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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the telegram affect Fowler?
(a) He knows he won't get his opium pipes in London.
(b) The telegram makes him sad; if he leaves, it means Phuong will marry Pyle.
(c) He is angry that they did not consult him first.
(d) He nearly jumps for joy at getting out of Vietnam.

2. How does Joe the Attache speak crudely about Phuong?
(a) He brags that he once had her when she worked in the dancehall.
(b) He asks Phuong what she charges by the hour.
(c) He refers to all Vietnamese women as whores.
(d) He refers to Phuong as Fowler's piece of tail.

3. What happens to wounded French soldiers when no helicopters are available to rescue them?
(a) Without helicopters, wounded soldiers have little chance of getting carried to a hospital. They are left to die where they fall.
(b) French special forces go in on foot to bring them to safety.
(c) They are given poison pills to take if they fear being captured.
(d) Vietnamese civilians have formed a brigade to rescue them.

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

5. 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.

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

7. Why is the American Attache upset?
(a) He is upset seeing Fowler on the scene.
(b) He wis called out of bed to come to Pyle's apartment.
(c) He thinks the French should stay out of it.
(d) He knows Pyle's father.

8. 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) The story opens with Fowler in his rooms over the rue Catinat in Saigon with his beautiful young lover Phuong.
(d) He is at the Continental having a cappuccino with his editor.

9. Fowler wants to make love to Phuong but accepts the opium pipes instead. Why?
(a) He knows if he smokes more than four pipes, he will lose his desire for her.
(b) It keeps him busy so he does not have time to think about her.
(c) He is more addicted to opium than he is to Phuong.
(d) He hopes she will make the first move if he accepts the pipes.

10. Where do the people take refuge?
(a) Greene describes people taking refuge in the Cathedral.
(b) Greene says that they started the long walk back to Saigon.
(c) Greene says they people stayed in the French Consulate.
(d) Greene writes that the people hid in the rice paddys.

11. What does Fowler say when Phuong says Miss Hei does not believe he will marry her?
(a) He tells her he just wrote a letter to his wife asking for a divorce.
(b) He tells her that he had lied; he isn't married after all.
(c) He tells her he can marry her without getting a divorce.
(d) He tells her they can live together and his wife will divorce him.

12. What about the meeting really surprises Fowler?
(a) Fowler is surprised to learn Hei is in the underground.
(b) Fowler does not understand why Granger would help him.
(c) Fowler wonders why the Saigon surete is out there.
(d) Fowler observes that Pyle mysteriously has very good equipment.

13. What is Pyle trying to hide but everyone suspects anyway?
(a) That he has a venereal disease.
(b) That he is really from Russia.
(c) That he is there on some kind of secret mission.
(d) That he does not really like girls.

14. What is Lieutenant Peraud's obsession?
(a) Peraud is mad about Vietnamese art.
(b) Peraud is infatuated with every woman he meets.
(c) Peraud has a phobia against germs.
(d) Peraud is devoted to Our Lady of Fatima.

15. What procession is formed in the city of Phat Diem?
(a) A Buddhist celebration procession
(b) A rice harvest festival parade
(c) A procession to celebrate Our Lady of fatima
(d) A mock evacuation drill

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does Pyle arrive at Fowler's apartment?

3. What letters does Fowler write to be mailed from Hong Kong by a departing journalist?

4. What does Phuong tell Vigot about her and Pyle?

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

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