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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. How does Fowler dismiss Pyle when he comes to visit?
(a) "Get out and grow up."
(b) "Go away to your Third Force and play with your plastics."
(c) "Go read some more of your York Harding books."
(d) "Get out of my house before I shoot you."

2. What is Fowler forced to do since Dominguez is out of commission?
(a) Stay at home and send Phuong to run errands
(b) Do his own writing to send to London
(c) Attend wearisome press conferences and hobble to the Continental for gossip
(d) Take trishaws everywhere he needs to go

3. Who is rumored to be on the mountain?
(a) The Buddha, Christ and Confucious
(b) A French radar unit
(c) The Pope's harem of 3,000 women
(d) General The and his troops

4. What does Dominguez do when Fowler swats at a mosquito droning near his ear?
(a) He winces.
(b) He applauds.
(c) He kills it when Fowler misses.
(d) He gets the bug spray.

5. Back in the present time, what does Fowler do to get Phuong out of the house when Vigot arrives?
(a) He sends her to the movies.
(b) He hide her under his bed.
(c) He sends her to her sister.
(d) He hides her in a back room.

Short Answer Questions

1. When someone does knock on Fowler's door, who is it?

2. What happens when someone comes demanding that Pyle and Fowler be brought down?

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

4. What does Dominguez advise Fowler to do?

5. What is Fowler's concern as he returns to his rooms after being in the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. After Pyle takes Phuong away, where did Fowler go with Captain Trouin?

2. What evidence is there that Vigot knows Fowler is involved in some way with Pyle's murder?

3. What trouble is Pyle having when Fowler runs into him on this trip?

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

5. What happens to Fowler in that situation?

6. What new evidence about Pyle's death makes Vigot sure that Fowler did not kill him?

7. What is the real reason Vigot comes to play Quatre-Vingt-et-Un with Fowler?

8. What does Fowler wish he had had the guts to do while Vigot was there?

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

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

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