LESSON 20 - Rizal and the Katipunan

Question 1

True or False

Did Rizal know Bonifacio during the Liga Days?

Answer 1

False
* Bonifacio knew Rizal but Rizal did not know him personally

Question 2

Who did Bonifacio commision to go to Dapitan to confer with Rizal, and when? What did they reveal?

Answer 2

Dr. Pio Valenzuela ; June 1896

He revealed the Katipunan and its aims to Rizal

Question 3

Does the (Katipunan) count with its membership many persons in high society in Manila and the provinces?

Answer 3

No. A hundred from the middle class while the rest are poor.

Question 4

Who did Rizal recommend to avail for the Katipunan’s cause to Valenzuela?

Answer 4

Antonio Luna; because he has access to the homes of wealthy Filipinos.

Question 5

True or False

Did Rizal say to make the rich Filipios neutral. if they failed to bring them over?

Answer 5

True

Question 6

The summary of Rizal’s advice to Valenzuela

Answer 6

1. The revolution of Cuba against Spain failed because of lack of arms
2. Influential and wealthy Filipinos be attracted to the cause of the society
3. Unity among all classes of Filipinos
4. Antonio Luna be appointed to direct all military operations

Question 7

What did Bonifacio do in preparation for the revolution following Rizal’s advice?

Answer 7

• Following Rizal’s advice, the Katipuneros contracted some millionaires to fund the Katipunan but they refused
• Bonifacio decided to implicate the uncooperative elites with the Katipunan
• Bonifacio hoped that once arrested and probably tortured, these rich Filipinos would then hate the Spaniards and be converted
• This was the way of neutralizing the rich without killing them
• Jacinto prepared a list of uncooperative Filipinos and had their movements monitored and their signatures forged on Katipunan papers which stated that they were not only sympathizers but contributors to the Katipunan fund
• The incriminating documents were then left in Katipunan hideouts to be found by the Spanish authorities
• A wave of arrests followed, some were executed, exiled to the Pacific after torture and imprisonment in Fort Santiago, and while others escaped the country by bribing the officials

Question 8

When did the revolution break out? And where was Rizal at the time?

Answer 8

Led by Andres Bonifacio in August 23, 1896, Rizal was in the steamer Castilla waiting for his departure for Spain

Question 9

The Spanish Court’s evidences of Rizal’s association with the Katipunan

Answer 9

• Rizal’s picture hung in the meeting place of the Katipunan
• Rizal’s name was used as one of the passwords of the Katipunan (The third kind of Katipunan membership was called Bayani with a password Rizal)
• Without his consent and knowledge, he was the honorary president of the Katipunan
• Some Katipuneros carried a photograph of Rizal in their pockets like an anting-anting

Question 10

Rizal’s reasons of why he was innocent

Answer 10

1. I am not guilty of rebellion as I even advised Dr. Pio Valenzuela in Dapitan not to rise in revolution.
2. The revolutionists used my name without my knowledge.
3. If I had a hand in the Katipunan revolution, I could have escaped Dapitan and would have not built a house there.
4. If I were the chief of the revolution, why did they not consult me on their plans?

Question 11

Which Historian’s View on Rizal and the Katipunan?

“Rizal was against the Philippine Revolution”

Answer 11

Renato Constantino

Question 12

Which Historian’s View on Rizal and the Katipunan?

“Rizal had given his word of honor to the Spanish authorities while in Dapitan”

Answer 12

Gregorio Zaide

Question 13

Which Historian’s View on Rizal and the Katipunan?

“Rizal was not against revolution only in the absence of preparation and arms.”

Answer 13

Teodoro Agoncillo