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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. How did the government advertise the recruitment meeting?
(a) Newspaper ads with attractive photos
(b) Word of mouth
(c) Brightly colored placards posted around Washington D.C.
(d) Ads on CNN

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does MacWhite ask Atkins to do?

3. Who is Marie MacIntosh

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

(see the answer key)

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