Chapter 1:
1. Why were the Spanish able to assimilate the natives of the Philippines?
2. What importance did Catholicisms play in the development of colonial rule?
3. How did the fact the the Philippine people have an intellectual class alter the way the country responded to Spanish colonial rule and subsequent US occupation?
Chapter 2:
1. How did American soldiers make the on the ground assessment that Filipinos were racially inferior?
2. Did the diplomatic blunders committed by the civilian diplomats have any real effect on the course of events?
3. Why was the United States willing to call guerrilla warfare "uncivilized" when it was the same tactic that the Revolutionary Army had used to secure victory against Britain?
Chapter 3:
1. Was there anything peculiar about the way in which the US occupation tried to bring in collaborators from the Filipinos?
2. What did Fiesta Politics do to inform the discourse between the Filipinos and US?
3. Where there competing views of colonialism at work in the Islands and the administration?
Chapter 4:
1. How did the colonial administration manage to form opinions and objectives so distinct form the metropole in such a sort span of time?
2. Why would white women take an interest in the Filipino men while white men reacted violently?
3. Did the exposition inform the American populace about the Philippines?
Chapter 5:
1. How did the politics of division between Hispanic Filipinos and the natives aid the American cause?
2. Was it all the Americans' fault that there was a divide in Filipino society?
3. Why did the colonial elite in the Philippines become so involved in maintaining their position?
