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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the State Department's reply to MacWhite's policy suggestions?

2. What does Emma do to introduce the longer handled brooms?

3. Who does Homer Atkins choose to partner with on the pump manufacturing?

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

5. What was Asch's first clue that something was distracting Boning?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Both Homer Atkins and Tom Knox propose small projects over large grandiose schemes. Why? Doesn't a country need roads and dams to make progress? What is more important to a villager in a third world country? List the basic needs that a person has on earth, i.e., food and shelter, and choose one. Write how the absence of that one basic need can change a person's outlook about what is important.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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."

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