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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. When Fowler and Pyle talk, against what does Fowler warn Pyle?
(a) Believing in York's Third Force
(b) Negotiating with the Vietminh
(c) Trusting Joe too much
(d) Trusting Vigot and the Surete

2. How does Fowler perceive the man who is selling the place?
(a) As an ugly American
(b) As a remnant of the old colonialists
(c) As an idealist like Pyle
(d) As an important government official

3. What does Vigot say he dislikes most about his job?
(a) All the paperwork
(b) Chasing illegal gamblers
(c) The stupid people who work under him
(d) Spending so much time in mortuaries

4. Why does Fowler want to read Phuong's thoughts?
(a) He thinks she is lonely.
(b) He thinks she is meeting Pyle.
(c) He thinks she wants to kill him.
(d) He thinks she knows something about the Vietminh.

5. Why does Fowler say he wants to find another flat?
(a) There is too much of Phuong where he is.
(b) He plans on moving Dominguez in with him.
(c) He's planning on bringing Helen here.
(d) He doesn't need that many rooms.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fowler tell Vigot he should have become?

2. Who gets a job for Miss Hei with the Americans?

3. What does Fowler later have to admit?

4. Returning home, who does Fowler find in his apartment?

5. When Fowler rushes out to see if he can find Phuong in the wreckage, what does Pyle tell him?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Fowler returns to his flat, who is there?

2. What is the gist of Helen's letter to Fowler?

3. What does Fowler mean when he tells Vigot that York Harding in the man who killed Alden Pyle?

4. What elaborate precautions does Fowler take that evening?

5. What did Fowler find at the garage of Mr. Muoi?

6. When Fowler goes to see Mr. Heng after the Garnier bomb, what request does Heng make of him?

7. What happens right after two American girls walk out of the Pavilon?

8. Why is Pyle upset that the bomb had gone off that day?

9. What important person does Fowler meet at the insistence of Dominguez?

10. What strange encounter does Fowler have with Bill Granger at the Vieux Moulin?

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