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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4 Chapter 1.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Fowler get to the city of Phat Diem?
(a) Fowler goes by boat to the city of Phat Diem.
(b) He drives with Pyle.
(c) He takes the train.
(d) He flies with the French troops.

2. What does Fowler see when he goes out?
(a) He sees that the Vietminh have set up a hospital to treat the wounded.
(b) He sees that the town was not touched and most people are alive.
(c) He sees bodies and body parts floating in canals, some covered with flies, some lying dead on the road.
(d) He sees that the United Nations is there to help the survivors.

3. How does Fowler dismiss Pyle when he comes to visit?
(a) "Go away to your Third Force and play with your plastics."
(b) "Get out and grow up."
(c) "Go read some more of your York Harding books."
(d) "Get out of my house before I shoot you."

4. What is behind the Holy See as one approaches Tanyin?
(a) The waterfalls of antiquity
(b) The sacred mountain that looks like a bowler hat.
(c) A dark jungle
(d) The palaces of the Pope of Caodaism

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 Fowler think about the prospects of the French holding the north?

2. What does a priest offer Fowler?

3. What does Vigot want Fowler to tell him?

4. What was wrong with the bombing that day?

5. What does Pyle accuse Fowler of doing to keep Phuong for himself?

(see the answer key)

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