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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does U.S. Major General Edward King do on April 9, 1942?
(a) He surrenders the force of eight thousand to the Japanese.
(b) He surrenders the force of eight hundred thousand to the Japanese.
(c) He surrenders the force of eighty thousand to the Japanese.
(d) He surrenders the force of eight hundred to the Japanese.

2. What does President Roxas do in order to pass wanted legislation?
(a) He bribes members of the Filipino Parliament.
(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 has several members of the Filipino Parliament murdered.

3. Why does Quezon take a secretive trip to Japan in 1938?
(a) He has always wanted to visit Japan.
(b) To negotiate Philippine neutrality in case of war.
(c) His wife lives in Japan.
(d) To discuss beginning a war with the United States.

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

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

6. What does congress do with many of Taft's grand plans for improving the Philippines?
(a) Congress accepts them.
(b) Congress improves upon them.
(c) Congress bickers at them and either downsizes or eliminates them altogether.
(d) Congress enlarges his plans.

7. The prisoners are marched some eighty miles in what comes to be known as what?
(a) The "Bataan apocalypse."
(b) The "Bataan death march."
(c) The "Manila death march."
(d) The "Manila apocalypse."

8. When do Douglas MacArthur, Quezon and Osmena become friends?
(a) During a dinner
(b) On a plane.
(c) During a lunch.
(d) On a train ride.

9. What strengthens Ninoy's power?
(a) His wife.
(b) His presidential campaign.
(c) His abilities as a speaker.
(d) His funeral.

10. In late December, what does Japanese Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma plan to do?
(a) Capture the main Philippine island of Luzon in just fifty days.
(b) Capture the main Philippine island of Luzon in just ten days.
(c) Capture the main Philippine island of Luzon in just twenty days.
(d) Capture the main Philippine island of Luzon in just one hundred days.

11. Why does Quezon go to Washington D.C.?
(a) He is a Filipino representative.
(b) He would like to see the nation's capital.
(c) He is running for an American political office.
(d) He is invited by the President of the United States.

12. What is considered shocking, just as it is back in the United States?
(a) Religious differences.
(b) Cultural differences.
(c) A humid climate.
(d) Racial intermarriage.

13. What does U.S. trade do to the gap between rich and poor?
(a) It makes it non-existent.
(b) It creates it.
(c) It widens it.
(d) It shrinks it.

14. When does another insurgency group form in northern Luzon?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1958.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1978.

15. How do American leaders react to what abuse is taking place in the Philippines?
(a) They send money to civil organizations.
(b) They put pressure on Marcos to be kind to his people.
(c) They turn a blind eye.
(d) They send trooops to the Philippines to support the civilians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Douglas sent home?

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

3. How successful is Roxas when he cracks down on the Huks in an attempt to overwhelm them with force?

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

5. From what are U.S. citizens barred in the Philippines?

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