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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did it make sense to Perkins that big corporations funded colleges?
(a) Tax breaks.
(b) Advertising.
(c) Colleges needed funding.
(d) Professors would not expose the companies for fear of losing their job.

2. Where did Perkins live while he worked in the Peace Corp?
(a) The Amazon.
(b) The Pyrenees Mountains.
(c) The Congo.
(d) The Appalachian Trail.

3. How did the employees of MAIN live?
(a) Pay check to pay check.
(b) The employees live in the city.
(c) Poorly.
(d) Lavishly.

4. How was Howard described to Perkins?
(a) As a mean, vindictive man.
(b) As a kind person.
(c) As an honorable person.
(d) As a man to be trusted.

5. Perkins believed MAIN's objective in Indonesia was _____________.
(a) Preventing communism and increasing the country's wealth.
(b) Destroying the country.
(c) Building a new office.
(d) Reinstating communism.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, who was the President of the World Bank?

2. What did Perkins have to remind himself of at the end of Chapter 4?

3. What was MAIN's key to helping the United States obtain dominance in Indonesia?

4. Who trained Perkins to become an economic hit man?

5. What was the United States determined to lure Indonesia away from in Chapter 3?

(see the answer key)

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