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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 Pyle notice the first time Fowler meets him?

2. What does Fowler think is Pyle's obsession?

3. Why does Fowler leave Phuong in the trishaw and go into the House of Five Hundred Girls?

4. Is Fowler listening closely to Pyle's ideas about war?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. After Pyle and Phuong dance, how does the conversation go between Pyle and Miss Hei?

2. What news does Bill Granger offer about the war in the North when the Economic Attache asks?

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

4. What is the purpose for having Fowler and Phuong go to the Surete to see Vigot?

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

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

7. When Fowler moves out with a patrol getting out of the area of Phat Diem, who comes in the middle of the night? Why had he come?

8. In a flashback, describe how Pyle meets Fowler and Phuong.

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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 3

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.

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