EDM Midterms

Question 1

Colegio de San Ildefonso was founded by the Spanish Jesuits on _______?

Answer 1

August 1, 1595

Question 2

USC was formerly known in the year 1595 as ______.

Answer 2

Colegio de San Ildefonso

Question 3

Colegio de San Ildefonso was closed upon the expulsion of the Jesuits from the Philippines on

Answer 3

1769

Question 4

It reopened along Martires Street under the initiative of Bishop Mateo Joaquin de Arevalo under the name Colegio-Seminario de San Carlos in which it was named after St. Charles Borromeo, the great patron of ecclesiastical training in the Renaissance.

Answer 4

1783

Question 5

In 1867, ______ took over the administration of San Carlos.

Answer 5

Vincentians

Question 6

In 1930, the Colegio de San Carlos (CSC) was transferred to the new __________ building, while the Seminario de San Carlos remained ________.

Answer 6

P. del Rosario, Martires Street

Question 7

What happened to CSC in 1944?

Answer 7

bombs from US planes fell on San Carlos, almost reducing the school to rubbles

Question 8

When did San Carlos became a university?

Answer 8

1948

Question 9

Following Communist persecution of the foreign clergy in China in 1949, the University of San Carlos would _______.

Answer 9

benefit from the migration of SVD priest-scholars to the Philippines

Question 10

USC spawned pioneering research in _____, ______, _______, _______, and ________.

Answer 10

anthropology, physics, engineering, philosophy, and other fields

Question 11

Leadership of foreign priest-academics came with the decade’s wave of militant nationalism, which culminated in calls for the Filipinization of the administration of all Catholic schools in the country

Answer 11

rapid expansion of the University during the 60s

Question 12

The first Filipino president of USC

Answer 12

Fr. Amante Castillo

Question 13

5 years after 1930, the Colegio was turned over to the _______

Answer 13

Society of the Divine Word (SVD)

Question 14

Pope John Paul II in the year 1990 issued this apostolic constitution which enlightens the faithful the identity and mission of Catholic colleges and universities

Answer 14

Ex Corde Ecclesiae

Question 15

Objective of a Catholic University is to _______.

Answer 15

assure in an institutional manner a Christian presence in the university world confronting the great problems of society and culture

Question 16

Both a University and a Catholic must be a _______.

Answer 16

community of scholars representing various branches if human knowledge, and an academic institution in which Catholicism is vitally present and operative

Question 17

In a Catholic University, research necessary includes what?

Answer 17

search for an integration of knowledge, dialogue between faith and reason, ethical concern, and theological perspective

Question 18

A process one which always remain incomplete is referred to as ______.

Answer 18

integration of knowledge

Question 19

These are eternally in communion with one another

Answer 19

three Divine Persons

Question 20

A figure of speech for the Trinitarian mission to save humanity from sin

Answer 20

“heavens be opened”