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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Imperial Democracy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What were the Philippines to the Spanish initially?
(a) A state.
(b) A colony.
(c) An ally.
(d) An enemy.

2. On what do the Spanish soldiers excitedly concentrate?
(a) Finding a route to enhance their power in the spice trade.
(b) Selling the Philippines to the United States.
(c) Preparing the Philippine people to be independent.
(d) Collecting revenue and converting the population to Christianity.

3. During the mid 1800s, the American desire to become a world power and be taken seriously _____________.
(a) Shrinks.
(b) Grows.
(c) Ends.
(d) Begins.

4. What Portuguese explorer leads a successful voyage around the Horn of Africa and lands in India in 1498?
(a) Franz Ferdinand.
(b) Vasco da Gama.
(c) Ferdinand Magellan.
(d) Christopher Columbus.

5. What stories heavily influence the natives?
(a) Pagan.
(b) Western.
(c) Local.
(d) Christian.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the result of Dewey's cutting the telegraph cable out of Manila?

2. Under pressure, McKinley appoints Roosevelt as the assistant secretary to whom, who is the secretary of the navy?

3. With the Spanish fleet destroyed in Manila, McKinley appoints _________ to command the U.S. Army to take the city itself, still held by the Spanish.

4. Who have found their lives inexorably linked to the Philippines?

5. How many weeks does it take to reach the Pacific Ocean?

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