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

2. 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.

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

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

5. How does Colonel Douglas MacArthur distinguish himself in the waning years of World War I?
(a) With his prowess, hatred, and intelligence under fire.
(b) With his courage, prowess, and brashness under fire.
(c) With his wealth, intelligence, and brashness under fire.
(d) With his courage, arrogance, and negilence under fire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does MacArthur create much resentment?

3. When do Douglas MacArthur, Quezon and Osmena become friends?

4. When does another insurgency group form in northern Luzon?

5. What does congress do with many of Taft's grand plans for improving the Philippines?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is established for the Filipinos?

2. Who rises to power during this time?

3. What does MacArthur want to quickly do?

4. What is the "Bataan death march?"

5. What is the result of Ninoy"s funeral?

6. Describe Quezon.

7. What has happened in the Philippines by 1909?

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

9. Where does Ninoy Aquino spend most of the 1970s?

10. What fateful decision does Ninoy make in 1983?

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