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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 was the official name of the Vietnamese Communist Party?
(a) To Cong.
(b) Tran Buu.
(c) National Liberation Front.
(d) Lao Dong.

2. What did the vice president of the Chinese State Council do concerning the PRG in order to express their feelings about Hanoi's ongoing affiliation with the Soviets?
(a) Held a dinner in honor of the PRG.
(b) Kept their distance from the PRG.
(c) Refused to meet with any Vietnamese parties.
(d) Offered Tang a huge loan for the country.

3. What did Tang's father ask him in a letter towards the end of 1951?
(a) To join the army and fight for Saigon.
(b) For forgiveness.
(c) To return home and help him financially.
(d) To return to his ex-wife and child.

4. What were most of the Southern guerrillas pressing hard for in Chapter 18?
(a) Internal propaganda.
(b) Le Duan's expertise in manipulation during Paris talks.
(c) A commitment to reconciliation.
(d) A fundamental split in the revolution.

5. What did Tang consider to be the "fourth front" for the NLF's cause?
(a) Public opinion in the United States.
(b) Thieu's government.
(c) The Paris peace talks.
(d) The drug wars in Cambodia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the American Senate's Hatfield amendment?

2. What did Tang's father decide to do when violence began to erupt in Saigon in 1945?

3. What group was Tang named as president of at the age of forty-three?

4. Where did President Thao lead the alliance delegation in the spring of 1969?

5. How did Nixon and Kissinger justify the Tet offensive bombings and invasion of Cambodia?

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