2. What does U Maung Swe say is the reason America has lost its prestige in Asia?
(a) Americans are too poor to travel to Asia
(b) The Americans are too short
(c) The Americans who are stationed in foreign lands are isolated, loud and ostentatious
(d) Ther Americans do not pay the servants well

3. What idea does Emma give him regarding the pump?
(a) To power it using bicycles
(b) To abandon it in favor of a telephone system
(c) To paint it red white and blue
(d) To name it after a famous Sarkhanese general

4. When fighting an enemy that has superior numbers, what does Mao say is the key to success?
(a) Foreign aid and intelligence
(b) Firepower and wealth
(c) Mobility and the use of darkness
(d) Well fed troops who are promoted often

5. What are the main requests MacWhite makes for a change of policy in foreign service personnel?
(a) Better training as cooks, recruit blonde women only, and raise the salary of the Ambassador
(b) Reduce pay for servants, limit the number of parties per week, and ride bicycles to work
(c) Bring only military style clothes, restrict travel within the country, and no fraternization with natives
(d) Learn the language of the country assigned to, commit to two years, no luxuries, no private autos, be well versed in communism ideology

6. What does Emma decide is actually the problem?
(a) People are using short handled brooms
(b) Someone is beating the elderly people
(c) It is a genetic defect in the villagers
(d) The villagers need to read more books

7. The authors say the American embassies overseas are so busy trying to entertain visiting American VIP's that they resemble what?
(a) Tourist agencies
(b) Corporations
(c) Brothels
(d) Carnivals

8. Whose books do Wolcheck, Monet and MacWhite study?
(a) Robert Ludlum
(b) Chiang Kai-Shek
(c) Mao Tse-tung
(d) James Michener

9. What example of "tinsel" does U Maung Swe offer?
(a) Promises to Burma of a mobile floating dredge which turned out to be a rusting old stationery dredge which even the Americans could not get to work
(b) Items used to decorate Christmas Trees in the Sarkhanese homes
(c) Rotten produce flown in from San Francisco
(d) News coverage of the Miss Sarkhan Pageant

10. What was the reaction of Wolcheck and Monet's superiors to the details of the battle?
(a) They promised to take the suggestions under advisement
(b) They were shocked and decided to reprimand them for going against everything the men had been taught in the military
(c) They were given bonuses in their next paychecks
(d) They appluded the men and promoted them

11. What happens to Knox's plan?
(a) The plan is turned into a novel by William Faulkner
(b) He presents the plan to the Communists and they erect a statue in his honor
(c) He presents the plan to Congress and it is approved
(d) After being provided with every conceivable luxury and fed lies about the conditions of Cambodia, he loses the sense of urgency.

12. Senator Brown wanted to talk to real soldiers and natives. Who did he talk to?
(a) Real soldiers and natives
(b) Embassy staff and their spouses
(c) Actors and actresses
(d) Only people placed by the embassy

13. The authors say America will lose its freedom not in a nuclear cataclysm but how?
(a) In a long protracted war with the Soviets
(b) not with a bang but a whimper
(c) In a succession of bits and fragments
(d) Through global warming

14. Who interferes with Hillandale and causes this progress to be lost?
(a) Joe Bing
(b) Roger
(c) George Swift
(d) Donald

15. Why is he called ugly?
(a) His appearance is not attractive
(b) It is his nickname from childhood
(c) His language is always peppered with obscenities
(d) His feet are unusually large