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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 does Phuong want to see?
(a) Skyscrapers and the Statue of Liberty
(b) Princess Margaret and Buckingham Palace
(c) Paris and Niagra Falls
(d) London and New York

2. What happens to wounded French soldiers when no helicopters are available to rescue them?
(a) Vietnamese civilians have formed a brigade to rescue them.
(b) French special forces go in on foot to bring them to safety.
(c) They are given poison pills to take if they fear being captured.
(d) Without helicopters, wounded soldiers have little chance of getting carried to a hospital. They are left to die where they fall.

3. Why is the American Attache upset?
(a) He wis called out of bed to come to Pyle's apartment.
(b) He knows Pyle's father.
(c) He thinks the French should stay out of it.
(d) He is upset seeing Fowler on the scene.

4. What rather obnoxious person comes to the table where Fowler, Joe the Attache, Pyle, and Phuong are seated?
(a) A messenger from the surete.
(b) The American Finance Attache.
(c) An American journalist named Granger.
(d) The British Consul.

5. How does Fowler see most of the men in the press corps?
(a) Fowler finds his American colleagues in the press to be big, noisy, boyish and middle-aged types.
(b) He sees them as being very familiar with the culture of Vietnam.
(c) He sees them as men who could not get a job anywhere else.
(d) He sees them as quiet, hard working professionals.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Lieutenant Peraud's obsession?

2. Who is the author of the books Pyle likes so much?

3. What does Pyle notice the first time Fowler meets him?

4. What does Fowler think is Pyle's obsession?

5. Why does Vigot speak softly to Fowler?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What suggestions does Fowler offer Vigot as to who might have killed Pyle?

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

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

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

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

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

8. What is it about Pyle that Fowler cannot put into his cable to his newspaper?

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

10. Incredibly, what does Pyle ask Fowler to do?

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