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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1 Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Phuong's favorite reading subject matter?
(a) The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
(b) The stock market in the Wall Street Journal
(c) The British Royal Family, especially Princess Margaret
(d) The latest scandals in Hollywood

2. 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 writing a book about the Vietnamese people.
(c) He is on holiday from his correspondance post in India.
(d) He is looking for a young Asian wife.

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

4. What does Vigot allow Fowler to do in Pyle's apartment?
(a) Rearrange Pyle's library
(b) Wipe Phuong's fingerprints off everything
(c) Take one of Pyle's York Harding books
(d) Take a photograph of Phuong that was by Pyle's bed

5. How was Pyle killed?
(a) Someone stabbed him before dumping his body in the mud and he drowned.
(b) Someone strangled him and threw his body in the river.
(c) Someone shot him in the head.
(d) Someone poured gasoline on him and set him on fire.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Pyle notice the first time Fowler meets him?

2. Why is the American Attache upset?

3. Why does Fowler leave Phuong in the trishaw and go into the House of Five Hundred Girls?

4. What is the conflicting report about the war in the North?

5. What feeling does Vigot reveal about Pyle's murder?

(see the answer key)

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