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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3 Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Captain Trouin say he hates most about the war?
(a) The napalm bombing
(b) The long hours
(c) The night flights
(d) The dead children

3. How does Joe the Attache speak crudely about Phuong?
(a) He asks Phuong what she charges by the hour.
(b) He brags that he once had her when she worked in the dancehall.
(c) He refers to Phuong as Fowler's piece of tail.
(d) He refers to all Vietnamese women as whores.

4. What is it about Pyle that particularly annoys Fowler?
(a) Pyle's ignorance of his own naivte.
(b) Pyle's cockiness that, given a choice, Phuong will choose him over Fowler.
(c) Pyle's secretive nature that hints he is someone important.
(d) Pyle's attitude of moral superiority because he doesn't smoke opium.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What about the meeting really surprises Fowler?

2. What is Lieutenant Peraud's obsession?

3. What does Fowler think about the prospects of the French holding the north?

4. What does Fowler have to say about General The?

5. What does Miss Hei want from Fowler?

(see the answer key)

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