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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 9, what promotion did Perkins receive?
(a) Chief economist.
(b) CEO.
(c) President.
(d) Chief reporter.

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

4. Where did Perkins' parents teach in Chapter 1?
(a) The Key School.
(b) Exodor.
(c) The Tilton School.
(d) The Ramsey Schoo.

5. Why did Fidel thank Perkins?
(a) He gave Fidel food.
(b) He gave Fidel money.
(c) He defended America.
(d) He defended Torrijos.

6. Whom did Torrijos want to finance his project?
(a) The Americans.
(b) MAIN.
(c) The Japanese.
(d) Bechtel.

7. What did the countries that Perkins' company helped eventually do?
(a) Became democracies.
(b) Failed.
(c) Rebelled.
(d) Succeeded.

8. What percent of electric load growth did MAIN project?
(a) Seventeen.
(b) One hundred.
(c) Five.
(d) Eighty.

9. What did Robert McNamara infuse into government policy?
(a) Philosophy.
(b) Scientific terms.
(c) Business models.
(d) Military drills.

10. What did the man in Perkins' dream look like?
(a) Light curly hair and a light complexion.
(b) Dark curly hair and a dark complexion.
(c) Straight hair and Asian.
(d) Brown hair and light complexion.

11. Whose report did Perkins doctor in Chapter 9?
(a) Anna's report.
(b) Howard's report.
(c) Peter's report.
(d) John's report.

12. Where did MAIN conduct most of its work?
(a) In Europe.
(b) In developing countries.
(c) In the United States.
(d) In developed countries.

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

14. Where did Perkins decide NOT to go to college?
(a) Brown.
(b) American University.
(c) Harvard.
(d) Yale.

15. What did Perkins have to convince himself of at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) He was a bad person.
(b) Communism was wrong.
(c) MAIN was not going to fire him.
(d) He was doing the right thing.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Rasy help Perkins while in Indonesia?

2. What was the goal of Perkins' report in Chapter 15?

3. Who told Fidel to calm down while he and Perkins were at the bar?

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

5. Who did Perkins feel most happy with while in Indonesia?

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