Chapter 4: Quiz 5 - Mixed Type Quizpe

Jose Rizal’s first novel which tackled the society and government in the Philippines during the Spanish colonization. Here, he tackled how the friars deceived the Filipinos and made them blindly believe in the practices of religion. This novel was taken from the gospel of St. John from the New Testament. What is the title of Rizal’s first novel?

• Noli Me Tangere

• El Filibusterismo

• La Solidaridad

El Filibusterismo is Rizal’s first novel.

• True

• False

Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe greatly inspired Rizal in writing this novel due to its theme of the problem of slavery and the treatment of humans as property, which parallels the current events that are unfolding in the Philippines.

• True

• False

Noli Me Tangere is originally conceived by Rizal, for he admitted taking it from the Bible.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

Noli Me Tangere is "not" originally conceived by Rizal, for he admitted taking it from the Bible.

“Noli Me Tangere” is a Latin phrase which means “Touch Me Not”.

• True

• False

Maximo Viola is the savior of Noli Me Tangere.

• True

• False

Maximo Viola gladly agreed to finance the printing of Noli. And in addition to that, he loaned Rizal some cash money for his living expenses.

• True

• False

Berliner Buchdruckrei-Action-Gesellschaft (recheck the name on other sources) — a printing shop which charged the lowest rate, that is, 300 pesos for 2,000 copies of the novel.

• True

• False

Rizal only published one novel on his journey.

• True

• False

The first copies were given to Blumentritt, Dr. Antonio Ma. Regidor, Lopez Jaena, Mariano Ponce and Felix Hidalgo.

• True

• False