1. How does Pyle see himself?
(a) He describes himself as an observer with no real views on the war.
(b) He sees himself as a possible source of winning information.
(c) He sees himself as a serious backer of the French.
(d) He sees himself as being trapped where he doesn't want to be.

2. What does the Attache put in the wire to Pyle's parents?
(a) That their son had died of heart failure.
(b) That their son had died of malaria.
(c) That their son had been run over by a bus.
(d) That their son had died a soldier's death in the cause of Democracy.

3. Fowler, who is British, has developed what feeling about Vietnam?
(a) Fowler cannot wait to get back to fish and chips in a London pub.
(b) Fowler muses to himself that after two years in Viet Nam, it is truly more his home than Britain.
(c) Fowler hates Vietnam but loves some of his friends there.
(d) Fowler sees Vietnam as a hell hole that will implode one day.

4. What alibi does Fowler give for his whereabouts?
(a) He says he had a party at his house from seven until eleven.
(b) He says he was with Phuong all evening long.
(c) He says that he was at the clinic getting an allergy shot.
(d) He says he was at the Continental and then saw a movie and later had dinner. People would remember him at these places.

5. Where and with whom is Thomas Fowler as The Quiet American begins?
(a) The story opens with Fowler in his rooms over the rue Catinat in Saigon with his beautiful young lover Phuong.
(b) He is at the Continental having a cappuccino with his editor.
(c) He is walking along the beach on the China Sea.
(d) He is flying into Saigon from a trip he made to England.