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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the first step that the friends decide to take?
(a) To kill every communist they find
(b) To gather intelligence about the communists
(c) To throw a party and invite all the communists
(d) To escape from Burma

2. What statement did the Ambassador give to the editors?
(a) The USA is going to give the land back to Sarkhan
(b) No comment
(c) The rumor is true
(d) The rumor is false

3. How does Deong plan to cause Colvin to fail?
(a) By cutting prices in his business
(b) By killing Colvin
(c) By stealing his mail
(d) By making Colvin put ipecac into the powdered milk, making the Sarkhanese sick

4. How did Krupitzyn begin his career in foreign service for the Soviet Union?
(a) cook at McDonalds in Elgin, Illinois
(b) taxi driver in Chicago
(c) law office clerk in Boise Idaho
(d) As a chauffeur in New York

5. 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

6. What did the USA do with the land?
(a) Allowed the Sarkhanese government to use it
(b) Put a Walmart there
(c) Grew crops
(d) Put an electric fence around it

7. What does Sears think could increase morale at the embassy in Sarkhan?
(a) People who don't drink
(b) People who can speak Sarkhanese
(c) More pretty girls
(d) People who have studied communism

8. What are Major Monet's men preparing to do?
(a) Evacuate Hanoi
(b) Organize a large event with food and entertainment
(c) Parachute jump into Dien Bien Phu to fight the communists
(d) Desert from their posts

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

10. Why did this ruse work even though many Americans were involved in giving the rice to the people?
(a) The Americans were not involved in the transfer of the rice
(b) The Americans were paid off by the Soviets to keep quiet
(c) None of the Americans could read Sarkhanese
(d) The Americans were distracted by dancing girls

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

12. How did Colvin meet Deong?
(a) In Milwaukee at college
(b) When Colvin parachuted into Sarkhan during WWII
(c) In Hanoi at a shopping center
(d) At a state dinner in San Francisco

13. What was the solution proposed?
(a) To bring the editors of the local papers to see the Ambassador
(b) To slander the newspaper who originally printed it
(c) To turn the newspaper editor over to the police
(d) To blow up the newspaper office that originally printed the rumor

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

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who proposed a solution to the problem?

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

3. How does she get to work every day?

4. Why does Sears say he dislikes Maggie Johnson?

5. How did Ambassador Krupitzyn convince the Sarkhanese that the relief rice was from the Soviet Union and not America?

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