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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. What letters does Fowler write to be mailed from Hong Kong by a departing journalist?
(a) One to an American news service asking for a job and and one to his paper with his resignation.
(b) One to his mother in Essex and one to his lawyer to start divorce proceedings.
(c) One to his wife asking for a divorce and one to his paper aksing to stay in Saigon.
(d) One to the British Intelligence asking for information on Pyle and one to his son in Liverpool.

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

3. What does Phuong want to see?
(a) Princess Margaret and Buckingham Palace
(b) Paris and Niagra Falls
(c) London and New York
(d) Skyscrapers and the Statue of Liberty

4. What does Fowler think about the prospects of the French holding the north?
(a) He thinks it will be a decades long standoff.
(b) He thinks that the French can hold Northern Vietnam if the Chinese don't intervene.
(c) He thinks the French will pull out and leave it for the communists.
(d) He thinks the French will have to bring in allies to help.

5. What is Alden Pyle's publicly known job?
(a) He works for Harvard University.
(b) He is a battery manufacturer.
(c) He is a reporter for the New York Times.
(d) He works for the Economic Aid Mission.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where and with whom is Thomas Fowler as The Quiet American begins?

2. How do the Vietminh infiltrate the city?

3. What does Fowler say when Phuong says Miss Hei does not believe he will marry her?

4. After Pyle leaves, how long does it take Fowler to get to Saigon?

5. Why is the American Attache upset?

(see the answer key)

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