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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Why does Gilbert MacWhite speak freely about confidential matters around Roger and Donald?
(a) He believes they cannot speak English
(b) He believes they are harmless
(c) He belives they are too ignorant to understand
(d) He believes they are both deaf
2. What is the first step that the friends decide to take?
(a) To gather intelligence about the communists
(b) To kill every communist they find
(c) To escape from Burma
(d) To throw a party and invite all the communists
3. Why do Soviet embassies employ only Soviets for service personnel?
(a) No one else will work for them because of their reputations
(b) The pay is too low for the natives
(c) None of the natives can fit in the uniforms
(d) So no aliens can serve as spies
4. What happened when Father Finian incorporates the Burmese food into his diet?
(a) He suffers from dysentary and loses 40 pounds
(b) He gains 75 pounds and must start a diet
(c) He becomes allergic to bananas
(d) He fires his cook
5. What is Sears' overall assessment of his situation in Sarkhan?
(a) We are in the weeds
(b) We are all becoming communists
(c) We are beloved friends of the Sarkhanese
(d) We're in good shape here.
6. Who is Roger and Donald
(a) Sakhanese servants in the embassy
(b) Two of Father Finian's nine friends
(c) Two American intelligence officers in Vietnam
(d) Famous comedians who come for the USO show
7. What does Louis Sears ask Peterson to do for him?
(a) Pay for a swimming pool at the embassy
(b) Recruit a staff for Sarkhan that will make Sears look good.
(c) Find a staff who is competent and efficient
(d) Send a color television for the embassy
8. Who proposed a solution to the problem?
(a) An American editor
(b) Gilbert MacWhite
(c) Marie MacIntosh
(d) Joe Bing
9. How did Colvin meet Deong?
(a) In Hanoi at a shopping center
(b) At a state dinner in San Francisco
(c) When Colvin parachuted into Sarkhan during WWII
(d) In Milwaukee at college
10. Why does Deong want to cause Colvin's plan to fail?
(a) Because Deong does not want the Americans to look better than the communists
(b) Colvin treated Deong badly in the past
(c) Deong has a competing business
(d) Deong is jealous of his succss
11. What does Joe Rivers think of Joe Bing?
(a) He is a womanizer
(b) He is not equipped to be a janitor in an embassy
(c) He is fat and stupid
(d) He is charming, knows everyone and a great success in Asia
12. How many men are in Father Finian's group, including hiim?
(a) Nine
(b) Fifteen
(c) Three
(d) Twenty-five
13. Why is Ruth Hyoti disappointed with her treatment in Hawaii?
(a) She is not met by the President of the USA
(b) She is forced to wait for hours in an uncomfortable room before she can clear Immigrations
(c) She is not greeted with a flower necklace
(d) She is imprisoned immediately
14. Why does he have this nickname?
(a) He is very young
(b) He middle name is Ragtime
(c) He wears clothes made of rags
(d) The Filipino musicians have affectionately named him
15. What does Joe Bing call the U.S.Government
(a) Uncle Sammy
(b) The General
(c) The United States Government
(d) Big Brother
Short Answer Questions
1. What evidence does Sears present that he is doing a good job in Sarkhan?
2. What is a Sarkhanese?
3. How does Marie MacIntosh travel to her new destination?
4. What does Mr. Upton allude to as the reason people should be signing up to work in foreign service?
5. What did the placards say about foreign service?
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