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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the State Department define her new location?
(a) An ordinary posting
(b) A hardship post
(c) A stateside posting
(d) A luxury assigment

2. Why did the Ambassador resent this move?
(a) He wanted the rumor to persist
(b) He wanted to solve the problem on his own
(c) He believed it would endanger his chances of a judgeship in the USA
(d) He was jealous he had not thought of it first

3. Who is Father Finian?
(a) A Buddhist priest who lives next door to Homer Atkins
(b) The priest who runs the boys club in Sarkhan
(c) A priest who is transferred to Burma by the Vatican
(d) Louis Sears' father in law

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

5. Why is this letter from Louis Sears to Dexter Peterson confidential and personal?
(a) Sears is passing government secrets
(b) Sears is not allowed to send regular correspondence
(c) Sears and Peterson are long time friends and trust one another
(d) Dexter would not read the letter otherwise

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Ambassador Krupitzyn convince the Sarkhanese that the relief rice was from the Soviet Union and not America?

2. Why is the newspaperman rejected as an applicant for foreign service?

3. What does Joe Rivers think of Joe Bing?

4. What are Major Monet's men preparing to do?

5. How did Krupitzyn begin his career in foreign service for the Soviet Union?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think Anderson purposely sabotaged the conference?

2. Why is Krupitzyn so concerned about Father Finian?

3. At the time the book was written, was Communism a real threat to the world?

4. Why does MacWhite ask this man, whose proposals have been summarily rejected by the Vietnamese officials, to move to Sarkhan?

5. How do you think the American editor felt after the meeting with Sears?

6. What are the major differences in how Marie spends her evenings now that she is in Sarkhan

7. Why was it so important to Father Finian that the Burmese men choose the direction of the team?

8. Why does the shrine the shrine to Emma have short reeds placed in front of t?

9. Why is Homer Atkins' way so different from the way of the American and native governments?

10. Did MacWhite make any progress while in Sarkhan?

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