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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. What do Wolcheck, Monet and MacWhite decide to do?
(a) Study the architecture and art of Hanoi
(b) Study communist battle tactics
(c) Party every night with Marie MacIntosh
(d) Learn Spanish

2. Who is Major Tex Wolchek?
(a) Marie MacIntosh's boyfriend from the Pentagon
(b) A newspaper reporter from the New York Times
(c) An intelligence officer assigned to the Soviet embassy
(d) An American Army officer assigned as an observer to the French Foreign Legion outside of Hanoi, Vietnam

3. What are the only expenses of the people assigned to foreign service?
(a) clothing, lliquor and bribes
(b) food, liquor, clothes and servants
(c) housing, transportation and food
(d) liquor, housing and all travel

4. Who is Homer Atkins?
(a) General of the US Army in charge of Vietnam
(b) Supervisor of Louis Sears
(c) French Ambassador to Sarkhan
(d) A retired engineer who volunteers to go to Sarkhan

5. What did the placards say about foreign service?
(a) Good pay, possible advancement, patriotic career, opportunity to travel
(b) Good bosses, parties every night, cheap liquor
(c) Exposure to disease and dysentary but good for you
(d) Poor working conditions, bad pay, no possibility for advancement

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Atkins surprise the committee?

2. Who is Homer Atkins?

3. Of the names listed below, who was also a speaker at the recruitment meeting?

4. What does Atkins recommend instead of dams and roads?

5. Why is he called ugly?

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