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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After leaving the Attache's office, what does Fowler say he did in the men's lavatory?
(a) He cried.
(b) He threw up.
(c) He wrote on the mirror.
(d) He stole the hand soap.

3. When Pyle arrives, why does he say he is surprised that Fowler gave him an invitation to visit?
(a) He thought Fowler wanted to talk about Phuong.
(b) He thought Fowler wanted to apologize.
(c) He thought Fowler was mad at him.
(d) He thought Fowler had realized Pyle's good work.

4. What do Caodaists' churches look like?
(a) Golden pagodas
(b) Stone squares with minarets at the four corners
(c) Green domes with a hole in the top
(d) Pink and blue with a huge eye of God over the door

5. How does Fowler dismiss Pyle when he comes to visit?
(a) "Go read some more of your York Harding books."
(b) "Get out and grow up."
(c) "Go away to your Third Force and play with your plastics."
(d) "Get out of my house before I shoot you."

6. Who is rumored to be on the mountain?
(a) The Buddha, Christ and Confucious
(b) A French radar unit
(c) General The and his troops
(d) The Pope's harem of 3,000 women

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

8. When Fowler and Pyle talk, against what does Fowler warn Pyle?
(a) Believing in York's Third Force
(b) Negotiating with the Vietminh
(c) Trusting Vigot and the Surete
(d) Trusting Joe too much

9. What happens when someone comes demanding that Pyle and Fowler be brought down?
(a) Fowler is relieved that General The's men have come to get them.
(b) Pyle says it must be a French patrol he had been expecting.
(c) Fowler jumps and breaks his ankle; Pyle comes down the ladder; the tower explodes.
(d) Fowler and Pyle find a back way out and escape.

10. Returning to the time after Pyle's murder, what does Vigot tell Fowler?
(a) They still have not found the dog.
(b) They found Pyle's dog with its throat cut.
(c) They cremated Pyle's body.
(d) They know who murdered Pyle.

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

12. What comment does Vigot make when Fowler says that Pyle got mixed up.
(a) Vigot says, "That's too bad."
(b) Vigot says, "Don't we all?"
(c) Vigot says, "Are you sure?"
(d) Vigot says, "You never do, do you?"

13. What does Captain Trouin say he hates most about the war?
(a) The long hours
(b) The napalm bombing
(c) The dead children
(d) The night flights

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

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 it is canned and insincere.
(c) That is the sincere belief of the Caodaists.
(d) That it is incomprehensible.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Caodaism?

2. Why does Fowler say he wants to find another flat?

3. What happens at the fountain in front of the big store?

4. Why does Fowler go to The Pavillon after leaving the apartment on rue Catinat?

5. What has happened to Fowler's assistant, Dominguez?

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