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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, "The Ambassador and the Working Press".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the one word description of Marie MacIntosh used by the author?
(a) Brilliant
(b) Drab
(c) Exciting
(d) Intelligent

2. What does Louis Sears ask Peterson to do for him?
(a) Find a staff who is competent and efficient
(b) Pay for a swimming pool at the embassy
(c) Recruit a staff for Sarkhan that will make Sears look good.
(d) Send a color television for the embassy

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

4. What famous general did Krupitzyn work with in China?
(a) George Patton
(b) Mao Tse-tung
(c) Douglass MacArthur
(d) Colin Powell

5. What was the rumor that upset the Sarkhanese people?
(a) The USA was going to send settlers to live there
(b) The USA was going to take the land back after the Sarkhanese had developed it
(c) The USA was going to put a Walmart there
(d) The USA was going to put their own base there

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Father Finian?

2. Who is Lucky, Lucky Lou #2?

3. Who does Sears ask Peterson to assign to Sarkhan?

4. Why did the Ambassador resent this move?

5. What does Sears think could increase morale at the embassy in Sarkhan?

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