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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people died in the Korean War?
(a) One million.
(b) Five million.
(c) Five thousand.
(d) One billion.

2. How many reporters accompanied MacArthur to South Korea on his first trip there during the war?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) One dozen.
(d) Eight.

3. What cities gave MacArthur parades after his return to the United States from the Pacific once Truman dismissed him?
(a) San Francisco and Washington.
(b) Boston and Los Angeles.
(c) New York and Chicago.
(d) Philadelphia and Boston.

4. What factors helped the Japanese succeed in the Pacific during World War II?
(a) They had better technology and faster ships.
(b) They were well equipped with petroleum and raw materials.
(c) They had more men and more planes.
(d) They had better trained and better equipped soldiers.

5. Who was MacArthur's greatest friend and confidante during the war, the person with whom he spent as much time as possible?
(a) His wife Jean.
(b) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
(c) Harry Truman.
(d) Winston Churchill.

6. Which Filipino leader formed a pro-Japanese regime and declared war on the United States and Great Britain?
(a) Felipe Garcia.
(b) Manuel Roxas.
(c) Manuel Quezon.
(d) Jose Laurel.

7. How many Japanese lined the route to the airport when the MacArthurs departed from Tokyo in 1951?
(a) One thousand.
(b) Two hundred.
(c) Eight thousand.
(d) One quarter million.

8. What kind of government did MacArthur establish in Japan after the war?
(a) A dictatorship.
(b) A theocracy.
(c) A republic.
(d) A democracy.

9. Which two groups among the Filipino population did not ignore their Japanese invaders, unlike the rest of the population?
(a) The guerrillas and the collaborators.
(b) The poor farmers and the fishermen.
(c) The women and children.
(d) The aged and the infirm.

10. What were the kempei-tai?
(a) The Philippine guerillas.
(b) The Japanese secret police.
(c) The Japanese infantry.
(d) The Philippine senators.

11. What did MacArthur use against Japanese ships near New Guinea to cut off Japanese supplies and reinforcements?
(a) Bombs dropped by air.
(b) Nerve gas.
(c) Submarines.
(d) Nuclear weapons.

12. Why did MacArthur never send his men to battle on the island of Rabaul?
(a) The Japanese had the island filled with land mines.
(b) It was his strategy to attack elsewhere.
(c) The island had active volcanoes.
(d) The island was populated by cannibals.

13. When the Soviet Union announced in 1949 that it had moved its forces out of North Korea, what did that nation expect the United States to do in response?
(a) Invade North Korea.
(b) Invade China.
(c) Remove U.S. forces from South Korea.
(d) Remove U.S. forces from Germany.

14. For which people in the Pacific was MacArthur committed to bringing freedom?
(a) Japanese.
(b) Filipinos.
(c) All people in the Pacific.
(d) Korean.

15. In the fall of 1944, what percentage of Filipinos were Roman Catholic?
(a) Ten percent.
(b) One hundred percent.
(c) Eighty percent.
(d) Thirty percent.

Short Answer Questions

1. With which Navy admiral did MacArthur frequently come into conflict?

2. Why did the government officials decide to remove MacArthur from command in Korea?

3. What did the Japanese soldiers on Rabaul prefer to do rather than surrender to the Americans?

4. After capturing Seoul, what kind of reforms did MacArthur want to establish there?

5. How did MacArthur see the war in the Pacific?

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