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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is behind the Holy See as one approaches Tanyin?
(a) The sacred mountain that looks like a bowler hat.
(b) The palaces of the Pope of Caodaism
(c) The waterfalls of antiquity
(d) A dark jungle

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

3. What is Fowler forced to do since Dominguez is out of commission?
(a) Stay at home and send Phuong to run errands
(b) Attend wearisome press conferences and hobble to the Continental for gossip
(c) Do his own writing to send to London
(d) Take trishaws everywhere he needs to go

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

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

6. What does Dominguez advise Fowler to do?
(a) Invite Mr. Heng to come to his house for dinner
(b) Come and take him to the hsopital
(c) Go see what Mr. Heng received yesterday
(d) To meet Mr. Heng outside the big store on the Boulevard Charner

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

8. Why does Vigot say that he does not believe Fowler killed Pyle?
(a) Because Fowler's alibi checks out.
(b) Because Fowler would not have the stomach for murder.
(c) Because Fowler has been cooperative.
(d) Because one does not take a book of an enemy for a souvenir.

9. After leaving the Attache's office, what does Fowler say he did in the men's lavatory?
(a) He threw up.
(b) He stole the hand soap.
(c) He wrote on the mirror.
(d) He cried.

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

11. What is Helen's answer to Fowler about getting a divorce?
(a) The answer is no.
(b) She agrees.
(c) Maybe, if he returns to England.
(d) She needs more time to think.

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

13. Why does Fowler want to read Phuong's thoughts?
(a) He thinks she wants to kill him.
(b) He thinks she knows something about the Vietminh.
(c) He thinks she is lonely.
(d) He thinks she is meeting Pyle.

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

15. When Fowler's car runs out of gas, what does he have to do to get to a Vietnamese lookout?
(a) He and Pyle puch the car a hundred meters down the road.
(b) He blinks his car lights to draw attention.
(c) He honks his horn with a secret signal.
(d) He climbs a rope ladder and is terrified.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dominguez do when Fowler swats at a mosquito droning near his ear?

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

3. What does Mr. Heng ask Fowler?

4. When Fowler goes to see Pyle, to whom does he talk?

5. Why does Pyle want to take Phuong to America to get married?

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