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

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

3. Under pressure, McKinley appoints Roosevelt as the assistant secretary to whom, who is the secretary of the navy?
(a) Jasper Long.
(b) Brandon Long.
(c) Scott Long.
(d) John Long.

4. How does Long react when Roosevelt connives to have a fellow expansionist appointed as the next Navy Commodore?
(a) Long reprimands Roosevelt but allow his appointee to stand.
(b) Long reprimands Roosevelt and does not allow the appointee to stand.
(c) Long resigns as the secretary.
(d) Long rewards Roosevelt.

5. As Filipinos gain power and prestige, what happens to their relationship with Spain?
(a) It becomes more protective.
(b) It becomes stronger.
(c) It becomes friendlier.
(d) It becomes strained.

Short Answer Questions

1. Theodore Roosevelt is a student of Mahan's THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER ON HISTORY and desires to make the United States what?

2. What explorer first finds the Philippines?

3. What effect do modest reforms have on the leaders in the Philippines?

4. What takes off in Europe and creates a demand for a viable route to the Far East?

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

(see the answer key)

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