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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Perkins pay Sally?
(a) Through his expense count.
(b) She worked for free.
(c) From his savings.
(d) Out of his pay check.

2. What did Osvaldo Hurtado allow to happen when he became president?
(a) Public executions.
(b) He allowed the Summer Institute of Linguistics to return.
(c) He allowed MAIN to establish offices in Ecuador.
(d) For the people of Ecuador to invest in Oil fields.

3. What does Perkins believe the new global empire stands for?
(a) Peace and Love.
(b) Greed and Power.
(c) Money to those in need.
(d) Freedom and Liberty.

4. With whom did Harken Energy Corporation receive drilling rights?
(a) Texas.
(b) Saudi Arabia.
(c) Bahrain.
(d) Columbia.

5. How did Chavez become president of Venezuela?
(a) The demographics of the country changed.
(b) He overthrew the government.
(c) No one wanted to be in charge.
(d) He paid his way into the position.

6. Other then Iran who was the United States only other ally in the Middle East?
(a) Israel.
(b) Lebanon.
(c) Kuwait.
(d) Saudi Arabi.

7. Where did Perkins return to in Chapter 34?
(a) Ecuador.
(b) America.
(c) Brazil.
(d) Saudi Arabia.

8. How much did MAIN pay Perkins to be a expert witness?
(a) Ten thousand dollars.
(b) His same salary.
(c) Three times his previous salary.
(d) Ten times his previous salary.

9. How did Jaime Roldós Aguilera die?
(a) In a plane crash.
(b) In a car crash.
(c) A bullet wound.
(d) In a robbery.

10. In Chapter 17, what did Perkins send to Torrijos?
(a) A priceless gift.
(b) A photo of his family.
(c) A bribe.
(d) A copy of his article.

11. What did Farhad's father claim the United States sowed in the Middle East?
(a) The seeds of love.
(b) The seeds of peace.
(c) The seeds of hate.
(d) The seeds of rebellion.

12. What is oil based on?
(a) United States' currency.
(b) Pesos.
(c) Rubbles.
(d) The Euro.

13. Who died at the start of Chapter 27?
(a) Jaime Roldós Aguilera.
(b) Omar Torrijos.
(c) Osvaldo Hurtado.
(d) Ronald Reagan.

14. What was the purpose of the Public Utility Regulatory Policy Act?
(a) To help small businesses find ways to get off oil dependence.
(b) To regulate utilites.
(c) To help big businesses find ways to get off oil dependence.
(d) To provide utilites to small countries.

15. What does Perkins believe can make a nation rise up?
(a) Words.
(b) Corruption.
(c) Anger.
(d) Unity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job did Chavez hold after the worker strikes in Venezuela?

2. What does Perkins suggest people need to do at the end of Chapter 34?

3. In Chapter 34, the people whom Perkins lived among were desperate _______________.

4. What did the employees of MAIN think sweatshops would do?

5. Who gave the Shah amnesty after he was expelled from the United States?

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