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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. How was Pyle killed?
(a) Someone stabbed him before dumping his body in the mud and he drowned.
(b) Someone shot him in the head.
(c) Someone strangled him and threw his body in the river.
(d) Someone poured gasoline on him and set him on fire.

2. What information does Fowler offer Pyle?
(a) He tells Pyle how to bargain with a trishaw driver.
(b) He tells Pyle where to find beautiful Vietnamese women.
(c) He tells Pyle at what times of the day what roads and parts of town are safe.
(d) He tells Pyle where to find a great Vietnamese tailor.

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

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

5. Why is the American Attache upset?
(a) He knows Pyle's father.
(b) He wis called out of bed to come to Pyle's apartment.
(c) He is upset seeing Fowler on the scene.
(d) He thinks the French should stay out of it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Hei tell Pyle when he and Phuong return to the table?

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

3. What does Fowler tell Pyle to do so that the girls will stop mobbing him?

4. Why does Pyle feel the need to speak to Fowler at all?

5. What is Lieutenant Peraud's obsession?

(see the answer key)

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