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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 do Wolcheck, Monet and MacWhite decide to do?
(a) Learn Spanish
(b) Study the architecture and art of Hanoi
(c) Party every night with Marie MacIntosh
(d) Study communist battle tactics

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

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

4. What project does MacWhite give Atkins to work on?
(a) Discover who Donald and Roger are reporting to in the communist party
(b) Create a way for Sarkhanese people to get water from the hills
(c) Finding an assignment for John Colvin
(d) Building dams and roads in Sarkhan

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Atkins recommend instead of dams and roads?

2. What does Joe Bing call the U.S.Government

3. Who is Major Tex Wolchek?

4. How does Upton describe Joe Bing to the audience?

5. What are Major Monet's men preparing to do?

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