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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Marcos artfully negotiate to serve in Vietnam for a large amount of U.S. federal aid?

2. When does anti-military sentiment sweep the nation?

3. Why does Marcos leave a relationship (where he had produced four out of wedlock children) to marry Imelda Visitacion?

4. What do Marcos' financial schemes bring in?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Who rises to power during this time?

2. What do Osmena and Quezon form in 1907?

3. What is established for the Filipinos?

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

5. Describe Ferdinand Marcos.

6. What group forms in 1968?

7. Describe Marcos as a leader.

8. Describe MacArthur's fateful decision.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Douglas MacArthur was a decent strategist but not a great one.

Part 1) How was he a decent strategist?

Part 2) Why was he not a great one?

Part 3) What roll does his personality play in his abilities as a strategist?

Essay Topic 2

The character development of the "arrogant" leader is revisited many times.

Part 1) List four of the leaders that you would consider arrogant. How are each of them arrogant?

Part 2) How does their arrogance affect those around them and the decisions they make?

Part 3) What is the connection between one leader and the next? Do leaders like this exist today? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

There is a theme of ego and arrogance.

Part 1) How is this a theme?

Part 2) Are you surprised by this theme? Why or why not?

Part 3) How does this ego and arrogance still exist today?

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