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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. Why does Vigot say that he does not believe Fowler killed Pyle?
(a) Because one does not take a book of an enemy for a souvenir.
(b) Because Fowler would not have the stomach for murder.
(c) Because Fowler has been cooperative.
(d) Because Fowler's alibi checks out.

2. What is Fowler's concern as he returns to his rooms after being in the hospital?
(a) That Phuong will not be there.
(b) That Phuong had moved her family into his apartment.
(c) That he would not be able to make it up the stairs.
(d) That the letter from his wife had been opened.

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

4. What has happened to Fowler's assistant, Dominguez?
(a) He has deserted to the Vietminh.
(b) He is in a coma.
(c) He has been kidnapped.
(d) He has become ill and cannot work.

5. What does Fowler tell Vigot he should have become?
(a) A reporter
(b) A priest
(c) A magician
(d) A shop keeper

Short Answer Questions

1. Why are Fowler and Pyle marooned in the Vietnamese tower?

2. What is behind the Holy See as one approaches Tanyin?

3. Why does Pyle want to take Phuong to America to get married?

4. What does Dominguez advise Fowler to do?

5. Why does Fowler go to The Pavillon after leaving the apartment on rue Catinat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What happens to Fowler in that situation?

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

7. What happens to them on the way back?

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

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

10. What does Fowler witness with Mr. Heng who had called him to big store at the corner of Boulevard Charner?

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