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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. Who is Tonki?
(a) A servant at the embassy who handled her luggage
(b) Her new boss at the embassy
(c) One of her roommates
(d) Her new boyfriend

2. Who is Roger and Donald
(a) Famous comedians who come for the USO show
(b) Sakhanese servants in the embassy
(c) Two of Father Finian's nine friends
(d) Two American intelligence officers in Vietnam

3. How did Krupitzyn begin his career in foreign service for the Soviet Union?
(a) As a chauffeur in New York
(b) cook at McDonalds in Elgin, Illinois
(c) taxi driver in Chicago
(d) law office clerk in Boise Idaho

4. Who is Father Finian?
(a) Louis Sears' father in law
(b) The priest who runs the boys club in Sarkhan
(c) A priest who is transferred to Burma by the Vatican
(d) A Buddhist priest who lives next door to Homer Atkins

5. Who is Bob Maile?
(a) Reporter from the New York Times
(b) A member of the United States Information Service who is admired by the people of Southeast Asia
(c) Editor of the San Francisco newspaper
(d) Belgian Ambassador to Sarkhan

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sears think could increase morale at the embassy in Sarkhan?

2. How did Colvin meet Deong?

3. What happened when Father Finian incorporates the Burmese food into his diet?

4. Why was there a famine in South Sarkhan?

5. What does Ruth Jyoti think of Joe Bing?

(see the answer key)

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