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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. While waiting for Pyle who is three hours late, what does Phuong do for Fowler?
(a) She mixes him a martini and rolls him a cigar.
(b) Phuong prepares an opium pipe for Fowler, who smokes it, and then smokes another.
(c) She reads Photoplay Magazine to him.
(d) She does an exotic dance for him like she used to do in the bar.

2. What about the meeting really surprises Fowler?
(a) Fowler does not understand why Granger would help him.
(b) Fowler is surprised to learn Hei is in the underground.
(c) Fowler observes that Pyle mysteriously has very good equipment.
(d) Fowler wonders why the Saigon surete is out there.

3. What does Miss Hei want from Fowler?
(a) Information about Pyle
(b) To see him some opium
(c) Money
(d) Permission to visit Phuong at his apartment

4. How does Pyle tell Fowler he got to Phat Diem?
(a) Pyle tells Fowler he hiked the whole way.
(b) Pyle relates how he came to Phat Diem alone and by boat.
(c) Pyle says he came in a military Jeep.
(d) Pyle says he parachuetted out of a plane.

5. What does Fowler find so annoying about the letter from Pyle?
(a) The letter is annoyingly illiterate.
(b) The letter is annoyingly long.
(c) The letter is annoyingly rude.
(d) The letter is annoyingly boyish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Vigot allow Fowler to do in Pyle's apartment?

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

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

4. What is the name of York's theory In which Pyle believes?

5. What is Lieutenant Peraud's obsession?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Granger say about covering a war?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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