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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Joe the Attache speak crudely about Phuong?
(a) He brags that he once had her when she worked in the dancehall.
(b) He refers to Phuong as Fowler's piece of tail.
(c) He refers to all Vietnamese women as whores.
(d) He asks Phuong what she charges by the hour.

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

3. Why does Fowler go to Pyle's apartment?
(a) To meeti with Vigot
(b) To pick up Phuong's things
(c) To look for clues
(d) To find a book he had lent Pyle

4. How do Fowler and the others eventually leave Phat Diem?
(a) They make a huge raft and go down the river that Fowler came up on.
(b) They are rescued at night by French helicopters.
(c) They stay in the cathedarl until the French retake the city.
(d) Fowler marches with others through farmland. Everyone's nerves are taut with fear yet it is very boring.

5. What feeling does Vigot reveal about Pyle's murder?
(a) Vigot says he is not sorry that Pyle is dead because he was causing a lot of harm.
(b) He says he has no feeling because he never met Pyle.
(c) He cannot believe someone would kill such a gentle person.
(d) He is sad that they got Pyle instead of some outrageous American.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fowler translates for Phuong that Pyle loves her and wants to marry her. What is Phuong's response?

2. What does Fowler have to say about General The?

3. What is it about Pyle that particularly annoys Fowler?

4. What does the French colonel tell the press corps about the war?

5. What rather obnoxious person comes to the table where Fowler, Joe the Attache, Pyle, and Phuong are seated?

Short Essay Questions

1. What suggestions does Fowler offer Vigot as to who might have killed Pyle?

2. What is so annoying about the letter from Pyle that is waiting for Fowler when he finally gets home?

3. What did Fowler do to get Pyle out of the House of the Five Hundred Girls?

4. Why does Fowler want to answer Vigot's questions quickly and get out of his office?

5. In a flashback, describe how Pyle meets Fowler and Phuong.

6. What does Fowler see when he goes to Phat Diem?

7. What is the conflict between Fowler and Miss Hei?

8. What signifies a difference in dress between the South and the North of Vietnam?

9. What news does Bill Granger offer about the war in the North when the Economic Attache asks?

10. Why does it take Fowler three weeks to get back to Saigon?

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