LIFE AND WORKS OF RIZAL
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• You have 25 minutes to complete the test.
• For each question, select the correct answer choice.
• Shade your answers clearly on the separate answer sheet provided.
• Do not mark your answers on the test paper itself; only use the answer sheet.
1. According to Anderson, why were the New World colonies the birthplace of modern
nationalism?
A) Because they had ancient ethnic communities
B) Because exploitation by the metropole and discrimination against foreign officials
united local elites for independence
C) Because they had no influence from Europe
D) Because they were culturally homogeneous
2. How did geographical isolation of administrative units in the colonies contribute to
nationalism?
A) It prevented communication and unity
B) It formed distinct units that became the basis for imagined national communities
C) It caused the colonies to remain fragmented permanently
D) It discouraged the use of local languages
3. What role did the political success of North and South American nationalisms play
globally?
A) It remained isolated without influence
B) It served as a model imitated and further developed worldwide
C) It discouraged other colonies from pursuing independence
D) It led to the decline of print culture
4. How did increased book and newspaper production contribute to European
nationalism?
A) By limiting access to elite groups only
B) By spreading common ideas and standardizing dialects into national languages
C) By focusing exclusively on religious texts
D) By discouraging communication between regions
5. What was the initial relationship between nationalism and political ideologies in
Europe?
A) Nationalism was always aligned with monarchies
B) Nationalism was often linked to liberal, democratic, and revolutionary movements
opposing monarchs
C) Nationalism had no political implications
D) Nationalism was opposed by all political groups
6. How did some absolutist rulers use nationalism differently?
A) They rejected nationalism
B) They used “official nationalism” to legitimize their dynastic rule
C) They promoted nationalism to overthrow monarchies
D) They ignored cultural unity
7. According to Anderson, what is the relationship between the nation and
nationalism?
A) The nation existed before nationalism
B) Nationalism produced the nation as a modern construct
C) The nation and nationalism arose simultaneously in ancient times
D) Nationalism is irrelevant to nation-building
8. What misconception about the nation does Anderson challenge?
A) That nations are modern inventions
B) That nations are rooted in ancient history and arise spontaneously
C) That nationalism has political motives
D) That nations depend on print culture
9. Why was it necessary for colonial elites to unite the population?
A) To ensure continued domination by the metropole
B) To confront the metropole and pursue independence
C) To maintain fragmented local identities
D) To promote religious unity
10. How did the promotion of national symbols and narratives affect the concept of
the nation?
A) They revealed the true ancient origins of nations
B) They created a shared identity around a historically unified community that often never
existed
C) They discouraged nationalism
D) They focused only on linguistic diversity
11. Why did the standardization of dialects matter in nationalism’s development?
A) It limited communication within regions
B) It helped create a unified national language, fostering a sense of shared identity
C) It had no real impact on nationalism
D) It promoted regional isolation
12. In what way did nationalism serve as a foundation for modern nation-states?
A) As a tool for maintaining old feudal orders
B) As the source of legitimacy and unity for emerging states
C) As a barrier to state formation
D) As a purely cultural, non-political movement
13. How did the interaction of capitalism and print technology influence nationalism?
A) By reducing literacy rates
B) By enabling mass circulation of texts that spread nationalist ideas
C) By focusing only on religious education
D) By limiting communication to elites only
14. What does Anderson’s analysis imply about the universality of nationalism’s
form?
A) Nationalism is unique to Europe
B) Nationalism originated in the Americas and spread globally in a specific but universal
form
C) Nationalism is a recent 21st-century phenomenon
D) Nationalism is irrelevant outside colonial contexts
15. Why might local elites have been motivated to pursue nationalism in colonial
contexts?
A) To maintain colonial rule
B) To resist exploitation and discrimination by foreign colonial officials
C) To promote religious uniformity
D) To discourage local languages
16. What does the spread of common awareness of events through print suggest
about nationalism?
A) Nationalism depends largely on direct personal interaction
B) Nationalism is fostered through shared narratives accessible widely via media
C) Nationalism is unrelated to communication technology
D) Nationalism only depends on military force
17. How did the decline of religious communities relate to the rise of nationalism?
A) Nationalism replaced the political and existential role once played by religious
communities
B) Religious communities grew stronger alongside nationalism
C) Nationalism and religion are unrelated
D) Nationalism was a religious movement
18. Why is it significant that nationalism was sometimes opposed to monarchs in
Europe?
A) It signaled that nationalism was a conservative force
B) It showed nationalism’s role in promoting liberal and revolutionary change
C) It meant nationalism had no political impact
D) It supported absolute monarchy
19. How did absolutist rulers’ adoption of nationalism differ from revolutionary
nationalism?
A) Absolutist rulers used nationalism to uphold their power, revolutionaries to challenge it
B) Both used nationalism identically
C) Absolutists rejected nationalism completely
D) Revolutionaries opposed nationalism
20. What does Anderson’s concept of “imagined communities” imply about the
nature of national identity?
A) National identity is fixed and biologically inherited
B) National identity is a socially constructed imagination enabled by media and historical
conditions
C) National identity is unchanging and eternal
D) National identity is irrelevant to politics
Answer Key
1. B
2. B
3. B
4. B
5. B
6. B
7. B
8. B
9. B
10. B
11. B
12. B
13. B
14. B
15. B
16. B
17. A
18. B
19. A
20. B
