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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aguinaldo assume that the United States will guarantee for the Philippines?
(a) Freedom.
(b) Safety.
(c) Order.
(d) Wealth.

2. In mid-1900, what hope is Aguinaldo still holding out?
(a) McKinley will win the next election.
(b) McKinley will change his views on the Philippines as a colony.
(c) McKinley can be defeated in the upcoming U.S. presidential election.
(d) That McKinley will stand up for his beliefs.

3. Where is Magellan wrongly charged with corruption, then exonerated?
(a) Lisbon.
(b) Lyon.
(c) London.
(d) Lexington.

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

5. The locals are supposed to be self-ruling, but in reality, who has total control?
(a) The Friars.
(b) The missionaries.
(c) The political leaders.
(d) The Americans.

6. From where does the Spaniards' main threat come?
(a) English, Portuguese, Chinese, and Dutch nations.
(b) Japanese, Swedish, Indian, and Italian nations.
(c) Argentinian, Chilean, Brazilian, and Venezuelan nations.
(d) Iranian, Pakistani, Mongolian, and Puerto Rican nations.

7. 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.

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

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

10. How much difficulty do the Americans have winning most skirmishes?
(a) They have some trouble winning skirmishes.
(b) They easily win skirmishes.
(c) They do not win skirmishes.
(d) They have a difficult time winning skirmishes.

11. What creates resentment among the growing Filipino educated class?
(a) Allowing them to be educated abroad but not in their own country.
(b) Allowing them to be educated in their own country but not abroad.
(c) Allowing Filipinos to be educated, but not allowing them to become priests.
(d) Not allowing Filipinos to be educated, but allowing them to become priests.

12. Theodore Roosevelt is a student of Mahan's THE INFLUENCE OF SEA POWER ON HISTORY and desires to make the United States what?
(a) A negligent nation.
(b) A mighty nation.
(c) A pampered nation.
(d) A haughty nation.

13. Why does Aguinaldo depart to the mainland?
(a) To flee the war.
(b) To raise an army to fight the Spanish.
(c) To meet with Dewey.
(d) To escape the Americans.

14. When did the United States take the Philippines as a "prize?"
(a) In World War I.
(b) In the Cold War.
(c) In the French and Indian ar.
(d) In the Spanish American War.

15. In the spirit of "benevolent assimilation," General Otis focuses army resources towards what?
(a) Converting the locals to Christianity.
(b) Public education and rebuilding the legal system.
(c) Suppressing the locals.
(d) Teaching English to the locals.

Short Answer Questions

1. Mark Twain, Samuel Gompers and _________________ find themselves oddly on the same side of the expansionism issue.

2. McKinley does not want complications with the insurgents, but is still trying to do what?

3. What does McKinley's policy set up?

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

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

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