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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. Who is Marie MacIntosh
(a) Louis Sears' secretary
(b) Roger's wife
(c) A young woman from the Pentagon secretarial pool who attends the recruitment meeting
(d) US Air Force Colonel from the Phillipines

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

3. What are Major Monet's men preparing to do?
(a) Desert from their posts
(b) Organize a large event with food and entertainment
(c) Parachute jump into Dien Bien Phu to fight the communists
(d) Evacuate Hanoi

4. Of the names listed below, who was also a speaker at the recruitment meeting?
(a) Homer Atkins
(b) Joe Bing
(c) Gilbert MacWhite
(d) Marie MacIntosh

5. What did the placards say about foreign service?
(a) Good pay, possible advancement, patriotic career, opportunity to travel
(b) Exposure to disease and dysentary but good for you
(c) Poor working conditions, bad pay, no possibility for advancement
(d) Good bosses, parties every night, cheap liquor

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the only expenses of the people assigned to foreign service?

2. What do Wolcheck, Monet and MacWhite decide to do?

3. How did the government advertise the recruitment meeting?

4. Who is Homer Atkins?

5. What project does MacWhite give Atkins to work on?

(see the answer key)

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