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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. Why is this one language taught?
(a) To keep an aspect of the Philippine culture.
(b) To remember the occupation by the Spanish.
(c) To unite the population.
(d) To keep the Portuguese language alive.

3. Where does Marcos excel?
(a) The University of the Philippines School of Music.
(b) The University of the Philippines School of Science.
(c) The University of the Philippines Medical School.
(d) The University of the Philippines Law School.

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

5. What does Marcos artfully negotiate to serve in Vietnam for a large amount of U.S. federal aid?
(a) A regiment of Flipino troops.
(b) As a leader of American troops.
(c) A "ghost" regiment of Filipino troops.
(d) A surrender deal of the Vietcong.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Marcos seize on local unrest in 1971?

2. When Woodrow Wilson is elected president, what do Filipinos prematurely assume will happen?

3. When do the Philippines become officially independent?

4. By 1909, there are ________________ elementary schools and four hundred thousand pupils in the Philippines.

5. Who helps Quezon climb the ladder of Filipino culture?

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