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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, "The Ugly American and the Ugly Sarkhanese".

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. When the first sales person returns with orders for the pump, how many does he have?
(a) 100
(b) Zero
(c) 8
(d) 9

3. What is a Sarkhanese?
(a) A citizen of Burma
(b) A citizen of planet Saturn
(c) Someone who eats sark
(d) A citizen of Sarkhan

4. What project does MacWhite give Atkins to work on?
(a) Create a way for Sarkhanese people to get water from the hills
(b) Building dams and roads in Sarkhan
(c) Discover who Donald and Roger are reporting to in the communist party
(d) Finding an assignment for John Colvin

5. How did Ambassador Krupitzyn convince the Sarkhanese that the relief rice was from the Soviet Union and not America?
(a) A radio broadcast in Russian
(b) He produced 100,000 handbills with the information written on it
(c) A spokesman from the Soviet Union discussed the rice on Sarkhanese television
(d) He arranged for the rice bags to be re-labeled as coming from Russia

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Homer Atkins choose to partner with on the pump manufacturing?

2. Why don't they jump?

3. What was the reaction of Wolcheck and Monet's superiors to the details of the battle?

4. Why did the rumor persist?

5. When Hillandale visits the capital city of Sarkhan, what sort of shop does he notice outnumbers all the others?

(see the answer key)

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