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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 makes Vigot even more suspicious of Fowler?
(a) Fowler does not act surprised when he finds out Pyle is dead, and that adds to Vigot's suspicions.
(b) Fowler becomes unconsolable when he learns of Pyle's death.
(c) Fowler does not ask Vigot if there are any other suspects.
(d) Fowler does not offer an alibi for his whereabouts that night.

2. What about the meeting really surprises Fowler?
(a) Fowler observes that Pyle mysteriously has very good equipment.
(b) Fowler wonders why the Saigon surete is out there.
(c) Fowler is surprised to learn Hei is in the underground.
(d) Fowler does not understand why Granger would help him.

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

4. What is Alden Pyle's Passion?
(a) Phuong
(b) Scotch and soda
(c) To reform and redeem the entire universe
(d) Getting the French out of Vietnam

5. 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 says that Pyle is her sister's boyfriend.
(c) She pretends she does not understand and does not reply.
(d) She says there is nothing going on between her and Pyle.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Joe the Attache speak crudely about Phuong?

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

4. What feeling does Vigot reveal about Pyle's murder?

5. Instead of Pyle, who comes to Fowler's door after midnight?

(see the answer key)

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