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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who does Marcos jail?
(a) Ninoy Aquino.
(b) Nina Garcia.
(c) Nemo Aquarius.
(d) Leonard Nemoy.

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

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

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

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

9. On the home front, with what is Quezon having difficulty?
(a) Growing unrest over the massive economic inequalities in his country.
(b) Earning enough money for his country.
(c) Finding enough products to be exported from the Philippines.
(d) Encouraging other countries to import goods.

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

11. How do many Filipinos feel about emancipation at this stage?
(a) Sad.
(b) Excited.
(c) Uneasy.
(d) Angry.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does MacArthur support while turning away his old friend Osmena?

2. How do American leaders react to what abuse is taking place in the Philippines?

3. What type of defensive system does MacArthur envision?

4. In late December, what does Japanese Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma plan to do?

5. What does Francis Harrison quickly do when he becomes the U.S. governor of the Philippines?

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