WEEK 7 QUIZ BSN1-C

STATEMENT A: Cory Aquino’s speech was an important event in the political and diplomatic history of the country because it has arguably cemented the legitimacy of the EDSA government in the international arena. STATEMENT  B: The speech talks of her family background, especially her relationship with her late husband, Ninoy Aquino.

• Only ststement A is CORRECT

• Only ststement B is CORRECT

• Both Statements are CORRECT

• None of the Statements are CORRECT

STATEMENT A: The ideology or the principles of the new democratic government can also be seen in the same speech.  STATEMENT  B: She claimed that such constitution upholds and adheres to the rights and liberty of the Filipino people.

• Only ststement A is CORRECT

• Only ststement B is CORRECT

• Both Statements are CORRECT

• None of the Statements are CORRECT

STATEMENT A: Cory also hoisted herself as the reconciliatory agent after more than two decades of a polarizing authoritarian politics. For example, Cory saw the blown-up communist insurgency as a product of a repressive and corrupt government. Her response to this insurgency rooted from her diametric opposition of the dictator (i.e., initiating reintegration of communist rebels to the mainstream Philippine society).  STATEMENT  B: Cory claimed that her main approach to this problem was through peace and not through the sword of war.

• Only ststement A is CORRECT

• Only ststement B is CORRECT

• Both Statements are CORRECT

• None of the Statements are CORRECT

STATEMENT A: Despite Cory’s efforts to hoist herself as the exact opposite of Marcos, her speech still revealed certain parallelisms between her and the Marcos’s government. STATEMENT  B: This is seen in terms of continuing the alliance between the Philippines and the United States despite the known affinity between the said world super power and Marcos.

• Only ststement A is CORRECT

• Only ststement B is CORRECT

• Both Statements are CORRECT

• None of the Statements are CORRECT

STATEMENT A: The Aquino regime, as seen in Cory’s acceptance of the invitation to address the U.S. Congress and to the content of the speech, decided to build and continue with the alliance between the Philippines and the United States and effectively implemented an essentially similar foreign policy to that of the dictatorship. For example, Cory recognized that the large sum of foreign debts incurred by the Marcos regime never benefitted the Filipino people.  STATEMENT  B: Nevertheless, Cory expressed her intention to pay off those debts. Unknown to many Filipinos was the fact that there was a choice of waiving the said debt because those were the debt of the dictator and not of the country.

• Only ststement A is CORRECT

• Only ststement B is CORRECT

• Both Statements are CORRECT

• None of the Statements are CORRECT

STATEMENT A: Cory’s decision is an indicator of her government’s intention to carry on a debt-driven economy. STATEMENT  B: Reading through Aquino’s speech, we can already take cues, not just on Cory’s individual ideas and aspirations, but also the guiding principles and framework of the government that she represented.

• Only ststement A is CORRECT

• Only ststement B is CORRECT

• Both Statements are CORRECT

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TRUE or FALSE

Indeed, Ninoy’s eloquence and charisma could very well compete with that of Marcos.

TRUE or FALSE

In her speech, Cory talked at length about Ninoy’s toil and suffering at the hands of the dictatorship that he resisted. 

TRUE or FALSE

Even when Cory proceeded talking about her new government, she still went back to Ninoy’s legacies and lessons.

TRUE or FALSE

Cory’s attribution of the revolution to Ninoy’s death demonstrates not only Cory’s personal perception on the revolution, but since she was the president, it also represents what the dominant discourse was at that point in our history.