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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What rather obnoxious person comes to the table where Fowler, Joe the Attache, Pyle, and Phuong are seated?
(a) The British Consul.
(b) An American journalist named Granger.
(c) The American Finance Attache.
(d) A messenger from the surete.

2. Why is Miss Hei interested in Pyle?
(a) He is handsome and she wants to marry him.
(b) He is young and looks like a possible marriage partner for Phuong.
(c) She is a Vietnamese undercover agent.
(d) She wants to sell him some opium.

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

4. Who gets a job for Miss Hei with the Americans?
(a) Alden Pyle
(b) Joe, the Economic Attache
(c) Phuong
(d) Thomas Fowler

5. How does Pyle treat Phuong when they first meet?
(a) He treats her as if she were not there.
(b) He treats her as an older person.
(c) He treats her as if she were a street walker.
(d) He treats her as if she were a fine lady.

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Fowler listening closely to Pyle's ideas about war?

2. How does Fowler see most of the men in the press corps?

3. How does Pyle see himself?

4. What letters does Fowler write to be mailed from Hong Kong by a departing journalist?

5. What does Phuong want to see?

(see the answer key)

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