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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, "The Bent Backs of Chang 'Dong".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hillandale do when he reaches the northern province?
(a) Demands that the villagers vote for Magsaysay
(b) Plays his harmonica and makes friends with the villagers
(c) Buys a large house, marries a local woman and settles down
(d) Buys dinner for everyone

2. Why is MacWhite upset by this knowledge?
(a) Now the Communists know his plans to smash them in Sarkhan
(b) Now he needs to get new servants
(c) He has told Donald and Roger they can stay at the embassy forever
(d) MacWhite is afraid his wife is a communist spy as well

3. Who is Kruptizyn more concerned about than the American Ambassador?
(a) Joe Bing
(b) Emma Watkins
(c) Father Finian
(d) Mrs. Kruptizyn

4. Who informed the Ambassador of this visit?
(a) Father Finian
(b) Marie MacIntosh
(c) The press attache'
(d) Joe Bing

5. What was the cause of Captain Boning's distraction?
(a) He was watching television all night
(b) He was spending every night with a Chinese woman and not sleeping
(c) He was in financial trouble
(d) He was ill with dysentary

Short Answer Questions

1. Why have many Burmese become communists?

2. Who is Father Finian?

3. What does U Maung Swe recommend to MacWhite?

4. Why does she have breakfast, lunch and dinner at the government cafeteria every day?

5. What does Knox decide to do?

(see the answer key)

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