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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. As Marcos debates how he will sidestep the Philippine constitution to start an illegal third term in office, what does the local press worry?
(a) He "might become a megalomaniac, drunk with his own importance [and] even consider enthroning himself as lifetime president or dictator."
(b) He "might do a better job during his third term in office."
(c) He "might try to continue being in power after three terms in office."
(d) He "might become a stronger leader, once he has more experience during his third term in office."

4. 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.

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

6. What does Ninoy decide to do in 1983?
(a) Leave the Philippines.
(b) Become a citizen of the United States.
(c) Return to the Philippines.
(d) Run for president.

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

8. Why is this one language taught?
(a) To unite the population.
(b) To keep an aspect of the Philippine culture.
(c) To keep the Portuguese language alive.
(d) To remember the occupation by the Spanish.

9. 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 accepts them.
(c) Congress improves upon them.
(d) Congress enlarges his plans.

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

11. The prisoners are marched some eighty miles in what comes to be known as what?
(a) The "Bataan apocalypse."
(b) The "Bataan death march."
(c) The "Manila apocalypse."
(d) The "Manila death march."

12. Why does Marcos leave a relationship (where he had produced four out of wedlock children) to marry Imelda Visitacion?
(a) She was extremely beautiful.
(b) She was very wealthy.
(c) For purely political reasons.
(d) He was in love with her.

13. Who do the Japanese instill as bogus Filipino president?
(a) Jose Laurel.
(b) Jose Suarez.
(c) Jose Sanchez.
(d) Jose Limon.

14. When do the Philippines become officially independent?
(a) July 14, 1936.
(b) July 4, 1936.
(c) July 14, 1946.
(d) July 4, 1946.

15. What does Marcos artfully negotiate to serve in Vietnam for a large amount of U.S. federal aid?
(a) A surrender deal of the Vietcong.
(b) As a leader of American troops.
(c) A regiment of Flipino troops.
(d) A "ghost" regiment of Filipino troops.

Short Answer Questions

1. What infamous comment does MacArthur make to the press in Australia?

2. What does Imelda Marcos do regarding Ninoy?

3. Does Taft find that the Filipino people are satisfied with U.S. rule?

4. Why do some American legislators threaten to withhold foreign aid?

5. When do Douglas MacArthur, Quezon and Osmena become friends?

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