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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is established in the Philippines?
(a) A Filipino militia.
(b) An all-Filipino governing system.
(c) A superficial judicial system.
(d) A true judicial system.

2. What does Imelda Marcos do regarding Ninoy?
(a) She helps him move to the United States.
(b) She promotes him during his presidential campaign.
(c) She pleads with him to postpone his journey.
(d) She begs him to return to the Philippines.

3. What does Taft believe will only hurt trade between the U.S. and the Philippines?
(a) Keeping the Philippines as a colony.
(b) Putting Osmena in power.
(c) Putting Quezon in power.
(d) Philippine independence.

4. What does U.S. Major General Edward King do on April 9, 1942?
(a) He surrenders the force of eight hundred thousand to the Japanese.
(b) He surrenders the force of eight hundred to the Japanese.
(c) He surrenders the force of eighty thousand to the Japanese.
(d) He surrenders the force of eight thousand to the Japanese.

5. Where does the American tide turn?
(a) At the battle of Midway.
(b) At the battle of Waterloo.
(c) At the battle of the Bulge.
(d) At the battle of Shiloh.

6. What does MacArthur do once he divorces his wife?
(a) He marries a Filipino woman.
(b) He becomes a priest.
(c) He takes a Filipino mistress.
(d) He vows to never marry again.

7. On the home front, with what is Quezon having difficulty?
(a) Finding enough products to be exported from the Philippines.
(b) Encouraging other countries to import goods.
(c) Earning enough money for his country.
(d) Growing unrest over the massive economic inequalities in his country.

8. How long is Ninoy Aquino jailed?
(a) For one year.
(b) Throughout most of the 1960s.
(c) For almost five years.
(d) Throughout most of the 1970s.

9. When does anti-military sentiment sweep the nation?
(a) After World War II.
(b) During the Spanish American War.
(c) Between world wars.
(d) Before World War I.

10. Realizing his position, what fateful decision does MacArthur make?
(a) To abandon Manila and moves his forces into more easily defendable Bataan.
(b) To stay in Manila, rather than travel to Bataan.
(c) To surrender to the Japanese.
(d) To abandon Manila and board ships for the United States.

11. Despite the shortcomings and unrealistic expectations, _______________ quickly becomes the most literate nation in southeast Asia.
(a) Japan.
(b) China.
(c) Fiji.
(d) The Philippines.

12. What language is taught?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Portuguese.
(c) English.
(d) Filipino.

13. Why does Quezon go to Washington D.C.?
(a) He is running for an American political office.
(b) He would like to see the nation's capital.
(c) He is a Filipino representative.
(d) He is invited by the President of the United States.

14. Where is Ferdinand Marcos born on September 11, 1917?
(a) Northern Lisbon.
(b) Southern Lisbon.
(c) Northern Luzon.
(d) Southern Luzon.

15. How does MacArthur feel about being reassigned to the Philippines?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Angry.
(c) Excited.
(d) Disappointed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Manila dubbed?

2. What does Marcos come to resent regarding Ninoy?

3. What does Francis Harrison quickly do when he becomes the U.S. governor of the Philippines?

4. How does MacArthur create much resentment?

5. Who does Marcos jail?

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