The characters in "Noli Me Tangere" were What did Rizal do with Antonio De Morga’s

not fictional characters; they represented book entitled Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas
people who lived during Rizal's time. at the British Museum? 
Paciano, the brother of Rizal, was a. Copied it
represented by this character named: b. Criticized
a. Pilosopong Tasio c. Copied and Criticized
b. Basilio d. Copied, annotated, and published it
c. Padre Florentino What was the book written by Kemphis,
d. Elias which was Rizal’s last gift to Josephine
Bracken?
Who was the main proponent of Rizal's law? a. Faith in God
a. Congressman Emilio Cortez b. Faith in Christ
b. President Ramon Magsaysay c. Love with God
c. Claro M. Recto d. Imitation of Christ
d. Congressman Jacobo Z. Gonzales
What is the symbolism of Simoun in El
Noli Me Tangere contains of how many Filibusterismo? 
chapter? a. Philippine rebolusyunaryos
a. 61 b. Ilustrados
b. 62 c. Spaniards
c. 63 d. Spanish citizens hoping to have a better
d. 64 life

Which status was given to middle-class In which city in Belgium did Rizal print and
Filipinos who were educated in Spain and published his El Filibusterismo in 1891. 
were exposed to Nationalistic ideas?
a. Principalia a. Ghent
b. Mestizo b. Brussels
c. Ilustrados c. Mechelen
d. Inquilino d. Namur

Dr. Jose Rizal wrote this poem before he Which poem was written by Rizal to express
was executed. his love for his hometown?
a. To the Young Women of Malolos a. A la juventud filipina
b. Mi Ultimo Adios b. They Asked me for Verses
c. A Century Hence c. In memory of my Town
d. Sa Aking mga Kababata d. The Philippine A Century Hence

The pen-name which Rizal used in 1882 In, Noli, this character hated being a
when he wrote the nationalistic essay, Filipino; that she married a Spaniard, She
"Amor Patrio," was: wore European dresses and covered her
a. Pingkian “kayumangi” skin with thin make-up. 
a. Donya Consolacion
b. Dimas Alang
b. Donya Victorina
c. Laong laan
c. Pia Alba
d. Plaridel
d. Sisa
According to Rizal himself he took the term
Noli Me Tangere, which means “Touch Me In 1865, the young sister of Rizal
Not”  from the bible. From what Gospel was experiences his first sorrow when one of his
Noli Me Tangere taken? sister died. His sister was:
a. St. John (20:15) a. Soledad
b. St. Luke (24:44) b. Saturnina
c. St. John (20:17) c. Conception
d. St. Luke (24:12) d. Lucia

The El Filibusterismo came off the press

with the financial assistance of;
 a. Valentin Ventura b. It talks about the history of wars,
b. Maximo Viola intrigues, diplomacy, and evangelization
c. Ferdinand Blumentritt of the Philippines.
d. Dr. Reinhold Rost c. It was written by Jose Rizal and was
annotated by Antonio Morga.
Before the execution of José Rizal, he was d. It was one of the most important record
visited by his mother Doña Teodora and his detailing the history of Spanish
sister Trinidad. Then Rizal gave an alcohol colonization in the Philippines.
stove to Trinidad and whispered “There is
something inside.” That “something inside” José Rizal revised the novel Noli Me
in the alcohol stove was the farewell poem Tangere in Berlin, Germany in 1886. During
he wrote. Which of the following was his this time, Rizal was financially crippled. To
farewell poem? cut expenses, he deleted some parts of his
a. Mi Ultimo Adios novel. The financial problems of Rizal came
b. Himno al Trabajo to an end when his friend lend him funds for
the publication. Who was this friend of
c. Sa Aking mga Kabata
Rizal?
d. Noli Me Tangere

The Birthplace of Jose Rizal is

a. Maximo Viola
__________.
a. Intramuros, Manila b. Valentine Ventura
b. Malolos, Bulacan c. Ramon Basa
c. Kawit, Cavite d. Jose Ma Basa
d. Calamba, Laguna
Who was the Spanish Governor-General
who ordered the deportation of Jose Rizal to
For whom did Rizal dedicated the novel El Dapitan?
Filibusterismo?
a. Gov. Gen. Camilo de Polavieja
a. GomBurZa
b. Gov. Gen. Eulogio Despujol
b. Majoha
c. Governor-General Carlos Maria De la
c. Family
Torre
d. Motherland d. Governor-General Ramon Blanco

A year after Rizal's execution, a friend of On top of being dubbed as

Rizal declared: "Not only is Rizal the most Rizal's “childhood sweetheart” and “lover by
prominent man of his own people but the correspondence”,
greatest man the Malayan race has ________________________ was
produced." Who was this friend of Rizal?: widely considered as the hero's true love.
a. Adolf Meyer a. Josephine Bracken
b. Ferdinand Blumentritt b. Segunda Katigbak
c. Antonio Ma. Regidor c. Leonor Rivera
d. Fernando Ma. Guerero d. Leonor Valenzuela

Who was the sweet 18 years-old Irish girl Who was Rizal’s model for the character
who was slim, had blond hair, blue eyes and Pilosopo Tasyo?
dressed elegantly in a light gayety
a. Francisco Mercado
atmosphere with whom Rizal fell in love in
Dapitan? b. Paciano Rizal
a. Conception c. Jose Alberto
b. Seiko Usui d. Domingo Lamco
c. Consuelo Ortiga
d. Josephine Bracken Who was the governor-general known as the
first liberal governor-general in the
Philippines and the role model for the
Which of the following is NOT true about experience of liberalism of the country? 
Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas?
a. Francisco Mercado
b. Domingo Lamco
a. It was published in Mexico in 1609.
c. Gov. Gen. Eulogio Despujol
d. Carlos Maria de la Torre
 a. History of the French Revolution
Adios Patria adorada    b. The Wandering Jew
 Region del sol querida c. Uncle Tom's Cabin
What did Rizal mean when he considered d. William Tell
his country a querida. The Philippines is his
_____________.
This was a prize winning-poem of Rizal
a. lover
when he was a student in UST. This poem
b. Enemy proved that an Indio was not only equal but
c. Friend also more superior than the Spaniards in
d. Mistress poetry writing. 

The epitome of traditional Filipino woman; a. To the Filipino Youth

meek; submissive, obedient, was b. They ask Me For Verses
______________. c. Hymn to Talisay
a. Maria Clara
d. Kundiman
b. Sisa
c. Donya Victorina Which animal did Jose named as Alipato
d. Crispin and used during his visit to some places in
his hometown?
The article that Rizal wrote in Diariong a. Dog
Tagalog urging his compatriots to love their b. Pony
fatherland just like his prize-winning A La c. Lizard
Juventud Filipina.
d. Pig
a. Amor Patrio
b. Felicitation
The date wherein Rizal Bill was proposed by
c. El Filibusterismo the Committee on Education.
d. Noli Metangere
a. 1959
Who was Rizal’s teacher in Binan, Laguna b. 1961
who said that he needs to study in one of the
best and respectable schools in Manila? c. 1951
d. 1956
a. Leon Monroy
He was the Governor-General of the
b. Maestro Celestino
Philippines where he enacted that all
c. Maestro Lucas Padua agricultural lands especially in the Central
d. Justiano Aquino Cruz Luzon would prioritize planting of Tobacco
instead of Palay, Maize, Sugarcane augment
Rizal was the ____ of the eleven children the need of the Spanish monarchy. 
born of the marriage of Francisco and
Teodora.  a. Jose Rizal
a. 4th b. Jose Basco
b. 5th c. Jose P. Laurel
c. 6th d. Jose Ma Basa
d. 7th
It is also known as the Rizal Law requires all
This is the novel of Jose Rizal that public and private schools, colleges, and
postulates the alter-ego of Crisostomo universities to include in their curricula the
Ibarra naming “Simoun” who wants to get life, works, and writings of Jose Rizal. 
his revenge on the friars due to the death of a. R.A. 229
his love, Maria Clara. b. R.A. 1425
a. El Filibusterismo
c. R.A. 9177
b. Noli Metangere
d. Presidential Decree no. 449
c. Mi Ultimo Adios
d. To the Young Women of Malolos Who was Jose Rizal Rizal’s true love
personified as Maria Clara in his novel Noli
What book inspired Rizal to write the "Noli Me Tangere? 
Me Tangere? a. O-Sei-San
 b. Leonor Rivera
c. Nellie Boustead Who was the Spanish priest who denounced
d. Josephine Bracken Dr. Rizal’s novel as enemy of the Catholic
Who was the Governor-General who religion? 
approved the application of Rizal as a. Fr. Jose Redriquez
volunteer physician to Cuba? b. Fr. Rufino Collantes
a. Carnicero c. Fr. Pedro Pelaez
b. Despujol d. Fr. Pedro Casanas
c. Polavieja
d. Blanco Who is the President of the Philippines that
approved the Rizal Bill into a law? 
“I shall die without seeing the dawn break a. Elpidio Quirino
upon my homeland” was a statement from b. Claro M. Recto
___________.  c. Jose P. Laurel
a. Ibarra d. Ramon Magsaysay
b. Elias
c. Juanito Pelaez This was the first article Rizal wrote in
d. Fr. Florentino Barcelona and was published in Diariong
Tagalog in Manila on the 20th day of August
In Austria, Rizal was excited to visit the city 1882 under the pen name Laong Laan. It
of Leitmeritz because he wanted to meet his depicts the Philippines as a home land,
long-distance penpal who was a professor at worthy of love and protection.
the Municipal Atheneum of Leitmeritz. Who a. El Amor Patrio
was this penpal of Rizal? b. Sa Aking mga Kabata
a. Rudolf Virchow c. Mi Ultimo Adios
b. Aadolf Meyer d. A la juventud filipina
c. Ferdinand Blumentritt
d. Feodor Jagor Which Republic Act prohibits cockfighting,
horse racing, and jai-alai on the 30th day of
December of each year, the date of the
martyrdom of José Rizal?
In this university, Rizal obtained his a. R.A. 8371
Licentiate in Medicine.  b. R.A. 10533
a. Ateneo Municipal de Manila c. R.A. 1425
b. University of Sto. Tomas d. R.A. 229
c. Universidad Central de Madrid
d. Santa Isabel college

One of the foremost acknowledged and

regarded men of Rizal, a catholic town cleric
of Calamba. 
a. Pedro Casanas
b. Leoncio Lopez
c. Fr. Rufino Collantes
d. Jose Alberto

The priest who baptized Rizal 

a. Father Rufino Collantes
b. Fr. Rufino Guererro
c. Fr. Pedro Casanas
d. Francisco Mercado

What does the “Noli Me Tangere” mean?

a. Do not detain me
b. touch me not
c. Rebel
d. Subversive