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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. Where do the people take refuge?
(a) Greene says they people stayed in the French Consulate.
(b) Greene describes people taking refuge in the Cathedral.
(c) Greene says that they started the long walk back to Saigon.
(d) Greene writes that the people hid in the rice paddys.

2. 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 flying into Saigon from a trip he made to England.
(c) The story opens with Fowler in his rooms over the rue Catinat in Saigon with his beautiful young lover Phuong.
(d) He is at the Continental having a cappuccino with his editor.

3. What is Alden Pyle's Passion?
(a) Scotch and soda
(b) To reform and redeem the entire universe
(c) Phuong
(d) Getting the French out of Vietnam

4. What is Pyle's urgency to see Fowler?
(a) He says Fowler is the only one he trusts.
(b) He needs Forler to help him find general The.
(c) He wants to marry Phuong if she'll have him.
(d) He wants Fowler to help him on a secret mission.

5. What is in the telegram Fowler receives form London?
(a) He is fired for not turning in any reports.
(b) They want him to interview the French commanding general.
(c) They want his report of Phat Diem.
(d) He has been promoted to foreign editor. He will be leaving Vietnam for a desk job in London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fowler translates for Phuong that Pyle loves her and wants to marry her. What is Phuong's response?

2. Why is Phuong unhappy with Pyle and not want to see him?

3. What makes Vigot even more suspicious of Fowler?

4. Besides Phuong, why does Fowler really want to stay in Vietnam?

5. What does a priest offer Fowler?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

9. Why does Fowler want to answer Vigot's questions quickly and get out of his office?

10. What did Fowler do to get Pyle out of the House of the Five Hundred Girls?

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