Midterms 1: Rizal and His Childhood Years in Calamba Flashcards
is an enchanted town (Palma,1949)
Calamba
situated, as if enclosed in a valley, between
Laguna de Bay and Mt. Makiling.
Calamba
Calamba is situated, as if enclosed in a valley, between
_______ and _____
Laguna de Bay
Mt. Makiling
Panoramic with its landscape, as if nature
has lavished this town with all its tenderest
caresses
Calamba
Calamba at the time of Rizal’s birth was an
agricultural
town
Calamba
- The town was virtually owned by the
Dominican friars
Calamba became a prosperous town due to its specialization in the production of
Sugar
Life was filled with hardships on the part of the people
who were just tenants in the _______ hacienda.
Dominican hacienda
Calamba’s life was far better than in the other towns in Laguna
during those times.
What times?
CALAMBA AT THE TIME OF RIZAL’S BIRTH
At what time the Nature has been good to the Calambeños
CALAMBA AT THE TIME OF RIZAL’S BIRTH
The picturesque beauty of the town provided the
young Rizal the inspiration and springboard to
hone his poetic and artistic sensibilities.
What place?
Calamba
True or False
The misfortunes suffered by the tenants
from the hands of the Guardia Civil and the
Dominican friars, had ingrained in his
adult mind hatred of oppression and
exploitation of the weak by the strong.
FALSE:
YOUNG MIND - he was still little when he saw the oppression of his town people
The misfortunes suffered by the tenants
from the hands of the _____ and ____, had ingrained in his
young mind hatred of oppression and
exploitation of the weak by the strong.
Guardia Civil and the
Dominican friars
Full Name of Jose Rizal
Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonzo Realonda
Birthdate of Jose Rizal
June 19, 1861
True or False
His mother nearly died during his delivery because his mother has health complications
False; This is due to his very big head
after his birth, Rizal was baptized by
Fr. Rufino Collantes at the Calamba Catholic Church,
with Fr. Pedro Casañas, as his godfather.
How many days is Rizal after birth was baptized?
3 days after his birth
Three days after his birth, Rizal was baptized by
Fr. Rufino Collantes
Three days after his birth, Rizal was baptized by
Fr. Rufino Collantes at the Calamba Catholic Church, who is his godfather?
Fr. Pedro Casañas
Rizal was the _____ child in the family of 11 children of Don Francisco and Doña Teodora.
Seventh
Rizal family in their birth order
Saturnina (1850) Paciano (1851) Narcisa (1852)
Olimpia (1855)
Lucia (1857)
Maria (1859)
Jose (1861) Concepcion (1862) Josefa (1865)
Trinidad (1868)
Soledad (1870)
Parents of Rizal
Don Francisco and Doña Teodora
True or False
Rizal is full filipino
False: He is mixed race
True or False
His great grandfather from his father side was a Chinese merchant
named Domingo Lamco.
True
His great grandfather from his father side was a Chinese merchant
named
Domingo Lamco
He married a wealthy Chinese mestiza, Ines dela Rosa
Domingo Lamco
Who is Domingo Lamco
Rizal’s great grandfather from his father side
Domingo Lamco married a wealthy Chinese mestiza named
Ines dela Rosa
Domingo Lamco assumed the surname _____ in
keeping the gubernatorial decree of Narciso Claveria on the use of
Spanish surnames in the Philippines by all Spanish subjects in the
colony and to free themselves and their children from the
prejudices associated with a Chinese surname
Mercado
Who passed the gubernatorial decree on the use of
Spanish surnames in the Philippines by all Spanish subjects
Narciso Claveria
Rizal’s grandfather from his father side was
Juan Mercado
Who is Juan Mercado?
Grandfather of Rizal to father side
Juan
Mercado who married a Chinese-Filipino mestiza named
Cirila
Alejandro
became a gobernadorcillo of Biñan
Juan Mercado
Juan and Cirila had ____ children, one of whom was Rizal’s
father, Don Francisco.
How many children?
14
Juan and Cirila had 14 children, one of whom was Rizal’s
father.
Who was Rizal’s Father
Don Francisco
Rizal’s great grandfather on his mother’s side was
Manuel de Quintos
Who is Manuel de Quintos
Great grandfather on his mother’s side
Rizal’s great grandfather on his mother’s side was
Manuel de Quintos.
What is the race of Manuel de Quintos?
a Chinese mestizo from Lingayen, Pangasinan
Manuel de Quintos married
Regina Ursua
Manuel married Regina Ursua, a woman with
Chinese ancestry.
True or False
False: JAPANESE
Who is the grandmother of Rizal in mother side?
Brigida
Who is Brigida?
Grandmother of Rizal in mother side.
Brigida married
Lorenzo
Alberto Alonso
Brigida married Lorenzo
Alberto Alonso had how many children?
5 children
Brigida married Lorenzo
Alberto Alonso, their children is one of the parent of jose rizal.
Who is that parent?
Teodora, Rizal’s mother
He has what class of the family?
Middle class family in the 19th century
Philippines.
Principalia class or ruling elite
True or False:
The affluence of Rizal’s family can clearly be gleaned from the following:
the family’s predilection for studies; its stone house of adobe and
hardwood; ownership of carriage and horses - the symbols of wealth
and respectability during those times; home library with numerous
volumes of books; presence of personal servants taking care of the needs
of the children, and private tutoring of children in the family.
True
Rizal’s family business is?
rice and sugar
Rizal’s father, ______ , was an educated man.
Don Francisco Mercado
His father, Don Francisco Mercado, took courses in _____ in Colegio de San Jose in Manila.
Latin and Philosophy
His father, Don Francisco Mercado, took courses in Latin and Philosophy in
Colegio de San Jose in
Manila.
Rizal described his father a model father because?
Owing to his honesty, frugality and
industry.
Where do Rizal inherited a profound feeling of dignity, self-respect, serenity and
poise and seriousness
His father, Don Francisco Mercado
Rizal described her mother as
disciplinarian, a woman more than
average education, a woman of culture and religion, a
sacrificing and industrious housewife.
Doña Teodora was an educated woman. She completed her
education at the
Colegio de Santa Rosa
a prestigious college for girls in Manila then
Colegio de Santa Rosa
Rizal learned the values of warmth and virtue.
He also inherited a practical temperament, stoicism, selfsacrifice, temperament of a dreamer and fondness for poetry.
From his?
Mother, Dona Teodora
CHILDHOOD DAYS AND MEMORIES of Rizal:
when the family stayed in the garden to exchange
______
stories.
He always treasured the care demonstrated to him by his parents due to his intelligence
True or False?
FALSE: due to his poor health.
CHILDHOOD DAYS AND MEMORIES of Rizal:
daily family prayer
during ______, where all the members of his family gather and pray together.
Angelus
His sister, Josefa, narrated to him legends and fairy tales at the azotea, after the Angelus
True or False?
False; He was narrated by his personal servant
CHILDHOOD DAYS AND MEMORIES:
He grew up a pious Catholic owing to the training provided him by his mother. At ___ years old, he
learned how to pray and even read the Bible.
three
He grew up a pious Catholic training he had at home was strengthened by his
frequent visit to _____, the parish priest of
Calamba
Fr. Leoncio Lopez
Who made the young Rizal the need to
develop a sound philosophy of life. It was also from
him that Rizal learned the value of scholarship and
intellectual honesty.
Fr. Leoncio Lopez
At the age of ____, Rizal experienced his first sorrow
four
At the age of four, Rizal experienced his first sorrow. Why?
This was when his younger
sister Concepcion, whom he fondly called Concha, died.
What is the name of Rizal’s sister who have died when he was 4?
Conception or Concha
As a young boy, he spent many hours down the shore of ____, thinking of
what was beyond, dreaming of what might be over on the other side of the waves
Laguna de Bay
From the usual activity of Rizal, it can be noted that he was a _______, noting
every detail of what he actually saw
good observer
One of the stories Rizal never forgot, narrated to him by his mother was
the fable entitled
“The Moth and the Flame”
As a young boy, there were indications that Rizal was intellectually gifted
What are these?
He was able to master the alphabet when he was three years old
He enjoyed reading the books
in their library at home
Also showed his knack in sketching, painting, sculpture and literature.
What age Rizal wrote his first poem?
8 years old
He enjoyed reading the books
in their library at home, and ______, as his reading teacher and critic.
his mother, Dona Teodora
Rizal was 8 years old when he wrote his first poem ______
Sa Aking Kabata or To My Fellow Children
True or False
Rizal when he was younger associated love for the native language bestowed by God
with the desire for freedom, which according to him was on mortgage.
True
In his first poem, Rizal described his native language or Tagalog as comparable to
Latin, English and Spanish.
true or False?
TRUEE
Young Jose calling on his fellow children to love their ?
Native tongue
THE FIRST TASTE OF INJUSTICE of Rizal was when?
The arrest and
incarceration of his mother in 1871
Why was his Rizal’s Mother arrested?
Alleged complicity in the attempted murder of his
uncle’s unfaithful wife
When did his uncle’s wife murdered?
This happened right after the arrival of his uncle, Jose Alberto from Europe. Upon arriving at
Biñan, his uncle discovered the infidelity of his wife and decided to divorce her
Doña Teodora was arrested and made to walk a distance of ______ from Calamba to Santa
Cruz, the capital of Laguna.
And???
50 km and she was jailed for almost two and one-half years
Her mother was freed later by ______
Gov. General Rafael de Izquierdo
Why was her mother freed?
She was freed later by Gov. General Rafael de Izquierdo as a result of the request of the young Soledad, whose graceful dancing charmed the governor-general and his guests.
Rizal lost
confidence in friendship and developed mistrust of his fellowmen when his mother was jailed. Why?
Because the men who arrested Doña Teodora were frequent visitors in their home
An incident that greatly influenced Rizal’s goal and life work was the?
Martyrdom
of Gomburza
Rizal was then ___ years when his older brother Paciano narrated to him the injustice
suffered by the three Filipino priests
11 years old
Rizal was then 11 years when his older brother _____ narrated to him the injustice
suffered by the three Filipino priests
Paciano
Who was the 3 priests?
Fathers:
Mariano Gomez,
Jose Burgos,
Jacinto Zamora
He was enraged particularly the struggle waged by ____, his teacher at Colegio de San Jose.
GOMBURZA
Father Jose
Burgos
If it were not for the unjust execution of the three priests, Rizal would have been a
member of the _____ in the Philippines
Society of Jesuits
He wrote this from the memory of Gomburza
El
Filibusterismo
Rizal’s first teacher was his
Mother, Dona Teodora
His first private tutor was
Maestro Celestino,
His second private tutor
Maestro
Lucas Padua
His third tutor?
Leon
Monroy, a former classmate of his father.
In this tutor Rizal’s skill in reading, writing, and the rudiments of Latin were honed.
Leon Monroy
Rizal, just like other children from the principalia class, was trained to
become
a middle-class intellectual or ilustrado
True or False
His trainings as an ilustrado could explain why Rizal did not have any real
social consciousness.
True: As he grew up detached from the people, he did
not understand their needs and aspirations at the very start.
