1. Fowler wants to make love to Phuong but accepts the opium pipes instead. Why?
(a) He is more addicted to opium than he is to Phuong.
(b) He knows if he smokes more than four pipes, he will lose his desire for her.
(c) It keeps him busy so he does not have time to think about her.
(d) He hopes she will make the first move if he accepts the pipes.

2. Where and with whom is Thomas Fowler as The Quiet American begins?
(a) He is at the Continental having a cappuccino with his editor.
(b) He is walking along the beach on the China Sea.
(c) He is flying into Saigon from a trip he made to England.
(d) The story opens with Fowler in his rooms over the rue Catinat in Saigon with his beautiful young lover Phuong.

3. Where do Pyle and Fowler want to go?
(a) They say they would like to go to Cambodia.
(b) Pyle wants to go to America and Fowler wants to go to England.
(c) They both want to go to Bangkok.
(d) Both Pyle and Fowler express interest in going to Phat Diem to access the situation.

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

5. What is Alden Pyle's publicly known job?
(a) He is a battery manufacturer.
(b) He works for Harvard University.
(c) He works for the Economic Aid Mission.
(d) He is a reporter for the New York Times.