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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What becomes more common for Filipinos?
(a) To attack American troops as they enter a town.
(b) To run away from the American troops.
(c) To attack after American troops enter a town.
(d) To surrender to American troops entering a town, then attack later.

2. Mark Twain, Samuel Gompers and _________________ find themselves oddly on the same side of the expansionism issue.
(a) Solomon R. Guggenheim.
(b) John Ford.
(c) Andrew Carnegie.
(d) Thomas Eakins.

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

4. What creates resentment among the growing Filipino educated class?
(a) Not allowing Filipinos to be educated, but allowing them to become priests.
(b) Allowing them to be educated abroad but not in their own country.
(c) Allowing Filipinos to be educated, but not allowing them to become priests.
(d) Allowing them to be educated in their own country but not abroad.

5. What kind of relationship exists between the United States and the Philippines?
(a) A healthy relationship.
(b) A love/hate relationship.
(c) A relationship full of hatred.
(d) A loving relationship.

6. After two months at sea, where do the ships reach?
(a) Argentina.
(b) Mexico.
(c) Chile.
(d) Brazil.

7. What are many powerful individuals now considering?
(a) The uselessness of a U.S. colony in the Far East.
(b) The possible benefits of a U.S. colony in the Far East.
(c) The excitement of a U.S. colony in the Far East.
(d) The possible harm a U.S. colony would cause a group of people in the Far East.

8. When more troops are requested, how large does the army become within a year?
(a) It grows to seventy five thousand.
(b) It grows to fifty thousand.
(c) It grows to seventy five hundred.
(d) It grows to one hundred thousand.

9. European countries move out by sea and land to explore the unknown reaches of the world in what is known as what?
(a) The "Age of Discovery."
(b) The "Age of Man."
(c) The "Age of Enlightenment."
(d) The "Age of the Dinosaurs."

10. Conservative President Grover Cleveland ______________ pressure to annex Hawaii and attack Cuba.
(a) Resists.
(b) Encourages.
(c) Succumbs to.
(d) Ignores.

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

12. Where else do the Portuguese aggressively explore over the next ten years?
(a) Egypt, The Ivory Coast, and even Barbados.
(b) Ethiopia, India, and even Bermuda.
(c) Samaria, Chile, and even Argentina.
(d) Sumatra, China, and even Japan.

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

14. The connection between the United States and _________________ is both long lasting and complex.
(a) France.
(b) Japan.
(c) Fiji.
(d) The Philippines.

15. How do American commanders and troops retaliate?
(a) With a "no prisoners" policy.
(b) By pulling out of Manila.
(c) With a "torture the prisoners" policy.
(d) With an increase in forced labor camps.

Short Answer Questions

1. The _____________ view surpasses the expansionism view for most of the remainder of the 1800s.

2. As Filipinos gain power and prestige, what happens to their relationship with Spain?

3. Where is Magellan wrongly charged with corruption, then exonerated?

4. What takes off in Europe and creates a demand for a viable route to the Far East?

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

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