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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Lucky, Lucky Lou #2?
(a) A servant in the American Embassy
(b) Soviet Union citizen and foreign service officer Louis Krupitzyn
(c) A famous US Senator
(d) An Admiral in the US Navy

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

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

4. Why did this ruse work even though many Americans were involved in giving the rice to the people?
(a) The Americans were not involved in the transfer of the rice
(b) The Americans were paid off by the Soviets to keep quiet
(c) The Americans were distracted by dancing girls
(d) None of the Americans could read Sarkhanese

5. What does Colvin say when Sears says he will have him transferred back to the USA?
(a) "When is the next flight?"
(b) "Will you come with me?"
(c) "I won't go"
(d) "I don't have enough money"

6. What was their answer?
(a) To have a country where any man may worship and live as he wishes
(b) To have a country where Americans are banned from entering
(c) We are all communists
(d) Down the road, third tree on the left

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

8. Who is Tonki?
(a) Her new boyfriend
(b) A servant at the embassy who handled her luggage
(c) One of her roommates
(d) Her new boss at the embassy

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

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

11. Who is the Ragtime Kid?
(a) Joe Bing
(b) Homer Atkins
(c) Air Force Colonel Edwin B. Hillandale
(d) Marie MacIntosh

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

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

14. What happens to Colvin in this chapter?
(a) Colvin decides to return to the USA
(b) He and Deong get into a fight and the women beat up Colvin
(c) Colvin marries Deong's sister
(d) Colvin makes his first million

15. Who proposed a solution to the problem?
(a) Gilbert MacWhite
(b) Marie MacIntosh
(c) An American editor
(d) Joe Bing

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Bob Maile?

2. How many native communists does Sears claim to have met?

3. What is the one word description of Marie MacIntosh used by the author?

4. Why is Ruth Jyoti disappointed with the American newspapers?

5. What happened when Father Finian incorporates the Burmese food into his diet?

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