Laguna Northwestern College

San Lorenzo Ruiz Montessori Center

P. Burgos St. Siniloan, Laguna
SOS 101
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Explain or give the meaning of the following quotes from Noli Me Tangere. Write your answer on
the space provided.
1. I have to believe much in God because I have lost my faith in man. Jos Rizal, Noli Me
Tangere (Touch Me Not)

2. To be happy does not mean to indulge in foolishness! Jos Rizal, Noli Me Tangere
(Touch Me Not)

3. Let us not ask for miracles, let us not ask for concern with what is good for the country of
him who comes as a stranger to make his fortune and leave afterwards. Jos Rizal, Noli
Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)

4. The righteous man pays the sinner's bill. Jos Rizal, Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)

5. Our young people think about nothing more than love affairs and pleasure. They spend
more time attempting to seduce and dishonor young women than in thinking about their
country's welfare. Our women, in order to take care of the house and family of God, forget
their own. Our men limit their activities to vice and their heroics to shameful acts. Children
wake up in a fog of routine, adolescents live out their best years without ideals, and their
elders are sterile, and only serve to corrupt our young people by their example. Jos
Rizal, Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)

Laguna Northwestern College

San Lorenzo Ruiz Montessori Center
P. Burgos St. Siniloan, Laguna
SOS 101
Name:
Professor:

Score:
Date:

Explain or give the meaning of the following quotes from El Filibusterismo. Write your answer on
the space provided.
1. Why independence, if the slaves of today will be the tyrants of tomorrow? Jos Rizal,
El Filibusterismo

2. A lie among the stars is a comfortable lie. Jos Rizal, El Filibusterismo

3. When a people holds onto its language, it holds onto a semblance of freedom, like a man
who holds onto his independence when he retains his own way of thinking. Language is
the thought of a people. Jos Rizal, El Filibusterismo

4. Would that I could die, reduce myself to nothing, leave a glorious name to my country,
die in the cause of defending it against a foreign invasion and afterwards the sun will shine
on my body like a permanent sentinel in these ocean rocks! Jos Rizal, El Filibusterismo

5. Where are the young who must dedicate their roseate hours, their illusions and
enthusiasm to the good of the country? Where are they who must generously spill their
blood to wash away so much shame, so many crimes, so much abomination? Pure and
spotless must be the victim for the holocaust to be acceptable. Where are you, you
children who must embody the vigor of life that has fled from your veins, the purity of
ideas that has become in our minds and the fire of enthusiasm that has gone out in our
hearts? We await you, Oh youth! Come, we await you! Jos Rizal, El Filibusterismo