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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Because he has lost faith in America to help his people and believes the communists will win
(d) The pay is twice what he is making now

2. Who is Homer Atkins?
(a) Supervisor of Louis Sears
(b) A retired engineer who volunteers to go to Sarkhan
(c) General of the US Army in charge of Vietnam
(d) French Ambassador to Sarkhan

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

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

5. What medicine did Deong and Colvin put into the Japanese soldiers' food?
(a) Cocaine
(b) Pepto Bismol
(c) Opium
(d) Ipecac

6. How does the State Department define her new location?
(a) An ordinary posting
(b) A stateside posting
(c) A hardship post
(d) A luxury assigment

7. What statement did the Ambassador give to the editors?
(a) The rumor is false
(b) The rumor is true
(c) No comment
(d) The USA is going to give the land back to Sarkhan

8. What happened when Father Finian incorporates the Burmese food into his diet?
(a) He becomes allergic to bananas
(b) He gains 75 pounds and must start a diet
(c) He fires his cook
(d) He suffers from dysentary and loses 40 pounds

9. How does she get to work every day?
(a) Rides the bus
(b) Her own vehicle
(c) Limousine
(d) Walks

10. How does Marie MacIntosh travel to her new destination?
(a) Airplane, via first class ticket
(b) Train
(c) Walks
(d) Ship, then train

11. Why did the Ambassador resent this move?
(a) He believed it would endanger his chances of a judgeship in the USA
(b) He wanted to solve the problem on his own
(c) He was jealous he had not thought of it first
(d) He wanted the rumor to persist

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

13. Why does he have this nickname?
(a) The Filipino musicians have affectionately named him
(b) He wears clothes made of rags
(c) He middle name is Ragtime
(d) He is very young

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

15. Why don't they jump?
(a) The battle has already been lost
(b) They are afraid of the upcoming battle
(c) The parachutes are missing
(d) MacWhite tells them they cannot go

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Gilbert MacWhite speak freely about confidential matters around Roger and Donald?

2. Where is Marie assigned when she is accepted into the foreign service?

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

4. Why is this letter from Louis Sears to Dexter Peterson confidential and personal?

5. Why did the rumor persist?

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