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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, "The Ugly American".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does MacWhite ask Atkins to do?
(a) Leave the room
(b) Return to the United States
(c) Move to Burma
(d) Move to Sarkhan

2. What does Joe Bing call the U.S.Government
(a) The General
(b) Uncle Sammy
(c) Big Brother
(d) The United States Government

3. Why does MacWhite join up with Wolchek and Monet?
(a) To get away from his wife in Sarkhan
(b) To learn why the communists are winning all over Asia
(c) Because Louis Sears recommended it
(d) He is bored with his duties as being ambassador

4. Who is Hamilton Bridge Upton?
(a) French Ambassador to Sarkhan
(b) Head Chef at the Sarkhan embassy
(c) An experienced consul officer who was at the recruitment meeting
(d) French Ambassador to USA

5. Who is Homer Atkins?
(a) An American construction engineer brought to VietNam to decide where dams and roads should be built
(b) Marie MacIntosh's father
(c) Joe Bing's brother in law
(d) Gilbert MacWhite's accountant

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the newspaperman rejected as an applicant for foreign service?

2. Why don't they jump?

3. What did the placards say about foreign service?

4. What is the recruitment team's message to the audience regarding the necessity to learn foreign languages or deal with the natives of the country they are posted to?

5. Who is Homer Atkins?

(see the answer key)

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