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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did MacArthur treat Manuel Roxas, a known Japanese collaborator, after liberating the Philippines from Japanese rule?
(a) He executed Roxas.
(b) He imprisoned Roxas.
(c) He exiled Roxas.
(d) He exonerated Roxas.

2. How did MacArthur see the war in the Pacific?
(a) As a war of supply protected by air.
(b) As a German plan to distract the U.S. from Europe.
(c) As a way to increase U.S. territory in the Pacific.
(d) As a war of infantry.

3. To where did MacArthur move his advance base once he had the Japanese in retreat?
(a) To Amsterdam.
(b) To Honolulu.
(c) To Philadelphia.
(d) To Moresby.

4. What was MacArthur's goal for Korea?
(a) To keep communism out of South Korea.
(b) To keep the Chinese out of it.
(c) To take it over for the United States.
(d) To unite North and South Korea as one nation.

5. Who did Quezon designate as his successor as president of the Philippines should he and Osmeña be killed during their flight to Australia?
(a) General MacArthur.
(b) Manuel Roxas.
(c) Felipe Garcia.
(d) Jose Laurel.

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

7. Why did the Japanese think an invasion of their homeland was impossible?
(a) They planted undersea bombs to repel invaders.
(b) They had developed germ warfare to repel invaders.
(c) They believed they were sacred and divinely protected.
(d) They thought Japan was well fortified against invasion.

8. Who was named commander of the Pacific Ocean Areas in 1942?
(a) Admiral Maynard.
(b) Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.
(c) Admiral Halsey.
(d) Admiral King.

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

10. Why didn't MacArthur use the strategy of island-hopping, i.e. hitting the enemy with direct frontal pressure in battle?
(a) He thought it caused too many casualties.
(b) He believed in doing the unexpected.
(c) There were too many islands and not enough men.
(d) He didn't have enough bombs and ships to succeed.

11. Who won the battle at Inchon and Min Gun?
(a) The Chinese.
(b) The North Koreans.
(c) MacArthur.
(d) The Japanese.

12. What Japanese government document did MacArthur help write?
(a) A new constitution.
(b) A trade agreement with the United Nations.
(c) A new tax law.
(d) A peace treaty with America.

13. What did critics of MacArthur claim?
(a) That he choose which orders he would obey.
(b) That he risked the lives of too many men.
(c) That he was a drunkard.
(d) That he was too pompous.

14. What did MacArthur say a nation should do if it wasn't willing to make the full military commitment to winning a war?
(a) It shouldn't be surprised to lose.
(b) It should dissolve itself.
(c) It should dissolve its army.
(d) It shouldn't fight.

15. Who did President Truman appoint as Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers (SCAP) in Japan?
(a) Taft.
(b) Halsey.
(c) Eisenhower.
(d) MacArthur.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why didn't MacArthur think China could conduct a war in Korea?

2. What was Dai Ichi?

3. When the South Koreans sustained heavy losses at Yalu, troops from which nation were identified as having helped the North Koreans in battle?

4. At the end of the Korean War, where was the line between North and South Korea?

5. Which of the following does not describe an aspect of life in the Philippines in 1944?

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