Life and Works of Rizal - Lesson 4

Question 1

Enumerate Rizal’s Romances in order

Answer 1

Segunda Katigbak, Leonor Valenzuela, Leonor Rivera, Consuelo Ortiga Y Reyes, O Sei-San, Gertrude Beckett, Suzanne Jacoby, Nellie Boustead, Josephine Bracken

Question 2

sister of Mariano Katigbak, Rizal’s friend and classmate.

Answer 2

Segunda Katigbak (1877)

Question 3

She studied in La Concordia College, where Rizal’s sister Olympia also studied.

Answer 3

Segunda Katigbak (1877)

Question 4

Rizal described her as having “eloquent eyes, rosy cheeks,and a smile that reveals very beautiful teeth.”

Answer 4

Segunda Katigbak (1877)

Question 5

Why did Rizal stop pursuing Katigbak?

Answer 5

Katigbak was already engaged

Question 6

A woman from Pakil, Laguna

Answer 6

Jacinta Ibarda Laza

Question 7

Fair with seductive and attractive eyes.

Answer 7

Jacinta Ibarda Laza

Question 8

Also known as Miss L or “The Professor”

Answer 8

Jacinta Ibarda Laza

Question 9

Why did Rizal stop pursuing Miss L?

Answer 9

His father objected

Question 10

Rizal’s Second Love

Answer 10

Leonor Valenzuela (1878)

Question 11

Rizal’s 3rd Love

Answer 11

Leonor Rivera (1878-1890)

Question 12

She was Rizal’s second or third cousin

Answer 12

Leonor Rivera (1878-1890)

Question 13

Childhood Sweetheart of Rizal

Answer 13

Leonor Rivera (1878-1890)

Question 14

When did Rizal and Rivera meet?

Answer 14

Rizal’s 2nd year at UST where Rizal was a boarder at Leonor’s father

Question 15

When did Rizal and Rivera get engaged

Answer 15

1880

Question 16

Code name given to Leonor Rivera

Answer 16

Taimis

Question 17

Why did Rizal and Leonor Rivera ended their relationship?

Answer 17

Noli me Tangere, Rizal’s father, Jose’s unread letters, Paciano and Jose’s accord, engagement to Henry Kipping

Question 18

the daughter of Don Pablo Ortiga, a former mayor of Manila.

Answer 18

Consuelo Ortiga y Reyes (1884)

Question 19

Where and when did Rizal and Reyes meet?

Answer 19

Madrid, September 16, 1882

Question 20

Rizal’s Fourth Love

Answer 20

Consuelo Ortiga y Reyes (1884)

Question 21

Rizal’s Fifth Love

Answer 21

O Sei-San (1888)

Question 22

How old was O Sei-San when she met the 27- year old Rizal?

Answer 22

23

Question 23

Rizal’s 6th Love

Answer 23

Gertrude Beckett (1886)

Question 24

daughter of Charles Beckett, who was Rizal’s landlord when he stayed in London, England in May 1888

Answer 24

Gertrude Beckett (1886)

Question 25

Beckett’s assistance helped Rizal finish his works, which were?

Answer 25

Prometheus Bound’, ‘The Triumph of Death over Life,’ and ‘The Triumph of Science over Death.’

Question 26

Rizal’s 7th Love

Answer 26

Suzanne Jacoby (1889)

Question 27

a Belgian woman who was the niece of the landladies of the boarding house where Rizal stayed in Brussels in February 1890.

Answer 27

Suzanne Jacoby (1889)

Question 28

Rizal’s 8th Love

Answer 28

Nellie Boustead (1891)

Question 29

Bousteads’ winter residence in Biarritz on the French Riviera.

Answer 29

Villa Eliada

Question 30

Why did Rizal ended his relationship with Boustead?

Answer 30

She wanted him to convert to protestanism, and her mother’s disapproval of him

Question 31

What did he call to Josephine Bracken

Answer 31

dulce extranjera

Question 32

Josephine Bracken’s adoptive father

Answer 32

George Taufer

Question 33

Rizal and Bracken’s son

Answer 33

Francisco (stillborn)

Question 34

After Rizal’s death, Josephine Bracken married who?

Answer 34

Vicente Abad

Question 35

How old did Josephine die?

Answer 35

25 (tuberculosis)