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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. How do Fowler and the others eventually leave Phat Diem?
(a) Fowler marches with others through farmland. Everyone's nerves are taut with fear yet it is very boring.
(b) They make a huge raft and go down the river that Fowler came up on.
(c) They are rescued at night by French helicopters.
(d) They stay in the cathedarl until the French retake the city.

2. What does Fowler find so annoying about the letter from Pyle?
(a) The letter is annoyingly boyish.
(b) The letter is annoyingly rude.
(c) The letter is annoyingly long.
(d) The letter is annoyingly illiterate.

3. What is Phuong's favorite reading subject matter?
(a) The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
(b) The British Royal Family, especially Princess Margaret
(c) The latest scandals in Hollywood
(d) The stock market in the Wall Street Journal

4. What is Pyle trying to hide but everyone suspects anyway?
(a) That he has a venereal disease.
(b) That he is really from Russia.
(c) That he is there on some kind of secret mission.
(d) That he does not really like girls.

5. When things settle down at the House of the Five Hundred Girls, where do Pyle, Fowler and Phuong go?
(a) They go to Fowler's apartment.
(b) The go to the Grand Monde.
(c) They go to Pyle's apartment.
(d) Granger stays there but Fowler and Pyle go back to the Continental with Phuong.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Fowler leave Phuong in the trishaw and go into the House of Five Hundred Girls?

2. Is Fowler listening closely to Pyle's ideas about war?

3. What does Fowler do to see who will win Phuong?

4. What is in the telegram Fowler receives form London?

5. Fowler has a good story, so why does he not send it?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the purpose for having Fowler and Phuong go to the Surete to see Vigot?

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

4. What happens when Pyle invites himself over for a drink?

5. Tell of Alden Pyle's fascination with York Harding.

6. 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?

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

8. When Fowler offers Pyle a drink of whiskey, how does the conversation go?

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

10. After Pyle and Phuong dance, how does the conversation go between Pyle and Miss Hei?

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