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

2. How do the Vietminh infiltrate the city?
(a) The Vietminh come in as rice traders.
(b) The Vietminh enter the city dressed as nuns.
(c) The Vietminh arrive as traders looking for business.
(d) The Vietminh join their procession for Fatima and take them by surprise.

3. What is Alden Pyle's publicly known job?
(a) He works for the Economic Aid Mission.
(b) He is a battery manufacturer.
(c) He works for Harvard University.
(d) He is a reporter for the New York Times.

4. After Pyle leaves, what does Phuong do for Fowler?
(a) Gives him a bath
(b) Kisses his feet
(c) Makes his opium pipe
(d) Makes dinner

5. What are the results of the battle that follows the Vietminh's infiltration?
(a) Fowler is taken prisoner.
(b) There are only Vietminh casualties.
(c) Four days later this battle is an obvious defeat for the French.
(d) The Vietminh are soundly defeated.

Short Answer Questions

1. What letters does Fowler write to be mailed from Hong Kong by a departing journalist?

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

3. What does Vigot allow Fowler to do in Pyle's apartment?

4. When things settle down at the House of the Five Hundred Girls, where do Pyle, Fowler and Phuong go?

5. What makes Vigot even more suspicious of Fowler?

Short Essay Questions

1. What signifies a difference in dress between the South and the North of Vietnam?

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

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

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

5. When Fowler offers Pyle a drink of whiskey, how does the conversation go?

6. What does Granger say about covering a war?

7. At the press conference, what is the French colonel's response to the question of French casualties?

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

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

10. In a flashback, describe how Pyle meets Fowler and Phuong.

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