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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 does Fowler ask Mr. Heng about Pyle?
(a) If Vigot has any connection to Pyle.
(b) If Phuong is safe with Pyle.
(c) How he came to meet Pyle.
(d) Who Pyle's chief is.

2. Returning to the time after Pyle's murder, what does Vigot tell Fowler?
(a) They still have not found the dog.
(b) They found Pyle's dog with its throat cut.
(c) They know who murdered Pyle.
(d) They cremated Pyle's body.

3. What does Vigot want Fowler to tell him?
(a) That he had been keeping Pyle's dog for a week.
(b) That Pyle had told him what he was doing in Indochina.
(c) That Pyle told Fowler who was trying to murder him.
(d) That he had seen Pyle the night he was murdered.

4. What does the second letter from Fowler's editor say?
(a) He says Fowler can stay if he accepts a salary cut.
(b) He agrees that Fowler should stay in Saigon.
(c) He writes that Fowler will come home or lose his job.
(d) He gives fowler another six months.

5. What is Caodaism?
(a) A religious front for a counter military insurgency.
(b) A philosophy of a blend of communism and capitalism.
(c) A religion that started in Vietnam and spreak to Korea.
(d) A cult religion that blends Confucianism, Christianit, and Buddhism.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Fowler say he wants to find another flat?

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

3. What do Caodaists' churches look like?

4. What does Dominguez do when Fowler swats at a mosquito droning near his ear?

5. What does Captain Trouin say he hates most about the war?

Short Essay Questions

1. After his stay in the hospital, where does Fowler find Phuong?

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. What happens to them on the way back?

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

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

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