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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What event happened at the end of Chapter 31?
(a) September 11th.
(b) Jenkins' fortieth birthday.
(c) The election of Obama.
(d) The Vietnam war.

2. Who is Shakaim Chumpi?
(a) Perkins co-worker.
(b) An Ecuadorian and author.
(c) A militant.
(d) An Indian guru.

3. What did Torrijos predict in Jaime Roldós Aguilera's eulogy?
(a) His own death was near.
(b) He would stay in power forever.
(c) Oil would no longer be needed.
(d) The United States would fall.

4. What did Perkin's article, "Colonialism in Panama has No Place in 1975," suggest that Panama receive?
(a) A chance to run their own government.
(b) The canal.
(c) Military aid.
(d) Liberation.

5. What caused Venezuela's budget to quadruple?
(a) The 1973 oil embargo.
(b) The 1986 oil embargo.
(c) The death of Omar Torrijos.
(d) The death of Jaime Roldós.

6. Who is Yamin?
(a) The Shah.
(b) An angry militant.
(c) A new employee at MAIN.
(d) A subversive radical.

7. Who held a position on the board at Harken Energy Corporation?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) G.W Bush.
(c) G.H Bush.
(d) Bill Clinton.

8. What did Perkins' finally supply to Prince W. that led him to vote on Perkins' deal?
(a) He arranged for money to be transferred into Prince W.'s account.
(b) He arranaged for a woman to stay in Prince W.'s palace.
(c) Drugs.
(d) His word that the deal was honorable.

9. How did Perkins' deal impact Saudi Arabia?
(a) Perkins' deal did not go through.
(b) It did not affect Saudi Arabia.
(c) It transformed Saudi Arabia overnight.
(d) Saudi Arabia changed slowly.

10. Who fired Perkin's mentor from MAIN?
(a) Peter Hall.
(b) Mac Hall.
(c) Max Floor.
(d) Bruno Zambotti.

11. What natural resource was important to the Middle East?
(a) Wood.
(b) Wind.
(c) Water.
(d) Coal.

12. Yamin said that Iranians were a part of ____________.
(a) The forest.
(b) The ocean.
(c) The desert.
(d) The sky.

13. What does Perkins suggest people need to do at the end of Chapter 34?
(a) Research historical wars.
(b) Wake up.
(c) Spend more.
(d) Buy oil stock.

14. What did Osvaldo Hurtado allow to happen when he became president?
(a) For the people of Ecuador to invest in Oil fields.
(b) He allowed the Summer Institute of Linguistics to return.
(c) Public executions.
(d) He allowed MAIN to establish offices in Ecuador.

15. What prediction of Doc's came true at the end of Chapter 20?
(a) MAIN lost millions.
(b) The Shah became a leader again.
(c) MAIN was welcomed by the new government.
(d) Perkins was made a member of parliament.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Perkins quit his job as a expert witness for MAIN?

2. What did Yamin leave under Perkins' door?

3. Which country did Saddam Hussein invade?

4. Where did the United States invade in Chapter 30?

5. What effect did Perkins' article have on MAIN's business practices in Panama?

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