“English Readers in the Philippines 1905 – 1932” Check-Up Quiz

Arrange (using letters) the sequence of argumentation of the essay.

1. Among these authors was Camilo Osias, Jr. whose English Readers became a site of contestation in
challenging American values. 165
2. Based on personal texts of American teachers and the textbooks prescribed in the schools, the
article traces the evolution of ideas from wholesale colonial transplantation to the more nuanced
cooperation by Filipino authors with latent assertion of their independence. 189
3. It dawned on Filipino authors after a time that they could inculcate local values by providing
incorporating Filipino content and then questioning subtly some of the assumptions of their
colonial overlords. 184
4. Because English and free public education came hand in hand, the ideology of colonial expansion
was managed carefully and deliberately. 164
5. American ideals were gradually introduced first through imported textbooks and then through
American-educated Filipino authors as a form of benevolent imperialism. 190

Match the proponent with the idea or source.

1. Frank White B A. Filipino children were arrogant and unruly.

2. N’gugi wa Thiong’o D B. We must prepare them for productive labor.
3. Rolando Sintos Coloma E C. This is a flag. I see the flag.
4. Mary Helen Fee A D. Abolish the English department.
5. David Gibbs C E. a third space of possibility

T/F.

1. Osias himself perpetuated American-induced ideas of classifying races. T

2. At the start, he accepted colonial values completely as reflected in the early readers. T
3. Americans found it useful to appropriate Jose Rizal because he was a reformer, not a
revolutionary. T
4. The framing of Rizal in American readers and that of Osias’s was the same or similar. F
5. Osias appealed to authenticity of local material in his readers, unlike the tokens used in books by
Fee, Gibbs, and Reinold. T

Identify.

1. thought that presupposes stability and longing to reclaim a lost past. Stuart Hall
2. Filipino folktales were placed audaciously together with these German brothers. Harriot Ely
Fansler and Isidoro Panlasigui’s
3. These two people succeeded because they kept on trying despite several failures. Lincoln and
Magellan,
4. This symbol was displayed, even if inconspicuously, in the early readers. symbolic economy of
the flag
5. The only volume of Philippine Readers to be recognized officially by the American educational
officials. 2 to 7