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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 happens when someone comes demanding that Pyle and Fowler be brought down?

3. What does Fowler later have to admit?

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

5. Returning home, who does Fowler find in his apartment?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. After Pyle takes Phuong away, where did Fowler go with Captain Trouin?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Asian culture, younger siblings are expected to follow the wishes of their elders. Write a paper about Miss Hei's involvement in having Phuong move in with Pyle. Discuss how the question of Fowler's age was never a consideration. Miss Hei is acting as a matchmaker on behalf of her sister and her primary consideration is financial security. With what you know about Fowler and Pyle, all things being equal, is one better able to provide for Phuong than the other? Explain your answer in depth.

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper about why Mr. Heng was so sure that Thomas Fowler would cooperate in getting Pyle to the restaurant. There are two factors here for your paper. One, is the idea of coming out on top in a love triangle. Asian men especially would relate to this concept. The other is the factor of Fowler's dependence on covert information to write his articles. Your paper will evaluate which motive is stronger with Fowler.

Essay Topic 3

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.

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