Rizal's Romances Flashcards
Rizal’s First Love
Segunda Katigbak (Miss K)
Invisible Letters
Leonor Valenzuela (Orang)
Rizal’s Great Love and First Engagement
Leonor Rivera (Taimis)
The Madrid Flirt
Consuelo Ortiga y Perez
Love at First Sight
O Sei San (Seiko Usui)
Contemporary Pastime
Gertrude Beckett
The Naughty Boy of Brussels
Suzanne Jacoby
A Failed Proposal
Nellie Bousted
True Love in Exile
Josephine Bracken
Rizal first fell in love at what age?
16
He courted Leonor by sending her love notes using an ____.
Invisible ink
Long Distance Relationship - Idealized but doomed love
Leonor Rivera
She died due to childbirth.
Leonor Rivera
Rizal decided to not pursue his relationship with __ due to these 2 reasons: he realized he was still engaged with Leonor and he was aware of his friend’s (Eduardo de Lete) affection for the girl and he did not want to ruin their friendship over her.
Consuelo Ortiga y Perez
This woman had a lot of suitors but chose Rizal.
Consuelo Ortiga y Perez
A 45-day relationship in Japan; tempted to settle down but realized he’d still fight for the Philippines.
O Sei San
It was an innocent pastime, not real love.
Gertrude Beckett
One of the contributing factors that led Jose to continue writing El Filibusterismo.
Suzanne Jacoby
A love triangle with Antonio Luna but Luna was then treated only as a friend.
Nellie Boustead
Jose almost married this woman when he knew Leonor Rivera’s love affair.
Nellie Boustead
Jose called her his “wife” and “dulce estranjera”
Josephine Bracken
Josephine Bracken and Jose had a child who lived for only 3 hours (premature-8 months). What was the name of the child?
Francisco
Where was the child, Francisco, buried?
Dapitan
She was a girl from Lipa, Batangas and two years junior of Rizal
Segunda Katigbak
Teenage Puppy Love
Segunda Katigbak
She was a close friend of Olympia in school at La Concordia College
Segunda Katigbak
When did Jose met Segunda Katigbak (Miss K)?
When he was accompanied by his friend, Mariano Katigbak when he visited his maternal grandmother.
Who was already engaged to be married to her townmate, Manuel Luz?
Segunda Katigbak
She is Rizal’s next door neighbor.
Leonor Valenzuela
She was the daughter of Capitan Juan and Capitana Sunday Valenzuela.
Leonor Valenzuela
She was a tall girl who carried herself with grace and elegance.
Leonor Valenzuela
She was a tall girl who carried herself with grace and elegance.
Leonor Valenzuela
The invisible ink was made from what?
Water and table salt
What technique did Rizal taught Leonor on how to read his letters?
Heat the letters over a lamp or a candle to allow the words to surface
She was Rizal’s province-mate.
Leonor Valenzuela
Jose’s cousin from Camiling and also a La Concordian (classmate of his sister Soledad)
Leonor Rivera
She was a daughter of Antonio Rivera, Rizal’s uncle in whose house he lived during his junior year in UST.
Leonor Rivera
She and Rizal eventually became engaged.
Leonor Rivera
Leonor Rivera, in her letters signed her name as ___ in order to hide their intimate relationship from her parents.
Taimis
Engaged with Rizal but married another man, Henry Kipling - a British Engineer.
Leonor Rivera
What was the reason why Leonor Rivera didn’t receive any letter from Jose?
Because all the letters Rizal sent were kept by her mother
Leonor Rivera was forced to marry her husband in 2 conditions. What are these conditions?
She will no longer play piano
Mother will stay with them
She was a daughter of a liberal minded Spanish official who once served in Manila during the Spanish era.
Consuelo Ortiga y Perez
She was a daughter of a Japanese nobleman (also a samurai) who had a brief affair with Rizal when she was 23 and Rizal was 27.
O Sei San
Rizal had the happiest 45-day interludes in his life because of who?
O Sei San
She was a blue-blooded English woman who was the oldest daughter of London church organist in whose house Rizal lodged when he went to visit London.
Gertrude Beckett
Rizal’s relationship with this woman from flirtatious friendship, eventually drifted towards a blossoming romance. Who is this woman?
Gertrude Beckett
Rizal call this woman “Gettie” and this woman calls Rizal “Pettie”
Gertrude Beckett
Rizal left this woman when he found out the this woman is falling in love with him already.
Gertrude Beckett
She was a martyr
Gertrude Beckett
A Belgian woman Jose met when he stayed with the Jacoby’s.
Suzanne Jacoby
An intellectual , sure of herself, attractive and serious with religious belief woman. Who is she?
Nellie Boustead
She’s a Protestant and wants Rizal to convertbut Rizal won’t.
Nellie Boustead
An 18 year old lady Rizal met n Dapitan.
Josephine Bracken
What was the reason why Rizal wasn’t able to marry Josephine Bracken?
Because of the church requirements (issues with the church) so they just simply lived together.
Why did Rizal named his child “Francisco”?
To honor his father
She married to a Filipino named Vicente Abad and died in Hong Kong due to tuberculosis.
Josephine Bracken
Jose Rizal and Josephine Bracken met because?
Rizal was chosen to be the eye doctor of Bracken’s father.
