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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2 Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Having nothing else to do, where does Fowler go once he is back in Saigon?
(a) With nothing else to do, Fowler goes to the House of the Five Hundred Girls.
(b) With nothing else to do, he starts trying to find out more about Pyle.
(c) With nothing else to do, Fowler goes to interview a French lieutenant.
(d) Fowler,with nothing else to do, attends a press conference led by a handsome young French colonel.

3. What does the Attache put in the wire to Pyle's parents?
(a) That their son had died a soldier's death in the cause of Democracy.
(b) That their son had been run over by a bus.
(c) That their son had died of malaria.
(d) That their son had died of heart failure.

4. What does a priest offer Fowler?
(a) To notify his relatives
(b) To hear his confession
(c) To give him a ride to Saigon
(d) To let him stay in the rectory

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Miss Hei want from Fowler?

2. Fowler translates for Phuong that Pyle loves her and wants to marry her. What is Phuong's response?

3. What letters does Fowler write to be mailed from Hong Kong by a departing journalist?

4. What does Fowler find so annoying about the letter from Pyle?

5. What is the difference between Fowler and Pyle?

(see the answer key)

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