The Quiet American | Short Question Answer Key

Short Answer Key

Part 1 Chapter 1

1. What is Thomas Fowler doing in Vietnam?

He is covering the war in Vietnam in 1952 in which the French armies are fighting against the Communist Vietminh.

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

The story opens with Fowler in his rooms over the rue Catinat in Saigon with his beautiful young lover Phuong.

3. What is strange about Fowler's relationship with Phuong?

They have been together for several years, yet mysteriously she is engaged to marry Alden Pyle.

4. What is Phuong's favorite reading subject matter?

The British Royal Family, especially Princess Margaret

5. What is Alden Pyle's Passion?

To reform and redeem the entire universe

6. What is Graham Greene's definition of the quiet American?

Not the obnoxious pushy kind of person that is often the stereotype of Americans in foreign countries.

7. What...
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