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

2. What is strange about Fowler's relationship with Phuong?
(a) He is ashamed to take her out anywhere in public.
(b) He is old enough to be her grandfather.
(c) She cannot speak any English or French.
(d) They have been together for several years, yet mysteriously she is engaged to marry Alden Pyle.

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

4. What are the results of the battle that follows the Vietminh's infiltration?
(a) Four days later this battle is an obvious defeat for the French.
(b) There are only Vietminh casualties.
(c) Fowler is taken prisoner.
(d) The Vietminh are soundly defeated.

5. What does the Attache put in the wire to Pyle's parents?
(a) That their son had died a soldier's death in the cause of Democracy.
(b) That their son had died of heart failure.
(c) That their son had died of malaria.
(d) That their son had been run over by a bus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fowler find so annoying about the letter from Pyle?

2. How does Pyle tell Fowler he got to Phat Diem?

3. What is the conflicting report about the war in the North?

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

5. Who comes to the table to talk to Fowler while Pyle and Phuong are dancing?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does it take Fowler three weeks to get back to Saigon?

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. What news does Bill Granger offer about the war in the North when the Economic Attache asks?

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

9. In a flashback, describe how Pyle meets Fowler and Phuong.

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

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