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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. How do MacArthur's troops soon find themselves after he makes this decision?
(a) Safe.
(b) Freed from the Japanese.
(c) Trapped by the Americans.
(d) Lacking in food and water.

4. Why does Marcos leave a relationship (where he had produced four out of wedlock children) to marry Imelda Visitacion?
(a) She was very wealthy.
(b) She was extremely beautiful.
(c) For purely political reasons.
(d) He was in love with her.

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

6. Who helps Quezon climb the ladder of Filipino culture?
(a) His American elders.
(b) His wealthy parents.
(c) His wife.
(d) His Filipino elders.

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

8. Why is the investigation where Pearl Harbor commanders are punished short lived?
(a) MacArthur is seen as too "valuable" for official inquiry.
(b) MacArthur and the other commanders are innocent.
(c) MacArthur begs for forgiveness.
(d) MacArthur pays the judges to end the investigation.

9. What keeps this feeling about emancipation quiet for the most part?
(a) Nationalistic pride.
(b) The military.
(c) The United States.
(d) The politicians.

10. When do boatloads of American teachers and civil servants start arriving in the Philippines?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1911.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1891.

11. Quezon shows himself to be what kind of politician?
(a) A quiet one.
(b) An uncertain one.
(c) A radical one.
(d) A practical one.

12. What does Quezon complete with William Atkinson Jones?
(a) A bill to grant Philippine independence in five years.
(b) A bill to grant Philippine independence in two years.
(c) A bill to grant Philippine independence in one year.
(d) A bill to grant Philippine independence in eight years.

13. What does the American intelligence community decide about Quirino?
(a) He must go.
(b) He must be murdered.
(c) He must be the leader of the Philippines.
(d) He must be promoted.

14. What do many Americans suspect about the Huks?
(a) They are allied with the Japanese.
(b) They are allied with the Russians.
(c) They are allied with the Chinese.
(d) They are allied with the Koreans.

15. How long is Ninoy Aquino jailed?
(a) Throughout most of the 1960s.
(b) For almost five years.
(c) For one year.
(d) Throughout most of the 1970s.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marcos artfully negotiate to serve in Vietnam for a large amount of U.S. federal aid?

2. When does anti-military sentiment sweep the nation?

3. Does Taft find that the Filipino people are satisfied with U.S. rule?

4. With what does Imelda quickly become enamored?

5. Why is MacArthur castigated?

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