Noli Me Tangere Flashcards
Crisostomo Ibarra’s great-grandfather was ____________________, an old, sunken-eyed Basque, who spoke Tagalog well in his deep, hollow voice.
Don Pedro Eibarramendia
He is the husband of Dona Victorina. He was introduced as one of the invited guests of Capitan Tiago in the latter’s welcome party for Juan Crisostomo Ibarra.
Don Tiburcio de Espadana
He was known for charging exorbitant fees for his medical treatment.
Don Tiburcio de Espadana
True or False
Don Tiburcio was a high rank official in the Customs before he moved to the Philippines.
FALSE – Don Tiburcio was initially a low rank official in the Customs.
_________________ is a caricature of ignorant Spaniards who wreaked havoc in the provinces during the colonial era. His countrymen condone his actions for they do not want him to become a burden to them.
Don Tiburcio
He has a secret admiration for Maria Clara. In the later part of the story, he and Padre Damaso devised a plan to break Ibarra and Maria Clara apart.
Padre Salvi
____________ symbolizes the lecherous friars in Rizal’s time.
Padre Salvi
In Chapter 15, he was introduced alongside his brother.
Crispin
Her adulation of the Spaniards leads her to imitate the very actions and attitudes of the Spanish women.
Donya Consolacion
She symbolizes the Filipinos in society who are ashamed of their race and nationality.
Donya Consolacion
__________ represents the innocents who have been wrongly accused of the crime they did not commit. The injustices they suffered under the hands of the authorities during their time were silenced by their deaths and the cover-ups that follow it.
Crispin
He is a sacristan who had been accused of stealing two gold pieces by the senior sacristan. Although he had implored his older brother to pay for the said amount, the latter refuses as their mother would have nothing to eat.
Crispin
He was last seen being dragged away from his brother after the pealing bells. When the mother visited him, he is said to have run away.
Crispin
Sisa’s 10-year old son.
Basilio
Tasyo of the characters in the novel that Rizal can relate to, as the former patterned after _________________________.
the latter’s oldest brother, Paciano Rizal
He symbolizes the learned Filipinos who had once embraced the culture of the Spanish regime. They eventually become disenchanted when they return to the Philippines and observe the stark contrast their countrymen receive from their colonizers. The more they turn to learning, the more they become eccentric to the masses they seek to enlighten.
Pilosopong Tasyo
True or False
At the end of the novel, Elias wished Crispin to bury him by burning in exchange for a chest of gold located on his death ground. He will later play a major role in El Filibusterismo.
False – because it was Basilio, not Crispin.
An acolyte tasked to ring the church bells for the Angelus. He faced the dread of losing his younger brother and the descent of his mother into insanity.
Basilio
___________ symbolizes the learned Filipinos who had once embraced the culture of the Spanish regime. They eventually become disenchanted when they return to the Philippines and observe the stark contrast their countrymen receive from their colonizers. The more they turn to learning, the more they become eccentric to the masses they seek to enlighten.
Tasyo
Known by his Filipinized name Pilosopo Tasyo, is another major character in the story. Seeking reforms from the government, he expressed his ideals in paper written in a cryptographic alphabet similar to hieroglyphs and Coptic figures hoping “that the future generations may be able to decipher it” and realized the abuse and oppression done by the conquerors.
Filosofo Tacio
He came from a rich family. He is often the pessimist and is untrusting of human altruism. He also does not believe in the religious fanaticism that was in vogue during his time.
Pilosopong Tasyo
Damaso Verdolagas, or _______________ is a Franciscan friar and the former parish curate of San Diego.
Padre Damaso
He is best known as a notorious character who speaks with harsh words and has been a cruel priest during his stay in the town.
Padre Damaso
He is the real father of Maria Clara and an enemy of Crisostomo’s father.
Padre Damaso
At the end of the novel, he is again re-assigned to a distant town and was found dead one day.
Padre Damaso
He symbolizes the Spanish friars of Rizal’s time and is a comment on the Spanish control of the Philippines.
Padre Damaso
She is an ambitious Filipina who classifies herself as a Spanish and mimics Spanish ladies by putting on heavy make-up.
Donya Victorina (Dona Victorina de los Reyes de Espadana)
The novel narrates her younger days: she had lots of admirers, but she did not choose any of them because nobody was a Spaniard. Later on, she met and married Don Tiburcio de Espadana, an official of the customs bureau who is about ten years her junior. However, their marriage is childless.
Donya Victorina (Dona Victorina de los Reyes de Espadana)
As one of the lesser evils in the novel, she symbolizes those who have a distorted view of their identity. Everything that is indigenous is inferior and everything foreign is superior. It is the comedic form of “colonial mentality.”
Donya Victorina (Dona Victorina de los Reyes de Espadana)
She is the typical native wife. She endures her husband’s beatings and irresponsibility. She had been stripped of her few jewels by her husband, Pedro, an inveterate gambler. Despite the abuse, she considers him her god.
Sisa (Narcisa)
She was described as a mother who considers her sons her only treasure. She would often anticipate when they return home as she would prepare their favorite dishes. She remembers each son’s features and when alone, remembers moments when her sons were with her.
Sisa (Narcisa)
She represented the motherland who was suffering as her character had suffered with the loss of her children. The tragic events that ruined her life represented the abuse that the motherland received from her colonizers.
Sisa (Narcisa)
He is a former boatman who became one of the most wanted criminals in San Diego. He distrusts human judgment and prefers God’s justice instead.
Elias
He is acquainted with the tulisanes and other crooks, which he uses to his advantage in discerning the troubles of the town.
Elias
He represents the common Filipino who is not only aware of the injustices done to their countrymen but would also like to deliver them from their oppressors. He is said to be the personification of Andres Bonifacio.
Elias
He used to have an affluent life with his twin sister.
Elias
He prefers revolution over the reforms that Ibarra has been inclined to believe in.
Elias
_____________ symbolizes the purity and innocence of a sheltered native woman during the time of Spanish occupation. She does not value material things that were abundantly bestowed upon her by admirers and family alike but holds in high esteem her parents’ honor and the promise she had given to her sweetheart.
Maria Clara
She portrayed the ideal woman during her time. She does not impose her will except when she refuses to be married off to Linares.
Maria Clara
Like the real life Leonor, she plays the piano and the harp and has a sweet voice. She was portrayed as a faithful sweetheart, a good friend, and an obedient daughter.
Maria Clara
Her father is Capitan Tiago. She often wore dainty dresses and religious artifacts. She also carries a silk pouch which holds Ibarra’s farewell letter.
Maria Clara
Maria Clara’s character is related to Rizal’s childhood sweetheart, ________________.
Leonor Rivera
In the novel, it is said that ___________ is the richest man in the region of Binondo and he possessed real properties in Pampanga and Laguna de Bay. He is also said to be a good Catholic, friend of the Spanish government, and was considered as a Spanish by colonialists.
Capitan Tiago
________________________, known by his nickname Tiago and political name Capitan Tiago, is a Filipino businessman and the cabeza de barangay or head of barangay of the town of San Diego. He is also the known father of Maria Clara.
Don Santiago de los Santos
He is a rich native-born Filipino who rubbed elbows with the powers that be during that time. He symbolizes the rich Filipinos who oppress their fellow countrymen in exchange for the influence and the riches that they might gain from their powerful associations.
Capitan Tiago
TRUE OR FALSE
Capitan Tiago never attended school, so he became a domestic helper of a Dominican friar who taught him informal education.
TRUE`
He is depicted as one of the Filipinos who managed to finish their studies abroad. He had been living abroad for seven years. Unlike his countrymen, he has a liberal mind, outspoken, and idealistic.
Crisostomo Ibarra
His grandfather was _________________, a Spanish mestizo who settled in San Diego and devoted his quiet but cruel disposition, he managed to secure his father’s tomb in the old balete tree but rarely visited it. His son, Don Rafael, pursued agriculture and encouraged their neighbors to do so.
Don Saturnina
He exemplified the vision that Jose Rizal had aimed for the youth of the Philippines during his time. Others attribute Ibarra as Rizal’s reflection of himself.
Crisostomo Ibarra
Intellectual Background of Rizal
Jose Rizal was born in the ____________ →
His education in Ateneo de Municipal de Manila, _____________, and Universidad Central de Madrid influenced Rizal. →
The intellectual atmosphere in which Rizal found himself in late 19th century Europe helped him to set the parameters, characterization, personification, and flow of the story in his novels.
mid-19th century; University of Santo Tomas;
TRUE OR FALSE
During a meeting in the house of Pedro Paterno in Madrid January 4, 1884, an idea of writing a novel was hatched.
TRUE
In the foreword of the novel, Rizal warned about a ______________ that is afflicting Philippine society.
social cancer
The novel aims to unite the Filipinos by opening their eyes to the existing social and economic realities.
Noli Me Tangere
Rizal, on his part, wrote the Noli Me Tangere, which was inspired by __________________ by Harriet Beecher Stowe which was about the cruelty of American slave-owners.
Aside from American slave owners, there were blacks who were subservient to their white owners. These are the uncle Toms referred to in Stowe’s novel. Although they, themselves, were oppressed, they remained faithful to their white slave owners.
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
In looking for a title, Rizal borrowed from the gospel of ______________________________.
St. John Chapter 20 Verses 13 to 17
Noli Me Tangere in Latin means ___________________ in which Mary Magdalene encountered the newly risen Jesus Christ. Overjoyed in seeing her lord alive and risen, Mary Magdalene tried to hug Chris but the latter told her not to touch him as he had not yet gone to his Father.
“Touch Me Not”
TRUE OR FALSE
The proposal of writing a novel was rejected by those present such as Graciano Lopez-Jaena, Antonio Paterno, Evaristo Aguirre, Eduardo de Lete, Julio Llorente, and Valentin Ventura.
FALSE – because the proposal was welcomed by those present such as Graciano Lopez-Jaena, Antonio Paterno, Evaristo Aguirre, Eduardo de Lete, Julio Llorente, and Valentin Ventura.
________________ – The novel begins with a lamay or way of a woman who had died of a broken heart through cholera, a more scientific reason for the cause of her death. The book describes customs, which began with the lamay. The woman’s death remantled the plot of the novel and made a ______________ the villain in the novel rather than a Spaniard.
Ninay; Portuguese
TRUE OR FALSE
Rizal decided to do the project alone.
TRUE
His host _________________ also decided to do it alone resulting in the writing and publication of Ninay which was considered the first Filipino novel.
Pedro Paterno
Cover of the Novel and its Symbolisms:
Cross – __________
sufferings
Cover of the Novel and its Symbolisms:
Pomelo Blossoms & Laurel Leaves – ____________________
honor and fidelity
Cover of the Novel and its Symbolisms:
Silhouette of a Filipina – ___________
Maria Clara
Cover of the Novel and its Symbolisms:
Burning Torch – ______________
rage and passion
Cover of the Novel and its Symbolisms:
Sunflowers – _____________
enlightenment
Cover of the Novel and its Symbolisms:
Bamboo Stalks – _____________
resilience
Cover of the Novel and its Symbolisms:
Man with Hairy Feet – ____________________
priests using religion in a dirty water
Cover of the Novel and its Symbolisms:
Chains – _________
slavery
Cover of the Novel and its Symbolisms:
Whips – ___________
cruelties
Cover of the Novel and its Symbolisms:
Helmet of the Guardia Civil
Arrogance of those in authority.
TRUE OR FALSE
It was decided that the novel will discuss aspects of life in the Philippines.
TRUE
The Characters, Interpretations and Symbols
[…] “________________ was considered one of the most hospitable of men, and it was well known that his house, like his country, shut its doors against nothing except commerce and all new or bold ideas.”
Capitan Tiago
“Moreover, if the comparison with the Ship of State is not yet complete, note the arrangement of the passengers. On the _____________ appear brown faces and black heads, types of Indians, 1 Chinese, and mestizos, wedged in between bales of merchandise and boxes, while there on the _______________, beneath an awning that protects them from the sun, are seated in comfortable chairs a few passengers dressed in the fashion of Europeans, friars, and government clergies, and gazing at the landscape apparently without heading the efforts of the captain and the sailors to overcome the obstacles in the river.”
lower deck; upper deck
Diagonally across the cover are the words “___________________”
Noli Me Tangere.
In the cover of Noli, it shows a silhouette of a __________ on the upper left but the feet and shoes of the __________ at the lower left.
woman; friar
TRUE OR FALSE
There is a maze on the left-hand side of the cover, which culminates with a flame at the top. And if one follows the path of the maze, it will lead to the flame.
FALSE– because if one follows the path of the maze, it does not lead to the flame.
The blackened cross is surrounded by thorns which brings a message that religion or anything religious ______________ or she will be impaled by the thorns.
cannot be touched
There is also a clump of bamboo, which symbolizes the ___________. Bamboos are pliant and would not break unless there is a very strong wind.
Filipino people
TRUE OR FALSE
The sunflower in the cover of Noli symbolizes the Filipinos who are fixated on the Spaniards. The sunflowers always follow the sun wherever it goes.
TRUE
At the lower right of the cover are the drawings of the __________ and __________ used by the Guardia Civil used in terrorizing and oppressing the Filipinos.
helmet; whip
Finally, there was the signature of Rizal himself. The letter L is so stretched that it forms a _________________________.
whip used by the Guardia Civil
The story of the Noli Me Tangere starts with a party held in the house of _____________________ in the town of San Diego.
Kapitan Santiago de los Reyes (Tiago)
TRUE OR FALSE
The younger son of the accused bookkeeper became a trusted employee of a rich man in Tayabas. He fell in love with his master’s daughter who gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl. This boy was Ibarra.
FALSE – This boy was Elias
TRUE OR FALSE
Present in the party to welcome Ibarra were friars led by the town curate, Fr. Salvi.
FALSE – because the town curate is Fr. Damaso Verdolagas.
Through the sympathetic town official named _________________, Ibarra learned about the circumstances regarding the death of his father, Don Rafael Ibarra who died while he was in Europe.
Capitan Guevarra
TRUE OR FALSE
Don Rafael’s remains were buried in the Catholic cemetery but a friar ordered the gravediggers to exhume the corpse and transfer it to the cemetery for the Chinese.
TRUE
TRUE OR FALSE
Ibarra was able to see the grave of his father.
FALSE – because Ibarra was never able to see the grave of his father.
Since Ibarra was not able to see his father’s grave left the cemetery greatly saddened and on the way, he met a friar, _________. Thinking it was this friar who had a hand in desecrating his father’s corpse, Ibarra confronted him but he revealed it was Padre Damaso.
Padre Salvi;
TRUE OR FALSE
Instead of revenge, Ibarra sponsors the construction of a school building out of his own funds.
TRUE
During the construction of the school, the would-be assassin was instead crushed to death and Ibarra was saved by a mysterious man named __________.
Elias
TRUE OR FALSE
In the evening of the same day, Ibarra had dinner in the house of Kapitan Tiago where Fr. Salvi continued to slander the memory of Ibarra’s father.
FALSE – Fr. Damaso continued to slander the memory of Ibarra’s father.
TRUE OR FALSE
In the evening of the same day, Ibarra had dinner in the house of Kapitan Tiago where Fr. Salvi continued to slander the memory of Ibarra’s father.
FALSE – Fr. Damaso continued to slander the memory of Ibarra’s father.
Ibarra was about to plunge the knife into Friar’s chest when he was stopped by ______________ who begged him to stop her for her own sake.
Maria Clara
For laying violent hands on Fr. Damaso, Ibarra found himself _________________ and his engagement to Maria Clara broken.
excommunicated
Meanwhile, the __________________ (a close friend of Ibarra) happened to visit San Diego and learned about the incident.
Governor General
TRUE OR FALSE
Maria Clara, on the other hand, suffered a strange illness.
TRUE
____________ was a native Indian or native who believed that by marrying Don Tiburcio, a cripple man with doubtful qualifications, but a Spaniard nevertheless, she would also become a Spaniard.
Dona Victorina
Dona Victorina convinced Kapitan Tiago to have Ibarra replaced as Maria Clara’s fiancée with the nephew of her husband, _____________.
Don Alfonso Linares
__________ was a wealthy and beautiful woman who married a man who turned out to be a good for nothing husband, a gambler and a drunkard.
Sisa
__________ and __________ were forced to work for the local church as bell ringers.
Basilio; Crispin
TRUE OR FALSE
Padre Damaso had Sisa arrested by the Guardia Civil.
FALSE – it was the Sacristan Mayor
The story of Elias began sixty years before as Elias’ grandfather who was a ____________________ was accused of burning down the company warehouse.
The elder son became a notorious bandit named __________.
young bookkeeper; Balat
MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE
1: Ibarra did not forgave Maria Clara for having his letter, which were used as evidence against him.
2: Maria Clara revealed that his letters were exchanged for the one from her late mother Dona Pia Alba. Her real father, she learned, was not Kapitan Tiago, but Fr. Damaso.
FIRST STATEMENT IS FALSE (Because Ibarra forgave Maria Clara) AND SECOND STATEMENT IS TRUE.
Ibarra returned to the boat with Elias and as the boat left the Pasig River and into the ____________, they were spotted by the boat land of Guardia Civil.
Elias had Ibarra hidden the ___________ carried on the boat and tried to elude pursuers who were coming ever closer.
Laguna de Bay; zacate grass
To create a diversion, __________ jumped into the lake and swam beneath the surface of the water. He would come up only to gasp for air. While trying to get some air, a bullet hit him. He sank and the water turned red with blood.
Elias
Basilio tried to seek revenge for Crispin. But he was overpowered by the Sacristan Mayor, Basilio was dragged into a river. A family found him and nursed him. Who is this family?
Tandang Selo and Kapitan Tales’ family
MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE
Upon seeing Basilio, Sisa thought he had seen a ghost and ran towards the mausoleum. Basilio became unconscious when he fell climbing the walls of the mausoleum.
BOTH STATEMENTS TRUE
Elias instructed __________ to go to a certain spot in the mausoleum where there was plenty of firewood.
Basilio
He told Basilio to burn his body and that of Sisa and afterwards he pointed to a part of the mausoleum and dug there. He said that there are treasures hidden in that place.
Elias
As Basilio went to get the firewood, the dying __________ murmured that he was going to die without ever seeing the dawn brighten over his native land.
Elias
MODIFIED TRUE OR FALSE
It was then Sisa recovered her sanity. A few moments later, she died while Basilio awakened to find his mother had just died.
BOTH STATEMENT ARE TRUE
The intellectual atmosphere in which Rizal found himself in late 19th century Europe helped him to set the parameters, characterization, personification, and flow of the story in his novels.
The Novels in Context
Noli Me Tangere 1887 (where)
El Filibusterismo 1891 Ghent, Belgium
Berlin, Germany
The Novels in Context
El Filibusterismo 1891 (where)
Ghent, Belgium
According to Rizal, “The incidents I relate are __________ and they __________; I can give proof of them. My book will have, and it has, defects from the artistic and aesthetic point of view. I do not deny it; but what cannot be questioned is the impartiality of my narration.”
all true; happened
