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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. In contrast to the American press corps men, how does Fowler assess Pyle?
(a) He sees Alden Pyle as modest, serious, quiet, and soft-spoken.
(b) He sees Alden Pyle as a boy who is acting like a man.
(c) He sees Alden Pyle as a complete fool who should go home.
(d) He sees Alden Pyle as mature beyond his years.

2. What does Fowler say when Phuong says Miss Hei does not believe he will marry her?
(a) He tells her he can marry her without getting a divorce.
(b) He tells her that he had lied; he isn't married after all.
(c) He tells her he just wrote a letter to his wife asking for a divorce.
(d) He tells her they can live together and his wife will divorce him.

3. Fowler translates for Phuong that Pyle loves her and wants to marry her. What is Phuong's response?
(a) She says he will have to ask Hei.
(b) She turns him down.
(c) She runs and jumps in Pyle's lap.
(d) She has no reaction at all.

4. What information does Fowler offer Pyle?
(a) He tells Pyle how to bargain with a trishaw driver.
(b) He tells Pyle where to find beautiful Vietnamese women.
(c) He tells Pyle at what times of the day what roads and parts of town are safe.
(d) He tells Pyle where to find a great Vietnamese tailor.

5. How does the telegram affect Fowler?
(a) He knows he won't get his opium pipes in London.
(b) The telegram makes him sad; if he leaves, it means Phuong will marry Pyle.
(c) He nearly jumps for joy at getting out of Vietnam.
(d) He is angry that they did not consult him first.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Alden Pyle's Passion?

2. What does Fowler think about the prospects of the French holding the north?

3. What is strange about Fowler's relationship with Phuong?

4. What rather obnoxious person comes to the table where Fowler, Joe the Attache, Pyle, and Phuong are seated?

5. Returning to the night Fowler met Pyle, where was he?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the conflict between Fowler and Miss Hei?

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

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

4. The morning after Pyle's murder, what is Phuong's concern?

5. When Granger pins the colonel down on the fact that supplies have not arrived for the army at the front, what happens?

6. What information does Phuong give Fowler?

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

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

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

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

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