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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why do the two American girls hastily leave The Pavillon?
(a) They were going to a parade.
(b) One of them had a date at the movies.
(c) They were hurrying to a hair salon appointment.
(d) Warren had warned them not to stay past eleven o'clock.

2. Who are the cardinals of Caodaism?
(a) They are soldiers in disguise.
(b) They are all women.
(c) They are men from the villages.
(d) They are monkeys from the sacred mountain.

3. Why does Fowler want to read Phuong's thoughts?
(a) He thinks she knows something about the Vietminh.
(b) He thinks she wants to kill him.
(c) He thinks she is meeting Pyle.
(d) He thinks she is lonely.

4. How does Fowler perceive the man who is selling the place?
(a) As an important government official
(b) As an ugly American
(c) As an idealist like Pyle
(d) As a remnant of the old colonialists

5. What takes Fowler's mind off Pyle and Phuong for a few minutes?
(a) He goes along on a French air raid.
(b) He has his cast removed.
(c) He witnesses a murder on the rue Catinat.
(d) He overdoses on opium.

6. What has made Vigot's day so long and tiring?
(a) Catching up on paperwork
(b) Petty thefts and a few suicides
(c) Meetings with the French Embassy
(d) Murder and sudden deaths

7. Returning home, who does Fowler find in his apartment?
(a) Phuong
(b) Joe
(c) Pyle
(d) Vigot

8. What is Caodaism?
(a) A cult religion that blends Confucianism, Christianit, and Buddhism.
(b) A religious front for a counter military insurgency.
(c) A religion that started in Vietnam and spreak to Korea.
(d) A philosophy of a blend of communism and capitalism.

9. When Fowler's car runs out of gas, what does he have to do to get to a Vietnamese lookout?
(a) He honks his horn with a secret signal.
(b) He and Pyle puch the car a hundred meters down the road.
(c) He climbs a rope ladder and is terrified.
(d) He blinks his car lights to draw attention.

10. What does Vigot want Fowler to tell him?
(a) That he had been keeping Pyle's dog for a week.
(b) That Pyle had told him what he was doing in Indochina.
(c) That Pyle told Fowler who was trying to murder him.
(d) That he had seen Pyle the night he was murdered.

11. What is Helen's answer to Fowler about getting a divorce?
(a) Maybe, if he returns to England.
(b) She needs more time to think.
(c) The answer is no.
(d) She agrees.

12. What does Fowler discover at Mr. Muoi's garage?
(a) Muoi and his men all all gone; there is an old press there.
(b) Mr. Muoi had been shot.
(c) The molds for making bombs are there.
(d) There was a note from Pyle on Muoi's desk.

13. What does Phuong give Fowler after he gets home?
(a) An opened telegram and the unopened letter from his wife.
(b) A massage.
(c) A marriage ultimatum.
(d) An opium pipe.

14. What does Mr. Heng ask Fowler?
(a) If Pyle knows York Harding.
(b) If he really wants to stop Pyle.
(c) If he has any information about Pyle.
(d) If Pyle is really his friend?

15. What does Fowler think of the speech the deputy Pope of Caodaism gives him?
(a) That it is the hope of the Vietnamese people.
(b) That is the sincere belief of the Caodaists.
(c) That it is canned and insincere.
(d) That it is incomprehensible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Fowler's reply to Vigot's question about who is York Harding?

2. What do Caodaists' churches look like?

3. Who does Fowler run into in Tanyin?

4. What does Fowler later have to admit?

5. When someone does knock on Fowler's door, who is it?

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