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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 Miss Hei tell Pyle when he and Phuong return to the table?

2. What does Phuong want to see?

3. What does a priest offer Fowler?

4. Instead of Pyle, who comes to Fowler's door after midnight?

5. What does Fowler find so annoying about the letter from Pyle?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Granger pins the colonel down on the fact that supplies have not arrived for the army at the front, what happens?

2. What is the conflict between Fowler and Miss Hei?

3. What is the superstition in Vietnam about lovers who smoke opium?

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

5. What signifies a difference in dress between the South and the North of Vietnam?

6. What is Fowler's reaction to the priest who offers to take his confession?

7. What language does Pyle use that Fowler sees as boyish and naive?

8. What did Fowler do to get Pyle out of the House of the Five Hundred Girls?

9. When Fowler offers Pyle a drink of whiskey, how does the conversation go?

10. What happens when Pyle invites himself over for a drink?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Granger calls Frenchmen frogs, and British men limeys. Write a paper about the harmful effects of labeling people. Dig deep into the effects of such name calling. Question whether racially biased attitudes ever do any good. Many people cannot see beyond the surface as was the case in the interment of Japanese-Americans during WW II. Include any first hand instances you have either felt or witnessed that involves racial labeling.

Essay Topic 2

Write your speculation as to what happened to Phuong and Fowler after the French pulled out of Vietnam. This is a creative writing piece. We know that the French left and the Americans entered the war officially. Fowler was probably more important to his paper than ever. People continued to live in Saigon as the war raged on. When the evacuation came, write your story about what becomes of Fowler and Phuong. Did they get out together? Did Fowler have to leave her there? Did they find a way to slip over into Thailand? Let your imagination run free as you write your extra ending.

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper about why Mr. Heng was so sure that Thomas Fowler would cooperate in getting Pyle to the restaurant. There are two factors here for your paper. One, is the idea of coming out on top in a love triangle. Asian men especially would relate to this concept. The other is the factor of Fowler's dependence on covert information to write his articles. Your paper will evaluate which motive is stronger with Fowler.

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