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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. Returning to the time after Pyle's murder, what does Vigot tell Fowler?

2. What does Mr. Heng say that reminds him of Captain Trouin?

3. What is Fowler's reaction when the Pope's deputy holds out his hand with a huge ring on his finger?

4. Who gets a job for Miss Hei with the Americans?

5. Back in the present time, what does Fowler do to get Phuong out of the house when Vigot arrives?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happens to them on the way back?

3. What does Fowler witness with Mr. Heng who had called him to big store at the corner of Boulevard Charner?

4. What new evidence about Pyle's death makes Vigot sure that Fowler did not kill him?

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

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

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

8. What happens to Fowler in that situation?

9. What did Fowler find at the garage of Mr. Muoi?

10. After his stay in the hospital, where does Fowler find Phuong?

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

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.

Essay Topic 3

Write your opinion about whether one country should interfere in another country's politics. The French were in Indochina as long time colonialists. The war was actually a movement to get them out of the country. Somewhere along the way, the lines got blurred in the situation and American politicians began to suggest that the war was a necessity to prevent the spread of communism throughout the world. The Vietnamese allies in the country were those who had prospered under French colonialism. You might want to compare America's involvement after the French leave to America's search for weapons of mass destruction in modern day Iraq.

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