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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. Why do Soviet embassies employ only Soviets for service personnel?
(a) So no aliens can serve as spies
(b) No one else will work for them because of their reputations
(c) None of the natives can fit in the uniforms
(d) The pay is too low for the natives

2. How did John Colvin want to help the Sarkhan people?
(a) By lending them money
(b) By selling them rice
(c) By teaching them to raise cattle
(d) By arranging mortgages for them

3. What is the State Department's reply to MacWhite's policy suggestions?
(a) The suggestions are welcomed and MacWhite is asked to accept the position of Secretary of State
(b) The suggestions are approved and put into practice within one year
(c) None are acceptable, and he is being replaced as Ambassador to Sarkhan
(d) MacWhite is sent to Cambodia on a fact-finding mission

4. How does Atkins surprise the committee?
(a) By falling asleep during the proceedings
(b) By telling them the Communists have built a huge road in the jungle that runs the length of the country
(c) By announcing his plans to become communist
(d) By demonstrating a long handled broom

5. What does Louis Sears call the citizens of Sarkhan?
(a) Good decent people
(b) Energetic and youthful creatures
(c) Strange little monkeys
(d) Happy citizens

Short Answer Questions

1. What Senate Committee does he chair?

2. What happens to Colvin in this chapter?

3. Why is this not good evidence?

4. Who is Hamilton Bridge Upton?

5. Why did this ruse work even though many Americans were involved in giving the rice to the people?

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