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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does she have breakfast, lunch and dinner at the government cafeteria every day?
(a) Her apartment has no stove
(b) She is having an affair with the head chef there
(c) Cheaper and easier than eating in the crowded apartment
(d) She loves the food there

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

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

5. Why is the number 30 listed next the the name of Sarkhan by the Soviets?
(a) It is the number of rooms the embassy has
(b) That is the number of months they expect to pass before the country becomes communist
(c) It is the number of cases of coca cola regularly sent to the embassy
(d) That is how many ambassadors have served there in the past 3 years

6. Why does Kruptizyn like Ambassador Sears?
(a) They both enjoy a good chess game
(b) Sears is a very likable man
(c) Because Sears' ineptness makes Krupitzyn's job easier
(d) Sears is a distant cousin

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

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

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

10. Why does MacWhite join up with Wolchek and Monet?
(a) He is bored with his duties as being ambassador
(b) To learn why the communists are winning all over Asia
(c) To get away from his wife in Sarkhan
(d) Because Louis Sears recommended it

11. Why have many Burmese become communists?
(a) Because Americans are ugly
(b) Because they believe the communists are against the Westerners, who have behaved unjustly
(c) Because communists are the winning team
(d) Because the communists offer them more money

12. How did Sears cover his mistake about the mis-labeled rice?
(a) He sent out 100,000 handbills to the Sarkhanese explaining the ruse
(b) He called the farmers on the telephone and explained
(c) He recalled the rice and had it re-labeled
(d) He blew up the Soviet embassy

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

14. How did Ambassador Krupitzyn convince the Sarkhanese that the relief rice was from the Soviet Union and not America?
(a) He arranged for the rice bags to be re-labeled as coming from Russia
(b) He produced 100,000 handbills with the information written on it
(c) A radio broadcast in Russian
(d) A spokesman from the Soviet Union discussed the rice on Sarkhanese television

15. Why does Sears say he dislikes Maggie Johnson?
(a) She is a communist spy
(b) She agrees with the native press too much and brings newspapermen to his office
(c) She is sleeping with the servants
(d) She is too tall

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the recruitment team's message to the audience regarding the necessity to learn foreign languages or deal with the natives of the country they are posted to?

2. Who is Bob Maile?

3. Who is the first person Father Finian looks for after he has learned the language and learned to eat the food?

4. What first caused Father Finian to realize the dangers of communism?

5. What was the rumor that upset the Sarkhanese people?

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