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

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

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

4. What information does Fowler offer Pyle?
(a) He tells Pyle at what times of the day what roads and parts of town are safe.
(b) He tells Pyle where to find beautiful Vietnamese women.
(c) He tells Pyle where to find a great Vietnamese tailor.
(d) He tells Pyle how to bargain with a trishaw driver.

5. Where do the people take refuge?
(a) Greene says that they started the long walk back to Saigon.
(b) Greene says they people stayed in the French Consulate.
(c) Greene writes that the people hid in the rice paddys.
(d) Greene describes people taking refuge in the Cathedral.