Struggles of Rizal when he started writing Noli Me Tangere

Question 1

LITERARY INFLUENCE (5)

Answer 1

• Voltaire
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Victor Hugo
• Eugène Sue
• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Question 2

Rizal wrote the first half of Noli me Tangere in __________ (in Europe) from 1884-1885 while he was studying medicine. The second half of Noli me Tangere was written from time-to-time in ________, starting February 21, 1887.

Answer 2

Madrid, Spain (1884-1885)
Germany (starting February 21, 1887)

Question 3

1885 - Pedro Paterno published his ____, a novel sub-titled Costumbres filipinas (Philippines Customs)

Answer 3

Ninay

Question 4

helped Rizal overcome self-doubt and fear

Answer 4

Saturnina Rizal-Hidalgo together with his husband Manuel Hidalgo

Question 5

Supported Rizal: Challenge in finding a publisher (5)

Answer 5

• Maximo Viola
• Jose Ma. Basa
• Mariano Ponce
• Valentin Ventura
• Graciano López Jaena

Question 6

• Rizal‘s friend from Bulacan, arrived in Berlin at the height of Rizal’s despondency and loaned him the needed funds to publish the novel
• savior of Noli
• March 21, 1887

Answer 6

Maximo Viola

Question 7

amount of money Maximo Viola loaned

Answer 7

300 pesos for 2,000 copies of the novel (Berliner Buchdruckerei-Aktiengesellschaft)

Question 8

• businessman and supporter of Filipino Nationalism
• assets confiscated

Answer 8

Jose Ma. Basa

Question 9

• close friend of Rizal
• faced persecution
• flee to HONG KONG

Answer 9

Mariano Ponce

Question 10

• close friend of Rizal
• imprisonment

Answer 10

Valentin Ventura

Question 11

• promoted “Noli Me Tangere”
• faced persecution
• Left Philippines

Answer 11

Graciano López Jaena

Question 12

Jose Rizal’s works, particularly “Noli Me Tangere,” faced relentless censorship and opposition from Spanish authorities during the colonial era. Censorship measures included ________________ (3)

Answer 12

banning, confiscating, and even burning copies of his works.

Question 13

Msgr. Pedro Payo (a Dominican) sent a copy of Noli to _____________ of the University of Sto. Tomas for examination by a committee of the faculty.

The report of the faculty members of University of Santo Tomas stated that the Noli was ―heretical, impious, and scandalous in the religious order and anti-patriotic, subversive of public order, injurious to the government of Spain and its function in the Philippine Islands in the political order.

Answer 13

Father Rector Gregorio Echavarria

Question 14

a committee composed of priest and laymen

Answer 14

Permanent Commission of Censorship

Question 15

Augustinian cura of Tondo, head of the committee -found the novel to contain subversive ideas against the Church and Spain, and recommended ―that the importation, reproduction, and circulation of this pernicious book in the islands be absolutely prohibited.

Answer 15

Fr. Salvador Font

Question 16

• a satirical work as a reply to another slanderer, Fr. Salvador Font, who masterminded the banning of his Noli, in the fall of 1889
• it was published in booklet form in Barcelona, 1889, this satirical pamphlet under the authorship of ___________
• is a witty satire that ridicules Father Font.

Answer 16

Por Telefono
Dimasalang

Question 17

Augustinian priest, published a series of eight pamphlets under the general heading Cuestiones de Sumo Interes (Questions of Supreme Interest) to blast the Noli and other anti-Spanish writings

Answer 17

Fr. Jose Rodriguez

Question 18

‘whoever reads the Noli novel will commit a mortal sin.’

Answer 18

“Caiingat Cayo”

Question 19

Spanish academician of Madrid, who formerly criticized the Noli in an article published in La Espańa Moderna (a newspaper of Madrid) in January, 1890

Answer 19

Vicente Barrantes

Question 20

• a Filipino Catholic priest-scholar, a theologian of the Manila Cathedral and a Tagalog translator of the famous Imitation of Christ by Thomas A. Kempis
• -writing under the penname _____________, wrote a defense of the Noli which was
  published in Singapore as an appendix to a
  pamphlet dated July 18, 1888, he blasted the arguments of Fr. Rodriguez

Answer 20

• Reverend Fr. Vicente Garcia
• Justo Desiderio Magalang