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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 does Pyle feel the need to speak to Fowler at all?
(a) He wants Fowler to order Phuong out of his house.
(b) He is in love with Phuong and wants to do the honorable thing by Fowler.
(c) He thinks Fowler is like Phuong's father and he wants his permission to marry her.
(d) He is ready to kill Fowler if he objects.

2. How does Joe the Attache speak crudely about Phuong?
(a) He refers to all Vietnamese women as whores.
(b) He asks Phuong what she charges by the hour.
(c) He brags that he once had her when she worked in the dancehall.
(d) He refers to Phuong as Fowler's piece of tail.

3. Instead of Pyle, who comes to Fowler's door after midnight?
(a) It is Phuong's elder sister who is trying to get Phuong married to an American.
(b) It is a messenger from the US embassy.
(c) It is the landlord wanting to know why the lights are still on.
(d) It is a messenger from Vigot, a French officer who is a casual social acquaintance of Fowler.

4. What is the name of York's theory In which Pyle believes?
(a) The Third Force
(b) The Mind's Eye
(c) The Last Stand
(d) The Magnum Force

5. What offer does Pyle make to Miss Hei?
(a) He offers to show her to the door.
(b) He offers to pay her every time Phuong comes to his apartment.
(c) He offers to help Miss Hei get a job with his Mission.
(d) He offers to light her cigarette.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fowler has a good story, so why does he not send it?

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

3. Where do the people take refuge?

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

5. What restriction is imposed by the French after the battle of Phat Diem?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What information does Phuong give Fowler?

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

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