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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fowler see when he goes out?
(a) He sees that the United Nations is there to help the survivors.
(b) He sees bodies and body parts floating in canals, some covered with flies, some lying dead on the road.
(c) He sees that the Vietminh have set up a hospital to treat the wounded.
(d) He sees that the town was not touched and most people are alive.

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

3. What is Alden Pyle's Passion?
(a) To reform and redeem the entire universe
(b) Phuong
(c) Getting the French out of Vietnam
(d) Scotch and soda

4. What is it about Pyle that particularly annoys Fowler?
(a) Pyle's cockiness that, given a choice, Phuong will choose him over Fowler.
(b) Pyle's secretive nature that hints he is someone important.
(c) Pyle's attitude of moral superiority because he doesn't smoke opium.
(d) Pyle's ignorance of his own naivte.

5. When things settle down at the House of the Five Hundred Girls, where do Pyle, Fowler and Phuong go?
(a) The go to the Grand Monde.
(b) They go to Fowler's apartment.
(c) Granger stays there but Fowler and Pyle go back to the Continental with Phuong.
(d) They go to Pyle's apartment.

6. What does Pyle say about his importing plastics?
(a) That the French want everything to come from France.
(b) That someone got their story wrong.
(c) That the Vietnamese are making ping pong balls.
(d) That the plastics are for a new type of boat.

7. What alibi does Fowler give for his whereabouts?
(a) He says he had a party at his house from seven until eleven.
(b) He says that he was at the clinic getting an allergy shot.
(c) He says he was with Phuong all evening long.
(d) He says he was at the Continental and then saw a movie and later had dinner. People would remember him at these places.

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

9. What does Fowler say to the priest about the sacrament of confession?
(a) He tells the priest that he should find something more useful to do.
(b) He tells the priest that he is an atheist.
(c) He tells the priest that he only goes to confession once very ten years.
(d) In his blunt way, Fowler tells the priest that the rite seems unmanly and morbid to him.

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

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

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

13. What is the difference between Fowler and Pyle?
(a) Fowler is new to the country; Pyle knew the risks he was taking.
(b) Fowler knows all the big players; Pyle knew only the subordinates.
(c) Fowler has no fear; Pyle was afraid of his shadow.
(d) Fowler understands Vietnam and loves it; Pyle did not understand Viet Nam and wanted to save it.

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

15. Fowler has a good story, so why does he not send it?
(a) He doesn't have photos to back his story up.
(b) He realizes it will not pass government censorship.
(c) He thinks it might demoralize the troops.
(d) He doesn't believe anyone will believe it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fowler dream after he finally falls asleep?

2. What restriction is imposed by the French after the battle of Phat Diem?

3. Fowler wants to make love to Phuong but accepts the opium pipes instead. Why?

4. How do Fowler and the others eventually leave Phat Diem?

5. What makes Vigot even more suspicious of Fowler?

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