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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How was Pyle killed?
(a) Someone stabbed him before dumping his body in the mud and he drowned.
(b) Someone shot him in the head.
(c) Someone strangled him and threw his body in the river.
(d) Someone poured gasoline on him and set him on fire.

2. What does Phuong tell Vigot about her and Pyle?
(a) She says that for the past month she has been living with Pyle. They will be married soon.
(b) She pretends she does not understand and does not reply.
(c) She says that Pyle is her sister's boyfriend.
(d) She says there is nothing going on between her and Pyle.

3. 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.

4. How does Pyle treat Phuong when they first meet?
(a) He treats her as an older person.
(b) He treats her as if she were a fine lady.
(c) He treats her as if she were not there.
(d) He treats her as if she were a street walker.

5. What is Phuong's response when Fowler tells her Pyle had invited himself to Fowler's apartment for a drink?
(a) She asks Fowler if she should cook dinner.
(b) She shows no reaction at all.
(c) She gets excited and goes to shower and change her dress.
(d) She says she will go visit her sister.

6. Returning to the night Fowler met Pyle, where was he?
(a) He was meeting Vigot at the surete.
(b) He and Phuong were dining at the Continental.
(c) He was strolling along the rue Catinat.
(d) He was fishing in the river.

7. What is Pyle's urgency to see Fowler?
(a) He wants Fowler to help him on a secret mission.
(b) He wants to marry Phuong if she'll have him.
(c) He says Fowler is the only one he trusts.
(d) He needs Forler to help him find general The.

8. What is Alden Pyle's publicly known job?
(a) He works for Harvard University.
(b) He is a battery manufacturer.
(c) He is a reporter for the New York Times.
(d) He works for the Economic Aid Mission.

9. What does Vigot allow Fowler to do in Pyle's apartment?
(a) Take one of Pyle's York Harding books
(b) Take a photograph of Phuong that was by Pyle's bed
(c) Wipe Phuong's fingerprints off everything
(d) Rearrange Pyle's library

10. What rumors about Pyle have been circulated and find their way to Phuong?
(a) That he was sent to Vietnam as a punishment.
(b) That he is into importing drugs and medicine.
(c) That he is married in America.
(d) That he has a history of abusing women.

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

12. What is the conflicting report about the war in the North?
(a) The attache says the Vietminh are retreating but Granger says they are coming to Saigon.
(b) Some say the Americans are pulling out and others say the Germans are coming.
(c) Granger says General The is fighting with the French and the attache says General The is dead.
(d) Granger says the French are doing well in the northwest, but the Attaché reports that the Vietminh are about to take Phat Diem.

13. What offer does Pyle make to Miss Hei?
(a) He offers to light her cigarette.
(b) He offers to pay her every time Phuong comes to his apartment.
(c) He offers to show her to the door.
(d) He offers to help Miss Hei get a job with his Mission.

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

15. 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 flying into Saigon from a trip he made to England.
(c) He is at the Continental having a cappuccino with his editor.
(d) The story opens with Fowler in his rooms over the rue Catinat in Saigon with his beautiful young lover Phuong.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Thomas Fowler doing in Vietnam?

2. What is the name of York's theory In which Pyle believes?

3. Fowler, who is British, has developed what feeling about Vietnam?

4. Where do Granger, Joe and Pyle decide to go?

5. Why does Pyle feel the need to speak to Fowler at all?

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