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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seems to be Vigot's main concern?
(a) Bribing Fowler to let him have Phuong
(b) Pinning the crime on Fowler
(c) Finishing and going to the bar
(d) Writing up a report that will pass the scrutiny of his superiors

2. Who is the author of the books Pyle likes so much?
(a) Len Deighton
(b) Noel Coward
(c) Graham Greene
(d) York Harding

3. What book does Pyle go on and on about?
(a) Democracy and the Eastern Cultures
(b) The Red Badge of Courage
(c) The Yellow Peril
(d) The History of War

4. What does Vigot allow Fowler to do in Pyle's apartment?
(a) Take one of Pyle's York Harding books
(b) Rearrange Pyle's library
(c) Wipe Phuong's fingerprints off everything
(d) Take a photograph of Phuong that was by Pyle's bed

5. How does Fowler see most of the men in the press corps?
(a) He sees them as quiet, hard working professionals.
(b) Fowler finds his American colleagues in the press to be big, noisy, boyish and middle-aged types.
(c) He sees them as being very familiar with the culture of Vietnam.
(d) He sees them as men who could not get a job anywhere else.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fowler think about the prospects of the French holding the north?

2. What is Alden Pyle's Passion?

3. What is the difference between Fowler and Pyle?

4. What does Pyle notice the first time Fowler meets him?

5. Where and with whom is Thomas Fowler as The Quiet American begins?

(see the answer key)

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