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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Rasy's friends told Perkins the United States needed to stop _________.
(a) Being a democracy.
(b) Being greedy.
(c) Working with MAIN.
(d) Being allies with Indonesia.

2. Who is Fidel?
(a) The dictator of Panama .
(b) The ambassador to Panama.
(c) Perkins' driver.
(d) Perkins' boss.

3. What did Howard tell Perkins in confidence?
(a) Not to believe the grand ideas MAIN put forth.
(b) Not to believe what his teachers taught him.
(c) Perkins' boss was blowing the whistle on the company.
(d) Perkins' job was in trouble.

4. What were Panamanian woman prohibited to do?
(a) Prostitute themselves.
(b) Wear long pants.
(c) Drink.
(d) Drive a car.

5. What position did Perkins accept at MAIN?
(a) Economist.
(b) Publicist.
(c) Book keeper.
(d) Lawyer.

6. Who said they would take over the bar at the end of Chapter 12?
(a) The owner.
(b) The government.
(c) The military police.
(d) The radicals.

7. What does Perkins believe makes people feel that God only wants certain people at the top?
(a) Democracy.
(b) Theology.
(c) Corporatocracy.
(d) Aristocracy.

8. What did the man in Perkins' dream look like?
(a) Dark curly hair and a dark complexion.
(b) Light curly hair and a light complexion.
(c) Straight hair and Asian.
(d) Brown hair and light complexion.

9. What percent of electric load growth did MAIN project?
(a) Five.
(b) Seventeen.
(c) One hundred.
(d) Eighty.

10. Why was Perkins in Panama at the end of Chapter 10?
(a) Perkins never went to Panama.
(b) To move to the country.
(c) To set up a water system.
(d) To talk to the Omar Torrijos.

11. What was Prince W.'s weakness?
(a) Tall brunettes.
(b) Food.
(c) Money.
(d) Tall blondes.

12. How did the United States' Government remain innocent of bankrupting less developed countries?
(a) They used hidden bank accounts.
(b) The United States' Government was not a part of such activities.
(c) They used private companies.
(d) They were found guilty.

13. In Chapter 6, Perkins wanted to spend less time with ____________.
(a) Employees of MAIN.
(b) His wife.
(c) Indonesians.
(d) His family.

14. Why did Indonesia become a communist country?
(a) Lack of money.
(b) Lack of education.
(c) Lack of unity.
(d) Lack of a leader.

15. In Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, which empires were listed as imperialistic?
(a) Carolingia and Russia.
(b) Akkadia and Qin.
(c) Middle East, Rome, and Persia.
(d) Assyria and Mongol.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the purpose of JECOR?

2. Where did Perkins' parents teach in Chapter 1?

3. What did the President of Panama not want to be to the United States?

4. How did the employees of MAIN live?

5. What did MAIN never teach Perkins in Chapter 4?

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