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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 did the USA do with the land?
(a) Put a Walmart there
(b) Grew crops
(c) Put an electric fence around it
(d) Allowed the Sarkhanese government to use it

2. How does Upton describe Joe Bing to the audience?
(a) A professional liar
(b) An expert at meeting natives face to face as equals
(c) An overweight, ignorant slob
(d) Totally unqualified for the job but the only person we could find

3. What does Louis Sears ask Peterson to do for him?
(a) Pay for a swimming pool at the embassy
(b) Send a color television for the embassy
(c) Find a staff who is competent and efficient
(d) Recruit a staff for Sarkhan that will make Sears look good.

4. What happened when Father Finian incorporates the Burmese food into his diet?
(a) He fires his cook
(b) He suffers from dysentary and loses 40 pounds
(c) He gains 75 pounds and must start a diet
(d) He becomes allergic to bananas

5. How many servants came with her new house?
(a) Eight
(b) Three
(c) Fifty-seven
(d) Thirty-five

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Joe Rivers think of Joe Bing?

2. Why is this not good evidence?

3. Who does Sears ask Peterson to assign to Sarkhan?

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

5. What does Joe Bing call the U.S.Government

(see the answer key)

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