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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 offer does Pyle make to Miss Hei?
(a) He offers to help Miss Hei get a job with his Mission.
(b) He offers to show her to the door.
(c) He offers to pay her every time Phuong comes to his apartment.
(d) He offers to light her cigarette.

2. What does Pyle notice the first time Fowler meets him?
(a) That Fowler is left-handed.
(b) The spies who are trailing Fowler.
(c) The time on the big clock in the square.
(d) The Milk Fountain where Vietnamese people buy malted milks.

3. How do Fowler and the others eventually leave Phat Diem?
(a) They make a huge raft and go down the river that Fowler came up on.
(b) They stay in the cathedarl until the French retake the city.
(c) They are rescued at night by French helicopters.
(d) Fowler marches with others through farmland. Everyone's nerves are taut with fear yet it is very boring.

4. While waiting for Pyle who is three hours late, what does Phuong do for Fowler?
(a) She does an exotic dance for him like she used to do in the bar.
(b) Phuong prepares an opium pipe for Fowler, who smokes it, and then smokes another.
(c) She mixes him a martini and rolls him a cigar.
(d) She reads Photoplay Magazine to him.

5. How does the telegram affect Fowler?
(a) He nearly jumps for joy at getting out of Vietnam.
(b) He is angry that they did not consult him first.
(c) The telegram makes him sad; if he leaves, it means Phuong will marry Pyle.
(d) He knows he won't get his opium pipes in London.

Short Answer Questions

1. Fowler wants to make love to Phuong but accepts the opium pipes instead. Why?

2. How does Joe the Attache speak crudely about Phuong?

3. What is in the telegram Fowler receives form London?

4. Having nothing else to do, where does Fowler go once he is back in Saigon?

5. In contrast to the American press corps men, how does Fowler assess Pyle?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. What language does Pyle use that Fowler sees as boyish and naive?

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

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

6. What does Fowler see when he goes to Phat Diem?

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

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

9. Incredibly, what does Pyle ask Fowler to do?

10. What is Fowler's reaction to the priest who offers to take his confession?

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