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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, "The Ambassador and the Working Press".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Colvin in this chapter?
(a) Colvin decides to return to the USA
(b) Colvin makes his first million
(c) He and Deong get into a fight and the women beat up Colvin
(d) Colvin marries Deong's sister

2. 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

3. What does Joe Rivers think of Joe Bing?
(a) He is a womanizer
(b) He is not equipped to be a janitor in an embassy
(c) He is fat and stupid
(d) He is charming, knows everyone and a great success in Asia

4. Who informed the Ambassador of this visit?
(a) Marie MacIntosh
(b) The press attache'
(c) Joe Bing
(d) Father Finian

5. Who is Dexter Peterson?
(a) State Department supervisor of Louis Sears
(b) French Ambassador to Sarkhan
(c) Servant in the Sarkhan embassy
(d) Gilbert MacWhite's brother

Short Answer Questions

1. How does she occupy her evenings?

2. What does Mr. Upton allude to as the reason people should be signing up to work in foreign service?

3. Why is Ruth Jyoti disappointed with the American newspapers?

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

5. Why do Soviet embassies employ only Soviets for service personnel?

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