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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What do the Americans do to the village of Caloocan?
(a) They overwhelm it and burn it to the ground.
(b) They convert it to Christianity.
(c) They save it.
(d) They protect it.

3. What effect do modest reforms have on the leaders in the Philippines?
(a) This limits the power of the church, but actually increases the power of the Spanish bureaucrats.
(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 Spanish bureaucrats, but actually increases the power of the church.

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

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

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

7. What becomes more common for Filipinos?
(a) To run away from the American troops.
(b) To attack after American troops enter a town.
(c) To surrender to American troops entering a town, then attack later.
(d) To attack American troops as they enter a town.

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

9. In January 1900, who does President McKinley summon to discuss the Philippines?
(a) Federal judge Lawrence Edward Walsh.
(b) Federal judge George Bethune Adams.
(c) Federal judge Owen Murphy Panner.
(d) Federal judge William Howard Taft.

10. Of what does Taft recommend U.S. sponsorship?
(a) Philippine insurgents.
(b) Philippine reserves.
(c) Philippine military organizations.
(d) Philippine civilian projects.

11. When does the crew gaze upon the Philippines for the first time?
(a) March 1621.
(b) March 1521.
(c) April 1621.
(d) April 1521.

12. Mark Twain, Samuel Gompers and _________________ find themselves oddly on the same side of the expansionism issue.
(a) John Ford.
(b) Thomas Eakins.
(c) Solomon R. Guggenheim.
(d) Andrew Carnegie.

13. Why does this person agree to depart for Manila to take the position of governor?
(a) He enjoys traveling around the world.
(b) He would like to learn more about the Philippine culture.
(c) He has family that lives in Manila.
(d) He has aspirations of becoming a Supreme Court judge.

14. Since McKinley does not want war, what does he do?
(a) He forbids war.
(b) He resigns.
(c) He runs a successful anti-war campaign.
(d) He tries stalling.

15. Who aggressively works for forty years to send out sea voyages?
(a) Prince Charles.
(b) Prince William.
(c) Prince Harry.
(d) Prince Henry.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Long react when Roosevelt connives to have a fellow expansionist appointed as the next Navy Commodore?

2. When more troops are requested, how large does the army become within a year?

3. Conservative President Grover Cleveland ______________ pressure to annex Hawaii and attack Cuba.

4. What has happened to McKinley's inauguration pledge to not seek to gain territory beyond the borders of the United States?

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

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