Exercises 2 I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Read The Following Questions. Write The Correct Letter of Your
Exercises 2 I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Read The Following Questions. Write The Correct Letter of Your
Exercises 2 I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Read The Following Questions. Write The Correct Letter of Your
EXERCISES 2
I. MULTIPLE CHOICE. Read the following questions. Write the correct letter of your
answer on the space provided.
C 3. What is a gobernacion?
a. It is a kind of colony that is directly ruled by Spain and the leader is called the
viceroy.
b. It is a kind of colony that is indirectly ruled by Spain and the leader is called the
governor general.
c. It is a kind of colony that is directly ruled by Spain and the leader is called the
governor general.
d. It is a kind of colony that is indirectly ruled by Spain and the leader is called the
viceroy.
e.
C 4. What was the reason why Spain ruled the Philippines indirectly?
a. Because the Philippines y was not important to Spain
b. Because the Philippines was too distant for Spain to rule directly
c. Because the Philippines was not qualified for direct rule
d. Because the Philippines was too difficult to administer
D 5. What kind of government was established in the Philippines during the Spanish
regime?
a. Federal Government
b. Decentralized Government
c. Democratic Government
d. Centralized Government
A 6. Which among these statements does not describe the Governor General?
a. Ruler of the encommienda
b. Representative of the King of Spain
a. C. He has the power of cumplas.
b. D. Supreme commander of the Spanish armada
C 7. Which among these statements would BEST describe the power of cumplase?
a. It is the power to create any institution of government.
b. It is the power of the governor general to engage in business.
c. It is the power to make any law that is applicable to the colony.
d. It is the power to make judicial decisions.
D 8. What is a gobernadorcillo?
a. The chief executive of the barangay
b. The chief executive of the province
c. The chief executive of the city
d. The chief executive of the town
A 11. How did polo y servicios affect the agricultural production in the country?
a. It reduced the income from the agricultural products.
b. It increased the production in agriculture.
c. It increased the tax imposed to the agricultural products.
d. None of the above
D 13. Why did the Spaniards put the Church in the middle of towns?
a. To show the power of the church
b. To make life more religious for the natives
c. To make Christ the center of the natives' life
d. To make the natives believe in the Christian God
C 14. How was the Philippines ruled during the Spanish regime?
a. The Philippines was ruled directly by Spain.
b. The Philippines was ruled directly by Portugal.
a. C. The Philippines was ruled indirectly by Spain.
c. The Philippines was ruled indirectly by Mexico.
D 19. How did the opening of World trade contribute to the development of Filipino
nationalism?
a. It allowed the rise of the principalia.
b. It allowed the migration of liberal scholars.
c. It allowed the Chinese to become rich.
d. It allowed the influx of liberal ideas in the Philippines
II. Identify the Spanish colonial policy which contributed to the following effects. Write the
answer on the line before the number.
ANSWER: Bandala
4. The abandonment of farming
ANSWER: Adherence to social classes but allows contract marriage which happens rarely
and if a person commit a crime he/she will be a slave for some time.
9. The merging of the timawa class to the class of alipin.
III. TRUE or FALSE. Write letter A in the blank if the first statement is true and the second
statement is false; B if the second statement is true and the first statement is false; C if both
statements are true and D if both statements are false.
D 1.
a. The opening of the Philippines to the world trade contributed to the rise of the Philippine
nationalism,
b. The Creoles class was the group who enlightened the citizens about the needed political
reform in the country.
C 2.
a. All of the Filipinos who resided in Madrid during 1880 were part of the Propaganda
movement.
b. The Filipinos in Madrid were united in one vision for the development of the country.
A 3.
a. The political instability in Spain was brought by the conflict between the Carlista and the
Liberal group.
b. All the citizens in Spain supported Napoleon Bonaparte.
A 4.
a. The Liberal party in Spain formulated the constitution in Cadiz.
b. The Conservative group supported the confiscation of the properties of the church.
D 5.
a. The political instability in Spain did not affect the Spanish colonial government in the
country.
b. Gobernador General Carlos Maria de la Torre was part of the liberal administration of
Spain.
B 6.
a. The Peninsulares were the Spaniards who were born in the Philippines by the Spaniards
parents.
b. The Chinese in the Philippines were part of the Insulares.
C 7.
a. The tribute was a tax imposed in the agricultural products.
b. Cedula was one form of taxation.
D 8.
a. The Filipinos had representative in Spanish cortes.
b. The Filipinos could choose law during the Spanish colonization in the Philippines.
A 9.
a. Enconmienda was one system of land owning imposed by the Spaniards.
b. Hacienda was owned by the Flipinos.
A 10.
a. The secular priests were the Filipino priest.
b. The secular priest had more power than the regular priest.