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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Howard tell Perkins in confidence?
(a) Not to believe the grand ideas MAIN put forth.
(b) Not to believe what his teachers taught him.
(c) Perkins' boss was blowing the whistle on the company.
(d) Perkins' job was in trouble.

2. In Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which empires were listed as imperialistic?
(a) Akkadia and Qin.
(b) Carolingia and Russia.
(c) Middle East, Rome, and Persia.
(d) Assyria and Mongol.

3. How did the United States fight the Soviet Union?
(a) With cluster bombs.
(b) With weapons of mass destruction.
(c) Through a series of debates.
(d) With the United Nation's policies and, also, economically.

4. Where was Perkins first assigned to work with MAIN?
(a) Kuwait.
(b) Paris.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Nepal.

5. What are the two objectives of economic hit men?
(a) To justify large loans for less developed countries and to bankrupt those countries.
(b) To fix the economic situations of poor countries and help the people.
(c) To steal money from overseas banks and not get caught.
(d) To watch the stock market in developing countries and report them to the United States.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Perkins' impression of Jakarta?

2. What did MAIN never teach Perkins in Chapter 4?

3. In Chapter 4, who was the President of the World Bank?

4. Rasy's friend compared the Muslims to ___________.

5. Rasy's friends told Perkins the United States needed to stop _________.

(see the answer key)

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