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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. What does Vigot want Fowler to tell him?
(a) That Pyle told Fowler who was trying to murder him.
(b) That he had seen Pyle the night he was murdered.
(c) That he had been keeping Pyle's dog for a week.
(d) That Pyle had told him what he was doing in Indochina.

2. What does Fowler tell Pyle to do so that the girls will stop mobbing him?
(a) Fowler tells him to run for his life.
(b) Fowler tells Pyle to act like he is insane.
(c) Fowler tells him to pick one so that the others will leave him alone.
(d) Fowler tells Pyle to pay them all off.

3. Why is Miss Hei interested in Pyle?
(a) She wants to sell him some opium.
(b) She is a Vietnamese undercover agent.
(c) He is handsome and she wants to marry him.
(d) He is young and looks like a possible marriage partner for Phuong.

4. Is Fowler listening closely to Pyle's ideas about war?
(a) No, and later he will regret it.
(b) Yes, but he doesn't understand what he's saying.
(c) Yes, but he soon forgets it.
(d) No, because Pyle speaks poor French.

5. What are the results of the battle that follows the Vietminh's infiltration?
(a) The Vietminh are soundly defeated.
(b) There are only Vietminh casualties.
(c) Fowler is taken prisoner.
(d) Four days later this battle is an obvious defeat for the French.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Greene let the reader know that Fowler is aware of what he has done?

2. What happens when someone comes demanding that Pyle and Fowler be brought down?

3. What had Pyle done that was according to Harding's book?

4. How does Fowler perceive the man who is selling the place?

5. How does Fowler see most of the men in the press corps?

(see the answer key)

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