Exercise002🍀
To what does each of the following refer:
1. Citygovernment during the Spanish.
2. An economic doctrine founded on the idea that wealth and power can be determined
on the basis of a country's stock of precious metals.
3. Policy implemented in Spain where the Liberals and conservatives took turn in running
the government to save the country from political disunity.
4. The power of the Spanish governor-general to decide which law or royal decree to
implement in the colony.
5. Privilege to engage and monopolize trade enjoyed by the governors in the alcadias.
6. Dominance of the friars in political, economic, and social friars in Philippine society.
7. Supreme Court in the Philippines during the Spanish regime.
8. Basic law implemented ny the Spanish Crown in the Philippines due to the non-
existence of law-making body.
9. A royal decree, which established the public school system in the Philippines in the 19th
century.
10. The ruling class of native elites in Filipino society in the 19th century.
11. The name used by the Spaniards to refer to the Filipinos to indicate their inferiority as a
race.
12. The most liberal-minded Spanish governor-general of the Philippines.
13. A poem where Rizal expressed the importance of loving one's native tongue.
14. The religious order which practically owned the town of Calamba in the 19th century.
15. A term used during those times to refer to a middle class intellectual.
Answers:
1. AYUNTAMIENTO
2. MERCANTALISM
3. SPANISH CONSERVATISM
4. ENCOMIENDA
5. INDULTO DE COMMERCIO
6. FRAILOCRACY
7. AUDIENCIA
8. LAS LEYES DE INDIAS
9. EDUCATIONAL DECREE OF 1863
10. PRINCIPALIA
11. INDIOS
12. CARLOS MARIA DELA TORRES
13. TO MY FELLOW YOUTH
14. THE HACIENDA DE CALAMBA AGRARIAN
15. ILLUSTRADOS
Exercise001🍀
In each of the following sets, one item is the cause and the other two are the effects. Select the
letter of the CAUSE in each case.
1. (A) FAILURE OF SPAIN TO CHANGE ITS COLONIAL POLICY.
(B) Seeking of civil liberties by the Filipinos.
(C) Seeking of Filipino national identity apart from Spain.
2.(A) Neglect of families and farmlands.
(B) Depopulation of the country.
(C) IMPLEMENTATION OF SPAIN'S MILITARY POLICIES.
3.(A) Lost of confidence and faith in the past&the present
(B) DISAPPEARANCE OF INDIGENOUS CULTURE.
(C) Lost of hope in the future.
4.(A) People's awakening to their sad plight.
(B) Accumulation of grievances against Spain.
(C) RACIAL PREJUDIVE AND DISCRIMINATION.
5.(A) Improved means of transportaion.
(B)Ease of movement into the island.
(C) FOSTERING OF UNITY AND EXCHANGE OF IDEAS
Exercise002🍀
Specify the following characters in Nolie Tangere:
1.Pomposity in rivalry.
2. Lack of concern in society.
3. Cacique mentality.
4. Intellectual dissatisfaction.
5. The paragon of colonial mentality.
6. Rich landlord with a social conscience.
7.The common people.
8. Liberal, European educated Filipino.
9. The Filipino womanhood.
10. The personification of wickedness among the friars.
ANSWERS
1. Dona Patrocinio
2. Sisa
3. Capitan Tiago
4. School of Master of San Diego
5. Dona Victoria
6. Don Rafael Ibarra
7. Elias
8. Juan Crisostomo Ibarra
9. Maria Clara
10. Padre Damaso
Exercise003🍀
1. Why did Rizal come up with a proposal on writing a novel about the Philippines? Why did it not
materialize?
Rizal presented a proposal on writing a novel about philippines after he noticed that the
filipinos were practically unknown and he also realize the need of Filipino to be known in
Europe. By that proposal the members were agreed in the idea but it did not materialize.
Those compatriots who were expected to collaborate on the novel did not write anything and
almost everybody wanted to write on women.
2. How did Luna's Spolarium, H. Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and E. Sue's The Wandering Jew influence
Rizal to write a novel about the Philippines and the Filipinos?
Rizal motivitated or inspired to write by Luna’s Spoliarium. For Rizal, Luna’s
canvass conveyed the predicament of the defeated and the
wretched agony of the human race. The Spoliarium was a
reflection of the spirit of the social, moral and
political life of Rizal’s time because it showed the
Filipinos under the hardship and injustices in the hand of the
tyrants. Another source of idea was the novel of Uncle Tom's Cabin, this novel
portrayed the brutalities committed by the American (Whites)
against the Negro slaves and last the conceptualizing the anti clerical novel by E.
Sue's The Wandering Jew which rizal made a great impression on it.
3. What were Rizal's basic purposes for writing the Noli Me Tangere?
According to Rizal, instead of teaching Filipinos true Catholicism, they control the government
by opposing all progress and persecuting members of the ilustrado unless they make themselves
their servile flatterers.
4. Why did he entitle his first novel, Noli Me Tangere?
He took the title from the Latin translation of John 20:17 to move his reader to respond to his
urgent call to action and cure the illness of his beloved country. and also Rizal explains that
there was once a type of cancer so terrible that the sufferer could not bear to be touched, and
the disease was thus called noli me tangere (Latin: “do not touch me”). He believed that his
homeland was similarly afflicted
5. What was Rizal's diagnosis of the Philippine society in the Noli? Was his diagnosis correct? Why or
why not?
6. Why can the Noli Me Tangere be considered a charter of Filipino nationalism?
7. How did the following react to Rizal's Noli Me Tangere:
Antonio Regidor;
Ferdinand Blumentritt
Archbishop Payo
Permanent Commission on Censorship;
Governor-General Terrero?
8. Who were the leading attackers of Rizal's Noli? What were their principal attacks on the novel? 9.
Who defended Rizal's Noli from its attackers? How did they defend Rizal and his novel?
10. What particular implication can be drawn from the attacks made on Rizal and his Noli Me Tangere?
