Foreign Service Officer Exam or The Social Contract

Foreign Service Officer Exam: Preparation for the Written Exam and the Oral Assessment

Author: Fred N Grayson

Your guide to passing the Foreign Service Officer Exam

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Introduction

• Review of how the exam is organized, along with answers to frequently asked questions

Part I: Written Exam: The Job Knowledge Test

• Descriptions of the five general career track knowledge areas—management, consular, economic, political, and public diplomacy


• Question-and-answer subject review chapters for the eight job topic areas, along with mini-tests after each subject review


• A sample Job Knowledge test with complete answers and explanations

Part II: Written Exam: The English Expression Test

• Grammar and usage review


• Two sample English Expression tests with complete answers and explanations

Part III: Written Exam: The Biographic Information Questionnaire

• General information on this section of the exam, plus helpful sample questions

Part IV: Written Exam: Written Essay

• Overview of the Written Essay portion of the exam, plus sample essay topics for practice


• Direction on how to effectively prewrite, outline, organize, edit, and revise your essay

Part V: Oral Assessment

• Overview of the Oral Assessment portion of the exam and the categories in which you'll beassessed

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The Social Contract (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading Series)

Author: Jean Jacques Rousseau

"Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains." With those words, quite possibly the most famous in all political thought, Jean-Jacques Rousseau launches The Social Contract. It is a work that loomed over the French Revolution, haunted subsequent generations, and stalks the twenty-first century. Composed in the autumn of the Old Regime, The Social Contract presents a radical new form of political community composed of free and equal citizens who collectively retain ultimate authority; today it remains the most compelling counter-model to modern representative liberal democracy. Complex and deeply unnerving, The Social Contract challenges its readers to rethink their understanding of freedom and servitude, the common good, and the very legitimacy of contemporary governments.