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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Imperial Democracy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What effect do modest reforms have on the leaders in the Philippines?
(a) It decreases the power of both the Spanish bureaucrats and the church.
(b) This limits the power of the Spanish bureaucrats, but actually increases the power of the church.
(c) It increases the power of both Spanish bureaucrats and the church.
(d) This limits the power of the church, but actually increases the power of the Spanish bureaucrats.

2. How do priests adapt to life in the Philippines?
(a) They force the natives to comply to their way of life.
(b) They learn the language.
(c) They abandon all aspects of their previous culture.
(d) They learn the language and culture, often abandoning their vows and marrying.

3. When does the crew gaze upon the Philippines for the first time?
(a) March 1621.
(b) April 1621.
(c) April 1521.
(d) March 1521.

4. In whose footsteps does Magellan follow?
(a) Cabot.
(b) Columbus.
(c) De Gama.
(d) Balboa's.

5. With the Spanish fleet destroyed in Manila, McKinley appoints _________ to command the U.S. Army to take the city itself, still held by the Spanish.
(a) Major General William Merritt.
(b) Major General John Merritt.
(c) Major General Wesley Merritt.
(d) Major General Jacob Merritt.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Aguinaldo depart to the mainland?

2. Who aggressively works for forty years to send out sea voyages?

3. The country is ruled indirectly from what for three hundred years?

4. What were the Philippines to the Spanish initially?

5. Since McKinley does not want war, what does he do?

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