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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, "Everybody Loves Joe Bing".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do Soviet embassies employ only Soviets for service personnel?
(a) The pay is too low for the natives
(b) None of the natives can fit in the uniforms
(c) So no aliens can serve as spies
(d) No one else will work for them because of their reputations

2. What was the name of the newspaper they created to confuse the communists and tell the truth to the Burmese people?
(a) The Onion
(b) The Communist Farmer
(c) Mother Earth News
(d) The American Farmer

3. What does Colvin say when Sears says he will have him transferred back to the USA?
(a) "Will you come with me?"
(b) "I won't go"
(c) "When is the next flight?"
(d) "I don't have enough money"

4. What was their answer?
(a) To have a country where Americans are banned from entering
(b) Down the road, third tree on the left
(c) To have a country where any man may worship and live as he wishes
(d) We are all communists

5. Who is the first person Father Finian looks for after he has learned the language and learned to eat the food?
(a) A Burmese Catholic he can trust
(b) People to invite for dinner
(c) A communist who wants to defect
(d) A good doctor in the area

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Louis Sears call the citizens of Sarkhan?

2. Why has Deong decided to become a communist?

3. What does Joe Rivers think of Joe Bing?

4. How did Ambassador Krupitzyn convince the Sarkhanese that the relief rice was from the Soviet Union and not America?

5. What first caused Father Finian to realize the dangers of communism?

(see the answer key)

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