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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, "Employment Opportunities Abroad".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Lucky, Lucky Lou #1?
(a) Louie, brother of Hughie and Dewey
(b) Louis Sears, Ambassador to Sarkhan
(c) Lou Gehrig, American baseball player
(d) Lou Rawls, American jazz singer

2. How many native communists does Sears claim to have met?
(a) Thirteen
(b) Nine
(c) Hundreds
(d) None

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

4. 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) 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) We are only accepting applications from those who already know the language

5. What did the placards say about foreign service?
(a) Good bosses, parties every night, cheap liquor
(b) Exposure to disease and dysentary but good for you
(c) Poor working conditions, bad pay, no possibility for advancement
(d) Good pay, possible advancement, patriotic career, opportunity to travel

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a Sarkhanese?

2. Why was there a famine in South Sarkhan?

3. Why is this letter from Louis Sears to Dexter Peterson confidential and personal?

4. Why have many Burmese become communists?

5. Who is Dexter Peterson?

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