Topic #2: Rizal and his Travels Flashcards
What was Rizal’s secret mission?
To observe keenly the life and culture, languages and customs, industries, commerce and government and laws of the European Nations in order to prepare himself in the mighty task of liberating of oppressed people from Spanish tyranny.
What was the name that he used while travelling?
Jose Mercado
The place that Jose Rizal docked where it reminded him of the “Talim Island with the Susong Dalaga”
Singapore
The place where Rizal described it to be a “picturesque but lonely and quiet and at the same time sad”
Southern Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
What is the capital of Ceylon
Colombo
The place where Rizal described as a “more beautiful, smart and elegant than Singapore, Point Galle and Manila”
Colombo
the person who built the Suez Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Rizal described it to be “inhospitable land but famous”
Africa
The place where Rizal described in his first impression that it was “ ugly, with dirty little inns and
inhospitable residents” but later changed his thoughts
Barcelona
The most famous street in Barcelona
Las Ramblas
The first article Rizal has written in Spain’s soil
Amor Patrio
What was Rizal’s Pen name
Laong Laan
Publisher of Diariong Tagalog
Basilio Teodoro Moran
The two courses he took when he was studying in the Unibersidad Central de Madrid
Medicine
Philosophy and Letters
The woman from Spain who fell in love with Rizal
Consuelo Ortiga y Perez
Reasons why he backed out his relationship with Consuelo
he was still engaged
his friend and co-worker was madly in love with Consuelo
A poem dedicated to Consuelo Ortiga y Perez
A La Senorita C. O. y P.
Novels that deepply affected Rizal
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The Wandering Jew
Rizal’s only Masonic Writing
“Science, Virtue and Labor”
Why was Rizal not awarded his Doctor’s Diploma in Medicine in Spain
he did not present the thesis required for graduation nor paid the fees
Where did he start writing Noli Me Tangere?
Madrid
Where did Rizal finished the last fourth of Noli Me Tangere?
Berlin, Germany
Who was Rizal’s first patient
Donya Teodora
The name Rizal was called before he came from Germany
Doctor Uliman
Why Rizal was impressed with Japan
the beauty of the country
the polite people
the simple charm of the women
very few thieves
beggars were rarely seen
The woman that Rizal met and fell in love with in Japan
Seiko Usui or “Osei-San”
The country that Rizal described as “the land of excellence of freedom but only for the whites”
United States of America
The woman that Rizal fell in love with while in London
Gertrude Beckett
The three clubs that Rizal founded while in Paris
- Kidlat Club
- Indios Bravos
- RDLM Society
The place where Jose Rizal started writing his second most famous novel
Calamba, Laguna
Misfortunes in Madrid
- Almost had a duel with Antonio Luna because of Nellie Bousted
- Rizal challenges Wenceslao Retana to a duel for his Anti-Filipino newspaper
- He lost his gold watch who had a pic of Leonor Rivera
- Rizal’s darkest winter
The place that published El Filibusterismo
Ghent, Belgium
The place where he had a successful surgical procedure
Hong Kong
