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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 Captain Trouin say he hates most about the war?

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

3. When Fowler and Pyle talk, against what does Fowler warn Pyle?

4. What does Fowler tell Vigot he should have become?

5. What does Dominguez advise Fowler to do?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What elaborate precautions does Fowler take that evening?

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

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

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

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

7. What does Fowler wish he had had the guts to do while Vigot was there?

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

9. What happens to them on the way back?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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.

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Using the Caodaists as an example, write a paper about religious cultism and why you think people join them. There are enough converts to this cult to make it a viable player in the war. Historically, however, there have always been cults and people who flock to them to their own destruction. It is this feature of cultism that gives them their power in numbers. Look up some examples of other cult religions and compare the Caodaists to them.

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