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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4 Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Pyle finally show up at the Vieux Moulin?
(a) Right after Fowler finishes eating.
(b) It is midnight.
(c) He never comes.
(d) He comes before fowler gets there and leaves.

2. Why does Vigot say that he does not believe Fowler killed Pyle?
(a) Because Fowler would not have the stomach for murder.
(b) Because one does not take a book of an enemy for a souvenir.
(c) Because Fowler has been cooperative.
(d) Because Fowler's alibi checks out.

3. When Fowler goes to see Pyle, to whom does he talk?
(a) Joe, the Economic Attache
(b) Dominguez
(c) Miss Hei
(d) Mr. Heng

4. What restriction is imposed by the French after the battle of Phat Diem?
(a) No one can return to Saigon until reinforcements arrive.
(b) No one can leave the area without a security check.
(c) No journalists, including Fowler, are allowed to report it.
(d) No one is allowed near the river.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to wounded French soldiers when no helicopters are available to rescue them?

2. What is Helen's answer to Fowler about getting a divorce?

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

4. What happens right after the American girls leave The Pavillon?

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

(see the answer key)

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