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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How did Rasy help Perkins while in Indonesia?
(a) He showed Perkins places most Americans do not see.
(b) He gave him money.
(c) He gave him language lessons.
(d) He helped him find a place to live.

3. What is OPEC?
(a) A group against the use of oil.
(b) A conglomeration of banks.
(c) A cartel of oil producing nations.
(d) Oil Peace Exiting Communism.

4. What did Perkins realize at the end of Chapter 8?
(a) He loved his job.
(b) He wanted to become president of the World Bank.
(c) He had changed.
(d) He wanted to stay in Indonesia.

5. What did MAIN never teach Perkins in Chapter 4?
(a) Accounting.
(b) Calculus.
(c) Macroeconomics.
(d) Buisness administration.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What was Richard Nixon dressed as in Chapter 7?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Perkins' childhood.

2. How did the United States appear innocent in the ruin of less developed countries?

3. Describe Perkins' interaction with Rasy's friends at the coffeehouse.

4. Why did MAIN fire Howard Parker?

5. What did the people who lived in the slums of Panama think of America?

6. Describe Omar Torrijos.

7. What is corporatocracy?

8. Describe Howard Parker.

9. What led the Saudis to implement an embargo on oil in 1974?

10. How did MAIN try to bring Indonesia away from communism?

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