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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, America Goes Global.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When Roosevelt takes over as acting secretary, he looks at means of overthrowing who in Cuba and the Philippines?
(a) Fidel Castro.
(b) The Cubans and the Filipinos.
(c) The Spanish.
(d) The Portuguese.

3. 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 Enlightenment."
(b) The "Age of Man."
(c) The "Age of Discovery."
(d) The "Age of the Dinosaurs."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where is Magellan wrongly charged with corruption, then exonerated?

2. What were the Philippines to the Spanish initially?

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

4. On what do the Spanish soldiers excitedly concentrate?

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

(see the answer key)

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