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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, "The Ragtime Kid".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the recruitment team's message to the audience regarding the necessity to learn foreign languages or deal with the natives of the country they are posted to?
(a) You need a working knowledge of the language
(b) You must be fluent in the language before we can send you
(c) We are only accepting applications from those who already know the language
(d) No need to learn the culture, just hang out with the Americans

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

3. How did Ambassador Krupitzyn convince the Sarkhanese that the relief rice was from the Soviet Union and not America?
(a) He arranged for the rice bags to be re-labeled as coming from Russia
(b) He produced 100,000 handbills with the information written on it
(c) A spokesman from the Soviet Union discussed the rice on Sarkhanese television
(d) A radio broadcast in Russian

4. Who is Hamilton Bridge Upton?
(a) French Ambassador to Sarkhan
(b) Head Chef at the Sarkhan embassy
(c) French Ambassador to USA
(d) An experienced consul officer who was at the recruitment meeting

5. What does MacWhite ask Li Ping?
(a) Would you consider being my assistant?
(b) Did you like Louis Sears?
(c) Which Chinese leaders are sympathetic to the communists?
(d) Would you hire Roger and Donald?

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hillandale do when he reaches the northern province?

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

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

4. How does Deong plan to cause Colvin to fail?

5. What is the first step that the friends decide to take?

(see the answer key)

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