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

2. Who is Marie MacIntosh
(a) Louis Sears' secretary
(b) Roger's wife
(c) US Air Force Colonel from the Phillipines
(d) A young woman from the Pentagon secretarial pool who attends the recruitment meeting

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

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

5. Who is Lucky, Lucky Lou #1?
(a) Louis Sears, Ambassador to Sarkhan
(b) Lou Rawls, American jazz singer
(c) Louie, brother of Hughie and Dewey
(d) Lou Gehrig, American baseball player

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does he have this nickname?

2. Why does MacWhite join up with Wolchek and Monet?

3. Why did the Ambassador resent this move?

4. How many acres of land were involved in this incident?

5. Why have many Burmese become communists?

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. Why do you thnk the Archbishop in charge of Finian was uncomfortable with Finian's plans?

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

4. Why is this rumor so damaging to America?

5. Describe Sears' attitude towards the Sarkhanese people.

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

7. Marie mentions very little about the actual country and its people when she writes to her friends. What does this signify?

8. Why does his method work?

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

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

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