1. Why is the American Attache upset?
(a) He is upset seeing Fowler on the scene.
(b) He wis called out of bed to come to Pyle's apartment.
(c) He thinks the French should stay out of it.
(d) He knows Pyle's father.

2. What does the Attache put in the wire to Pyle's parents?
(a) That their son had died of malaria.
(b) That their son had died a soldier's death in the cause of Democracy.
(c) That their son had died of heart failure.
(d) That their son had been run over by a bus.

3. What is Thomas Fowler doing in Vietnam?
(a) He is covering the war in Vietnam in 1952 in which the French armies are fighting against the Communist Vietminh.
(b) He is on holiday from his correspondance post in India.
(c) He is writing a book about the Vietnamese people.
(d) He is looking for a young Asian wife.

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

5. How does Pyle see himself?
(a) He sees himself as a serious backer of the French.
(b) He describes himself as an observer with no real views on the war.
(c) He sees himself as a possible source of winning information.
(d) He sees himself as being trapped where he doesn't want to be.