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MIDTERM EXAMINATION IN THE LIFE AND WORKS OF JOSE RIZAL

(GE 09)

Permit Number: ______________________________

Name: ______________________________ Score: _______________
Year and Section: ______________________________ Date: ________________

General Instruction: Read and understand each direction carefully, failure to comply with
the instructions will automatically make your answers wrong. Write legibly, questions shall be
raised only to your proctor, and erasures mean wrong.

Test I. Multiple choice: Encircle the letter of the best answer.

1. He is the proponent of the Rizal Bill who was dubbed as a communist and anti-Catholic.
a. Senator Ralph Recto c. Senator Claro M. Recto
b. Senator Chiz Escudero d. Senator Antonio Trillanes

2. An act prohibiting cockfighting, horse racing, and jai-alai on the 30 th day of December of
each year and to create a committee to take charge of the proper celebration of Rizal Day
is every municipality and chartered city and any other purposes.

a. Republic Act No. 9163 c. Republic Act No. 7394

b. Republic Act No. 229 d. Republic Act No. 9147

3. The date the Rizal bill was enacted.

a. June 12, 1956 c. December 30,1956
b. June 1, 1956 d. December 19, 1956

4. The former Philippine president who directed the Secretary of Education, Culture and
Sports and the Chairman of the Commission on Higher Education to fully implement the
RA 1425.

a. Elpidio Quirino c. Fidel V. Ramos

b. Gloria Macapagal Arroyo d. Joseph Estrada

5. In this year, CHED Memorandum No. 3 was issued enforcing strict compliance to
Memorandum Order No. 247.
a. 2006 c. 1978
b. 1979 d. 1995

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6. The bill involves mandating educational institutions in the country to offer a course on
the hero’s life, works and writings, especially the Noli Me Tangere and El
Filibusterismo.

a. Post no Bill c. one-hundred-peso bill

b. Rizal Bill d. Laurel Bill

7. This refers to discerning, evaluative and analytical thinking.

a. Psychology c. Schizophrenia
b. Critical Thinking d. Logic

8. The Filipina beauty queen who is a descendant of Rizal’s sister, Maria.

a. Margie Moran c. Gloria Diaz
b. Janine Togonon d. Gemma Cruz Araneta

9. Jose Rizal’s common-law wife.

a. Josephine Bracken c. Segunda Katigbak
b. Suzanne Jacoby d. Leonor Rivera

10. He retrieved the original manuscripts of Rizal’s novel without paying even a single
centavo.
a. Ferdinand Blumentritt c. Jose Pardo De Tavera
b. Antonio Luna d. Alejandro Roses
11. Jose Rizal's sister who served as the mediator between the teenage lovers, Rizal and
Segunda
a. Saturnina c. Olympia
b. Narcisa d. Soledad

12. The educated and highly cultured woman from Sta. Cruz, Manila also known as Lolay.
a. Ines De La Rosa c. Bernarda Monicha
b. Teodora Alonzo d. Doña Consolacion

13. The birthplace of Rizal, which was h derived from "kalan-banga: meaning "clay stove"
(kalan) and "water jar" (banga).
a. Los Baños c. Bay
b. Calamba d. Biñan
14. He was a classmate of Don Francisco who lived at the Rizal home to be a tutor of
Spanish and Latin.
a. Leon Monroy c. Justiniano Cruz
b. Maestro Celestino d. Maestro Lucas Padua

15. Rizal mournfully wept when she died of sickness in 1865.

a. Concha c. Olympia

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b. Narcisa d. Maria
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16. The uncle who taught Rizal painting, sketching, and sculpture.
a. Tio Jose Alberto c. Tio Manuel
b. Tio Gregorio d. Tio Filo
17. The Catholic town priest in Calamba who was esteemed and respected by Rizal.
a. Francisco Paula De Sanchez c. Leoncio Lopez
b. Fr. Villa Clara d. Rufino Collantes
18. The sister of Rizal who became the custodian of his last and greatest poem.
a. Concha c. Saturnina
b. Trinidad d. Olympia

19. Her husband died during the cholera epidemic in May 1889.
a. Trinidad c. Saturnina
b. Lucia d. Soledad

20. The Sister with whom the hero talks about wanting to marry Josephine Bracken.
a. Maria c. Trinidad
b. Soledad d. Narcisa
21. He is a friend of Rizal who informed him that the revolution-ridden Cuba was raged by a
yellow-fever epidemic in 1895.
a. Pio Valenzuela c. Governor – General Ramon
Blanco
b. Ferdinand Blumentritt d. Matias Arrieta
22. He is the Katipunan leader who sent an emissary to Rizal in Dapitan.
a. Emilio Jacinto c. Marcelo. H. del Pilar
b. Juan Luna d. Andres Bonifacio
23. This is the amount of the prize won by the Manila Lottery ticket no. 9736, which was
jointly owned by Rizal, Carnicero, and a Spanish resident of Dipolog.
a. P 20,000 c. P 5,000
b. P 50,000 d. P 17,000
24. He is the commandant who became Rizal's friend during his exile in Dapitan.
a. Francisco de Paula Sanchez c. Ricardo Carnicero
b. Kapitan Tiago d. Pablo Pastells
25. The year Rizal founded the school in Dapitan which yielded 20 pupils before he left
a.1896 c. 1892
b.1894 d 1893
26. He is Rizal's favorite teacher in Ateneo and the priest assigned by the Jesuit Order to
Dapitan with whom he had cordial religious discussions.
a. Pio Valenzuela c. Francisco de Paula Sanchez
b. Pablo Pastells d. Pablo Mercado

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27. She is the orphan with Irish blood and the stepdaughter of Jose's patient from Hong
Kong.
a. Josephine Bracken c. Narcisa
b. Leonor Rivera d. Orang Valenzuela
28. He is the doctor sent by Andres Bonifacio to Dapitan to inform Rizal about
Katipunan.
a. Matias Arrieta c. Pio Valenzuela
b. Ricardo Carnicero d. Reinhold Rost
29. He is a European academician and philologist friend of Rizal in London.
a. Doctor Reinhold Rost c. Ferdinand Blumentritt
b. Juan Luna d. Pablo Mercado
30. He is the scientist in Dresden, Europe to whom Rizal sent various biological
specimens.
a. Florencio Nanaman c. Doctor Reinhold Rost
B. Pio Valenzuela d. Adolph Meyer
31. The Japanese novelist and human rights fighter Rizal befriended onboard the "Belgic" in
April 1888.

a. Tetcho Suehiro c. Hiro Mûramoto

b. Jiro Yamashita d. Akihiro Matsunaga

32. The venue of the meeting in which Rizal explained the aims of the civic association La
Liga Filipina

a. House of Apolinario Mabini c.House of Governor-General Eulogio

Despujol

b.Dr. Lorenzo P. Marques d. House of Doroteo Ongjunco

33. Rizal formed this temporary social club which brought together witnessing the
exposition.

a. Glee Club c. Science Club

b. Kidlat Club d. Unity Club

34. Rizal lived in the Spanish legation in Tokyo upon his invitation.

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b. Ambrosio Salvador d. Juan Perez Caballero

35. This is where Rizal revised and prepared for printing his second novel.

a. Madrid c. Paris

b. Brussels d. Barcelona

36. The publisher that agreed to print the El Fili on an installment basis

a. F. Meyer-Van Loo c. Silvestre Ubaldo

b. Valentine Venture d. Lorenzo Marques

37. Rizal's friend who helped him to have many patrons for his medical clinic in Hong Kong

a. Jose Basa c. Dr. Lorenzo P. Marques

b. Maximo Viola d. Wenceslao Retana

38. The man who described our national hero as "a pearl of a man" (una Perla de hombre).

a. Ferdinand Blumentritt c. Dr. Reinhold Rost

b. Henry Kipping d. Crisostomo Ibarra

39. The country where Rizal met Marcelo H. del Pilar for the first time

a. Singapore c. France

b. China d. Spain

40. Rizal manually copied and annotated this rare book, which is available in the British
Museum.

a. Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas c. Noli Me Tangere

b. Count of Monte Cristo d. El Filibusterismo

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II A. Identification: Identify the term/s being referred to.

_______________________1. It is the constitution instituting the principles of universal male
suffrage. national sovereignty, constitutional monarchy, and
freedom of the press, and advocating land reform and free
enterprise.
_______________________2. A worldview founded on ideas of freedom and equality
_______________________3. This is commonly depicted as the birth of modern life, CIS well as
the birth of many nation-states around the globe.
_______________________4. The ship trade going back and forth between Manila and Acapulco
Mexico
_______________________5. The qualified system of tenancy, or the right to use land in
exchange for rent
_______________________6. It is the year the Spanish government closed the ports of Manila to
all countries except Mexico.
_______________________7. He is the Governor General who called for an election of Manila
officials, which resulted in the selection of Don Ventura de los
Reyes, a wealthy merchant and member of the Royal Corps of
Artillery of Manila, as the deputy.
_______________________8. He is the son of poor Ilocano parents who took part in the Ilocos
revolt led by Diego Silang in 1762, but later on engaged in the
vegetable and indigo business.
_______________________9. The king who declared the Cadiz Constitution restored absolutism.

_______________________10. The policy changes advocated by the Spanish Bourbon King Philip
V, Ferdinand VL Charles Ill, and Charles IV to reform and modify
the Spanish empire.
_______________________11. This place became the trading hub where China, India, Japan, and
Southeast Asian countries sent their goods to be consolidated for
shipping.

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_______________________12. They played the role of agents who could distribute imports in the
interior and buy up goods for export during the development of the
export crop industry in the Philippines.
_______________________13. This monopoly was established in the Philippines by Governor-
General Jose Basco in 1782 by placing it under government
control.
_______________________14. The mandated Spanish authorities in the Philippines to educate the
locals, to teach them how to read and write, and to learn Spanish.
_______________________15. The strict discipline used by Spanish friars for the locals to learn
fast.
_______________________16. He was the most prominent of the Illustrados who inspired the
craving for freedom and independence with his novels written in
Spanish.
_______________________17. The people to whom inquilinos sub-lease some parcels of land
because of the increase in the proportions of farmlands.
_______________________18. This started a political revolution in Europe and consequently in
some other parts of the globe.
_______________________19. The liberal and democratic governance of this general had provided
Jose Rizal and the others a preview of a
_______________________20. They were highly respected in their respective pueblos or towns,
though regarded as filibusteros or rebels by the friars.

II B. Identification: Identify the best answer by choosing from the box.

Alipato To My Fellow Children College of Sta.

Rosa

Tiniente Kiko Narcisa Usman

Maria Leon Monroy Paciano

Pepe Concha Andres Salandanan

My Retreat Maestro Celestino Justiniano Cruz

casco Rizal

_____________________1. The reticent but vigorous gentleman from whom Jose inherited
his "free soul"
_____________________2. The flat-bottomed boat with a roof, which Rizal and his father
rode on their way to a pilgrimage in Antipolo.

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She helped in financing Rizal's studies in Europe, even pawning
her jewelry and peddling her clothes if needed.
_____________________4. Rizal had an arm-wrestling match with this classmate after class.
_____________________5. The esteemed school for girls in Manila where Dona Lolay was
educated
_____________________6. The sister with whom the hero talked about wanting to marry
Josephine Bracken
_____________________7. Rizal's father gifted him with this pony, which he loved to ride or
take long walks in the meadows and lakeshore with his black dog.
_____________________8. The maestro in a private school in Bifian where Rizal was brought
by Paciano
_____________________9. The surname suggested by a provincial governor, which caused
confusion in the commercial affairs of the family
_____________________10. The poem, which was previously believed to be Rizal's first
written poem at the age of eight.

VISION
The NEUST is a locally responsive and internationally relevant and recognized
University of Science and Technology

MISSION
To develop new knowledge and technologies and transform human resources into
productive citizenry to bring about development impact to local and international
communities.

Prepared by:

DANILO D. PASTORFIDE, MPA, LPT

March, 2020

Noted by:

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PROF. JENNIFER G. FRONDA, Ph.D.

AREA CHAIR, BSBA

Approved by:

PROF. MARILOU P. PASCUAL, Ph.D.

DEAN, CMBT

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Part I: MULTIPLE CHOICE. ENCIRCLE the letter of the correct answer.

Part II: TRUE OR FALSE: Write TRUE before the number if the statement is correct and
FALSE if incorrect.

Prepared by:

ALVIN GINO M. BAUTISTA, MBA

INSTRUCTOR

Noted by:

JENNIFER G. FRONDA, Ph.D. MARILOU P. PASCUAL,Ph.D.

AREA CHAIR, BSBA DEAN, CMBT

NEUST MISSION

To develop new knowledge and technologies and transform human resources into productive
citizenry to bring about development impact to local and international communities.

NEUST VISION

The NEUST is a locally responsive and internationally relevant and recognized University of
Science and Technology.

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