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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, Stumbling Toward Self-rule.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aguinaldo tell his men to do?
(a) To assimilate to the American culture so as to convince the Americans that they have surrendered.
(b) To completely abandon conventional warfare and harass American troops whenever possible.
(c) To flee the country.
(d) Protect the Americans to show that they are a civilized people.

2. Conservative President Grover Cleveland ______________ pressure to annex Hawaii and attack Cuba.
(a) Succumbs to.
(b) Encourages.
(c) Ignores.
(d) Resists.

3. In mid-1900, what hope is Aguinaldo still holding out?
(a) That McKinley will stand up for his beliefs.
(b) McKinley will change his views on the Philippines as a colony.
(c) McKinley will win the next election.
(d) McKinley can be defeated in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

4. European countries move out by sea and land to explore the unknown reaches of the world in what is known as what?
(a) The "Age of Discovery."
(b) The "Age of Enlightenment."
(c) The "Age of the Dinosaurs."
(d) The "Age of Man."

5. Of what does McKinley have no knowledge?
(a) Political affairs.
(b) Foreign affairs.
(c) Local affairs.
(d) Far Eastern affairs.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Roosevelt takes over as acting secretary, he looks at means of overthrowing who in Cuba and the Philippines?

2. How does Aguinaldo feel when McKinley easily sweeps the elections for a second term, with Roosevelt as his running mate?

3. What Portuguese explorer leads a successful voyage around the Horn of Africa and lands in India in 1498?

4. During the mid 1800s, the American desire to become a world power and be taken seriously _____________.

5. In 1907, what do Osmena and Quezon form?

(see the answer key)

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