View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Fidel?
(a) Perkins' boss.
(b) The dictator of Panama .
(c) Perkins' driver.
(d) The ambassador to Panama.

2. What is Bechtel?
(a) A powerful engineering firm.
(b) An airline.
(c) A law firm.
(d) A software company.

3. What did Perkins have to remind himself of at the end of Chapter 4?
(a) One day he would run MAIN.
(b) One day he would expose MAIN.
(c) His address.
(d) His phone number.

4. What caused a waitress to scream at the bar that Perkins and Fidel visited?
(a) A soldier grabbed her arm.
(b) She saw a mouse.
(c) Perkins grabbed her arm.
(d) She witnessed a murder.

5. What did Perkins find in the Canal Zone?
(a) Plush golf courses and pretty stores.
(b) Poverty.
(c) His business contact.
(d) Abandoned homes.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Perkins begin to resent in Indonesia?

2. Whom did Perkins meet with in Chapter 9?

3. Where did Perkins decide NOT to go to college?

4. What was the goal of Perkins' report in Chapter 15?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What was life like in the Canal Zone?

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

3. Describe Perkins thoughts about Jakarta.

4. What was the purpose of the New Deal's policies? What was the significance?

5. What did Howard Parker believe was wrong with MAIN'S predictions about Jakarta? Why did he leave?

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

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

8. Why did it make sense to Perkins that businesses funded colleges?

9. Why did Perkins travel to Panama?

10. What did Saudi Arabia's oil embargo cause the United States to realize?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 535 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample