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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does Fowler find so annoying about the letter from Pyle?
(a) The letter is annoyingly illiterate.
(b) The letter is annoyingly long.
(c) The letter is annoyingly rude.
(d) The letter is annoyingly boyish.

6. What letters does Fowler write to be mailed from Hong Kong by a departing journalist?
(a) One to an American news service asking for a job and and one to his paper with his resignation.
(b) One to his wife asking for a divorce and one to his paper aksing to stay in Saigon.
(c) One to the British Intelligence asking for information on Pyle and one to his son in Liverpool.
(d) One to his mother in Essex and one to his lawyer to start divorce proceedings.

7. 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 muses to himself that after two years in Viet Nam, it is truly more his home than Britain.
(c) Fowler cannot wait to get back to fish and chips in a London pub.
(d) Fowler hates Vietnam but loves some of his friends there.

8. What does Fowler think is Pyle's obsession?
(a) Weeding corrupt administrators out of charities
(b) Politics and York Harding's theory of democracy and public policy
(c) Taking out corrupt politicians in countries friendly to the USA
(d) Getting Coca Cola into every country in the world

9. What is in the telegram Fowler receives form London?
(a) He has been promoted to foreign editor. He will be leaving Vietnam for a desk job in London.
(b) They want him to interview the French commanding general.
(c) They want his report of Phat Diem.
(d) He is fired for not turning in any reports.

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

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

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

13. Instead of Pyle, who comes to Fowler's door after midnight?
(a) It is a messenger from Vigot, a French officer who is a casual social acquaintance of Fowler.
(b) It is a messenger from the US embassy.
(c) It is Phuong's elder sister who is trying to get Phuong married to an American.
(d) It is the landlord wanting to know why the lights are still on.

14. What rather obnoxious person comes to the table where Fowler, Joe the Attache, Pyle, and Phuong are seated?
(a) A messenger from the surete.
(b) An American journalist named Granger.
(c) The American Finance Attache.
(d) The British Consul.

15. 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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Fowler translates for Phuong that Pyle loves her and wants to marry her. What is Phuong's response?

3. What is the difference between Fowler and Pyle?

4. What rumors about Pyle have been circulated and find their way to Phuong?

5. How does Pyle see himself?

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