RLW MODULE 1

Question 1

Known as Rizal Bill

Answer 1

Senate Bill 438

Question 2

Who brought the bill to senate?

Answer 2

Senator Claro M. Recto

Question 3

Considered as one of the most controversial bills in the Philippines

Answer 3

Rizal Bill (Senate Bill 438)

Question 4

Who is the Charmain of the Comitte on Education?

Answer 4

Senator Jose B. Laurel Sr

Question 5

Who are the 3 senators headedly opposed the bill?

Answer 5

1. Senator Francisco Rodrigo
2. Senator Mariano Cuenco
3. Senator Decoroso Rosales

Question 6

Played a major role for the intervention of signing of the bill into a law

Answer 6

Catholic Church

Question 7

Submitted a pastoral letter to which according, Rizal violated Canon Law 1399 which forbids or bans books that attact or ridicule the catholic doctrine and practices

Answer 7

The Catholic Bishop Conference of the Philippines (CBCP)

Question 8

Oppositors argued that among the 333 pages of Noli Me Tangere

Answer 8

25 passages - nationalistic
120 passages - anti-catholic

Question 9

Scrutiny of the two novels by some members of catholic hierarchical

Answer 9

170 passages in Noli Me Tangere
50 in El Filibusterismo are against catholic faith

Question 10

Who defended the bill and argued that the only objective of the bill is to keep the memory of the national hero alive in every Filipino’s mind, to emanate Rizal as he peacefully fought for freedomr, and not to go against religion

Answer 10

Recto and Laurel

*Also defended by Senators:
1.Lorenso Tanada
2.Quintin Paredes
3.Domocao Alonto of Mindanao

Question 11

Who called anti-rizal bill “bigoted and intolated”

Answer 11

Mayor Arsenio Lacson

Question 12

Who are the senators ended with a fistfight in congress.

Answer 12

Ramon Durano (Cebu Representative) & Emilio Cortes (Pampanga Representative)

Question 13

Who threatened to campaign against pro-rizal bill legislators and to punish them in future elections.

Answer 13

Bishop Manuel Yap (Bacolod City)

Question 14

who threatened to close down their schools if the Rizal Bill was Passed

Answer 14

Catholic Schools Representative

Question 15

Who rejected the amendment and expressed: “The people who would eliminate the books of Rizal from the schools… would blot out from our minds the memory of the national hero… this is not a fight against Recto but a fight against Rizal… now that Rizal is dead and they can no longer attempt at his life, they are attempting to blot out his memory “

Answer 15

Claro M. Recto

Question 16

> Who created an amendment to the original bill
Other that Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, works written by Rizal and works written by others about Rizal would be included and reading of the unexpurgated revision of the two novels would no longer be compulsory to elementary and secondary levels but would be strictly observed to college
level.

Answer 16

Senator Laurel

Question 17

Who suggested the exemption to those students who feel that reading Rizal’s novels would negatively affect his or her faith?

Answer 17

Senator Lim

Question 18

Created an additional amendment that promulgates the rules and regulations in getting an exemption only from reading the two novels through written statement
or affidavit and not from taking the Rizal Course.

Answer 18

Senator Primicias

Question 19

After the revised amendments, the bill was passed on?

Answer 19

May 17, 1956

Question 20

Signed into law as Republic Act 1425 by?

Answer 20

President Ramon Magsaysay on June 12, 1956

Question 21

Is about implementing rules to educate people about the Life, Works, and Writings of our national hero Dr.Jose Riszal, especially his novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo

Answer 21

The Rizal Law

Question 22

An act to include in the curricula of all public and private schools, colleges and universities courses on the life, works and writings of Jose Rizal particularly his novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo, authorizing the printing and distribution thereof, and for other purposes

Answer 22

REPUBLIC ACT NO. 1425