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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fowler wants to make love to Phuong but accepts the opium pipes instead. Why?
(a) He knows if he smokes more than four pipes, he will lose his desire for her.
(b) He is more addicted to opium than he is to Phuong.
(c) It keeps him busy so he does not have time to think about her.
(d) He hopes she will make the first move if he accepts the pipes.

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

3. What was wrong with the bombing that day?
(a) It was supposed to go off in the officers quarters.
(b) It was more powerful than they had planned.
(c) Several Americans were killed accidentally.
(d) Pyle did not know they had cancelled the parade which was the main target.

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

5. What does Fowler see when he goes out?
(a) He sees that the town was not touched and most people are alive.
(b) He sees bodies and body parts floating in canals, some covered with flies, some lying dead on the road.
(c) He sees that the Vietminh have set up a hospital to treat the wounded.
(d) He sees that the United Nations is there to help the survivors.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fowler think about the prospects of the French holding the north?

2. What does Fowler find when he returns to Saigon?

3. What is Lieutenant Peraud's obsession?

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

5. Where and with whom is Thomas Fowler as The Quiet American begins?

(see the answer key)

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