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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the author of the books Pyle likes so much?
(a) York Harding
(b) Noel Coward
(c) Graham Greene
(d) Len Deighton

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

3. Fowler, who is British, has developed what feeling about Vietnam?
(a) Fowler hates Vietnam but loves some of his friends there.
(b) Fowler muses to himself that after two years in Viet Nam, it is truly more his home than Britain.
(c) Fowler sees Vietnam as a hell hole that will implode one day.
(d) Fowler cannot wait to get back to fish and chips in a London pub.

4. What information does Fowler offer Pyle?
(a) He tells Pyle how to bargain with a trishaw driver.
(b) He tells Pyle where to find beautiful Vietnamese women.
(c) He tells Pyle where to find a great Vietnamese tailor.
(d) He tells Pyle at what times of the day what roads and parts of town are safe.

5. What makes Vigot even more suspicious of Fowler?
(a) Fowler does not act surprised when he finds out Pyle is dead, and that adds to Vigot's suspicions.
(b) Fowler becomes unconsolable when he learns of Pyle's death.
(c) Fowler does not offer an alibi for his whereabouts that night.
(d) Fowler does not ask Vigot if there are any other suspects.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Pyle killed?

2. While waiting for Pyle who is three hours late, what does Phuong do for Fowler?

3. What does Fowler think is Pyle's obsession?

4. What is strange about Fowler's relationship with Phuong?

5. What is Graham Greene's definition of the quiet American?

(see the answer key)

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