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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. Where does the American tide turn?
(a) At the battle of Waterloo.
(b) At the battle of Shiloh.
(c) At the battle of the Bulge.
(d) At the battle of Midway.

2. When Woodrow Wilson is elected president, what do Filipinos prematurely assume will happen?
(a) They will lose all chances for independence.
(b) Their independence will lag.
(c) They will gain independence immediately.
(d) Their independence will be hastened.

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

4. Why is MacArthur castigated?
(a) For aggressively leading an attack against protesting WWI veterans.
(b) For stalling an attack against protesting WWI veterans.
(c) For not attacking protesting WWI veterans.
(d) For mocking protesting WWI veterans.

5. Realizing his position, what fateful decision does MacArthur make?
(a) To abandon Manila and board ships for the United States.
(b) To stay in Manila, rather than travel to Bataan.
(c) To abandon Manila and moves his forces into more easily defendable Bataan.
(d) To surrender to the Japanese.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do some Filipinos feel as Marcos takes total power and crime plummets?

3. Why is the investigation where Pearl Harbor commanders are punished short lived?

4. To what does the majority of aid money go?

5. Quezon shows himself to be what kind of politician?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Luis Taruc? What is his relationship with the United States?

4. What group forms in 1968?

5. Describe Marcos as a leader.

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

7. What takes place on the day Pearl Harbor is attacked?

8. Describe Imelda Visitacion.

9. Describe MacArthur's "dream" job.

10. What does Marcos think of Ninoy?

(see the answer keys)

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