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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. Whom did Perkins begin to resent in Indonesia?
(a) Howard.
(b) Indonesians.
(c) Europeans.
(d) Americans.

2. What percent of electric load growth did MAIN project?
(a) One hundred.
(b) Five.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Eighty.

3. How did the employees of MAIN live?
(a) Lavishly.
(b) Poorly.
(c) Pay check to pay check.
(d) The employees live in the city.

4. What did the President of Panama not want to be to the United States?
(a) A clown.
(b) A tool.
(c) A puppet leader.
(d) A figure head.

5. Why did Indonesia become a communist country?
(a) Lack of money.
(b) Lack of unity.
(c) Lack of a leader.
(d) Lack of education.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Perkin's opinion about being an economic hit man at the end of Chapter 2?

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

3. What did Fidel advise Perkins never to do?

4. What caused a waitress to scream at the bar that Perkins and Fidel visited?

5. What is Bechtel?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did President Torrijos want to build, and who did he want to finance the project?

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

3. What were the two objectives of economic hit men?

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

5. Describe Perkin's experience with the puppet master.

6. Why did MAIN fire Howard Parker?

7. Describe the role of OPEC.

8. Why did Perkins travel to Panama?

9. What were Panamanian women not allowed to do?

10. What was life like in the Canal Zone?

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