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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 Major Monet?
(a) Best friend of Louis Sears
(b) An artist living in Sarkhan
(c) The commander of the French Foreign Legion outside of Hanoi, Vietnam
(d) One of the embassy servants

2. Who is Major Tex Wolchek?
(a) An intelligence officer assigned to the Soviet embassy
(b) Marie MacIntosh's boyfriend from the Pentagon
(c) An American Army officer assigned as an observer to the French Foreign Legion outside of Hanoi, Vietnam
(d) A newspaper reporter from the New York Times

3. What does Atkins recommend instead of dams and roads?
(a) Interstate highways and rest stops
(b) A munitions plant and a dress factory
(c) A chicken farm and a water pump factory
(d) A brick factory and a canning plant

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is Homer Atkins?

3. What did the placards say about foreign service?

4. How did the government advertise the recruitment meeting?

5. Why don't they jump?

(see the answer key)

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