Chapter 7 Flashcards

(10 cards)

1
Q

What is considered by many as a landmark piece of literature?

A

Noli Me Tangere

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2
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What even went to the extent of naming Rizal as the father of the Filipino novel?

A

Resil Mojares

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3
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The Spanish friars vehemently prohibited the circulation of the novel in 1887 when the chair of the censorship commission, outlawed the reading and possession of Rizal’s novel named?

A

Fray Salvador Font

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Another staunch critic of the novel was the Spanish academic ? who wrote several articles in Spanish newspapers ridiculing Rizal as a “man of contradictions.” He said that Rizal’s lambasting of the friars and the Spaniards was reflective of the author and telling more about the Filipinos.

A

Vicente Barrantes

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5
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Who wrote essays in response to critics of the Noli?

A

Marcelo H. Del Pilar

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Rizal’s friend, named ? also expressed support for the novel

A

Ferdinand Blumentritt

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7
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In the immediate years after its publication, the Noli was translated into several languages. One of the earliest translations of the novel was done in?

A

French

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In the immediate years after its publication, the Noli was translated into several languages. One of the earliest translations of the novel was done in French. Arguably the most circulated versions were English translations of?

A

Charles Derbyshire

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9
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Who points out, as much as the novel is elevated in the highest echelons of Philippine literary history, seldom do we find Filipinos reading it in the original Spanish.

A

Testa-De Ocampo

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10
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Sociologist named ? even went as far as describing Rizal as “probably the first systematic social thinker in Southeast Asia.”

A

Syed Fareed Alatas

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