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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After studying communism, what does Father Finian conclude?
(a) Communism is like hula hoops and is a passing fad
(b) Communism will win
(c) Communism is not a threat
(d) Communism was like a religion, a form of secular ritual, and evil

3. Why is Ruth Jyoti disappointed with the American newspapers?
(a) There are no reports concerning the Asian nation conferences
(b) They are all written in English
(c) There are not enough ads for dresses
(d) There are too few comics

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

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

6. Who replaces Ambassador Sears in Sarkhan?
(a) Mrs. Sears
(b) Gilbert MacWhite
(c) Marie MacIntosh
(d) Joe Bing

7. What is a Sarkhanese?
(a) A citizen of Sarkhan
(b) A citizen of planet Saturn
(c) A citizen of Burma
(d) Someone who eats sark

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

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

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

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

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

13. How does she occupy her evenings?
(a) Attending college classes
(b) Reading books on political idealogy
(c) After chores, she watches television
(d) Parties with prominent Pentagon officials

14. What does Sears think could increase morale at the embassy in Sarkhan?
(a) People who can speak Sarkhanese
(b) People who don't drink
(c) People who have studied communism
(d) More pretty girls

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did John Colvin want to help the Sarkhan people?

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

3. Who is Father Finian?

4. How many servants came with her new house?

5. Who is Bob Maile?

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