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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is Hamilton Bridge Upton?
(a) Head Chef at the Sarkhan embassy
(b) An experienced consul officer who was at the recruitment meeting
(c) French Ambassador to USA
(d) French Ambassador to Sarkhan

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

3. What does Louis Sears ask Peterson to do for him?
(a) Pay for a swimming pool at the embassy
(b) Find a staff who is competent and efficient
(c) Recruit a staff for Sarkhan that will make Sears look good.
(d) Send a color television for the embassy

4. How does Marie spend her evenings now?
(a) Going to parties or giving parties
(b) Working at a local cafe for extra money
(c) Watching tv
(d) Writing letters home

5. What do Wolcheck, Monet and MacWhite decide to do?
(a) Study communist battle tactics
(b) Learn Spanish
(c) Study the architecture and art of Hanoi
(d) Party every night with Marie MacIntosh

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

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

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

9. Who is the first person Father Finian looks for after he has learned the language and learned to eat the food?
(a) A good doctor in the area
(b) A Burmese Catholic he can trust
(c) People to invite for dinner
(d) A communist who wants to defect

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

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

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

13. Who is Lucky, Lucky Lou #1?
(a) Lou Gehrig, American baseball player
(b) Lou Rawls, American jazz singer
(c) Louie, brother of Hughie and Dewey
(d) Louis Sears, Ambassador to Sarkhan

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

15. How does Upton describe Joe Bing to the audience?
(a) Totally unqualified for the job but the only person we could find
(b) An overweight, ignorant slob
(c) An expert at meeting natives face to face as equals
(d) A professional liar

Short Answer Questions

1. What have the communists told the northern province villagers about the Americans?

2. Of the names listed below, who was also a speaker at the recruitment meeting?

3. What question does Father Finian ask that surprises the Burmese men?

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

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

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