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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 has made Vigot's day so long and tiring?
(a) Meetings with the French Embassy
(b) Catching up on paperwork
(c) Petty thefts and a few suicides
(d) Murder and sudden deaths

2. What is Helen's answer to Fowler about getting a divorce?
(a) She needs more time to think.
(b) Maybe, if he returns to England.
(c) The answer is no.
(d) She agrees.

3. What does Mr. Heng ask Fowler?
(a) If Pyle knows York Harding.
(b) If he has any information about Pyle.
(c) If he really wants to stop Pyle.
(d) If Pyle is really his friend?

4. What was wrong with the bombing that day?
(a) It was more powerful than they had planned.
(b) Pyle did not know they had cancelled the parade which was the main target.
(c) Several Americans were killed accidentally.
(d) It was supposed to go off in the officers quarters.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do Caodaists' churches look like?

3. Why does Vigot say that he does not believe Fowler killed Pyle?

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

5. Who are the cardinals of Caodaism?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Fowler in that situation?

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

3. What happens to them on the way back?

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

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

6. Almost in spite of himself, what advice is Fowler compelled to give Pyle?

7. Who are the Caodaists and why does Fowler go to where they are?

8. What makes work more difficult for Fowler with his leg in a cast?

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

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

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