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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fowler do to see who will win Phuong?

2. How does Pyle arrive at Fowler's apartment?

3. Where do Granger, Joe and Pyle decide to go?

4. After Pyle leaves, what does Phuong do for Fowler?

5. Fowler has a good story, so why does he not send it?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe how the French manipulate the foreign press corps during the war.

2. How does Phuong take the news of Pyle's death?

3. What does Granger say about covering a war?

4. Why does Fowler want to answer Vigot's questions quickly and get out of his office?

5. What information does Phuong give Fowler?

6. Incredibly, what does Pyle ask Fowler to do?

7. What is it about Pyle that Fowler cannot put into his cable to his newspaper?

8. Tell of Alden Pyle's fascination with York Harding.

9. The morning after Pyle's murder, what is Phuong's concern?

10. What does Fowler take away from Pyle's apartment?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an opinion paper on censorship of the press during a time of war. Do ordinary citizens need to know what is going on in the war? Do they have a right to know? The French were releasing only good news and censoring any reference to a defeat. What effect might it have had on the American public had they known what was really going on inside French Indochina? Is it possible that Americans would have told their leaders not to get them involved if they had known the full story? Discuss how censorship is a way of controlling the minds of people.

Essay Topic 2

Considering everything you know about Phuong, write a paper with your opinion about whether or not she actually loves Fowler. In order to write this paper you will need to understand the dynamics of survival in a country that is impoverished by war. The idea of this paper is to address survival without the moral judgments of the western world.

Essay Topic 3

Pyle was idealistic and inexperienced. Write a paper expressing your opinion about the dangers of such a combination in someone who has the power to do great harm. In your paper, use the naivete of Pyle as he overlooks the sarcasm and below the surface animosity of Fowler in the battle over Phuong. He seems to be a person who expects everyone to tell the truth all the time. Compare how upset he is with Fowler's lies and his belief that General The would not have exploded the bomb knowing that the parade had been canceled.

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