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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the Attache put in the wire to Pyle's parents?
(a) That their son had died of heart failure.
(b) That their son had died of malaria.
(c) That their son had died a soldier's death in the cause of Democracy.
(d) That their son had been run over by a bus.

6. How do Fowler and the others eventually leave Phat Diem?
(a) They make a huge raft and go down the river that Fowler came up on.
(b) They stay in the cathedarl until the French retake the city.
(c) They are rescued at night by French helicopters.
(d) Fowler marches with others through farmland. Everyone's nerves are taut with fear yet it is very boring.

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

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

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

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

11. Is Fowler listening closely to Pyle's ideas about war?
(a) Yes, but he soon forgets it.
(b) Yes, but he doesn't understand what he's saying.
(c) No, because Pyle speaks poor French.
(d) No, and later he will regret it.

12. What does Fowler have to say about General The?
(a) He says that General The is a figment of people's imaginations.
(b) He says General The is the hope for Vietnam.
(c) Fowler says that General The is actually now fighting both sides.
(d) He says that General The is going to come out of hiding soon.

13. What are the results of the battle that follows the Vietminh's infiltration?
(a) Four days later this battle is an obvious defeat for the French.
(b) The Vietminh are soundly defeated.
(c) Fowler is taken prisoner.
(d) There are only Vietminh casualties.

14. 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 secretive nature that hints he is someone important.
(c) Pyle's ignorance of his own naivte.
(d) Pyle's cockiness that, given a choice, Phuong will choose him over Fowler.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In contrast to the American press corps men, how does Fowler assess Pyle?

2. What does Fowler think is Pyle's obsession?

3. What is Lieutenant Peraud's obsession?

4. What does a priest offer Fowler?

5. How does Pyle treat Phuong when they first meet?

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