View a FREE sample

This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was one of the main people Ambassador Krupitzyn went to see when he arrived in Sarkhan?
(a) Joe Bing
(b) Senator Brown
(c) Homer Atkins
(d) Chief Abbott of the Buddhist Monastery

2. What does Mr. Upton allude to as the reason people should be signing up to work in foreign service?
(a) To get out of the USA
(b) To enrich their 401K
(c) To fight communism from spreading all over the world
(d) To avoid paying taxes

3. Who is Ruth Jyoti?
(a) Editor and Publisher of a prominent and independent Southeast Asian newspaper
(b) Ambassador of China
(c) Editor of an American newspaper in Sacramento
(d) A talk show host on Hanoi television

4. How many native communists does Sears claim to have met?
(a) None
(b) Thirteen
(c) Nine
(d) Hundreds

5. What are Major Monet's men preparing to do?
(a) Evacuate Hanoi
(b) Parachute jump into Dien Bien Phu to fight the communists
(c) Organize a large event with food and entertainment
(d) Desert from their posts

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

7. Why is MacWhite upset by this knowledge?
(a) He has told Donald and Roger they can stay at the embassy forever
(b) MacWhite is afraid his wife is a communist spy as well
(c) Now the Communists know his plans to smash them in Sarkhan
(d) Now he needs to get new servants

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

9. How did Colvin meet Deong?
(a) At a state dinner in San Francisco
(b) When Colvin parachuted into Sarkhan during WWII
(c) In Hanoi at a shopping center
(d) In Milwaukee at college

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

11. What is Sears' overall assessment of his situation in Sarkhan?
(a) We are in the weeds
(b) We're in good shape here.
(c) We are beloved friends of the Sarkhanese
(d) We are all becoming communists

12. What first caused Father Finian to realize the dangers of communism?
(a) He saw Casablanca starring Humphrey Bogart
(b) The Pope sent him a letter
(c) He was recruited by a fellow priest
(d) An encounter with a young American soldier in WWII

13. Who is Li Ping?
(a) A Chinese man who is a representative of General Chiang Kai-shek
(b) Marie MacIntosh's boyfriend
(c) Roger's father
(d) Donald's brother

14. What is Sears' complaint about Father Finian?
(a) The local papers are upset with his behavior
(b) His clothes are out of style
(c) Father Finian does not speak English
(d) Father Finian is too old

15. How did Joe Bing treat Father Finian's request for ballpoint pens as rewards for distributing the newspapers?
(a) Joe Bing refused to grant the request
(b) Joe Bing granted the request and hand wrapped the pens
(c) Joe Bing never received the request
(d) Joe Bing purchased the pens with his own money & gave them to Finian

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Joe Bing?

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

3. Who proposed a solution to the problem?

4. What does Colvin say when Sears says he will have him transferred back to the USA?

5. What did the placards say about foreign service?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 649 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample