Unit 4: Higher Education & Life Abroad

Question 1

The people who became objects of ridicule and laughter in an exhibition in Madrid

Answer 1

Igorot

Question 2

The upright, earnest, and caring teacher whom Rizal considered his best professor

Answer 2

Francisco de Paula Sanchez

Question 3

The city where Rizal learned many languages and became a member of various scientific communities

Answer 3

Berlin

Question 4

Rizal was labeled with this name after restoring his mother’s eyesight

Answer 4

German Doctor
or
Doctor Uliman

Question 5

A prominent university where Rizal enrolled in the course Philosophy and Letters

Answer 5

University of Santo Tomas

Question 6

The friend who loaned Rizal some amount to cover for the printing of the Noli Me Tangere

Answer 6

Maximo Viola

Question 7

The bodyguard who was assigned to Rizal to protect him from his adversaries

Answer 7

Don Jose Taviel de Andrade

Question 8

The steamer, which Rizal took to reach Manila near midnight of August

Answer 8

Djemnah

Question 9

The Filipinologist who showed Rizal some interesting things taken from tombs in the Philippines

Answer 9

Professor Blumentritt

Question 10

A city southwest of Berlin which later became the historical site of the Potsdam Conference in 1945

Answer 10

Potsdam

Question 11

From […] to […], Rizal studied at the University of Santo Tomas, enrolling in Philosophy and Letters, but shifted to Medicine a year after

Answer 11

1877 to 1882

Question 12

Classes in Ateneo were divided into two groups: […] (boarders, and […] (non-boarders)

Answer 12

• Roman Empire (interns)
• Carthaginian Empire (externs)

Question 13

Rizal attended a dinner party held in honor of two award-winning Filipino painters, […] and […]

Answer 13

• Juan Luna
• Felix Hidalgo

Question 14

From November 1885 to February 1886, Rizal worked as an assistant to the celebrated ophthalmologist […]

Answer 14

Dr. Louis de Weckert

Question 15

In Casa Tomasina, Rizal’s landlord and uncle Antonio Rivera had a daughter, […], who became his sweetheart

Answer 15

Leonor

Question 16

Rizal stopped attending classes at UST in […] for he was sick and tired of the discriminatory and oppressive Dominican professors

Answer 16

1882

Question 17

[…] is the author of Travels in the Philippines

Answer 17

Dr. Feodor Jagor

Question 18

[…] was formerly the Escuela Pia (Charity School), a school for poor boys in Manila established by the government in 1817

Answer 18

Ateneo

Question 19

The Japanese novelist and human rights fighter Rizal befriended onboard the “Belgic” in April 1888

Answer 19

Tetcho Suehiro

Question 20

The venue of the meeting in which Rizal explained the aims of the civic association La Liga Filipina

Answer 20

House of Doroteo Ongjunco

Question 21

Rizal formed this temporary social club which brought together Filipinos witnessing the exposition

Answer 21

Kidlat Club

Question 22

Rizal lived in the Spanish legation in Tokyo upon his invitation

Answer 22

Juan Perez Caballero

Question 23

This is where Rizal revised and prepared for printing his second novel

Answer 23

Brussels

Question 24

The publisher that agreed to print the El Fili on an installment basis

Answer 24

F. Meyer-Van Loo

Question 25

Rizal's friend who helped him to have many patrons for his medical clinic in Hong Kong

Answer 25

Dr. Lorenzo P. Marques

Question 26

The man who described Rizal as a "pearl of a man" (*una perla de hombre*)

Answer 26

Dr. Reinhold Rost

Question 27

The country where Rizal met Marcelo H. del Pilar for the first time

Answer 27

Spain

Question 28

Rizal manually copied and annotated this rare book, which is available in the British Museum

Answer 28

*Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas*

Question 29

A patriotic socio-political organization founded in 1872 by Filipinos who had settled in Europe

Answer 29

Propaganda

Question 30

Through [...]'s "salvific" act, the *El Filibusterismo* came off the press on September 18, 1891

Answer 30

Valentin Ventura

Question 31

Rizal witnessed the [...], with its greatest attraction the Eiffel Tower

Answer 31

Universal Exposition of Paris

Question 32

Rizal saw the Statue of Liberty symbolizing freedom and democracy at the [...]

Answer 32

Bedloe Island

Question 33

In London, Rizal boarded at the [...] where he was lovingly served by [...], the daughter of his landlord

Answer 33

- Beckett residence - Gertrude

Question 34

[...] showed Rizal anti-friar leaflets "Pobres Frailes* which were allegedly discovered in his sister Lucia's pillow cases

Answer 34

Governor-General Eulogio Despujol

Question 35

[...] became the honorary president of the patriotic society *Asociacion La Solidaridad*

Answer 35

Rizal

Question 36

The ship captain, [...] handed over Rizal to the local Spanish commandant, Ricardo Carnicero, in Dapitan

Answer 36

Delgras

Question 37

In 1892 aboard "Menon", Rizal went to [...] to confer with British authorities as regards the founding of a Filipino colony in North Borneo

Answer 37

Sandakan