1. What does Fowler think about the prospects of the French holding the north?
(a) He thinks the French will pull out and leave it for the communists.
(b) He thinks that the French can hold Northern Vietnam if the Chinese don't intervene.
(c) He thinks the French will have to bring in allies to help.
(d) He thinks it will be a decades long standoff.

2. What is in the telegram Fowler receives form London?
(a) He has been promoted to foreign editor. He will be leaving Vietnam for a desk job in London.
(b) They want him to interview the French commanding general.
(c) He is fired for not turning in any reports.
(d) They want his report of Phat Diem.

3. What does Pyle say about his importing plastics?
(a) That someone got their story wrong.
(b) That the plastics are for a new type of boat.
(c) That the Vietnamese are making ping pong balls.
(d) That the French want everything to come from France.

4. While waiting for Pyle who is three hours late, what does Phuong do for Fowler?
(a) She does an exotic dance for him like she used to do in the bar.
(b) Phuong prepares an opium pipe for Fowler, who smokes it, and then smokes another.
(c) She mixes him a martini and rolls him a cigar.
(d) She reads Photoplay Magazine to him.

5. What is Fowler's reply to Vigot's question about who is York Harding?
(a) The man who killed Pyle from a long distance
(b) A hack writer from Canada
(c) I don't know. I haven't read the book.
(d) Pyle never got around to telling me.