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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 does Sears think could increase morale at the embassy in Sarkhan?
(a) People who have studied communism
(b) More pretty girls
(c) People who can speak Sarkhanese
(d) People who don't drink

2. What famous general did Krupitzyn work with in China?
(a) Mao Tse-tung
(b) Douglass MacArthur
(c) Colin Powell
(d) George Patton

3. Why is the newspaperman rejected as an applicant for foreign service?
(a) He is not rich
(b) He is too old
(c) He already has a job
(d) He once wrote an article criticizing the US government

4. Why is the number 30 listed next the the name of Sarkhan by the Soviets?
(a) That is how many ambassadors have served there in the past 3 years
(b) It is the number of rooms the embassy has
(c) That is the number of months they expect to pass before the country becomes communist
(d) It is the number of cases of coca cola regularly sent to the embassy

5. What does Louis Sears call the citizens of Sarkhan?
(a) Strange little monkeys
(b) Good decent people
(c) Energetic and youthful creatures
(d) Happy citizens

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Father Finian?

2. How does she occupy her evenings?

3. What was the rumor that upset the Sarkhanese people?

4. What is a Sarkhanese?

5. How many servants came with her new house?

(see the answer key)

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