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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Dai Ichi?
(a) MacArthur's Japanese butler.
(b) A city in the Philippines occupied by the Americans.
(c) MacArthur's headquarters in Japan.
(d) A city in Japan.

2. Who did Quezon designate as his successor as president of the Philippines should he and Osmeña be killed during their flight to Australia?
(a) Felipe Garcia.
(b) Manuel Roxas.
(c) General MacArthur.
(d) Jose Laurel.

3. What did critics of MacArthur claim?
(a) That he risked the lives of too many men.
(b) That he was too pompous.
(c) That he choose which orders he would obey.
(d) That he was a drunkard.

4. Who was the Japanese commander of the Philippine defenses?
(a) General Mayaki Komo.
(b) General Mashita.
(c) Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita.
(d) Lieutenant General Yamaga.

5. For which people in the Pacific was MacArthur committed to bringing freedom?
(a) Korean.
(b) Japanese.
(c) All people in the Pacific.
(d) Filipinos.

6. What did MacArthur use against Japanese ships near New Guinea to cut off Japanese supplies and reinforcements?
(a) Nuclear weapons.
(b) Bombs dropped by air.
(c) Submarines.
(d) Nerve gas.

7. Why did the Japanese think an invasion of their homeland was impossible?
(a) They believed they were sacred and divinely protected.
(b) They thought Japan was well fortified against invasion.
(c) They had developed germ warfare to repel invaders.
(d) They planted undersea bombs to repel invaders.

8. Why didn't MacArthur think China could conduct a war in Korea?
(a) China didn't have enough soldiers for war.
(b) China lacked the industrial capacity to conduct a war.
(c) China didn't want Korea.
(d) China lacked the funds for a war.

9. What Japanese government document did MacArthur help write?
(a) A new constitution.
(b) A trade agreement with the United Nations.
(c) A peace treaty with America.
(d) A new tax law.

10. Who won the battle at Inchon and Min Gun?
(a) The North Koreans.
(b) The Japanese.
(c) MacArthur.
(d) The Chinese.

11. Which of the following is not a problem MacArthur had with maps of the Pacific during World War II?
(a) They had to capture enemy maps to know where they were.
(b) The maps were in black and white rather than color.
(c) They started the war using 18th century charts.
(d) There weren't many maps available.

12. Why did MacArthur never send his men to battle on the island of Rabaul?
(a) The island had active volcanoes.
(b) The island was populated by cannibals.
(c) The Japanese had the island filled with land mines.
(d) It was his strategy to attack elsewhere.

13. Who did President Truman appoint as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) in Japan?
(a) Halsey.
(b) Taft.
(c) MacArthur.
(d) Eisenhower.

14. Who was named commander of the Pacific Ocean Areas in 1942?
(a) Admiral King.
(b) Admiral Maynard.
(c) Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
(d) Admiral Halsey.

15. What country did MacArthur think would have fallen to the Japanese if Corregidor had not held out?
(a) The United States.
(b) England.
(c) Australia.
(d) New Zealand.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many Japanese lined the route to the airport when the MacArthurs departed from Tokyo in 1951?

2. Why did MacArthur fly to Seoul On August 15, 1948?

3. What did MacArthur say a nation should do if it wasn't willing to make the full military commitment to winning a war?

4. When did MacArthur return to the Rock after having to flee it when the Japanese attacked in 1941?

5. After capturing Seoul, what kind of reforms did MacArthur want to establish there?

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