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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, The Spanish Bond.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Portuguese explorer leads a successful voyage around the Horn of Africa and lands in India in 1498?
(a) Christopher Columbus.
(b) Ferdinand Magellan.
(c) Vasco da Gama.
(d) Franz Ferdinand.

2. The country is ruled indirectly from what for three hundred years?
(a) The Spanish.
(b) The United States.
(c) Japan.
(d) The Vatican and Rome.

3. What were the Philippines to the Spanish initially?
(a) A colony.
(b) An ally.
(c) A state.
(d) An enemy.

4. The connection between the United States and _________________ is both long lasting and complex.
(a) Fiji.
(b) The Philippines.
(c) Japan.
(d) France.

5. What was the explorer looking for when he discovered the Philippines?
(a) Friends.
(b) Territory to own.
(c) A spice route to the Indies.
(d) People to convert to Christianity.

Short Answer Questions

1. How has the Filipino perception of the United States changed over the years?

2. What kind of relationship exists between the United States and the Philippines?

3. Where else do the Portuguese aggressively explore over the next ten years?

4. What creates resentment among the growing Filipino educated class?

5. The locals are supposed to be self-ruling, but in reality, who has total control?

(see the answer key)

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