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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the second letter from Fowler's editor say?
(a) He gives fowler another six months.
(b) He says Fowler can stay if he accepts a salary cut.
(c) He agrees that Fowler should stay in Saigon.
(d) He writes that Fowler will come home or lose his job.

2. What does Fowler discover at 3:00 a.m.?
(a) His apartment has been broken into.
(b) Phuong has moved out.
(c) The men from the Surete are at his door.
(d) His opium has been stolen.

3. What is Caodaism?
(a) A religion that started in Vietnam and spreak to Korea.
(b) A philosophy of a blend of communism and capitalism.
(c) A cult religion that blends Confucianism, Christianit, and Buddhism.
(d) A religious front for a counter military insurgency.

4. When someone does knock on Fowler's door, who is it?
(a) Dominguez
(b) Phuong
(c) Vigot
(d) Mr. Chou

5. Why does Fowler tell Pyle he should have a few bad motives?
(a) So he could understand human beings better.
(b) So he could use them to keep Phuong.
(c) So he could survive in Indochina.
(d) So he would end up in jail.

6. What had Pyle done that was according to Harding's book?
(a) Brought in mercenaries to be a Third Force
(b) Formed a Third Force of 2,000 bandits and two tame tigers
(c) Recruited Vietminh to form a Third Force
(d) Built up a bicycle brigad to be his Third force

7. What does Fowler think of the speech the deputy Pope of Caodaism gives him?
(a) That it is the hope of the Vietnamese people.
(b) That is the sincere belief of the Caodaists.
(c) That it is canned and insincere.
(d) That it is incomprehensible.

8. What does Mr. Heng ask Fowler?
(a) If Pyle is really his friend?
(b) If he really wants to stop Pyle.
(c) If he has any information about Pyle.
(d) If Pyle knows York Harding.

9. What comment does Vigot make when Fowler says that Pyle got mixed up.
(a) Vigot says, "Are you sure?"
(b) Vigot says, "That's too bad."
(c) Vigot says, "You never do, do you?"
(d) Vigot says, "Don't we all?"

10. Returning to the time after Pyle's murder, what does Vigot tell Fowler?
(a) They found Pyle's dog with its throat cut.
(b) They know who murdered Pyle.
(c) They cremated Pyle's body.
(d) They still have not found the dog.

11. What does Fowler tell Vigot he should have become?
(a) A magician
(b) A reporter
(c) A priest
(d) A shop keeper

12. Who gets a job for Miss Hei with the Americans?
(a) Joe, the Economic Attache
(b) Alden Pyle
(c) Thomas Fowler
(d) Phuong

13. What happens when someone comes demanding that Pyle and Fowler be brought down?
(a) Fowler jumps and breaks his ankle; Pyle comes down the ladder; the tower explodes.
(b) Fowler and Pyle find a back way out and escape.
(c) Fowler is relieved that General The's men have come to get them.
(d) Pyle says it must be a French patrol he had been expecting.

14. What was wrong with the bombing that day?
(a) It was more powerful than they had planned.
(b) Pyle did not know they had cancelled the parade which was the main target.
(c) Several Americans were killed accidentally.
(d) It was supposed to go off in the officers quarters.

15. What does Vigot say he dislikes most about his job?
(a) Spending so much time in mortuaries
(b) Chasing illegal gamblers
(c) All the paperwork
(d) The stupid people who work under him

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Fowler perceive the man who is selling the place?

2. What is behind the Holy See as one approaches Tanyin?

3. What is Heng's answer when Fowler asks if he had anything to do with the bombing?

4. What does Vigot want to do without Phuong being present?

5. After Fowler leaves a message for Pyle, what does he think he might accomplish?

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