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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IX, Sunset Gun, pgs. 454-628.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Dai Ichi?
(a) A city in Japan.
(b) MacArthur's Japanese butler.
(c) A city in the Philippines occupied by the Americans.
(d) MacArthur's headquarters in Japan.

2. After the surrender of the Japanese, how did MacArthur address the citizens of the United States to inform them that the world was at peace?
(a) Via television satellite.
(b) Via telegraph.
(c) Via a telegram.
(d) Via radio.

3. What did the Japanese people think of MacArthur?
(a) He was popular with them.
(b) They thought he was a powerful enemy.
(c) They hated him.
(d) They respected his intellect but hated him.

4. Who was the Japanese commander of the Philippine defenses?
(a) General Mashita.
(b) Lieutenant General Yamaga.
(c) General Mayaki Komo.
(d) Lieutenant General Tomoyuki Yamashita.

5. Why did MacArthur have to testify at a Congressional investigation about his experience at West Point?
(a) He witnessed an act of cheating at the school.
(b) He was involved in a scandal involving theft.
(c) Another student shot an instructor.
(d) Another plebe died from an act of hazing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following abilities did not fall within MacArthur's range of authority in Japan after the war?

2. How did The United Nations Security Council respond to the invasion of South Korea by North Korea?

3. How high was the Anglo-American commitment of military resources to the Pacific?

4. Of what place was Arthur MacArthur, Jr. made military governor in 1900?

5. To what division of the Army was MacArthur first assigned when he finished at West Point as a second lieutenant?

(see the answer key)

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