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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. How does Pyle arrive at Fowler's apartment?
(a) In disguise
(b) Later than usual
(c) With his black dog
(d) Drunk

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

4. Why does Fowler suddenly have a big suspicion about Pyle?
(a) Because he suspects Pyle really wants him dead.
(b) Because he knew exactly where Fowler was when he came to rescue him.
(c) Because he doesn't undertand Pyle's urgency to get Phuong.
(d) Because his military equipment does not seem like what an Economic attache needs.

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

6. What information does Fowler offer Pyle?
(a) He tells Pyle how to bargain with a trishaw driver.
(b) He tells Pyle where to find beautiful Vietnamese women.
(c) He tells Pyle where to find a great Vietnamese tailor.
(d) He tells Pyle at what times of the day what roads and parts of town are safe.

7. 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 being very familiar with the culture of Vietnam.
(c) Fowler finds his American colleagues in the press to be big, noisy, boyish and middle-aged types.
(d) He sees them as quiet, hard working professionals.

8. What does Fowler tell Pyle to do so that the girls will stop mobbing him?
(a) Fowler tells Pyle to pay them all off.
(b) Fowler tells him to pick one so that the others will leave him alone.
(c) Fowler tells him to run for his life.
(d) Fowler tells Pyle to act like he is insane.

9. What is the name of York's theory In which Pyle believes?
(a) The Third Force
(b) The Last Stand
(c) The Mind's Eye
(d) The Magnum Force

10. After Pyle leaves, what does Phuong do for Fowler?
(a) Makes his opium pipe
(b) Gives him a bath
(c) Kisses his feet
(d) Makes dinner

11. Where do Granger, Joe and Pyle decide to go?
(a) They decide to go next door to the House of Five Hundred Girls.
(b) They decide to go to the Majestic theater.
(c) They decide to go to the American embassy.
(d) They decide to go to Fowler's apartment.

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

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

14. Why does Miss Hei not like Fowler?
(a) Miss Hei thinks Fowler is a police informer because he asks a lot of questions.
(b) Miss Hei does not like Fowler because her goal in life is to marry Phuong off to a rich European and Fowler is already married.
(c) Miss Hei cannot get Fowler to pay for Phuong's company.
(d) Miss Hei thinks Fowler is far too old for Phuong to be living with.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Returning to the night Fowler met Pyle, where was he?

2. How does Pyle tell Fowler he got to Phat Diem?

3. How does Fowler get to the city of Phat Diem?

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

5. What is Alden Pyle's Passion?

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