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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. Why does Phuong open the telegram before Fowler gets home?

3. Why does Vigot say that he does not believe Fowler killed Pyle?

4. What has happened to Fowler's assistant, Dominguez?

5. Who does Fowler run into in Tanyin?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. When Fowler goes to see Mr. Heng after the Garnier bomb, what request does Heng make of him?

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

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

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 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.

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper on your opinion of sacrificing the few for the good of the many. This is one of the hard questions about war in general especially as it has evolved over the years. It is no longer something that takes place on a specified battle field where the only casualties are the combatants. A bomb dropped on an enemy hideout will also destroy many innocent lives. On a personal level, the question is often raised about whether one would save one life if it meant that five others would die; or would one sacrifice that one life to save the other five? It seems that such a moral judgment is not applicable to the impersonal war machine. What is your opinion?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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