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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the solution proposed?

2. How does she get to work every day?

3. How does she occupy her evenings?

4. What is the one word description of Marie MacIntosh used by the author?

5. Who is Dexter Peterson?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do the men's superiors dislike the new ways so much?

2. Why does Sears want Joe Bing?

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

4. Why does the shrine the shrine to Emma have short reeds placed in front of t?

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

6. What was the impact of Sears' behavior?

7. Why did Burma refuse foreign aid from America?

8. Do you think Anderson purposely sabotaged the conference?

9. Why does MacWhite decide not to take the advice of the Secretary of State and stop stirring things up in Sarkhan?

10. Is Asch's assessment of his team accurate? What did he miss?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

List in detail the reasons why Louis Sears was: 1) an ineffective Ambassador, 2) an ineffective personnel manager, 3) a bad communicator, and 4) politically incorrect by today's standards.

Essay Topic 2

Explain in detail what you believe the authors meant when they said "We believe that a nuclear cataclysm is unlikely, but that our free life well may be lost in a succession of bits and fragments."

Essay Topic 3

What countries in today's world does America have difficulty understanding? List at least three. What could be done by the American government or individuals to overcome these barriers and reach a peaceful level of communication?

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