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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Phuong's favorite reading subject matter?
(a) The British Royal Family, especially Princess Margaret
(b) The latest scandals in Hollywood
(c) The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
(d) The stock market in the Wall Street Journal

2. What does Fowler tell Pyle to do so that the girls will stop mobbing him?
(a) Fowler tells Pyle to pay them all off.
(b) Fowler tells him to pick one so that the others will leave him alone.
(c) Fowler tells him to run for his life.
(d) Fowler tells Pyle to act like he is insane.

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

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

5. What does Phuong tell Vigot about her and Pyle?
(a) She says that Pyle is her sister's boyfriend.
(b) She pretends she does not understand and does not reply.
(c) She says that for the past month she has been living with Pyle. They will be married soon.
(d) She says there is nothing going on between her and Pyle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vigot allow Fowler to do in Pyle's apartment?

2. What is the difference between Fowler and Pyle?

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

4. Why does Vigot tell Fowler he is a suspect in the murder?

5. Why does Pyle suddenly want to leave the Continental?

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