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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, "Employment Opportunities Abroad".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Exposure to disease and dysentary but good for you
(d) Poor working conditions, bad pay, no possibility for advancement

2. What does Joe Bing call the U.S.Government
(a) Big Brother
(b) The United States Government
(c) Uncle Sammy
(d) The General

3. What first caused Father Finian to realize the dangers of communism?
(a) He saw Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart
(b) The Pope sent him a letter
(c) An encounter with a young American soldier in WWII
(d) He was recruited by a fellow priest

4. Why is Ruth Hyoti disappointed with her treatment in Hawaii?
(a) She is not greeted with a flower necklace
(b) She is imprisoned immediately
(c) She is forced to wait for hours in an uncomfortable room before she can clear Immigrations
(d) She is not met by the President of the USA

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Colvin say when Sears says he will have him transferred back to the USA?

2. What is Ruth Jyoti's main criticisms of Americans who live in Asia?

3. What famous general did Krupitzyn work with in China?

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

5. How many native communists does Sears claim to have met?

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