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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did John Colvin want to help the Sarkhan people?
(a) By lending them money
(b) By arranging mortgages for them
(c) By selling them rice
(d) By teaching them to raise cattle

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

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

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

5. What does Father Finian do when he arrives in Burma?
(a) Asks the archbishop for permission to move into a larger house
(b) Asks his archbishop for provisions and permission to go into the jungle
(c) Converts to Buddhism and shaves his head
(d) Finds a wife and settles down

6. Why was there a famine in South Sarkhan?
(a) Seeds were blown away by tornadoes
(b) Severe typhoons destroyed the crops
(c) The Americans stole the crops
(d) Rice weevils

7. What was their answer?
(a) We are all communists
(b) To have a country where Americans are banned from entering
(c) To have a country where any man may worship and live as he wishes
(d) Down the road, third tree on the left

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

9. What are the only expenses of the people assigned to foreign service?
(a) clothing, lliquor and bribes
(b) housing, transportation and food
(c) liquor, housing and all travel
(d) food, liquor, clothes and servants

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

11. Why is this letter from Louis Sears to Dexter Peterson confidential and personal?
(a) Sears and Peterson are long time friends and trust one another
(b) Sears is not allowed to send regular correspondence
(c) Sears is passing government secrets
(d) Dexter would not read the letter otherwise

12. Where is Marie assigned when she is accepted into the foreign service?
(a) France
(b) Holland
(c) Sarkhan
(d) China

13. Why does Gilbert MacWhite speak freely about confidential matters around Roger and Donald?
(a) He believes they cannot speak English
(b) He believes they are both deaf
(c) He belives they are too ignorant to understand
(d) He believes they are harmless

14. Who is Homer Atkins?
(a) French Ambassador to Sarkhan
(b) General of the US Army in charge of Vietnam
(c) Supervisor of Louis Sears
(d) A retired engineer who volunteers to go to Sarkhan

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many servants came with her new house?

2. What medicine did Deong and Colvin put into the Japanese soldiers' food?

3. How does Marie spend her evenings now?

4. What evidence does Sears present that he is doing a good job in Sarkhan?

5. What is Ruth Jyoti's main criticisms of Americans who live in Asia?

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