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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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' job was in trouble.
(d) Perkins' boss was blowing the whistle on the company.

3. Who was Omar Torrijos?
(a) A friend of Perkins.
(b) Perkins' boss.
(c) A cab driver.
(d) The President of Panama.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 6, where did Perkins discover he could not work?

2. How did the employees of MAIN live?

3. What position did Perkins accept at MAIN?

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

5. What issue did the United States have with Panama?

(see the answer key)

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