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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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

2. What is a Sarkhanese?
(a) A citizen of planet Saturn
(b) A citizen of Burma
(c) Someone who eats sark
(d) A citizen of Sarkhan

3. Why did the rumor persist?
(a) The President of the USA said it
(b) Someone overheard an official repeat the rumor
(c) The American embassy did not deny it
(d) It was on CNN all day long

4. Why does Deong want to cause Colvin's plan to fail?
(a) Colvin treated Deong badly in the past
(b) Because Deong does not want the Americans to look better than the communists
(c) Deong is jealous of his succss
(d) Deong has a competing business

5. What story is Ruth Jyoti most famous for?
(a) The Lindbergh kidnapping
(b) The Chinese discovery of the moon
(c) The Hindenberg disaster
(d) The success of Father Finian in Burma

6. How did the government advertise the recruitment meeting?
(a) Ads on CNN
(b) Newspaper ads with attractive photos
(c) Brightly colored placards posted around Washington D.C.
(d) Word of mouth

7. Why does Gilbert MacWhite speak freely about confidential matters around Roger and Donald?
(a) He believes they cannot speak English
(b) He belives they are too ignorant to understand
(c) He believes they are harmless
(d) He believes they are both deaf

8. How does Deong plan to cause Colvin to fail?
(a) By stealing his mail
(b) By cutting prices in his business
(c) By killing Colvin
(d) By making Colvin put ipecac into the powdered milk, making the Sarkhanese sick

9. What did the placards say about foreign service?
(a) Poor working conditions, bad pay, no possibility for advancement
(b) Good pay, possible advancement, patriotic career, opportunity to travel
(c) Exposure to disease and dysentary but good for you
(d) Good bosses, parties every night, cheap liquor

10. How does she get to work?
(a) Takes the Metro
(b) Walks
(c) Chauffer driven car
(d) Rides the bus

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

12. How old is Marie MacIntosh?
(a) 29
(b) 28
(c) 57
(d) 15

13. Who is Bob Maile?
(a) A member of the United States Information Service who is admired by the people of Southeast Asia
(b) Editor of the San Francisco newspaper
(c) Reporter from the New York Times
(d) Belgian Ambassador to Sarkhan

14. What skills did Ambassador Krupitzyn learn before the Soviets assigned him to Sarkhan?
(a) karate, cooking, and ability to speak Hebrew
(b) Square dance calling and internet research
(c) To speak the language fluently, to play the Sarkhanese music, and to dance
(d) Cell phone usage, massage and calligraphy

15. Why has Deong decided to become a communist?
(a) His wife has relatives who are communists
(b) He lost money in the stock market
(c) The pay is twice what he is making now
(d) Because he has lost faith in America to help his people and believes the communists will win

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Sears' complaint about Father Finian?

2. Ruth Jyoti says in her country, good deeds are publicized by what?

3. What does Ruth Jyoti think of Joe Bing?

4. What is Sears' overall assessment of his situation in Sarkhan?

5. How does Upton describe Joe Bing to the audience?

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