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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many people worked under Perkins in 1977?
(a) Twenty.
(b) One thousand.
(c) Ninety-seven.
(d) Three.

2. Who held a position on the board at Harken Energy Corporation?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) G.H Bush.
(c) Richard Nixon.
(d) G.W Bush.

3. Yamin said that Iranians were a part of ____________.
(a) The sky.
(b) The desert.
(c) The forest.
(d) The ocean.

4. What did the Islamic mob seize in order to have the Shah returned to Iran?
(a) Prince W.'s palace.
(b) The American Embassy.
(c) The Shah's home.
(d) The Iranian Embassy.

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

6. What effect did Perkins' article have on MAIN's business practices in Panama?
(a) There was no change in buisness.
(b) Their contracts increased.
(c) Their contracts decreased.
(d) MAIN left Panama.

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

8. What did Perkins' finally supply to Prince W. that led him to vote on Perkins' deal?
(a) He arranged for money to be transferred into Prince W.'s account.
(b) His word that the deal was honorable.
(c) Drugs.
(d) He arranaged for a woman to stay in Prince W.'s palace.

9. What was the Flowering Desert Project?
(a) A military attack.
(b) The Shah's belief that the desert used to be lush forests.
(c) The attempt of Iranians to grow vegetables in the desert.
(d) The attempt of MAIN to plant flowers in the desert.

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

11. Perkins was offered a new job under what condition?
(a) He would give up his American citizenship.
(b) He would not write his book.
(c) He would blow the whistle on MAIN.
(d) He would take a pay cut.

12. What did the United States gain control of in Panama again?
(a) The right to drill.
(b) The Canal.
(c) The country.
(d) The government.

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

14. What did the employees of MAIN think sweatshops would do?
(a) Create a system of slavery.
(b) Help make poor people money.
(c) Provide bad working conditions.
(d) Destroy people's lives.

15. What did Doc say the Flowering Desert Project would do to Iran?
(a) Destroy it.
(b) Rebuild it.
(c) Flood it.
(d) Bring money into the country.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 17, what did Perkins send to Torrijos?

2. What type of soldiers does Perkins say the United States fights with in Chapter 30?

3. The company that Perkins started specialized in __________.

4. What would happen if the Euro surpassed the dollar?

5. Why did Perkins quit his job as a expert witness for MAIN?

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