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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What about the meeting really surprises Fowler?

2. How does Pyle treat Phuong when they first meet?

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

4. What does Fowler have to say about General The?

5. Fowler, who is British, has developed what feeling about Vietnam?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the conflict between Fowler and Miss Hei?

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

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

4. What is the strange scene when Phuong comes in while Pyle is still there?

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

6. The morning after Pyle's murder, what is Phuong's concern?

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

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

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

10. What information does Phuong give Fowler?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Using the Caodaists as an example, write a paper about religious cultism and why you think people join them. There are enough converts to this cult to make it a viable player in the war. Historically, however, there have always been cults and people who flock to them to their own destruction. It is this feature of cultism that gives them their power in numbers. Look up some examples of other cult religions and compare the Caodaists to them.

Essay Topic 2

Write your speculation as to what happened to Phuong and Fowler after the French pulled out of Vietnam. This is a creative writing piece. We know that the French left and the Americans entered the war officially. Fowler was probably more important to his paper than ever. People continued to live in Saigon as the war raged on. When the evacuation came, write your story about what becomes of Fowler and Phuong. Did they get out together? Did Fowler have to leave her there? Did they find a way to slip over into Thailand? Let your imagination run free as you write your extra ending.

Essay Topic 3

Write an opinion paper on censorship of the press during a time of war. Do ordinary citizens need to know what is going on in the war? Do they have a right to know? The French were releasing only good news and censoring any reference to a defeat. What effect might it have had on the American public had they known what was really going on inside French Indochina? Is it possible that Americans would have told their leaders not to get them involved if they had known the full story? Discuss how censorship is a way of controlling the minds of people.

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