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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Marie MacIntosh
(a) Louis Sears' secretary
(b) A young woman from the Pentagon secretarial pool who attends the recruitment meeting
(c) Roger's wife
(d) US Air Force Colonel from the Phillipines

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

3. What was the name of the newspaper they created to confuse the communists and tell the truth to the Burmese people?
(a) The Onion
(b) The Communist Farmer
(c) The American Farmer
(d) Mother Earth News

4. What is the one word description of Marie MacIntosh used by the author?
(a) Drab
(b) Exciting
(c) Intelligent
(d) Brilliant

5. Ruth Jyoti says in her country, good deeds are publicized by what?
(a) Printed newspapers
(b) Oprah Winfrey Show
(c) The radio
(d) The bamboo telegraph

6. Why did the Ambassador resent this move?
(a) He was jealous he had not thought of it first
(b) He wanted to solve the problem on his own
(c) He believed it would endanger his chances of a judgeship in the USA
(d) He wanted the rumor to persist

7. Who does Sears ask Peterson to assign to Sarkhan?
(a) John Colvin
(b) Father Finian
(c) Hilary Clinton
(d) Joe Bing

8. Who is Father Finian?
(a) The priest who runs the boys club in Sarkhan
(b) A Buddhist priest who lives next door to Homer Atkins
(c) Louis Sears' father in law
(d) A priest who is transferred to Burma by the Vatican

9. How does she occupy her evenings?
(a) After chores, she watches television
(b) Reading books on political idealogy
(c) Parties with prominent Pentagon officials
(d) Attending college classes

10. 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) We are only accepting applications from those who already know the language
(b) You must be fluent in the language before we can send you
(c) No need to learn the culture, just hang out with the Americans
(d) You need a working knowledge of the language

11. Why is MacWhite upset by this knowledge?
(a) Now the Communists know his plans to smash them in Sarkhan
(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 he needs to get new servants

12. How does she get to work every day?
(a) Limousine
(b) Her own vehicle
(c) Walks
(d) Rides the bus

13. Why does MacWhite join up with Wolchek and Monet?
(a) To get away from his wife in Sarkhan
(b) He is bored with his duties as being ambassador
(c) Because Louis Sears recommended it
(d) To learn why the communists are winning all over Asia

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

15. Why does Kruptizyn like Ambassador Sears?
(a) Sears is a distant cousin
(b) Because Sears' ineptness makes Krupitzyn's job easier
(c) Sears is a very likable man
(d) They both enjoy a good chess game

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hillandale do when he reaches the northern province?

2. Who replaces Ambassador Sears in Sarkhan?

3. How did Joe Bing treat Father Finian's request for ballpoint pens as rewards for distributing the newspapers?

4. What does Colvin say when Sears says he will have him transferred back to the USA?

5. Why have many Burmese become communists?

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