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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Joe Rivers think of Joe Bing?
(a) He is fat and stupid
(b) He is a womanizer
(c) He is not equipped to be a janitor in an embassy
(d) He is charming, knows everyone and a great success in Asia

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

3. How did John Colvin want to help the Sarkhan people?
(a) By teaching them to raise cattle
(b) By lending them money
(c) By arranging mortgages for them
(d) By selling them rice

4. Who is Magsaysay?
(a) An intelligence officer in the Sarkhan embassy
(b) One of Father Finian's friends
(c) Hillandale's assistant
(d) A Filipino politician who is running for President

5. 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

6. Why is this not good evidence?
(a) It is not in English
(b) Louis Sears invented it
(c) The Sarkhanese government ordered the paper to write it in order to smooth relations
(d) It is not acceptable in court

7. What is the one word description of Marie MacIntosh used by the author?
(a) Exciting
(b) Brilliant
(c) Drab
(d) Intelligent

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

9. Why did the rumor persist?
(a) Someone overheard an official repeat the rumor
(b) The President of the USA said it
(c) It was on CNN all day long
(d) The American embassy did not deny it

10. If all the Americans were like Bob Maile, what does Ruth Jyoti say would happen in Asia?
(a) People would name their children Bob
(b) The Communists would not last long
(c) The economy would fail
(d) The Communists would win immediately

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does she get to work?

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

3. How did Colvin meet Deong?

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

5. What is Sears' complaint about Father Finian?

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