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

3. What is the recruitment team's message to the audience regarding the necessity to learn foreign languages or deal with the natives of the country they are posted to?
(a) You need a working knowledge of the language
(b) We are only accepting applications from those who already know the language
(c) You must be fluent in the language before we can send you
(d) No need to learn the culture, just hang out with the Americans

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

5. What do Wolcheck, Monet and MacWhite decide to do?
(a) Learn Spanish
(b) Study communist battle tactics
(c) Party every night with Marie MacIntosh
(d) Study the architecture and art of Hanoi

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

7. Why does Sears say he dislikes Maggie Johnson?
(a) She agrees with the native press too much and brings newspapermen to his office
(b) She is a communist spy
(c) She is sleeping with the servants
(d) She is too tall

8. Why don't they jump?
(a) The parachutes are missing
(b) MacWhite tells them they cannot go
(c) The battle has already been lost
(d) They are afraid of the upcoming battle

9. Who is the Ragtime Kid?
(a) Joe Bing
(b) Air Force Colonel Edwin B. Hillandale
(c) Marie MacIntosh
(d) Homer Atkins

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

11. Who is Tonki?
(a) Her new boyfriend
(b) Her new boss at the embassy
(c) One of her roommates
(d) A servant at the embassy who handled her luggage

12. How did Joe Bing treat Father Finian's request for ballpoint pens as rewards for distributing the newspapers?
(a) Joe Bing granted the request and hand wrapped the pens
(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 never received the request

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

14. Who is Bob Maile?
(a) Belgian Ambassador to Sarkhan
(b) Editor of the San Francisco newspaper
(c) A member of the United States Information Service who is admired by the people of Southeast Asia
(d) Reporter from the New York Times

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