Week 2. Rizal

1. The Rizal bill was proposed by:

• Senator Claro M. Recto

• Jose P. Laurel

• Jesus Cavanna

• Jesus Paredes

2. Who opposed the Rizal Bill?

• Protestants

• Catholics

• Rizalians

• Senators

3. He organized a symposium to oppose the Rizal Bill and argued that the novels belonged to the past and that teaching them would misrepresent current conditions.

• Jesus Paredes

• Jesus Cavanna

• Francisco Soc Rodrigo

• Decoroso Rosales

4. Who organized the opposition to the bill which countered by Veteranos de la Revolucion (Spirit of 1896), Alagad ni Rizal, the Freemasons, and the Knights of Rizal .

• Catholic Action of the Philipines

• Congregation of Mission

• Catholic Teachers Guild

• All of the Above

5. The Senate Committee on Education sponsored a bill co-written by both Jose P. Laurel and Recto, with the only opposition coming from ______

• Francisco Soc Rodrigo

• Mariano Jesus Cuenco

• Decoroso Rosales

• All of the above

6. Who is the Archbishop of Manila that protested in a pastoral letter that Catholic students would be affected if compulsory reading of the unexpurgated version of Noli Me Tangere and El Filibusterismo were pushed through.

• Archbishop Rufino Santos

• Archbishop Jaime Sin

• Archbishop Antonio Tagle

• None of the above

7. Who is the Manila Mayor that walked out of Mass when the priest read a circular from the archbishop denouncing the bill.

• Antonio Villegas

• Ramon Bagatsing

• Mel Lopez

• Arsenio Lacson

8. Who is the Indonesian Senator that attacked Filipinos saying that" Filipinos proclaimed Rizal as their national hero but seemed to despise what he had written"?

• Sukarno Widodo

• Domocao Alonto

• Susilo Bambang

• Megawati Sukarnoputri

9. Who is the cebuano that support the bill and reasoned out that it was in their province the independence movement started, when Lapu-Lapu fought Ferdinand Magellan.

• Jose Lopez

• Miguel Lopez

• Arthuro Lopez

• Pedro Lopez

10. The Rizal Bill was enacted on

• May 12, 1956

• June 12, 1956

• May 12, 1957

• June 12, 1957