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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 restriction is imposed by the French after the battle of Phat Diem?
(a) No journalists, including Fowler, are allowed to report it.
(b) No one can return to Saigon until reinforcements arrive.
(c) No one can leave the area without a security check.
(d) No one is allowed near the river.

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

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

4. What is Pyle's urgency to see Fowler?
(a) He wants Fowler to help him on a secret mission.
(b) He needs Forler to help him find general The.
(c) He says Fowler is the only one he trusts.
(d) He wants to marry Phuong if she'll have him.

5. What is strange about Fowler's relationship with Phuong?
(a) She cannot speak any English or French.
(b) They have been together for several years, yet mysteriously she is engaged to marry Alden Pyle.
(c) He is old enough to be her grandfather.
(d) He is ashamed to take her out anywhere in public.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to wounded French soldiers when no helicopters are available to rescue them?

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

3. When things settle down at the House of the Five Hundred Girls, where do Pyle, Fowler and Phuong go?

4. In contrast to the American press corps men, how does Fowler assess Pyle?

5. Why does Vigot speak softly to Fowler?

(see the answer key)

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