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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Conjugal Autocracy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does congress do with many of Taft's grand plans for improving the Philippines?
(a) Congress bickers at them and either downsizes or eliminates them altogether.
(b) Congress enlarges his plans.
(c) Congress accepts them.
(d) Congress improves upon them.

2. When asked to clarify the overall U.S. mission, how does McKinley respond?
(a) With very vague answers.
(b) With very specific answers.
(c) He does not respond.
(d) He responds with outright lies.

3. Who is Luis Taruc?
(a) The leader of the Huks.
(b) The leader of the Federalista Party.
(c) An American spy in the Philippines.
(d) The president of the Philippines.

4. What begins roaming the countryside, killing American collaborators?
(a) Former United States soldiers.
(b) Filipino death squads.
(c) Filipino clergy.
(d) Japanese death squads.

5. Why is Douglas sent home?
(a) He contracts a bad case of malaria.
(b) His duties are complete.
(c) He does not enjoy his time in the Philippines.
(d) He become ill with pneumonia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Americans do to the village of Caloocan?

2. When Woodrow Wilson is elected president, what do Filipinos prematurely assume will happen?

3. McKinley does not want complications with the insurgents, but is still trying to do what?

4. What does Quezon complete with William Atkinson Jones?

5. What were the Philippines to the Spanish initially?

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