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

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

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

4. How does she get to work every day?
(a) Walks
(b) Her own vehicle
(c) Rides the bus
(d) Limousine

5. What does Louis Sears ask Peterson to do for him?
(a) Send a color television for the embassy
(b) Find a staff who is competent and efficient
(c) Pay for a swimming pool at the embassy
(d) Recruit a staff for Sarkhan that will make Sears look good.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Sears' complaint about Father Finian?

3. Why is MacWhite upset by this knowledge?

4. How did Joe Bing treat Father Finian's request for ballpoint pens as rewards for distributing the newspapers?

5. Why is the number 30 listed next the the name of Sarkhan by the Soviets?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were some of the factors that convinced the Sarkhanese that the rice did indeed come from the Soviet Union and not America?

2. In your opinion, what kind of people should Sears be asking for, instead of pretty girls for the staff?

3. Why do the authors stres the importance of the upper level Embassy staff being fluent in the native language?

4. Why is the next battle effective?

5. Why were the people reviewing the applications concerned about Homer Atkins?

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

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

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

9. What does Father Finian do to prepare himself for his assignment in Burma, and once he has arrived?

10. What is the difference between Upton's speech and the one given by Joe Bing?

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