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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Miss Hei want from Fowler?
(a) To see him some opium
(b) Money
(c) Information about Pyle
(d) Permission to visit Phuong at his apartment

2. What ridiculous suggestion does Pyle make?
(a) That they should see a priest about pre-Cana sessions.
(b) That Fowler give the bride away.
(c) That Phuong moves in with her sister until they are married.
(d) That he and Phuong should have blood tests to see if they could have children.

3. What does Fowler have to say about General The?
(a) Fowler says that General The is actually now fighting both sides.
(b) He says that General The is going to come out of hiding soon.
(c) He says that General The is a figment of people's imaginations.
(d) He says General The is the hope for Vietnam.

4. What book does Pyle go on and on about?
(a) Democracy and the Eastern Cultures
(b) The Yellow Peril
(c) The History of War
(d) The Red Badge of Courage

5. Why does Pyle suddenly want to leave the Continental?
(a) Pyle sees that Phuong is going home with Fowler and he gets sad.
(b) A vulgar floorshow with female impersonators begins and Plyle thinks is not suitable for Phuong.
(c) Pyle sees someone across the room and thinks it might be trouble.
(d) Pyle receives a phone call and says that he needs to go right away.

6. What does the Attache put in the wire to Pyle's parents?
(a) That their son had died of heart failure.
(b) That their son had died a soldier's death in the cause of Democracy.
(c) That their son had died of malaria.
(d) That their son had been run over by a bus.

7. What is Thomas Fowler doing in Vietnam?
(a) He is looking for a young Asian wife.
(b) He is writing a book about the Vietnamese people.
(c) He is on holiday from his correspondance post in India.
(d) He is covering the war in Vietnam in 1952 in which the French armies are fighting against the Communist Vietminh.

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

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

10. Fowler, who is British, has developed what feeling about Vietnam?
(a) Fowler sees Vietnam as a hell hole that will implode one day.
(b) Fowler hates Vietnam but loves some of his friends there.
(c) Fowler cannot wait to get back to fish and chips in a London pub.
(d) Fowler muses to himself that after two years in Viet Nam, it is truly more his home than Britain.

11. Who surprises Fowler by showing up during the march out of Phat Diem?
(a) Granger
(b) Hei
(c) Vigot
(d) Pyle

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

13. After Pyle leaves, how long does it take Fowler to get to Saigon?
(a) Ten days
(b) Three weeks
(c) Three days
(d) Two months

14. What feeling does Vigot reveal about Pyle's murder?
(a) He is sad that they got Pyle instead of some outrageous American.
(b) He cannot believe someone would kill such a gentle person.
(c) He says he has no feeling because he never met Pyle.
(d) Vigot says he is not sorry that Pyle is dead because he was causing a lot of harm.

15. Why does Vigot speak softly to Fowler?
(a) Vigot tells him that Pyle has been murdered.
(b) Vigot gives Fowler a message from Pyle.
(c) Vigot offers to buy Phuong.
(d) Vigot tells Fowler that Phuong is a spy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is it about Pyle that particularly annoys Fowler?

2. What are the results of the battle that follows the Vietminh's infiltration?

3. Why is Phuong unhappy with Pyle and not want to see him?

4. Besides Phuong, why does Fowler really want to stay in Vietnam?

5. Who is the author of the books Pyle likes so much?

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