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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 seems to be Vigot's main concern?
(a) Pinning the crime on Fowler
(b) Bribing Fowler to let him have Phuong
(c) Finishing and going to the bar
(d) Writing up a report that will pass the scrutiny of his superiors

2. Where do the people take refuge?
(a) Greene says they people stayed in the French Consulate.
(b) Greene describes people taking refuge in the Cathedral.
(c) Greene writes that the people hid in the rice paddys.
(d) Greene says that they started the long walk back to Saigon.

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

4. Why does Vigot speak softly to Fowler?
(a) Vigot tells Fowler that Phuong is a spy.
(b) Vigot tells him that Pyle has been murdered.
(c) Vigot gives Fowler a message from Pyle.
(d) Vigot offers to buy Phuong.

5. What is Fowler thinking as he watches Pyle and Phuong dancing?
(a) He thinks about his opium pipe.
(b) He thinks about what a good dancer Pyle is.
(c) He thinks about his late wife.
(d) Fowler recalls how she used to dance at the Grand Monde.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phuong want to see?

2. What does Miss Hei want from Fowler?

3. What is Pyle's urgency to see Fowler?

4. What is Lieutenant Peraud's obsession?

5. Why is Miss Hei interested in Pyle?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What suggestions does Fowler offer Vigot as to who might have killed Pyle?

6. What information does Phuong give Fowler?

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

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

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

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

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