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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With what does Imelda quickly become enamored?
(a) Her career.
(b) Her political position.
(c) The finer things in life.
(d) Her husband.

2. What does Quirino's ineptitude only help to strengthen?
(a) His own movement.
(b) Filipino politics.
(c) The opposition movement.
(d) The American government.

3. A pre-CIA organization selects Ramon Magsaysay, who quickly rises through the Filipino legislative ranks. What does Magsaysay cunningly create where he gives rebels the option to surrender, but attacks mercilessly if they decline the offer?
(a) A useless threat.
(b) A "carrot and stick" approach.
(c) A "tortoise and hare" approach.
(d) A typical ultimatum.

4. What does Taft believe will only hurt trade between the U.S. and the Philippines?
(a) Philippine independence.
(b) Keeping the Philippines as a colony.
(c) Putting Quezon in power.
(d) Putting Osmena in power.

5. How does Marcos seize on local unrest in 1971?
(a) By purposely send false information to the press.
(b) By purposely straining the Philippine relationship with the United States.
(c) By purposely escalating the situation with "fake" incidents in order to declare martial law.
(d) By purposely promoting criminal activity.

6. 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 Socialist insurgency filling the vacuum.
(c) The country might grow in wealth and power and overshadow the United States.
(d) The country might collapse, with the Communist insurgency filling the vacuum.

7. Does Taft find that the Filipino people are satisfied with U.S. rule?
(a) Sometimes.
(b) Yes.
(c) No.
(d) Maybe.

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

9. What does Imelda Marcos do regarding Ninoy?
(a) She pleads with him to postpone his journey.
(b) She helps him move to the United States.
(c) She promotes him during his presidential campaign.
(d) She begs him to return to the Philippines.

10. What happens to Ninoy at the airport?
(a) He is given a warm welcome.
(b) He is welcomed by his wife.
(c) He is gunned down.
(d) He is driven to his new home.

11. Who does MacArthur support while turning away his old friend Osmena?
(a) Manuel Ortega.
(b) Jimmie Vitae.
(c) Luis Varga.
(d) Manual Roxas.

12. What type of defensive system does MacArthur envision?
(a) A Dutch-style defensive system.
(b) A Swiss-style defensive system.
(c) A Chinese-style defensive system.
(d) A Swedish-style defensive system.

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. Why do some American legislators threaten to withhold foreign aid?
(a) Until Ninoy is dead.
(b) Until the assassin is captured.
(c) Until Marcos resigns as President.
(d) Until Ninoy is handed over to them.

15. How do some Filipinos feel as Marcos takes total power and crime plummets?
(a) Unsure.
(b) Worried.
(c) Upset.
(d) Pleased.

Short Answer Questions

1. The prisoners are marched some eighty miles in what comes to be known as what?

2. What is Manila dubbed?

3. When do the Philippines become officially independent?

4. When do boatloads of American teachers and civil servants start arriving in the Philippines?

5. How does MacArthur feel about being reassigned to the Philippines?

(see the answer keys)

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