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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, "What Would You Do If You Were President?".
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What example of "tinsel" does U Maung Swe offer?
(a) Rotten produce flown in from San Francisco
(b) Items used to decorate Christmas Trees in the Sarkhanese homes
(c) Promises to Burma of a mobile floating dredge which turned out to be a rusting old stationery dredge which even the Americans could not get to work
(d) News coverage of the Miss Sarkhan Pageant
2. When Hillandale leaves the northern province, what percentage of them vote for Magsaysay?
(a) 95
(b) 15
(c) 0
(d) 100
3. What did the USA do with the land?
(a) Put an electric fence around it
(b) Put a Walmart there
(c) Grew crops
(d) Allowed the Sarkhanese government to use it
4. What statement did the Ambassador give to the editors?
(a) The rumor is false
(b) The rumor is true
(c) No comment
(d) The USA is going to give the land back to Sarkhan
5. What does Hillandale do when he reaches the northern province?
(a) Buys a large house, marries a local woman and settles down
(b) Plays his harmonica and makes friends with the villagers
(c) Buys dinner for everyone
(d) Demands that the villagers vote for Magsaysay
Short Answer Questions
1. What does Sears think could increase morale at the embassy in Sarkhan?
2. Why did the rumor persist?
3. Who replaces Ambassador Sears in Sarkhan?
4. Why did the Ambassador resent this move?
5. What does Louis Sears ask Peterson to do for him?
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