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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What restriction is imposed by the French after the battle of Phat Diem?
(a) No one can leave the area without a security check.
(b) No one is allowed near the river.
(c) No journalists, including Fowler, are allowed to report it.
(d) No one can return to Saigon until reinforcements arrive.

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

4. What is Graham Greene's definition of the quiet American?
(a) Not the obnoxious pushy kind of person that is often the stereotype of Americans in foreign countries.
(b) An American who has lost his voice.
(c) An American who works alone in a large office.
(d) The Teddy Roosevelt type who speaks softly but carries a big stick.

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

6. While waiting for Pyle who is three hours late, what does Phuong do for Fowler?
(a) She mixes him a martini and rolls him a cigar.
(b) She reads Photoplay Magazine to him.
(c) She does an exotic dance for him like she used to do in the bar.
(d) Phuong prepares an opium pipe for Fowler, who smokes it, and then smokes another.

7. What makes Vigot even more suspicious of Fowler?
(a) Fowler does not act surprised when he finds out Pyle is dead, and that adds to Vigot's suspicions.
(b) Fowler does not offer an alibi for his whereabouts that night.
(c) Fowler does not ask Vigot if there are any other suspects.
(d) Fowler becomes unconsolable when he learns of Pyle's death.

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

9. How does Fowler see most of the men in the press corps?
(a) He sees them as men who could not get a job anywhere else.
(b) He sees them as quiet, hard working professionals.
(c) Fowler finds his American colleagues in the press to be big, noisy, boyish and middle-aged types.
(d) He sees them as being very familiar with the culture of Vietnam.

10. 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 ignorance of his own naivte.
(d) Pyle's attitude of moral superiority because he doesn't smoke opium.

11. Where do Pyle and Fowler want to go?
(a) They say they would like to go to Cambodia.
(b) They both want to go to Bangkok.
(c) Pyle wants to go to America and Fowler wants to go to England.
(d) Both Pyle and Fowler express interest in going to Phat Diem to access the situation.

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) 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) Granger says General The is fighting with the French and the attache says General The is dead.

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

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

15. What is Phuong's favorite reading subject matter?
(a) The latest scandals in Hollywood
(b) The British Royal Family, especially Princess Margaret
(c) The stock market in the Wall Street Journal
(d) The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

Short Answer Questions

1. Is Fowler listening closely to Pyle's ideas about war?

2. What is Thomas Fowler doing in Vietnam?

3. What does the Attache put in the wire to Pyle's parents?

4. What does a priest offer Fowler?

5. Why does Vigot speak softly to Fowler?

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