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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Thomas Fowler doing in Vietnam?
(a) He is writing a book about the Vietnamese people.
(b) He is looking for a young Asian wife.
(c) He is covering the war in Vietnam in 1952 in which the French armies are fighting against the Communist Vietminh.
(d) He is on holiday from his correspondance post in India.

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

3. What is Lieutenant Peraud's obsession?
(a) Peraud is mad about Vietnamese art.
(b) Peraud is devoted to Our Lady of Fatima.
(c) Peraud is infatuated with every woman he meets.
(d) Peraud has a phobia against germs.

4. What does Phuong tell Vigot about her and Pyle?
(a) She says that for the past month she has been living with Pyle. They will be married soon.
(b) She pretends she does not understand and does not reply.
(c) She says there is nothing going on between her and Pyle.
(d) She says that Pyle is her sister's boyfriend.

5. What does Fowler think is Pyle's obsession?
(a) Getting Coca Cola into every country in the world
(b) Politics and York Harding's theory of democracy and public policy
(c) Weeding corrupt administrators out of charities
(d) Taking out corrupt politicians in countries friendly to the USA

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fowler get to the city of Phat Diem?

2. Returning to the night Fowler met Pyle, where was he?

3. When things settle down at the House of the Five Hundred Girls, where do Pyle, Fowler and Phuong go?

4. What is Alden Pyle's publicly known job?

5. Where do Pyle and Fowler want to go?

(see the answer key)

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