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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the intelligence community worried?

2. What does the American intelligence community decide about Quirino?

3. How successful is Roxas when he cracks down on the Huks in an attempt to overwhelm them with force?

4. What does Marcos artfully negotiate to serve in Vietnam for a large amount of U.S. federal aid?

5. Where does Marcos excel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the "Bataan death march?"

2. What does MacArthur want to quickly do?

3. Describe MacArthur's fateful decision.

4. What fateful decision does Ninoy make in 1983?

5. What takes place on the day Pearl Harbor is attacked?

6. What takes place during the period of MacArthur's first marriage?

7. Describe Ferdinand Marcos.

8. Describe MacArthur's career as U.S. Chief of Staff.

9. Where does Ninoy Aquino spend most of the 1970s?

10. Describe Quezon.

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

An intimate relationship has developed between the United States and the Philippines over the past one hundred years.

Part 1) Describe this relationship. How did it begin?

Part 2) How has the relationship evolved? How do these changes reflect the changes of opinion by Americans and United States' leadership?

Part 3) How have these changes made the Philippines what it is today?

Essay Topic 2

It is ironic that the culture of the Filipinos is viewed as "savage" by the Spanish.

Part 1) Describe their culture prior to Spanish influence.

Part 2) Why was their culture considered savage? How is this ironic?

Part 3) Are you surprised by this culture? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

There is some foreshadowing enhance the story for the reader?

Part 1) Describe two examples of foreshadowing. What do these examples foreshadow?

Part 2) How does this foreshadowing enhance the story for the reader?

Part 3) How can leaders of today learn from these foreshadowed events?

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