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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. Who replaces Ambassador Sears in Sarkhan?
(a) Mrs. Sears
(b) Joe Bing
(c) Marie MacIntosh
(d) Gilbert MacWhite

2. What does Atkins recommend instead of dams and roads?
(a) Interstate highways and rest stops
(b) A chicken farm and a water pump factory
(c) A brick factory and a canning plant
(d) A munitions plant and a dress factory

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

4. What does U Maung Swe say is the reason America has lost its prestige in Asia?
(a) Ther Americans do not pay the servants well
(b) The Americans are too short
(c) The Americans who are stationed in foreign lands are isolated, loud and ostentatious
(d) Americans are too poor to travel to Asia

5. What was the solution proposed?
(a) To bring the editors of the local papers to see the Ambassador
(b) To blow up the newspaper office that originally printed the rumor
(c) To slander the newspaper who originally printed it
(d) To turn the newspaper editor over to the police

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Father Finian?

2. What is Finian's Station?

3. What does Knox say to the headman of the village when he is asked why he left America to come to Cambodia?

4. If all the Americans were like Bob Maile, what does Ruth Jyoti say would happen in Asia?

5. What project does MacWhite give Atkins to work on?

(see the answer key)

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