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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 Mr. Heng ask Fowler?

2. How does Mr. Heng greet Fowler when he comes to visit?

3. What comment does Vigot make when Fowler says that Pyle got mixed up.

4. What had Pyle done that was according to Harding's book?

5. What did Fowler go to see in the other end of rue Catinat?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What makes work more difficult for Fowler with his leg in a cast?

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

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

9. What happens to them on the way back?

10. What is the gist of Helen's letter to Fowler?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Write a paper about the similarity between the Catholic church in Phat Diem and the Caodaist Temple in terms of their political involvement. Religions that are poles apart yet they have one thing in common when dealing with two sides of warring factions. It comes down to a matter of survival and all religion is suspect by totalitarian regimes. Make this comparison without being judgmental as to the merits of either religion.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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