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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was Perkins' impression of Jakarta?
(a) He had never seen such wealth.
(b) He never travelled to Jakarta.
(c) He had never seen such desperation.
(d) He had never seen such a clean city.

2. What did Perkins have to convince himself of at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) He was a bad person.
(b) MAIN was not going to fire him.
(c) He was doing the right thing.
(d) Communism was wrong.

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

4. How did the United States fight the Soviet Union?
(a) With weapons of mass destruction.
(b) With the United Nation's policies and, also, economically.
(c) Through a series of debates.
(d) With cluster bombs.

5. What did MAIN threaten Perkins never to do?
(a) Run for president.
(b) Speak to his family.
(c) Leave the country.
(d) Reveal their policies.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Howard described to Perkins?

2. When did Indonesia gain independence?

3. How did the United States' Government remain innocent of bankrupting less developed countries?

4. Why did Indonesia become a communist country?

5. Perkins believed MAIN's objective in Indonesia was _____________.

(see the answer key)

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