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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Section 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who have taken on their traditional role as mentors?
(a) The United Nations.
(b) The British.
(c) The Indians.
(d) The Buddhist sanha.

2. According to Aung San, why did he encourage the Japanese invasion?
(a) Because of "our naive blunders and petit-bourgeois timidity.'"
(b) Because "we cannot bank our hopes on possibilities."
(c) Because "already one seems to hear the distant rumblings of another war"
(d) Because "our people are reeling and suffering unprecedentedly."

3. What was one of Aung San's fantasies as a child?
(a) He would become ruler of Burma.
(b) He would use magic to expel the British from Burma.
(c) He could ride a magic carpet to anywhere in the world.
(d) A monster would scare the British out of Burma.

4. What event brought Aung San's name into prominence in the Burmese nationalism movement?
(a) The resistance of 1938.
(b) The Independence Movement of 1940.
(c) The strike of 1936.
(d) The boycott of 1934.

5. The passage written in 1908 negatively compares the Burmese to the following nationalities EXCEPT?
(a) The Siamese.
(b) The Chinaman.
(c) Indian.
(d) The European.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Aung San's objective after he resigned as military chief?

2. What advice does Aung San give in his inauguration speech?

3. When did political thinking in Burma become increasingly organized?

4. What was the Freedom Bloc?

5. When was Aung San assassinated?

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