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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, "The Sum of Tiny Things".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What example of "tinsel" does U Maung Swe offer?
(a) News coverage of the Miss Sarkhan Pageant
(b) Promises to Burma of a mobile floating dredge which turned out to be a rusting old stationery dredge which even the Americans could not get to work
(c) Rotten produce flown in from San Francisco
(d) Items used to decorate Christmas Trees in the Sarkhanese homes

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

3. Who is Jonathon Brown?
(a) American Senator
(b) Marie MacIntosh's uncle
(c) Joe Bing's brother in law
(d) Gilbert MacWhite's assistant secretary

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

5. Who proposed a solution to the problem?
(a) Joe Bing
(b) Gilbert MacWhite
(c) Marie MacIntosh
(d) An American editor

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Major Monet's men preparing to do?

2. Why is the newspaperman rejected as an applicant for foreign service?

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

4. Who is the first person Father Finian looks for after he has learned the language and learned to eat the food?

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

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