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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Major Monet?
(a) One of the embassy servants
(b) The commander of the French Foreign Legion outside of Hanoi, Vietnam
(c) An artist living in Sarkhan
(d) Best friend of Louis Sears

3. If all the Americans were like Bob Maile, what does Ruth Jyoti say would happen in Asia?
(a) People would name their children Bob
(b) The Communists would not last long
(c) The Communists would win immediately
(d) The economy would fail

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

5. How did Joe Bing treat Father Finian's request for ballpoint pens as rewards for distributing the newspapers?
(a) Joe Bing never received the request
(b) Joe Bing refused to grant the request
(c) Joe Bing purchased the pens with his own money & gave them to Finian
(d) Joe Bing granted the request and hand wrapped the pens

6. During what season did the incident of the Royal Sarkhanese Air Base happen?
(a) Wet season
(b) Dry season
(c) Chinese New Year
(d) Christmas

7. What story is Ruth Jyoti most famous for?
(a) The success of Father Finian in Burma
(b) The Hindenberg disaster
(c) The Chinese discovery of the moon
(d) The Lindbergh kidnapping

8. What medicine did Deong and Colvin put into the Japanese soldiers' food?
(a) Pepto Bismol
(b) Ipecac
(c) Opium
(d) Cocaine

9. What was their answer?
(a) To have a country where Americans are banned from entering
(b) Down the road, third tree on the left
(c) We are all communists
(d) To have a country where any man may worship and live as he wishes

10. Who proposed a solution to the problem?
(a) Joe Bing
(b) Gilbert MacWhite
(c) Marie MacIntosh
(d) An American editor

11. How did Sears cover his mistake about the mis-labeled rice?
(a) He sent out 100,000 handbills to the Sarkhanese explaining the ruse
(b) He blew up the Soviet embassy
(c) He called the farmers on the telephone and explained
(d) He recalled the rice and had it re-labeled

12. Why is the number 30 listed next the the name of Sarkhan by the Soviets?
(a) It is the number of cases of coca cola regularly sent to the embassy
(b) That is how many ambassadors have served there in the past 3 years
(c) That is the number of months they expect to pass before the country becomes communist
(d) It is the number of rooms the embassy has

13. What happens to Colvin in this chapter?
(a) Colvin makes his first million
(b) Colvin decides to return to the USA
(c) Colvin marries Deong's sister
(d) He and Deong get into a fight and the women beat up Colvin

14. Who is Major Tex Wolchek?
(a) An American Army officer assigned as an observer to the French Foreign Legion outside of Hanoi, Vietnam
(b) An intelligence officer assigned to the Soviet embassy
(c) Marie MacIntosh's boyfriend from the Pentagon
(d) A newspaper reporter from the New York Times

15. What does Joe Rivers think of Joe Bing?
(a) He is charming, knows everyone and a great success in Asia
(b) He is a womanizer
(c) He is fat and stupid
(d) He is not equipped to be a janitor in an embassy

Short Answer Questions

1. How did John Colvin want to help the Sarkhan people?

2. What was the name of the newspaper they created to confuse the communists and tell the truth to the Burmese people?

3. Who is Li Ping?

4. What did the placards say about foreign service?

5. What have the communists told the northern province villagers about the Americans?

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