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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Hei want from Fowler?
(a) Money
(b) To see him some opium
(c) Information about Pyle
(d) Permission to visit Phuong at his apartment

2. Why is Miss Hei interested in Pyle?
(a) He is handsome and she wants to marry him.
(b) He is young and looks like a possible marriage partner for Phuong.
(c) She is a Vietnamese undercover agent.
(d) She wants to sell him some opium.

3. What is the conflicting report about the war in the North?
(a) Some say the Americans are pulling out and others say the Germans are coming.
(b) Granger says the French are doing well in the northwest, but the Attaché reports that the Vietminh are about to take Phat Diem.
(c) The attache says the Vietminh are retreating but Granger says they are coming to Saigon.
(d) Granger says General The is fighting with the French and the attache says General The is dead.

4. Besides Phuong, why does Fowler really want to stay in Vietnam?
(a) He takes pride in his apathy and lack of views. He does not want to be an editor but an observer.
(b) He wants to put Pyle in his place.
(c) He thinks there is going to be a major break for the French in the war soon.
(d) He thinks he can be an editor in Vietnam.

5. Why does Fowler go to Pyle's apartment?
(a) To pick up Phuong's things
(b) To meeti with Vigot
(c) To find a book he had lent Pyle
(d) To look for clues

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fowler do to see who will win Phuong?

2. Where do the people take refuge?

3. What does the French colonel tell the press corps about the war?

4. Who is the author of the books Pyle likes so much?

5. How do Fowler and the others eventually leave Phat Diem?

(see the answer key)

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