The Quiet American Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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The Quiet American Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Vigot speak softly to Fowler?
(a) Vigot offers to buy Phuong.
(b) Vigot tells Fowler that Phuong is a spy.
(c) Vigot gives Fowler a message from Pyle.
(d) Vigot tells him that Pyle has been murdered.

2. What does Fowler think about the prospects of the French holding the north?
(a) He thinks that the French can hold Northern Vietnam if the Chinese don't intervene.
(b) He thinks the French will pull out and leave it for the communists.
(c) He thinks the French will have to bring in allies to help.
(d) He thinks it will be a decades long standoff.

3. What does Pyle notice the first time Fowler meets him?
(a) The time on the big clock in the square.
(b) The Milk Fountain where Vietnamese people buy malted milks.
(c) The spies who are trailing Fowler.
(d) That Fowler is left-handed.

4. While waiting for Pyle who is three hours late, what does Phuong do for Fowler?
(a) She reads Photoplay Magazine to him.
(b) Phuong prepares an opium pipe for Fowler, who smokes it, and then smokes another.
(c) She does an exotic dance for him like she used to do in the bar.
(d) She mixes him a martini and rolls him a cigar.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fowler think is Pyle's obsession?

2. Fowler wants to make love to Phuong but accepts the opium pipes instead. Why?

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

4. What is Alden Pyle's Passion?

5. What is strange about Fowler's relationship with Phuong?

(see the answer key)

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