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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, "The Ugly American".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is Major Tex Wolchek?
(a) An American Army officer assigned as an observer to the French Foreign Legion outside of Hanoi, Vietnam
(b) An intelligence officer assigned to the Soviet embassy
(c) A newspaper reporter from the New York Times
(d) Marie MacIntosh's boyfriend from the Pentagon
2. What does Joe Bing call the U.S.Government
(a) The General
(b) Uncle Sammy
(c) The United States Government
(d) Big Brother
3. How does Upton describe Joe Bing to the audience?
(a) An expert at meeting natives face to face as equals
(b) An overweight, ignorant slob
(c) Totally unqualified for the job but the only person we could find
(d) A professional liar
4. What does MacWhite ask Atkins to do?
(a) Move to Sarkhan
(b) Move to Burma
(c) Return to the United States
(d) Leave the room
5. Who is Marie MacIntosh
(a) Roger's wife
(b) A young woman from the Pentagon secretarial pool who attends the recruitment meeting
(c) Louis Sears' secretary
(d) US Air Force Colonel from the Phillipines
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the recruitment team's message to the audience regarding the necessity to learn foreign languages or deal with the natives of the country they are posted to?
2. What do Wolcheck, Monet and MacWhite decide to do?
3. Why is he called ugly?
4. Who is Homer Atkins?
5. What are Major Monet's men preparing to do?
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