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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, Civilizing with a Krag.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The country is ruled indirectly from what for three hundred years?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) The Vatican and Rome.
(c) Japan.
(d) The United States.

2. How does the insurgent force's policy gradually switch?
(a) From a policy of direct confrontation to guerrilla tactics.
(b) From a policy of guerrilla tactics to direct confrontation.
(c) From a policy of guerrilla tactics to traditional tactics.
(d) From a policy of direct confrontation to no confrontation.

3. What takes off in Europe and creates a demand for a viable route to the Far East?
(a) Yoga and interest in Eastern religions.
(b) The Black Death.
(c) The Asian spice trade.
(d) A desire for fine China.

4. What does Aguinaldo assume that the United States will guarantee for the Philippines?
(a) Order.
(b) Freedom.
(c) Wealth.
(d) Safety.

5. 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.
(a) Major General Wesley Merritt.
(b) Major General Jacob Merritt.
(c) Major General William Merritt.
(d) Major General John Merritt.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what do the Spanish soldiers excitedly concentrate?

2. Soon, what happens to the local chiefs regarding their people?

3. In the spirit of "benevolent assimilation," General Otis focuses army resources towards what?

4. What Portuguese explorer leads a successful voyage around the Horn of Africa and lands in India in 1498?

5. Theodore Roosevelt is a student of Mahan's THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER ON HISTORY and desires to make the United States what?

(see the answer key)

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