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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Caodaists' churches look like?
(a) Stone squares with minarets at the four corners
(b) Pink and blue with a huge eye of God over the door
(c) Golden pagodas
(d) Green domes with a hole in the top

2. How does Fowler perceive the man who is selling the place?
(a) As a remnant of the old colonialists
(b) As an ugly American
(c) As an idealist like Pyle
(d) As an important government official

3. How does Pyle tell Fowler he got to Phat Diem?
(a) Pyle says he came in a military Jeep.
(b) Pyle says he parachuetted out of a plane.
(c) Pyle relates how he came to Phat Diem alone and by boat.
(d) Pyle tells Fowler he hiked the whole way.

4. What happens when someone comes demanding that Pyle and Fowler be brought down?
(a) Fowler jumps and breaks his ankle; Pyle comes down the ladder; the tower explodes.
(b) Fowler and Pyle find a back way out and escape.
(c) Fowler is relieved that General The's men have come to get them.
(d) Pyle says it must be a French patrol he had been expecting.

5. What is Caodaism?
(a) A religious front for a counter military insurgency.
(b) A cult religion that blends Confucianism, Christianit, and Buddhism.
(c) A philosophy of a blend of communism and capitalism.
(d) A religion that started in Vietnam and spreak to Korea.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about the meeting really surprises Fowler?

2. What drink does Pyle offer Fowler in Tanyin?

3. When Fowler's car runs out of gas, what does he have to do to get to a Vietnamese lookout?

4. Who surprises Fowler by showing up during the march out of Phat Diem?

5. What did Fowler go to see in the other end of rue Catinat?

(see the answer key)

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