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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Fowler thinking as he watches Pyle and Phuong dancing?
(a) He thinks about his opium pipe.
(b) He thinks about what a good dancer Pyle is.
(c) He thinks about his late wife.
(d) Fowler recalls how she used to dance at the Grand Monde.

2. What does Fowler find when he returns to Saigon?
(a) Phuong has moved out of his apartment
(b) Pyle is staying in his apartment
(c) A message from the surete to contact them immediately
(d) A letter from Pyle

3. Where do Pyle and Fowler want to go?
(a) They both want to go to Bangkok.
(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 say they would like to go to Cambodia.

4. Where and with whom is Thomas Fowler as The Quiet American begins?
(a) He is walking along the beach on the China Sea.
(b) He is at the Continental having a cappuccino with his editor.
(c) He is flying into Saigon from a trip he made to England.
(d) The story opens with Fowler in his rooms over the rue Catinat in Saigon with his beautiful young lover Phuong.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What book does Pyle go on and on about?

2. What does Fowler tell Pyle to do so that the girls will stop mobbing him?

3. What happens to wounded French soldiers when no helicopters are available to rescue them?

4. What is Phuong's response when Fowler tells her Pyle had invited himself to Fowler's apartment for a drink?

5. What does Fowler find so annoying about the letter from Pyle?

Short Essay Questions

1. What signifies a difference in dress between the South and the North of Vietnam?

2. When Fowler moves out with a patrol getting out of the area of Phat Diem, who comes in the middle of the night? Why had he come?

3. At the press conference, what is the French colonel's response to the question of French casualties?

4. Why does it take Fowler three weeks to get back to Saigon?

5. What language does Pyle use that Fowler sees as boyish and naive?

6. Describe the old women on the street near Thomas Fowler's apartment.

7. What does Fowler see when he goes to Phat Diem?

8. How does Phuong take the news of Pyle's death?

9. Describe how the French manipulate the foreign press corps during the war.

10. What new complication is Fowler struggling with besides the possibility of losing to Pyle?

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