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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 Fowler find when he returns to Saigon?
(a) A letter from Pyle
(b) Pyle is staying in his apartment
(c) A message from the surete to contact them immediately
(d) Phuong has moved out of his apartment

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

3. What is the conflicting report about the war in the North?
(a) Some say the Americans are pulling out and others say the Germans are coming.
(b) The attache says the Vietminh are retreating but Granger says they are coming to Saigon.
(c) Granger says General The is fighting with the French and the attache says General The is dead.
(d) Granger says the French are doing well in the northwest, but the Attaché reports that the Vietminh are about to take Phat Diem.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Pyle and Fowler want to go?

2. What does Fowler say when Phuong says Miss Hei does not believe he will marry her?

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

4. What is Alden Pyle's publicly known job?

5. What about the meeting really surprises Fowler?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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