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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 rather obnoxious person comes to the table where Fowler, Joe the Attache, Pyle, and Phuong are seated?

2. How do the Vietminh infiltrate the city?

3. What does Pyle notice the first time Fowler meets him?

4. What is Pyle trying to hide but everyone suspects anyway?

5. What is Phuong's response when Fowler tells her Pyle had invited himself to Fowler's apartment for a drink?

Short Essay Questions

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

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 happens when Pyle invites himself over for a drink?

4. What new complication is Fowler struggling with besides the possibility of losing to Pyle?

5. Describe how the French manipulate the foreign press corps during the war.

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

9. What is the purpose for having Fowler and Phuong go to the Surete to see Vigot?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a paper expressing what you believe Vigot actually knew about Pyle's death and Fowler's involvement in it. Analyze the questions Vigot keeps on asking Fowler and how Fowler has to give his answers carefully so as not to implicate himself. Vigot's persistence indicates that he knows what Fowler did, does not even wish to prosecute Fowler, but simply wants to satisfy his curiosity. Does it seem, though, that Vigot expects Fowler to protect himself?

Essay Topic 2

Write a paper explaining why Fowler tells Vigot that York Harding killed Alden Pyle. This will be an opinion piece about how people are influenced by what they read. Fowler recognizes that Pyle has been taken up in an idealistic dream over Harding's untried idea that a Third Force is the answer to the Vietnam conflict. The fallacy of that idea should be readily apparent. It would not serve to bolster the position of the one force it is meant to enhance. Rather, would it not just create a new entity in the struggle for power? Answer this question by pointing out what Pyle's Third Force did by supporting General The.

Essay Topic 3

Write a paper about why Mr. Heng was so sure that Thomas Fowler would cooperate in getting Pyle to the restaurant. There are two factors here for your paper. One, is the idea of coming out on top in a love triangle. Asian men especially would relate to this concept. The other is the factor of Fowler's dependence on covert information to write his articles. Your paper will evaluate which motive is stronger with Fowler.

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