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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The authors say America will lose its freedom not in a nuclear cataclysm but how?

3. What does U Maung Swe recommend to MacWhite?

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

5. Who does Homer Atkins bring with him when he moves to Sarkhan?

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

Write a detailed description of the motives and purpose of two of these people, and their impact on the country they lived in: Emma Atkins, Marie MacIntosh, John Colvin, Joe Bing

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