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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 did Fowler go to see in the other end of rue Catinat?

2. Why are Fowler and Pyle marooned in the Vietnamese tower?

3. Returning to the time after Pyle's murder, what does Vigot tell Fowler?

4. What does Dominguez advise Fowler to do?

5. What does Fowler think of the speech the deputy Pope of Caodaism gives him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What important person does Fowler meet at the insistence of Dominguez?

2. After Pyle takes Phuong away, where did Fowler go with Captain Trouin?

3. Almost in spite of himself, what advice is Fowler compelled to give Pyle?

4. What is the gist of Helen's letter to Fowler?

5. What new evidence about Pyle's death makes Vigot sure that Fowler did not kill him?

6. What is the real reason Vigot comes to play Quatre-Vingt-et-Un with Fowler?

7. What happens to Fowler in that situation?

8. What happens right after two American girls walk out of the Pavilon?

9. When Fowler goes to see Mr. Heng after the Garnier bomb, what request does Heng make of him?

10. What admonition does Fowler give Pyle because of his support of General The?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Fowler is stunned when Joe calls Pyle a war hero. Write a paper expressing your opinion about such a distortion of the truth. Does making it easier on the parents justify such misinformation? Pyle was not killed in a righteous battle. He was simply assassinated for getting involved in a matter that he did not understand. There was nothing noble about the way he died. Joe the Economic Attache is arguably a part of the intelligence machine operating in Vietnam. How would that explain his report on Pyle's death? What might the repercussions have been in America if the real truth were known?

Essay Topic 2

The beginning of what we call the Vietnam war was an effort on the part of Vietnamese Communists to overthrow French colonialism. Write a paper on your opinion about the Americans becoming involved after the French pulled out. The implication of Pyle's trying to set up a Third Force hints at a premeditated plan on the part of America to be ready to step in when the French pull out. Do you think that is what happened?

Essay Topic 3

Granger calls Frenchmen frogs, and British men limeys. Write a paper about the harmful effects of labeling people. Dig deep into the effects of such name calling. Question whether racially biased attitudes ever do any good. Many people cannot see beyond the surface as was the case in the interment of Japanese-Americans during WW II. Include any first hand instances you have either felt or witnessed that involves racial labeling.

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