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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does David's letter quote?
(a) A line from The Wasteland.
(b) Two lines of one of Paul's poems.
(c) One of the Ngo brothers.
(d) The raven.

2. About what does Kim talk to Paul while having lunch?
(a) That communists are the ones who killed the Ngo brothers.
(b) That the third Ngo brother escaped to the United States.
(c) His family's royal history, his present poverty, his service to the exiled Mme. Nhu.
(d) That Kim is a dead man.

3. What does Paul bring to the Truong toc's?
(a) A letter of introduction.
(b) A bribe.
(c) Valuable information.
(d) Some incriminating photographs.

4. Where does David's letter send Paul?
(a) To St. Peter's Basilica.
(b) To Venice to a former employee of the Outfit.
(c) To a specific box in the Union de Banques Suisses.
(d) To Brussels to a self-service storage facility.

5. What does Foley believe?
(a) That Paul is mental.
(b) That JFK deserves to die.
(c) That LBJ needs to be protected more securely.
(d) Paul's assertions.

6. What is Luong renamed in death?
(a) Tho.
(b) Thiem.
(c) Diem.
(d) Thu.

7. What is Truong toc's response to Ho's recommendation that they kill Paul?
(a) The Truong toc will consider it.
(b) The Truong toc says enough bloodshed has gone on.
(c) The Truong toc says Paul is more dangerous as a dead martyr.
(d) The Truong toc declares him harmless.

8. What will not fail if America learns that JFK is killed in revenge?
(a) The ending of the Democrat majority.
(b) American's desire for revenge and war in Vietnam.
(c) Diem and Nhu's efforts to end American influence.
(d) The North Vietnamese efforts to unite the country.

9. What does David say about the "outfit" as regards the Ngo men?
(a) The outfit has nothing to do with their murders.
(b) The outfit orders the murders but Vietnamese agents do the killings.
(c) The outfit had to kill them to protect their agents in Vietnam.
(d) The outfit wanted to kill them, but someone beat them to it.

10. Where does Paul plan to travel?
(a) Léopoldville and Saigon.
(b) Tahiti.
(c) Hanoi.
(d) Brisbane.

11. When do David and Paul meet?
(a) While both are skiing at Vail.
(b) Just after WWII ends and both are applying to work for the CIA.
(c) While recuperating from wounds together in World War II.
(d) At Dartmouth before WWII.

12. Where does Paul recommend Luong's brother search for Luong's killer?
(a) He does not know.
(b) Bangkok.
(c) Hanoi.
(d) Cholon.

13. Where does Paul Christopher board a plane?
(a) Cambodia.
(b) Thailand.
(c) Vietnam.
(d) Laos.

14. What does Foley refuse to do?
(a) Transfer David.
(b) Pull Paul off the case.
(c) Talk to LBJ.
(d) Release any secret documents.

15. What photographs does Luong supply to Christopher?
(a) Pictures of the CIA assassinating the head of a Cambodian gangster in San Francisco.
(b) Pictures of his girlfriend paying off a blackmailer.
(c) Pictures of Do Minh Kah and a mystery woman.
(d) Pictures of his wife cheating.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Paul realize may happen to him?

2. What does Paul need to investigate the JFK assassination?

3. About what did both Christopher's ex-wife, Cathy, and his girlfriend both obsess?

4. What language does Christopher speak impeccably?

5. Who is Molly?

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