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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the countries that Perkins' company helped eventually do?
(a) Failed.
(b) Succeeded.
(c) Became democracies.
(d) Rebelled.

2. Why did the United States' government look away from the terrorist activity forming in Saudi Arabia?
(a) The United States believed they were too powerful to be attacked.
(b) United States' contracts were bringing in money to America.
(c) Saudi Arabia did not have a terrorist movement.
(d) The United States did not know about the activity.

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

4. What was Richard Nixon dressed as in Chapter 7?
(a) A thief.
(b) Uncle Sam.
(c) An angel.
(d) A clown.

5. Who is Doc?
(a) An Iranian doctor.
(b) An American dissenter.
(c) An American with a Ph.D.
(d) A Saudi rebel.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Perkins begin to resent in Indonesia?

2. What did MAIN threaten Perkins never to do?

3. Perkins discovered the key to working in politics was ______________.

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

5. Who is Charlie Illingsworth?

(see the answer key)

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