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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Senate Committee does he chair?
(a) Judicial Review
(b) Foreign Affairs
(c) Armament & Manpower
(d) Ways and Means

2. What does the Phillipine Ambassador ask Hillandale to do at the dinner?
(a) To make the welcoming speech
(b) To perform as a palmist and astrologer
(c) To act as an interpreter
(d) To serve the dessert

3. What do the authors say substitute training in selection of ambassadors for American embassies?
(a) Standing up for what is right and voicing an opinion
(b) Personal wealth, political loyalty and the ability to stay out of trouble
(c) Language skills and a background in psychology
(d) Anglo-american names, corporate connections and social skills

4. Who is Solomon Asch?
(a) Head of the American Delegation to the Special Armament section of the Asia Conference?
(b) The Ambassdor to Sarkhan from the Soviet Union
(c) Head of the Sarkhanese Delegation to the Special Armament section of the Asian Conference
(d) A Chinese offical in Vietnam

5. What example of "tinsel" does U Maung Swe offer?
(a) Items used to decorate Christmas Trees in the Sarkhanese homes
(b) Rotten produce flown in from San Francisco
(c) News coverage of the Miss Sarkhan Pageant
(d) Promises to Burma of a mobile floating dredge which turned out to be a rusting old stationery dredge which even the Americans could not get to work

Short Answer Questions

1. Who interferes with Hillandale and causes this progress to be lost?

2. In 1958, what percentage of the Foreign Service officer corps could speak a language other than English?

3. What type of home does he choose in Sarkhan?

4. Who is Boning?

5. The authors say America should stop selling guns and money and sell what instead?

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