View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What book does Pyle go on and on about?
(a) The History of War
(b) The Red Badge of Courage
(c) The Yellow Peril
(d) Democracy and the Eastern Cultures

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

3. What is Alden Pyle's Passion?
(a) Getting the French out of Vietnam
(b) Scotch and soda
(c) To reform and redeem the entire universe
(d) Phuong

4. How does Joe the Attache speak crudely about Phuong?
(a) He asks Phuong what she charges by the hour.
(b) He refers to Phuong as Fowler's piece of tail.
(c) He brags that he once had her when she worked in the dancehall.
(d) He refers to all Vietnamese women as whores.

5. What does the French colonel tell the press corps about the war?
(a) That the Americans are now supplying helicopters for the French.
(b) That the French are winning but he will not give the number of casualties.
(c) That the French defeated the Vietminh in Phat Diem.
(d) That the Chinese are not backing the Vietminh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Fowler find so annoying about the letter from Pyle?

2. Instead of Pyle, who comes to Fowler's door after midnight?

3. Why does Fowler go to Pyle's apartment?

4. What about the meeting really surprises Fowler?

5. Where and with whom is Thomas Fowler as The Quiet American begins?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 432 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample