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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 was wrong with the bombing that day?

2. What does Fowler think of the speech the deputy Pope of Caodaism gives him?

3. What do Caodaists' churches look like?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Fowler mean when he tells Vigot that York Harding in the man who killed Alden Pyle?

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

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

4. What admonition does Fowler give Pyle because of his support of General The?

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

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

7. What elaborate precautions does Fowler take that evening?

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

9. What strange encounter does Fowler have with Bill Granger at the Vieux Moulin?

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

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

Fowler is stunned when Joe calls Pyle a war hero. Write a paper expressing your opinion about such a distortion of the truth. Does making it easier on the parents justify such misinformation? Pyle was not killed in a righteous battle. He was simply assassinated for getting involved in a matter that he did not understand. There was nothing noble about the way he died. Joe the Economic Attache is arguably a part of the intelligence machine operating in Vietnam. How would that explain his report on Pyle's death? What might the repercussions have been in America if the real truth were known?

Essay Topic 3

Young idealistic men often think of war as something glamorous. Using the descriptions in the book, write a paper about the horrors of war. To do this, use the description of the massacre at Phat Diem, the bomb explosion in Saigon, the ignoble assassination of Pyle, and Trouin's description of the use of napalm. Pyle comes to Vietnam, ignores the advice and observations of men who have been there for years, and idolizes York Harding. Show how this makes him idealistic and sure that he is invulnerable.

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