Where is Mercado adopted from?

When was Dr. Jose Rizal born?

Who baptised Rizal?

Rizal had ____ siblings

Who is the oldest of the Rizal children?

Narcisa or Sisa was married to _________.

Who are the siblings of Rizal?

What was Jose Rizal's nickname?

The real surname of the Rizal family was ______.

Francisco Mercado's (Rizal’s father) parents had ________ children.

The Rizal home was one of the distinguished stone houses in ______ during the Spanish times

The Rizal family had a ______, __________ and _____ life

What is the poem he wrote about his beloved town when he was 15 years old and was student in the Ateneo de Manila?

The death of little _______ brought Rizal his first sorrow.

WHAT ARE THE 3 INFLUENCES ON THE HERO’S BOYHOOD?

Who is the first teacher of Rizal?

An old painter who was the father-in-law of the school teacher; freely give Rizal lessons in drawing and painting

Date of the Cavite Mutiny

Fathers __________, ___________, and __________ were executed at sunrise of February, by order of Governor General Izquierdo

Who was the Governor General from 1869-1871?

Who was the Governor General from 1871-1873?

Rizal dedicated his novel, ________, to GomBurZa

Doña Teodora was incarcerated at the provincial prison, where she languished for ___________.

Who is Calamba’s gobernadorcillo who helped to arrest Doña Teodora?

Why was Rizal refused to admit in Ateneo?

Rizal’s first professor in Ateneo.

Commencement Day, Rizal, who was 16 years old, received from his Alma Mater, Ateneo Municipal, the degree of Bachelor of Arts, with highest honors

Who first discovered the poetic genius of Rizal?

Why was Doña Teodora vigorously opposed the idea that Rizal pursue higher learning in the university?

Why did Rizal found the atmosphere at the University of Santo Tomas suffocating to his sensitive spirit?

After finishing the 4th year of the medical course in the University of Santo Tomas, Rizal decided to complete his studies in _____.

What name did Rizal use in Spain?

“ _______ is more beautiful, smart and elegant than Singapore, Point Galle and Manila”

Rizal enrolled in the Universidad Central de Madrid (Central University of Madrid) in two courses—Medicine and Philosophy and Letters on ____________.

“Paris is the _______ capital in Europe.”

After Rizal’s departure for Spain, what are the reason why things turned from bad to worse in Calamba.

The date Rizal completed his medical course in Spain; he was conferred the degree of Licentiate in Medicine by the Universidad Central de Madrid.

Rizal went to Paris and Germany in order to specialize in __________.

Who is Señor Eusebio Corominas?

Which part of Europe did Rizal heard Mass in a Catholic church that impressed him very much, for he wrote on his diary: “Truly I have never in my life heard a Mass whose music had greater sublimity and intonation.”

Rizal lived in Berlin, famous capital of unified Germany for this reasons.

Rizal expressed his high regard and admiration for German womanhood because they are ______________.

Berlin was memorable in the life of Rizal

for two reasons.

Rizal’s friend from Bulacan, arrived in Berlin at the height of Rizal despondency and loaned him the needed funds to publish the novel; savior of Noli.

Berliner Buchdruckrei-Action-Gesselschaft was a printing shop which charged the lowest rate of ____ pesos for 200 copies of the novel.

The title Noli Me Tangere is a Latin phrase which means

“_______________”.

Rizal dedicated his Noli Me Tangere to ____________.

The novel Noli Me Tangere contains __ chapters and an epilogue

CHARACTERS OF NOLI:

Who was Leonor Rivera, although in real life she became unfaithful and married an Englishman?

CHARACTERS OF NOLI:

Who represented Rizal himself?

CHARACTERS OF NOLI:

Who is the philosopher whom Rizal portrayed like his elder brother Paciano?

CHARACTERS OF NOLI:

Who is the typical domineering friar during the days of Rizal, who was arrogant, immoral and anti-Filipino?

Because of the publication of the Noli Me Tangere and the uproar it caused among the friars, Rizal was warned by _________ not to returnhome.

Rizal was determined to return to the Philippines for the following reasons.

The date Rizal returned to Calamba

His first patient was his mother, who was almost blind.

Vicente Barrantes was a Spanish academician of Madrid, who formerly criticized the Noli in an article

published in La Espańa Moderna (a newspaper of Madrid) in January, 1890

Rizal was compelled to leave Calamba for two reasons.

Rizal had good and bad impressions of the United States.

After visiting the United States, Rizal lived in London from May, 1888 to March, 1889 for these reasons

Rizal entertained the American and European passengers with his marvelous skills with the yo-yo as an

offensive weapon.

The greatest achievement of Rizal in London was the annotating of Morga’s book, Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas (Historical Events of the Philippine Islands), which was published in Mexico, 1609.

Where did Rizal met, for the first time, Marcelo H. del Pilar and Mariano Ponce, two titans of the Propaganda

Movement?

Rizal was chosen to be the honorary president of Asociacion La Solidaridad (Solidaridad Association).

La Solidaridad aims to:

Rizal stopped writing for La Solidaridad, it was because of several reasons:

"The Philippines Within a Century" was an article written by Rizal which he expressed his views on the Spanish colonization in the Philippines and predicted with amazing accuracy the tragic end of Spain’s sovereignty in Asia.

"The Indolence of the Filipinos" is an essay of Rizal who is also a prestigious work of historical scholarship. It is an able defense of the alleged indolence of the Filipinos.

Rizal was the first to advocate the Filipinization of its orthography.

A Madrid newspaper, El Resumen, sympathized with the Filipino cause, said: “To cover the ear, open the purse, and fold the arms—this is the Spanish colonial policy."

La Epoca is an anti-Filipino newspaper in Madrid.

Luna uttered certain unsavory remarks about Nellie, Rizal heard him and angered by the slanderous remarks, he challenged Luna, his friend, to a duel. But Luna apologized for his bad remarks about the girl and Rizal accepted his apology and they became good friends again.

Rizal challenges Wenceslao E. Retana, his bitter enemy of the pen, a talented Spanish scholar, was then a press agent of the friars in Spain to a duel because Retana used to attack the Filipinos in various newspapers in Madrid and other cities in Spain

Rizal received a letter from Leonor, announcing her coming marriage to an Englishman (the choice of her mother) and asking his forgiveness.

Towards the closing days of 1890, arose an unfortunate rivalry between Rizal and M.H. del Pilar for supremacy. Because of this, the Filipinos were divided into two hostile camps—the Rizalistas and the Pilaristas.

It took Rizal __________ years to write his second novel, El Filibusterismo.

Valentin Ventura was the savior of the El Fili. When he learned of Rizal’s predicament and immediately sent him the necessary funds.

The original manuscript of El Filibusterismo in Rizal’s own

handwriting in now preserved in the Filipiana Division of the Bureau of Public Libraries, Manila. It consists of 270 pages of long sheets of paper

El Filibusterismo is a sequel to the Noli. It has ____________, ____________ and __________ than the Noli Me Tangere. It is more revolutionary, more tragic than the first novel.

This book is: a romantic novel, a “work of the heart”—a book of feeling”, has freshness, color, humor, lightness, and wit and contains 64 chapters.

This book is: a political novel, a “work of the head”—a book of the thought, contains bitterness, hatred, pain, violence, and sorrow, and contains 38 chapters.

Rizal himself considered the Noli as superior to the Fili as a novel, thereby agreeing with M.H. Del Pilar who had the same opinion.

Rizal wrote a third novel in Tagalog intended for Tagalog readers but it was unfinished and has no title. It consists of 44 pages in Rizal’s handwriting, still in manuscript form, preserved in the National Library, Manila.

Rizal wrote a lot of unfinished novels and Makamisa and Dapitan were some of them.

Rizal left Europe for Hong Kong, where he lived from November, 1891 to June, 1892. His reasons for leaving Europe were:

On December 1, 1891 his brother-in-law, Manuel T. Hidalgo, sent him a letter relating the sad news of the “deportation of twenty-five persons from Calamba, including father, Neneng, Sisa, Lucia, Paciano and the rest of us.”

The Christmas of 1891 in Hong Kong was one of the happiest Yuletide celebrations in Rizal’s life: For he had a happy family reunion.

Rizal made up his mind to return to Manila. This decision was spurred by the following:

Lete’s attack, which was printed in La Solidaridad on April 15, 1892, portrayed Rizal as

On June 20, 1892, Rizal wrote two letters to be opened after his death and gave them to his friend Dr. Marques for safekeeping. The first letter, addressed TO HIS PARENTS, BRETHREN, AND FRIENDS. The second letter,

addressed TO THE FILIPINOS.

Rizal firmly believed that the fight for Filipino liberties had assumed a new phase: it must be fought in the Philippines not in Spain. “The battlefield is in the Philippines,” he told countrymen in Europe, “There is where we should meet… There we will help one another, there together we will suffer or triumph perhaps.”

FOUNDLING OF THE LIGA FILIPINA

Rizal explained the objectives of the Liga Filipina, a civic league of Filipinos, which he desired to establish and its role in the socio-economic life of the people.

Rizal began his exile in lonely Dapitan, a period of ________ years.

According to Rizal, individual judgment is a gift from God and everybody should use it like a lantern to show the way and that self-esteem, if moderated by judgment, saves man from unworthy acts.

Florencio Namanan, the real name of “Pablo Mercado” is a native of Cagayan de Misamis, single and about 30 years old. He was hired by the Recollect friars to a secret mission in Dapitan—to introduce himself to Rizal as a friend and relative, to spy on Rizal’s activities, and to filch certain letters and writings of Rizal which might incriminate him in the revolutionary movement.

Rizal practiced Medicine in Dapitan. He had many patients, but most of them were poor so that he even gave them free medicine. As a physician, Rizal became interested in local medicine and in the use of medicinal plants. He studied the medicinal plants of the Philippines and their curative values.

When Rizal arrived in Dapitan, he decided to improve it, to the best of his God-given talents and to awaken the civic consciousness of its people by

Rizal exile to Dapitan gives him the opportunity to put into practice his educational ideas. In 1893 he established a school which existed until the end of his exile in July, 1896. Rizal taught his boys reading, writing, languages (Spanish and English), geography, history, mathematics (arithmetic and geometry), industrial work, nature study, morals and gymnastics. He trained them how to collect specimens of plants and animals, to love work and to “behave like men”

Contributions to Science—during his four-year exile in Dapitan, Rizal built up a rich collection of concology which consisted of 346 shells representing 203 species. Rizal also conducted anthropological, ethnographical, archaeological, geological, and geographical studies, as revealed by his voluminous correspondence with his scientists friends in Europe.

Rizal could rank with the world’s great linguists. He knew 22 languages—Tagalog, Ilokano, Bisayan, Subanun, Spanish, Latin, Greek, English, French, German, Arabic, Malay, Hebrew, Sanskrit, Dutch, Catalan, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese, Swedish, and Russian

In Dapitan, Rizal devoted much of his time to agriculture. Rizal introduced modern methods of agriculture which he had observed in Europe and America. He encouraged the Dapitan farmers to discard their primitive system of tillage and adopt the modern agricultural methods

Rizal invented a cigarette lighter which he sent as a gift to Blumentritt. He called it “sulpukan”. This unique cigarette lighter was made of wood. “Its mechanism”, said Rizal “is based on the principle of compressed air.”

Rizal wrote "My Retreat (Mi Retiro)" a beautiful poem about his serene life as an exile in Dapitan and sent it to her mother on October 22, 1895, which acclaimed by literary critics as one of the best ever penned by Rizal.

__________________ is the “Great Plebeian”, sowing the seeds of an armed uprising—the secret revolutionary society, called Katipunan, which he founded on July 7, 1892

Rizal objected to Bonifacio’s audacious project to plunge the country in bloody revolution because he was

of sincere belief that it was premature, for two reasons:

Rizal wrote in his diary, “I have been in that district four years, thirteen days and a few hours”

No longer an exile, Rizal had a pleasant trip from Dapitan to Manila, with delightful stopovers in

On August 26, 1896, Andres Bonifacio and the Katipunan raised the cry of revolution in the hills of Balintawak, a few miles north of Manila

On August 19, 1896, the Katipunan plot to overthrow Spanish rule by means of revolution was discovered by Fray Mariano Gil, Augustinian cura of Tondo

On August 30, 1896, the revolutionists led by Bonifacio and Jacinto attacked San Juan, near the city of Manila. After the Battle of San Juan, Governor General Blanco proclaimed a state of war in the first eight provinces for rising in arms against Spain—Manila (as a province), Bulacan, Cavite, Batangas, Laguna, Pampanga, Nueva Ecija, and Tarlac

Rizal’s homecoming in 1896, the last in his life, was his saddest return to his beloved native land. He knew he was facing the supreme test, which might mean the sacrifice of his life, but he was unafraid.

The only right given to Rizal by the Spanish authorities was to choose his defense counsel.

Rizal was accused of being “the principal organizer and the living soul of the Filipino insurrection, the founder of societies, periodicals, and books dedicated to fomenting and propagating ideas of rebellion.”

On December 15, 1896, Rizal wrote the Manifesto to His People in his prison cell at Fort Santiago, appealing to them to stop the necessary shedding of blood and to achieve their liberties by means of education and industry

December 25, 1896 was a dark and cheerless Christmas for Rizal, his last on earth, was the saddest in Rizal’s life.

Polavieja approved the decision of the court-martial and ordered Rizal to be shot at 7:00 in the morning of December 30 at Bagumbayan Field (Luneta).

Pearl of the Orient is Rizal’s last poem in an article entitled “Unfortunate Philippines” published in The Hong Kong Telegraph on September 24, 1892

Rizal’s mother arrived. Rizal knelt down before her and kissed her hands, begging her to forgive him. Trinidad

entered the cell to fetch her mother. As they were leaving, Rizal gave to Trinidad the alcohol cooking stove, whispering to her in English; “There is something inside” This “something” was Rizal’s farewell poem.

Rizal was dressed elegantly in black suit, black derby hat, black shoes, white shirt and black tie. His arms were tied

behind from elbow to elbow. But the rope was quite loose to give his arms freedom of movement

Rizal died 7:03am in the bloom of manhood—aged 35 years, five months and 11 days.

Mi Ultimo Adios (Last Farewell) was a farewell poem of Rizal that originally was without title and was

unsigned.

Immediately after Rizal’s execution the Spanish spectators shouted ______________ and the Spanish Military Band, joining the jubilance over Rizal’s death, played the gay Marcha de Cadiz

WHY IS RIZAL OUR GREATEST NATIONAL HERO?

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