verdadero (genuine) filibustero.

Answer 4

Someone who has secretly bewitched the government and has been extending subversive ideas throughout the country.

Question 5

Two plots in El FIlibusterismo.

Answer 5

• University Students
• Simoun

Question 6

The University students’ plan shows:

Answer 6

• The limits of liberal reforms
• Uselessness of Hispanization campaign

Question 7

In Chapter 27, through the argument of Isagani and Father Fernandez, the idea of __________ was deployed.

Answer 7

Political obligation. That the friars made a contract to improve the seeds (FIlipinos).

Question 8

As stated by Isagani, the man has the innate desire to ____________.

Answer 8

Cultivate his intelligence.

Question 9

Simoun mocked Basilio’s idealism by saying that Hispanization of the customs will lead to ________________________________.

Answer 9

Death of nationality, annihilation of homeland, and the consecration of tyranny.
A people without distinction, a nation without liberty.

Question 10

Simoun to Basilio: They don’t want to teach you their language? Then _______, ________.

Answer 10

Cultivate your own, spread it.

Question 11

Chapters that Simoun referenced Elias.

Answer 11

Chapter 7: Simoun
Chapter 19: The Fuse

Question 12

Minor characters in El Fili that espoused his violent objective.

Answer 12

1. Cabesang Tales
2. Placido Penitente
3. Schoolmaster of San Diego
4. Basilio

Question 13

Why did Simoun’s plot failed?

Answer 13

Saving a country doesn’t mean having to USE THE SAME MEASURES THAT CONTRIBUTES TO ITS RUIN.
HATRED CREATES NOTHING BUT MOSNTERS/

Question 14

Padre Florentino the dying Simoun: We mus win when we deserve it, by ______________________________.

Answer 14

elevating reason and dignity of the individual.
dying for the good and the great.

Question 15

Rizal’s appeal to the next generation through Padre Florentino:

Answer 15

O youth! Come, for we await for you!
Youth who will incarnate in yourselves the vigor of life, that fled from our veins. The purity of ideas that have been soiled in our minds and the fire of enthusiasm that has been extinguished in our hearts.