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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How and when does the huge Philippine sugar trade begin enticing numerous other countries to the area?
(a) In the 1900s.
(b) In the 1700s.
(c) In the 1800s.
(d) In the 1600s.

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

3. Why does a rebellion in Cuba get much attention in the United States?
(a) Due to Cuba's animosity towards the United States.
(b) Due to Cuba's extraordinary power.
(c) Due to its proximity to Florida.
(d) Due to Cuba's size.

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

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

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

7. McKinley does not want complications with the insurgents, but is still trying to do what?
(a) Appease the Philippine people.
(b) Become friends with the insurgents.
(c) Avoid making the Philippines a U.S. colony.
(d) Reach a negotiated deal with the Spanish.

8. With the Spanish fleet destroyed in Manila, McKinley appoints _________ to command the U.S. Army to take the city itself, still held by the Spanish.
(a) Major General Wesley Merritt.
(b) Major General John Merritt.
(c) Major General Jacob Merritt.
(d) Major General William Merritt.

9. On what do the Spanish soldiers excitedly concentrate?
(a) Preparing the Philippine people to be independent.
(b) Selling the Philippines to the United States.
(c) Collecting revenue and converting the population to Christianity.
(d) Finding a route to enhance their power in the spice trade.

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

11. Conservative President Grover Cleveland ______________ pressure to annex Hawaii and attack Cuba.
(a) Succumbs to.
(b) Resists.
(c) Ignores.
(d) Encourages.

12. How do American commanders and troops retaliate?
(a) With a "no prisoners" policy.
(b) By pulling out of Manila.
(c) With a "torture the prisoners" policy.
(d) With an increase in forced labor camps.

13. What does Aguinaldo tell his men to do?
(a) Protect the Americans to show that they are a civilized people.
(b) To completely abandon conventional warfare and harass American troops whenever possible.
(c) To flee the country.
(d) To assimilate to the American culture so as to convince the Americans that they have surrendered.

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

15. 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 haughty nation.
(c) A mighty nation.
(d) A pampered nation.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The connection between the United States and _________________ is both long lasting and complex.

3. The country is ruled indirectly from what for three hundred years?

4. Under what pretext does a civilian commission set up offices in Manila?

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

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