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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 effect do modest reforms have on the leaders in the Philippines?
(a) This limits the power of the Spanish bureaucrats, but actually increases the power of the church.
(b) It decreases the power of both the Spanish bureaucrats and 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. What Portuguese explorer leads a successful voyage around the Horn of Africa and lands in India in 1498?
(a) Franz Ferdinand.
(b) Ferdinand Magellan.
(c) Vasco da Gama.
(d) Christopher Columbus.

3. The _____________ view surpasses the expansionism view for most of the remainder of the 1800s.
(a) Democrat.
(b) Independent.
(c) Isolationist.
(d) Republican.

4. What explorer first finds the Philippines?
(a) Ferdinand Magellan.
(b) Vasco da Gama.
(c) Christopher Columbus.
(d) Franz Ferdinand.

5. During the mid 1800s, the American desire to become a world power and be taken seriously _____________.
(a) Grows.
(b) Shrinks.
(c) Ends.
(d) Begins.

Short Answer Questions

1. In whose footsteps does Magellan follow?

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

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

4. What stories heavily influence the natives?

5. For how long does Spain keep the Philippines in a state of near suspended animation?

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