MIdterms Flashcards
The teaching of Jose Rizal’s life, works, and writings is mandated by __________, otherwise known as the __________.
Republic Act 1425, Rizal Law
Rizal Law was sponsored by
Senator Jose P. Laurel
The principal author of Rizal Law
Senator Claro M. Recto
What was the name of Rizal Law before it became a law?
Senate Bill Bo. 438 or Rizal Bill
The Rizal Law was enacted in the year _________.
1956
What are the 3 goals of Rizal Law?
- To rededicate the lives of youth to the ideals of freedom and nationalism, for which our heroes lived and died
- To pay tribute to our national hero for devoting his life and works in shaping the Filipino character
- To gain an inspiring source of patriotism through the study of Rizal’s life, works, and writings.
Criteria for Choosing a National Hero (Dr. Otley H. Bayer)
- The person must be a Filipino
- The person is a peace-loving and pacifist
- The person must have a great sense of patriotism
- The person must die for country as a martyr
It is the love someone feels for their country that is based on the idea that this country itself is good and that good people live there.
Patriotism
It is the love and affection for one’s country, but it’s based on the idea that this particular country is better than all the rest.
Nationalism
Jose Rizal was chosen as
Greatest Philippine National Hero
A person admired for achievements and noble qualities and a prominent or central personage taking an admirable action.
Hero
Why was Rizal chosen as a hero?
- He was the first Filipino to unite and awaken the Filipino people to peacefully rise for independence.
- He is a model for being a peacemaker by his complete self-denial, his complete abandonment of his personal interest and to think only of his country and people.
- He was a towering figure in the propaganda campaign from 1882-1896
- He was a martyr at Bagumbayan where he willingly died for our country.
Aside from Rizal, the only other hero given an implied recognition as a national hero is _________ whose day of birth on November 30 has been made a national holiday.
Andres Bonifacio
On November 15, 1995, the Technical Committee after deliberation and careful study based on Dr. Onofre D. Corpuz and Dr. Alfredo Lagmay’s criteria selected the following nine Filipino historical figures to be recommended as National Heroes:
a. Jose Rizal
b. Andres Bonifacio
c. Emilio Aguinaldo
d. Apolinario Mabini
e. Marcelo H. del Pilar
f. Sultan Dipatuan Kudarat
g. Juan Luna
h. Melchora Aquino
i. Gabriela Silang
On March 28, 1993, President Fidel V. Ramos issued Executive Order No. 75 entitled _____________________________
“Creating the National Heroes Committee Under the Office of the President”
Jose Rizal was born on ______________
June 19, 1861
He was the family’s paternal ascendant was full-blooded Chinese who migrated to the Philippines from Amoy, China in the late 17th Century.
Domingo Lam-Co
There were also traces of Japanese, Spanish, Malay and some Negro ancestry in the grandmother, Domingo Lam-Co’s wife, ______________
Inez de la Rosa
It is the name throughout all the Philippines for Chinamen, signifies “traveling traders.”
Sangley
The name _________ was a name held in high honor in Laguna for it had belonged to a famous sea captain who had been given the ENCONMIENDA OF BAY for his services and had won the regard of those who paid tribute to him because of his fairness and interest in their welfare
Francisco
It was the time Jose Rizal was baptized.
June 22, 1861
He was the parish who baptized Rizal. He told them “Take good care of this child, for someday he will become a great man.”
Father Rufino Collantes
Rizal’s godfather, and close friend of the Rizal family.
Father Pedro Casanas
How many languages does Rizal know?
22
The title of Rizal’s sculpture
The Triumph of Science over Death
He was the first person to trace Rizal’s family roots and discover his Chinese ancestry
Dr. Austin Craig
Full name of Jose Rizal
Dr. Jose Protacio Rizal Mercado y Alonso Realonda
Jose was chosen by his mother who was devotee of the Christian saint, _______
San Jose
Protacio was taken from __________, who were very properly was a martyr. That a Filipino priest baptized him and a secular Archbishop confirmed him seem fitting.
St Protacio
It was the name was adapted in 1850 by authority of the Royal Decree of 1849, upon the order of Governor Narciso Claveria. It was a shortened form of Spanish word for “second crop,” seemed suited to a family of farmers who were making a second start in a new home.
Rizal
It was old surname of his mother
Alonso
It was used by Doña Teodora from the surname of her godmother based on the culture by that time
y and Realonda
Adopted in 1731 by Domigo Lamco (the paternal great-great grandfather of Jose Rizal) which the Spanish term means ‘market’ in English
Mercado
Father of Jose Rizal who was the youngest of 13 offsprings of Juan and Cirila Mercado.
Francisco Mercado Rizal
Rizal’s father was born on _______
April 18, 1818
Rizal’s father died in Manila on _______
January 5, 1898
Rizal called his father ____________
“a model of fathers”
Mother of Jose Rizal who was the second child of Lorenzo Alonso and Brijida de Quintos.
TEodora ALonso Realonda
Mother of Jose Rizal who was the second child of Lorenzo Alonso and Brijida de Quintos.
Teodora Alonso Realonda
Rizal’s mother was born in Santa Cruz, Manila on _____________
November 14, 1827
The only brother of Jose Rizal and the second child. Studied at San Jose College in Manila; became a farmer and later a general of the Philippine Revolution
Paciano Rizal
Rizal’s family belonged to the middle class known as
principalia or creoles
A poem about Rizal’s beloved town written by Rizal in 1876 when he was 15 years old and was student in the Ateneo de Manila
In Memory of My Town
Made the profoundest impression on Rizal “died a martyr to its illusions”
The Story of the Moth
Rizal’s first poem in native language at the age of eight, it reveals Rizal’s earliest nationalist sentiment
Sa Aking Mga Kabata
Who was Rizal’s first teacher?
his mother
Rizal’s first tutor
Maestro Celestino
Rizal’s second tutor
Maestro Lucas Padua
A former classmate of Rizal’s father, he lived at the Rizal home and instructed Jose in Spanish and Latin. Unfortunately, he did not live long. He died five months later
Leon Monroy
The time when Rizal needed to leave his family to study in Binan
June 1868
It is said that he was so seriously devout that he was laughingly called ______________ by the Hermanos and Hermanas Terceras
Manong Jose
One of the men he esteemed and respected in Calamba during his boyhood was the scholarly ___________, the town priest
Father Leoncio Lopez
Rizal’s devotion to the Mother and Son were further manifested when he wrote during his Ateneo days two separate religious poems. What were the titles of his poems?
To the Child Jesus and To the Virgin Mary