College of Justice Criminal Education First Semester Module 7 Quiz

Defense Minister Ramon Magsaysay accused Bulosan of being one of the ______.

Bulosan became a persona non grata in the Philippines for over ten years because of the alleged ______ taint.

The FBI conducted surveillance on Bulosan beginning in ______.

They collected data from everywhere they could – Stockton, San Francisco, Los Angeles, ______.

Within ILWU Local 37’s 1952 yearbook, Bulosan wrote an article “Terrorism Rides the ______.”

In the article, Bulosan criticized Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay and especially Philippine President Manuel ______.

Allos' creative drive was fuelled by his first-hand experience of Filipinos and other minorities abused in America, institutionalized ______, and workers exploited by capitalist owners.

Allos joined the labor movement sometime within his first three years in America, where he contributed to and edited various union newspapers and magazines, providing a literary foundation to the labor movement and clear expression of Filipino ______.

By 1934, Carlos Bulosan worked for the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) as its ______.

Allos' work proved ultimately successful, as Filipinos slowly gained better economic opportunities and civil ______.

Allos' later injuries and poor health prevented active participation in the labor movement, so he instead contributed to and edited various union newspapers and magazines, providing a literary foundation to the labor movement and clear expression of Filipino ______.

Allos came into contact with progressive writers around the country through his work with the United Cannery, Agricultural, Packing, and Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA) where he edited the magazine, The New ______.

President Harry Truman signed the Filipino Naturalization Bill in ______, enabling Filipinos to become citizens.

The signing of the bill indicated the success of Bulosan and ______.

In May 1948, Stockton’s Local 7 labor union led an ______ strike.

Bulosan helped fellow Filipino labor activists Claro Candelario, Chris Mensalvas, Ernesto Mangaoang, Larry Itliong, and Phillip Vera Cruz with the strike’s ______.

One of Bulosan’s largest roles in the labor movement was his election to the office of Publicity Director for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) Local 37 ______, based in Seattle.

Bulosan was rushed to Firland Sanatorium, a tuberculosis hospital in Seattle, on the day the 1952 ______ was released.

Judging from these two works, it is certain that Bulosan contacted the Hukbalahap to write a contemporary history of the ______, and not to overthrow any government.

In 1954, Bulosan contacted the FBI’s Seattle office to request an interview with an ______.

He denied any association with the ______ Party, defended his occupation as an author, and admitted that he was not involved in any dissident organizations or insurrections.

The next year, the FBI ceased its surveillance on Bulosan, admitting it could not find conclusive proof of Bulosan’s membership in the ______ Party.

Bulosan’s FBI file was ______.

Bulosan denounced Roxas for signing agreements that directly benefitted American special interests, at the cost of the Filipino People: Roxas signed both the Philippine Trade Act (1946) and ______ Amendment (1947), which gave American businesses equal rights as Filipinos to use the country’s natural resources.

These agreements served only large corporations, and promoted U.S. ______ in the Philippines.

Later in the article, Bulosan decries Roxas’s attacks on the Hukbalahap, the Communist guerilla group that originally led the Philippine resistance against the Japanese during World War Two. In doing so, Bulosan was accused of being part of an international Communist conspiracy by Philippine Secretary of Defense ______.

The Communist Hukbalahap was also considered dangerous by the American government, because the Philippines were in close proximity to the Soviet Union (thereby reinforcing the ______ Theory).

Bulosan wrote either a poem or short story entitled, “The Battle Hymn of the Hukbalahaps,” which does not appear or was not included in the Carlos Bulosan Papers. He also wrote a novel that used the Huk Rebellion as historical base. The book was titled The Cry and the ______, edited by Epifanio San Juan, Jr., and posthumously published in 1995.

Bulosan’s writings further contributed to his disfavor with the Philippine and United States government as he criticized the actions that favored American businesses and led to U.S. ______ in the Philippines.