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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. Why is Miss Hei interested in Pyle?
(a) She is a Vietnamese undercover agent.
(b) She wants to sell him some opium.
(c) He is young and looks like a possible marriage partner for Phuong.
(d) He is handsome and she wants to marry him.

2. Why does Fowler go to Pyle's apartment?
(a) To meeti with Vigot
(b) To pick up Phuong's things
(c) To look for clues
(d) To find a book he had lent Pyle

3. Where do Pyle and Fowler want to go?
(a) Both Pyle and Fowler express interest in going to Phat Diem to access the situation.
(b) Pyle wants to go to America and Fowler wants to go to England.
(c) They say they would like to go to Cambodia.
(d) They both want to go to Bangkok.

4. Besides Phuong, why does Fowler really want to stay in Vietnam?
(a) He takes pride in his apathy and lack of views. He does not want to be an editor but an observer.
(b) He wants to put Pyle in his place.
(c) He thinks he can be an editor in Vietnam.
(d) He thinks there is going to be a major break for the French in the war soon.

5. Fowler, who is British, has developed what feeling about Vietnam?
(a) Fowler cannot wait to get back to fish and chips in a London pub.
(b) Fowler hates Vietnam but loves some of his friends there.
(c) Fowler muses to himself that after two years in Viet Nam, it is truly more his home than Britain.
(d) Fowler sees Vietnam as a hell hole that will implode one day.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the Attache put in the wire to Pyle's parents?

2. What ridiculous suggestion does Pyle make?

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

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 think is Pyle's obsession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Fowler take away from Pyle's apartment?

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

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

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

5. What is so annoying about the letter from Pyle that is waiting for Fowler when he finally gets home?

6. What does Granger say about covering a war?

7. What is the superstition in Vietnam about lovers who smoke opium?

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

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

10. What is Fowler's reaction to the priest who offers to take his confession?

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