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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do Nationalistic insurgent groups see Quezon?
(a) As a leader.
(b) As a democratic leader.
(c) As a tyrant.
(d) As a father figure.

2. How would one describe Quezon?
(a) He has magnetism and more closely echoes American flamboyant politicians.
(b) He is a very conservative, quiet man.
(c) He is what one would expect of a Filipino leader.
(d) He is very different from most American leaders.

3. How successful is Roxas when he cracks down on the Huks in an attempt to overwhelm them with force?
(a) He is somewhat successful in overwhelming them with force.
(b) He is very successful.
(c) He only manages to upset politicians in the United States.
(d) He only manages to alienate many local villagers.

4. What does Francis Harrison quickly do when he becomes the U.S. governor of the Philippines?
(a) He assimilates to the Filipino culture and becomes popular with the locals.
(b) He attempts to "Americanize" the Filipinos.
(c) He becomes very unpopular among the natives.
(d) He shows the power he has over the Filipinos.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. What is Manila dubbed?
(a) "No Man's Land."
(b) "The Pearl of the Orient."
(c) "The Diamond in the Rough."
(d) "America of the East."

14. 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 eight hundred to the Japanese.
(d) He surrenders the force of eighty thousand to the Japanese.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How do MacArthur's troops soon find themselves after he makes this decision?

2. What does U.S. trade do to the gap between rich and poor?

3. What does MacArthur do once he divorces his wife?

4. Where does the American tide turn?

5. What are the Filipinos very good at mimicking?

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