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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does Imelda quickly become enamored?
(a) Her political position.
(b) Her career.
(c) The finer things in life.
(d) Her husband.

2. What does the American intelligence community decide about Quirino?
(a) He must be promoted.
(b) He must be murdered.
(c) He must be the leader of the Philippines.
(d) He must go.

3. Who does Ninoy take with him for his return flight?
(a) CIA agents.
(b) The Marcos.
(c) Several members of the press.
(d) A militia.

4. What does U.S. trade do to the gap between rich and poor?
(a) It widens it.
(b) It creates it.
(c) It makes it non-existent.
(d) It shrinks it.

5. What do Marcos' financial schemes bring in?
(a) More wealth to the country.
(b) More sleazy partners.
(c) More help from the United States.
(d) A stronger military.

6. Who helps Quezon climb the ladder of Filipino culture?
(a) His American elders.
(b) His Filipino elders.
(c) His wife.
(d) His wealthy parents.

7. What does Quezon complete with William Atkinson Jones?
(a) A bill to grant Philippine independence in eight years.
(b) A bill to grant Philippine independence in two years.
(c) A bill to grant Philippine independence in five years.
(d) A bill to grant Philippine independence in one year.

8. When do boatloads of American teachers and civil servants start arriving in the Philippines?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1891.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1911.

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

10. To what does the majority of aid money go?
(a) Marcos' pet causes or directly into his pocket.
(b) To support organizations in the Philippines.
(c) To the Vietnam War effort.
(d) To the United States.

11. Why are MacArthur's B-17s easily destroyed by the Japanese planes?
(a) They are out of fuel and are forced to go into enemy territory.
(b) They are still neatly arranged on the runway.
(c) They are flying in Japanese air space.
(d) They are arranged on an aircraft carrier.

12. How would one describe Quezon?
(a) He is what one would expect of a Filipino leader.
(b) He is a very conservative, quiet man.
(c) He has magnetism and more closely echoes American flamboyant politicians.
(d) He is very different from most American leaders.

13. How does MacArthur create much resentment?
(a) By having affairs with officers' wives.
(b) By ignoring the presidents communiques.
(c) By pardoning many high level Filipinos who had collaborated with the Japanese.
(d) By attacking Spain.

14. By 1909, there are ________________ elementary schools and four hundred thousand pupils in the Philippines.
(a) Two hundred.
(b) Four thousand.
(c) Two thousand.
(d) Four hundred.

15. Does Taft find that the Filipino people are satisfied with U.S. rule?
(a) Maybe.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Sometimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Nationalistic insurgent groups see Quezon?

2. In 1907, what do Osmena and Quezon form?

3. How do some Filipinos feel as Marcos takes total power and crime plummets?

4. When does anti-military sentiment sweep the nation?

5. Why is the investigation where Pearl Harbor commanders are punished short lived?

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