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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruth Jyoti think of Joe Bing?
(a) He is a good and decent man
(b) He is a celebrity in America
(c) He is a professional foreign service officer
(d) his is an inconsiderate bastard who knows nothing of Asian ways.

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

3. What does Father Finian do when he arrives in Burma?
(a) Asks the archbishop for permission to move into a larger house
(b) Finds a wife and settles down
(c) Asks his archbishop for provisions and permission to go into the jungle
(d) Converts to Buddhism and shaves his head

4. Where is Marie assigned when she is accepted into the foreign service?
(a) France
(b) Sarkhan
(c) Holland
(d) China

5. Who is Kruptizyn more concerned about than the American Ambassador?
(a) Father Finian
(b) Joe Bing
(c) Emma Watkins
(d) Mrs. Kruptizyn

6. Who is Joe Bing?
(a) Mayor of Fort Worth
(b) French Ambassador to Sarkhan
(c) Chief of Information for ICA
(d) Servant at the Soviet Embassy

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

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

9. What is Ruth Jyoti's main criticisms of Americans who live in Asia?
(a) They are too tall
(b) They care nothing for the culture of the people living there
(c) They are all Catholics
(d) They are too pale

10. What was the name of the newspaper they created to confuse the communists and tell the truth to the Burmese people?
(a) The American Farmer
(b) The Communist Farmer
(c) Mother Earth News
(d) The Onion

11. Why is Li Ping angered by this question?
(a) Li Ping does not speak good English
(b) Li Ping is a communist
(c) Li Ping knows the servants are listening
(d) Li Ping is always angry

12. Who does Sears ask Peterson to assign to Sarkhan?
(a) John Colvin
(b) Joe Bing
(c) Father Finian
(d) Hilary Clinton

13. Of the names listed below, who was also a speaker at the recruitment meeting?
(a) Homer Atkins
(b) Joe Bing
(c) Gilbert MacWhite
(d) Marie MacIntosh

14. What is the first step that the friends decide to take?
(a) To gather intelligence about the communists
(b) To kill every communist they find
(c) To throw a party and invite all the communists
(d) To escape from Burma

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What famous general did Krupitzyn work with in China?

2. During what season did the incident of the Royal Sarkhanese Air Base happen?

3. Why does Kruptizyn like Ambassador Sears?

4. What skills did Ambassador Krupitzyn learn before the Soviets assigned him to Sarkhan?

5. Why was there a famine in South Sarkhan?

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