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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Nineteen through Twenty-One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What set the PRG leaders apart from the rest of the organization?
(a) The absence of fear.
(b) Their extra food rations.
(c) Their access to information.
(d) The extra pairs of pajamas they received.

2. Why were both Nixon and Kissinger unable to formulate policies that would frustrate the strategies of the North?
(a) They did not possess enough weaponry to overcome the North.
(b) The policies involved only air raids.
(c) They could not think about the war in the same way as their enemy could.
(d) The American press was against them.

3. What form of torture did Tang endure in Chapter 10, causing great pain to his eyes?
(a) Needles near his eyes.
(b) Bright lights directed into his face.
(c) Electric shock.
(d) Constant head bashing.

4. What was the main goal of the Provisional Revolutionary Government, organized in 1969?
(a) To win the war by force and oust American forces.
(b) To represent the Northern Vietnamese.
(c) To influence public opinion on different fronts.
(d) To look better in the eyes of the Communist Party.

5. What term does Truong Nhu Tang use to describe his childhood?
(a) Protected isolation.
(b) Family of eight.
(c) Wealthy communists.
(d) Family cocoon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Tang's wife end up bribing in order to get Tang transferred to the national police headquarters?

2. What did Ho Chi Minh see Madame Thao doing when he entered the house of the alliance delegation?

3. What happened when the city of Hue was taken by the NLF and Northern troops in January, 1968?

4. What was the first job Tang got in France after his parents stopped sending him money?

5. Where did the Northern escape routes directly lead to?

(see the answer key)

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