Higher Education and Life Abroad of Rizal Quiz

1. What was the reason why Rizal shifted from Philosophy and Letters to Medicine in UST?

• a. Because the method of instruction was obsolete and repressive.

• b. To be able to cure the deteriorating eyesight of his mother.

• c. He doesn't like the course of Philosophy and Letters

2. What was the Php 300 loan that Rizal borrowed from his friend Maximo Viola?

• a. For his fare on the ship going to Spain

• b. To cover for the printing of the Noli Me Tangere

• c. Paid for his Historical visits in Amphitheatre and Roman Forum

3. Why did the Dominican Friars ask Rizal to look for another school?

• a. Because of his bold and radical questions

• b. Dominican Friars don't want him to study at Colegio de San Juan de Letran

• c. Because he was late for the registration

4. Rizal stopped attending class at UST in 1882 because?

• a. Rizal became penniless as his family encountered economic regression

• b. He left for Spain and enrolled in Medicine and Philosophy and Letters at the Unibersidad Central de Madrid

• c. He's tired and sick of the discriminatory and oppressive Dominican professors

5. First boarding house where Paciano found place in Manila

• a. Calle Caraballo in Sta. Cruz

• b. Intramuros

• c. No. 6 Calle Magallanes

6. What is the difference between the purpose of the organization La Solidaridad and the newspaper La Solidaridad?

• a. The organization La Solidaridad established to serve as the principal organ of Propaganda movement, while the newspaper La Solidaridad depicted the conditions of the Filipino

• b. The organization La Solidaridad established to express the goal of Propaganda movement, while the newspaper La Solidaridad serves as the principal organ of the Propaganda movement

7. What was Rizal's real intention in his travel abroad?

• a. To write his two novels Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo that awakened his countrymen from the wrong system of governance of the Spaniards

• b. To escape his enemies and awakened his countrymen from the wrong system of governance of the Spaniards.

• c. To posses universal intellect and awakened his countrymen from the wrong system of governance of the Spaniards.

8. What are the Organizations that Rizal formed while he was in France?

• a. Kidlat Club, Indios Bravos, La Liga Filipina

• b. Kidlat Club, La Solidaridad, Indios Bravos

• c. Kidlat Club, Indios Bravos, Redencion de los Malayos

9. When Rizal finally reached New York on May 13, he had seen the Statue of Liberty symbolizing freedom and democracy. But, What was Rizal's observation about that land?

• a. He observed that there was equality in the land and concluded that the real freedom was only for the whites.

• b. He observed that there was equality in the land and the people have a high standard of living and opportunity.

• c. He observed that there was racial inequality in the land and concluded that the real freedom was only for the whites.

10. While Rizal was in London, it was inevitable that he would receive news of what was happening in the Philippines. The following is news received by Rizal from the Philippines except?

• a. He received news that Calamba agrarian trouble was getting worse.

• b. He received news about the corruption of the Spaniards and the enemies continued to persecute him.

• c.He received news about Padre Rodriguez's continued criticism of his novel Noli Me Tangere.