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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Mr. Heng want Fowler to do?
(a) He wants him to invite Pyle to dinner at the Vieux Moulin.
(b) He wants Fowler to kill Pyle.
(c) He wants Fowler to go home and never return.
(d) He wants Fowler to find Pyle and talk some sense into him.

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

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

4. What does Fowler later have to admit?
(a) That he had sent Pyle on a fool's errand.
(b) That Phuong would have been better off with Pyle.
(c) That Pyle followed his instructions to the letter.
(d) That Pyle was really the better man.

5. What did Fowler go to see in the other end of rue Catinat?
(a) An art collection
(b) A new movie house
(c) A used car
(d) An apartment for sale

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

7. 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 blinks his car lights to draw attention.
(c) He climbs a rope ladder and is terrified.
(d) He and Pyle puch the car a hundred meters down the road.

8. What does Mr. Heng say that reminds him of Captain Trouin?
(a) "We do what we have to do."
(b) "Sooner or later, one has to take sides if one is to remain human."
(c) "Forget the carnage and think of the future."
(d) "War is hell."

9. What does Fowler learn from Mr. Chou's manager, Mr. Heng?
(a) That Pyle is buying military equipment from Mr. Chou.
(b) He sees plastics and a mold for Pyle that got opened by mistake.
(c) That Pyle is planning to kidnap Phuong.
(d) That the Economic Attache is receiving goods for Pyle.

10. What happens right after the American girls leave The Pavillon?
(a) A French woman comes to Fowler's table.
(b) It begins to rain heavily.
(c) A bomb goes off near the bar.
(d) Pyle enters with a disguised General The.

11. What is behind the Holy See as one approaches Tanyin?
(a) The palaces of the Pope of Caodaism
(b) A dark jungle
(c) The waterfalls of antiquity
(d) The sacred mountain that looks like a bowler hat.

12. What is Fowler's concern as he returns to his rooms after being in the hospital?
(a) That Phuong had moved her family into his apartment.
(b) That the letter from his wife had been opened.
(c) That Phuong will not be there.
(d) That he would not be able to make it up the stairs.

13. When Fowler rushes out to see if he can find Phuong in the wreckage, what does Pyle tell him?
(a) Get out of here, there's nothing you can do!
(b) Go home, Phuong is waiting there.
(c) She's not there, I warned her not to go.
(d) Phuong is at the attache's office.

14. What was York Harding's experience in Indochina?
(a) Harding used French press reports to write his book.
(b) Harding got his information from refugees who came to America.
(c) Harding had never set foot in Vietnam.
(d) He had been there for one week once on his way from Bangkok to Tokoyo.

15. Back in the present time, what does Fowler do to get Phuong out of the house when Vigot arrives?
(a) He sends her to her sister.
(b) He hides her in a back room.
(c) He sends her to the movies.
(d) He hide her under his bed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What has made Vigot's day so long and tiring?

2. What does Dominguez advise Fowler to do?

3. What does Fowler discover at 3:00 a.m.?

4. What does Phuong give Fowler after he gets home?

5. What does Fowler wish he had the courage for after Vigot leaves?

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