TRUE OR FALSE

Question 1

1. History is the study of the past?

Answer 1

• TRUE

Question 2

2. Historical sources that were not written should not be used in writing history.

Answer 2

• FALSE

Question 3

3. The subject of historiography is history itself.

Answer 3

• TRUE

Question 4

4. History has no use for the present, thus, the saying “past is past” is true.

Answer 4

• FALSE

Question 5

5. Only the primary source may be used in writing history.

Answer 5

• FALSE

Question 6

6. History is limited to the story of a hero versus a villain.

Answer 6

• FALSE

Question 7

7. There are three types of sources: primary, secondary, and tertiary sources.

Answer 7

• TRUE

Question 7

8. External criticism is done by examining the physical characteristics of a source.

Answer 7

• TRUE

Question 7

9. ## Internal criticism is done by looking at a source’s quality of paper and type of ink, among others.

Answer 7

FALSE

Question 7

10. The historians are the only source of history.

Answer 7

• FALSE

Question 7

1. Non-written documents are not useful as primary sources in conducting historical research.

Answer 7

• TRUE

Question 8

2. The assassination of Ninoy Aquino is an important historical event that fueled people’s anger and condemnation of the dictator Ferdinand Marcos.

Answer 8

• TRUE

Question 9

3. Apolinario Mabini penned the “Kartilya ng Katipunan.”

Answer 9

• FALSE

Question 10

4. Magellan and his fleet received a warm welcome from all of the chieftains and local leaders in the Philippine Islands.

Answer 10

• TRUE

Question 11

5. ## The Americans radically altered the social structure in the Philippines after they took over from Spain in terms of socioeconomic equality.

Answer 11

TRUE

Question 12

6. The “Proclamation of Philippine Independence” reflects the social and economic discontent of the masses about land ownership and other agrarian issues.

Answer 12

• FALSE

Question 13

7. ## The enmity between Aguinaldo and Bonifacio did not affect how the former’s revolutionary government credited Bonifacio to the beginnings of the Philippine Revolution.

Answer 13

FALSE

Question 14

8. Corazon Aquino did not want to forge alliance with the United States because the latter was a known important ally of Marcos.

Answer 14

• FALSE

Question 15

9. The conservative attitude of the youth toward sexuality did not change since the Spanish period until the 1930s.

Answer 15

• TRUE

Question 16

10. The forces of Magellan were successful in defeating and conquering Lapulapu.

Answer 16

• FALSE

Question 16

1. Historical interpretation is based on the historian’s judgement on how the past should be seen.

Answer 16

• TRUE

Question 17

2. We make sense of the past through historical interpretation.

Answer 17

• TRUE

Question 18

3. Multiperspectivity is a quality of historical writing attributed to a variety of lenses that may be used to view the past.

Answer 18

• TRUE

Question 18

4. There is only one account of the first catholic mass in the Philippines.

Answer 18

• FALSE

Question 19

6. The Cavite Mutiny is an event that led to the execution of the GOMBURZA.

Answer 19

• TRUE

Question 19

5. The significance of the martyrdom of the GOMBURZA is questioned by historians.

Answer 19

• FALSE

Question 20

7. Jose Rizal’s essays go against the catholic faith.

Answer 20

• TRUE

Question 21

8. There is no doubt that Rizal retracted his writings to be able to marry Josephine Bracken.

Answer 21

• FALSE

Question 22

9. The Cry of the Rebellion happened in present-day Quezon City.

Answer 22

• FALSE

Question 23

10. The site of the monument to the heroes of 1896 was chosen because this is the actual place where the Cry of the Rebellion happened.

Answer 23

• FALSE