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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 are Major Monet's men preparing to do?
(a) Organize a large event with food and entertainment
(b) Evacuate Hanoi
(c) Parachute jump into Dien Bien Phu to fight the communists
(d) Desert from their posts

2. 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?
(a) You must be fluent in the language before we can send you
(b) We are only accepting applications from those who already know the language
(c) No need to learn the culture, just hang out with the Americans
(d) You need a working knowledge of the language

3. Why is the newspaperman rejected as an applicant for foreign service?
(a) He once wrote an article criticizing the US government
(b) He is not rich
(c) He already has a job
(d) He is too old

4. How does Upton describe Joe Bing to the audience?
(a) Totally unqualified for the job but the only person we could find
(b) A professional liar
(c) An overweight, ignorant slob
(d) An expert at meeting natives face to face as equals

5. Who is Marie MacIntosh
(a) Louis Sears' secretary
(b) A young woman from the Pentagon secretarial pool who attends the recruitment meeting
(c) US Air Force Colonel from the Phillipines
(d) Roger's wife

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the only expenses of the people assigned to foreign service?

2. What do Wolcheck, Monet and MacWhite decide to do?

3. Why don't they jump?

4. Who is Major Monet?

5. What does Joe Bing call the U.S.Government

(see the answer key)

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