The Quiet American Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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The Quiet American Quiz | Eight Week Quiz C

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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 procession is formed in the city of Phat Diem?
(a) A Buddhist celebration procession
(b) A mock evacuation drill
(c) A procession to celebrate Our Lady of fatima
(d) A rice harvest festival parade

2. Who surprises Fowler by showing up during the march out of Phat Diem?
(a) Hei
(b) Pyle
(c) Vigot
(d) Granger

3. While waiting for Pyle who is three hours late, what does Phuong do for Fowler?
(a) She reads Photoplay Magazine to him.
(b) Phuong prepares an opium pipe for Fowler, who smokes it, and then smokes another.
(c) She does an exotic dance for him like she used to do in the bar.
(d) She mixes him a martini and rolls him a cigar.

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

5. What happens to wounded French soldiers when no helicopters are available to rescue them?
(a) Vietnamese civilians have formed a brigade to rescue them.
(b) They are given poison pills to take if they fear being captured.
(c) French special forces go in on foot to bring them to safety.
(d) Without helicopters, wounded soldiers have little chance of getting carried to a hospital. They are left to die where they fall.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes Vigot even more suspicious of Fowler?

2. Fowler, who is British, has developed what feeling about Vietnam?

3. Why does Vigot speak softly to Fowler?

4. What is Lieutenant Peraud's obsession?

5. Returning to the night Fowler met Pyle, where was he?

(see the answer key)

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