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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. What does Joe Bing call the U.S.Government
(a) The United States Government
(b) Uncle Sammy
(c) Big Brother
(d) The General

2. What statement did the Ambassador give to the editors?
(a) The rumor is true
(b) The USA is going to give the land back to Sarkhan
(c) No comment
(d) The rumor is false

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why have many Burmese become communists?

2. What does Joe Rivers think of Joe Bing?

3. Who is Bob Maile?

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

5. How does she occupy her evenings?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is the "everybody" that loves Joe Bing?

2. Is Homer Atikins ugly?

3. Why do you think the northern province decided to turn against the communists and vote for an American-leaning Presidential candidate?

4. Why did Finian put U Tien through the tests?

5. What are the major diffeences in how Marie lives?

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

7. Why is Marie MacIntosh perfect for recruitment?

8. Is John Colvin's plan to start a business in Sarkhan well thought out?

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

10. What is it about Hillandale that attracts Asians to him?

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