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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What dripped from the eyes of the man in Perkins' dream?
(a) Water.
(b) Tears.
(c) Grease.
(d) Blood.

2. How did Rasy help Perkins while in Indonesia?
(a) He showed Perkins places most Americans do not see.
(b) He helped him find a place to live.
(c) He gave him language lessons.
(d) He gave him money.

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

4. What was Perkin's opinion about being an economic hit man at the end of Chapter 2?
(a) He wanted nothing to do with the process.
(b) He wanted to go back to college.
(c) He wished he had thought of the idea.
(d) He wanted to learn the process and benefit from it.

5. Who said they would take over the bar at the end of Chapter 12?
(a) The radicals.
(b) The owner.
(c) The military police.
(d) The government.

6. Why did Howard return to the United States?
(a) He was fired.
(b) He was sick.
(c) He missed his son.
(d) His visa expired.

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

8. Why did Indonesia become a communist country?
(a) Lack of a leader.
(b) Lack of education.
(c) Lack of money.
(d) Lack of unity.

9. What did Torrijos say he would fight for in Chapter 13?
(a) To ensure Panama did not end up like Guatemala.
(b) Communism.
(c) Liberation.
(d) The right to vote.

10. Who trained Perkins to become an economic hit man?
(a) A young man.
(b) A beautiful woman.
(c) An old woman.
(d) An old man.

11. What is a dalang?
(a) A politician.
(b) A puppetmaster.
(c) A banker.
(d) A clown.

12. What did Perkins find in the Canal Zone?
(a) Plush golf courses and pretty stores.
(b) His business contact.
(c) Poverty.
(d) Abandoned homes.

13. Why was the Canal Zone in the shape it was in?
(a) It was a European territory.
(b) It was a territory of Panama.
(c) It had faulty building codes.
(d) It was an American territory.

14. What led to the 1974 embargo of oil to the United States?
(a) The Gulf War.
(b) The United States was in debt.
(c) Nixon's aid to Israel.
(d) Nixon's aid to Saudi Arabia.

15. Whom did United Fruit enlist to help stage a coup?
(a) France.
(b) Panama.
(c) The FBI.
(d) The CIA.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the President of Panama not want to be to the United States?

2. What did Perkins realize at the end of Chapter 8?

3. What did MAIN threaten Perkins never to do?

4. Why was Perkins in Panama at the end of Chapter 10?

5. What was the United States determined to lure Indonesia away from in Chapter 3?

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