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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. Why is Douglas sent home?

2. What has the intelligence community worried?

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

4. What type of defensive system does MacArthur envision?

5. From what are U.S. citizens barred in the Philippines?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Ferdinand Marcos.

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

3. Who begins arriving in the Philippines in 1901? Why?

4. What does MacArthur want to quickly do?

5. What are some of the major problems with the attitudes of the Americans?

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

7. Describe MacArthur's "dream" job.

8. Describe Marcos as a leader.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The first circumnavigation of the earth is much less heroic than portrayed in many textbooks.

Part 1) Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the earth? Explain this voyage. Is it what you had expected it to be? Why or why not?

Part 2) How does this voyage reflect the needs and desires of those living at the time the exploration took place?

Part 3) How does this exploration affect the relationships between various peoples around the world?

Essay Topic 2

Douglas MacArthur is like his father in many ways.

Part 1) Describe Douglas. How is he like his father?

Part 2) How does his behavior and personality affect those around him?

Part 3) Was he raised to be this way? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 3

An intimate relationship has developed between the United States and the Philippines over the past one hundred years.

Part 1) Describe this relationship. How did it begin?

Part 2) How has the relationship evolved? How do these changes reflect the changes of opinion by Americans and United States' leadership?

Part 3) How have these changes made the Philippines what it is today?

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