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The Quiet American Test | Mid-Book Test - Medium

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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is strange about Fowler's relationship with Phuong?
(a) He is old enough to be her grandfather.
(b) They have been together for several years, yet mysteriously she is engaged to marry Alden Pyle.
(c) She cannot speak any English or French.
(d) He is ashamed to take her out anywhere in public.

2. Why is Miss Hei interested in Pyle?
(a) She is a Vietnamese undercover agent.
(b) He is handsome and she wants to marry him.
(c) He is young and looks like a possible marriage partner for Phuong.
(d) She wants to sell him some opium.

3. Who surprises Fowler by showing up during the march out of Phat Diem?
(a) Granger
(b) Hei
(c) Pyle
(d) Vigot

4. Instead of Pyle, who comes to Fowler's door after midnight?
(a) It is Phuong's elder sister who is trying to get Phuong married to an American.
(b) It is a messenger from the US embassy.
(c) It is a messenger from Vigot, a French officer who is a casual social acquaintance of Fowler.
(d) It is the landlord wanting to know why the lights are still on.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Graham Greene's definition of the quiet American?

2. How does Fowler see most of the men in the press corps?

3. What does Pyle say about his importing plastics?

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

5. What rumors about Pyle have been circulated and find their way to Phuong?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it about Pyle that Fowler cannot put into his cable to his newspaper?

2. Describe the old women on the street near Thomas Fowler's apartment.

3. What is the superstition in Vietnam about lovers who smoke opium?

4. What did Fowler do to get Pyle out of the House of the Five Hundred Girls?

5. How does Phuong take the news of Pyle's death?

6. When Granger pins the colonel down on the fact that supplies have not arrived for the army at the front, what happens?

7. Tell of Alden Pyle's fascination with York Harding.

8. After Pyle and Phuong dance, how does the conversation go between Pyle and Miss Hei?

9. When Fowler moves out with a patrol getting out of the area of Phat Diem, who comes in the middle of the night? Why had he come?

10. Why does Fowler want to answer Vigot's questions quickly and get out of his office?

(see the answer keys)

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