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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What idea does Emma give him regarding the pump?
(a) To power it using bicycles
(b) To name it after a famous Sarkhanese general
(c) To abandon it in favor of a telephone system
(d) To paint it red white and blue

2. Who interferes with Hillandale and causes this progress to be lost?
(a) Joe Bing
(b) Roger
(c) George Swift
(d) Donald

3. What does Emma do to introduce the longer handled brooms?
(a) Finds a local reed that will work and uses it herself in front of the villagers
(b) She buys time on the local television station for an advertisement
(c) She hires a salesperson to peddle the new invention
(d) She opens her own store

4. Who does Homer Atkins choose to partner with on the pump manufacturing?
(a) A local villager named Jeepo
(b) Joe Bing
(c) Henry Knox
(d) Gilbert MacWhite

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) 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
(d) News coverage of the Miss Sarkhan Pageant

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Atkins surprise the committee?

2. What does Knox decide to do?

3. Who is Boning?

4. Who behaves incorrectly at the performance and causes the Asians consternation?

5. What was Senator Brown's conclusion after his tiring trip?

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