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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In late December, what does Japanese Lieutenant General Masaharu Homma plan to do?
(a) Capture the main Philippine island of Luzon in just one hundred days.
(b) Capture the main Philippine island of Luzon in just twenty days.
(c) Capture the main Philippine island of Luzon in just fifty days.
(d) Capture the main Philippine island of Luzon in just ten days.

4. How does MacArthur feel about being reassigned to the Philippines?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Angry.
(c) Excited.
(d) Disappointed.

5. What does MacArthur do once he divorces his wife?
(a) He vows to never marry again.
(b) He takes a Filipino mistress.
(c) He becomes a priest.
(d) He marries a Filipino woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Ninoy at the airport?

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

3. What is considered shocking, just as it is back in the United States?

4. Where does Marcos excel?

5. Realizing his position, what fateful decision does MacArthur make?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Douglas MacArthur at the beginning of this chapter.

2. Describe MacArthur's career as U.S. Chief of Staff.

3. What has happened in the Philippines by 1909?

4. What does the American intelligence community think about the corruption and abuse taking place in the Philippines? What do they do?

5. What takes place during the period of MacArthur's first marriage?

6. Describe Quezon.

7. What is established for the Filipinos?

8. What does MacArthur want to quickly do?

9. What do Osmena and Quezon form in 1907?

10. Describe Imelda Visitacion.

(see the answer keys)

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