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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Vigot want Fowler to tell him?
(a) That Pyle told Fowler who was trying to murder him.
(b) That he had been keeping Pyle's dog for a week.
(c) That he had seen Pyle the night he was murdered.
(d) That Pyle had told him what he was doing in Indochina.

3. How does Fowler perceive the man who is selling the place?
(a) As a remnant of the old colonialists
(b) As an idealist like Pyle
(c) As an ugly American
(d) As an important government official

4. What do Caodaists' churches look like?
(a) Pink and blue with a huge eye of God over the door
(b) Green domes with a hole in the top
(c) Golden pagodas
(d) Stone squares with minarets at the four corners

5. How does Mr. Heng say he knew about the bomb in the Garnier?
(a) Someone called him.
(b) The police had been to Mr. Muoi's house.
(c) It was on the radio.
(d) Pyle told him.

6. What was York Harding's experience in Indochina?
(a) Harding got his information from refugees who came to America.
(b) He had been there for one week once on his way from Bangkok to Tokoyo.
(c) Harding used French press reports to write his book.
(d) Harding had never set foot in Vietnam.

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

8. When Fowler goes to see Pyle, to whom does he talk?
(a) Dominguez
(b) Mr. Heng
(c) Miss Hei
(d) Joe, the Economic Attache

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

10. Why are Fowler and Pyle marooned in the Vietnamese tower?
(a) There is shooting down below.
(b) It is past curfew.
(c) The rope ladder has been taken away.
(d) There is no gasoline near there.

11. What does Fowler discover at Mr. Muoi's garage?
(a) Muoi and his men all all gone; there is an old press there.
(b) There was a note from Pyle on Muoi's desk.
(c) Mr. Muoi had been shot.
(d) The molds for making bombs are there.

12. Back in the present time, what does Fowler do to get Phuong out of the house when Vigot arrives?
(a) He sends her to the movies.
(b) He hide her under his bed.
(c) He hides her in a back room.
(d) He sends her to her sister.

13. What takes Fowler's mind off Pyle and Phuong for a few minutes?
(a) He overdoses on opium.
(b) He goes along on a French air raid.
(c) He witnesses a murder on the rue Catinat.
(d) He has his cast removed.

14. What does Fowler realize about bicycle pumps?
(a) The mold at Mr. Muoi's iss shaped like a half section of a bicycle pump.
(b) They could be made into makeshift mortar firers.
(c) They were being replaced with rifle mounts.
(d) They were used to inflate rafts.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What has made Vigot's day so long and tiring?

2. What does Fowler wish he had the courage for after Vigot leaves?

3. When Pyle arrives, why does he say he is surprised that Fowler gave him an invitation to visit?

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

5. How does Fowler dismiss Pyle when he comes to visit?

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