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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Marcos come to resent regarding Ninoy?
(a) His hero status.
(b) His humility.
(c) His extreme wealth.
(d) His intelligence.

2. What has the intelligence community worried?
(a) The country might grow stronger and become more powerful than the United States.
(b) The country might collapse, with the Communist insurgency filling the vacuum.
(c) The country might collapse, with the Socialist insurgency filling the vacuum.
(d) The country might grow in wealth and power and overshadow the United States.

3. What does Ninoy decide to do in 1983?
(a) Run for president.
(b) Return to the Philippines.
(c) Leave the Philippines.
(d) Become a citizen of the United States.

4. When do the Philippines become officially independent?
(a) July 4, 1936.
(b) July 4, 1946.
(c) July 14, 1936.
(d) July 14, 1946.

5. Where does the American tide turn?
(a) At the battle of Waterloo.
(b) At the battle of the Bulge.
(c) At the battle of Midway.
(d) At the battle of Shiloh.

6. What are the Filipinos very good at mimicking?
(a) Customs on the surface.
(b) Their American captors.
(c) American accents.
(d) The American judicial system.

7. What does President Roxas do in order to pass wanted legislation?
(a) He has several members of the Filipino Parliament murdered.
(b) He denies seats to eleven opposition members of the Filipino Parliament under questionable charges.
(c) He blackmails members of the Filipino Parliament.
(d) He bribes members of the Filipino Parliament.

8. What infamous comment does MacArthur make to the press in Australia?
(a) His "I shall return" comment.
(b) His "What happened" comment.
(c) His "It is over" comment.
(d) His "I am done" comment.

9. What are upper level leaders in the United States slowly convinced to do regarding Marcos?
(a) Abandon him.
(b) Trust him.
(c) Accept him.
(d) Ignore him.

10. What does Francis Harrison quickly do when he becomes the U.S. governor of the Philippines?
(a) He attempts to "Americanize" the Filipinos.
(b) He becomes very unpopular among the natives.
(c) He assimilates to the Filipino culture and becomes popular with the locals.
(d) He shows the power he has over the Filipinos.

11. By whom are the Japanese aided?
(a) China and India.
(b) Spain and England.
(c) Germany and Italy.
(d) France and Sweden.

12. By 1909, there are ________________ elementary schools and four hundred thousand pupils in the Philippines.
(a) Four thousand.
(b) Two thousand.
(c) Four hundred.
(d) Two hundred.

13. How does Colonel Douglas MacArthur distinguish himself in the waning years of World War I?
(a) With his prowess, hatred, and intelligence under fire.
(b) With his courage, arrogance, and negilence under fire.
(c) With his courage, prowess, and brashness under fire.
(d) With his wealth, intelligence, and brashness under fire.

14. From where did Douglas MacArthur graduate?
(a) West Point.
(b) Yale.
(c) The Naval Academy.
(d) Harvard.

15. When does anti-military sentiment sweep the nation?
(a) During the Spanish American War.
(b) After World War II.
(c) Between world wars.
(d) Before World War I.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Luis Taruc?

2. What does the American intelligence community decide about Quirino?

3. What does congress do with many of Taft's grand plans for improving the Philippines?

4. When is Nino's wife, Cory, allowed to visit him?

5. What happens to Ninoy at the airport?

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