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

2. What is the name of York's theory In which Pyle believes?
(a) The Last Stand
(b) The Mind's Eye
(c) The Third Force
(d) The Magnum Force

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

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

5. What does Vigot allow Fowler to do in Pyle's apartment?
(a) Rearrange Pyle's library
(b) Wipe Phuong's fingerprints off everything
(c) Take one of Pyle's York Harding books
(d) Take a photograph of Phuong that was by Pyle's bed

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Fowler have to say about General The?

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

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

5. How does Pyle see himself?

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