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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2: Section 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Aung San want to achieve nationalism?
(a) Through non-violent resistance.
(b) Constitutionally.
(c) With the assistance of the United Nations.
(d) Through force.

2. When does law and order gain intrinsic value?
(a) When law is followed by all.
(b) When law is enforced.
(c) When law is created by men with morals and integrity.
(d) When law is equated with justice and order.

3. How did the British attempt to pacify the Burmese people during their rule?
(a) By imposing curfews.
(b) By emphasizing differences among the ethnic groups.
(c) By turing their backs on the corruption of local Burmese administrators.
(d) Through intermarriage.

4. When did political thinking in Burma become increasingly organized?
(a) During the early 1900s
(b) During the 1940s
(c) During the 1980s
(d) During the 1930s.

5. What was Aung San's objective after he resigned as military chief?
(a) To unite Burma's ethnic groups.
(b) To release political prisoners.
(c) To stabilize the economy.
(d) To organize a grassroots resistance.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to his daughter, what would have been abhorrent to Aung San?

3. Why was the Burmese populace largely literate?

4. What political party swept the elections in Burma in 1947?

5. What was a common theme in Burmese literature near the end of the British rule?

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