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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, "The Six-Foot Swami from Savannah".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was there a famine in South Sarkhan?
(a) Severe typhoons destroyed the crops
(b) The Americans stole the crops
(c) Rice weevils
(d) Seeds were blown away by tornadoes

2. What are the only expenses of the people assigned to foreign service?
(a) food, liquor, clothes and servants
(b) liquor, housing and all travel
(c) clothing, lliquor and bribes
(d) housing, transportation and food

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

4. What have the communists told the northern province villagers about the Americans?
(a) They torture everyone
(b) They are good and decent people
(c) They are rich snobs who don't understand Filipinos
(d) They smell bad

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Louis Sears call the citizens of Sarkhan?

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

3. How did the government advertise the recruitment meeting?

4. Why does he have this nickname?

5. What did the USA do with the land?

(see the answer key)

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