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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. Where did the Northern escape routes directly lead to?
(a) Cambodia's Pre Veng Province.
(b) Kratie.
(c) The Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(d) Laos.

2. Why was the main goal of the Northern forces in 1972 to get the U.S. out of Vietnam?
(a) To stimulate Vietnam's economy.
(b) To stop the heavy hits of the B-52 bombs.
(c) To show the world that America was oppressive.
(d) To isolate the Thieu regime, bringing domestic opposition to them.

3. What did Ho Chi Minh see Madame Thao doing when he entered the house of the alliance delegation?
(a) Putting on makeup.
(b) Arguing with her husband.
(c) Getting dressed.
(d) Preparing dinner.

4. What did Tang do at the International Association of Democratic Jurists in Algeria to insult the Soviets?
(a) Denounced the Soviets stance in a speech.
(b) Made a rude comment to a Soviet delegate and tried to retract it.
(c) Refused to shake hands with the Soviet delegate to the conference.
(d) Walked away from a statement made by the Soviet delegate.

5. What did the flag devised for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam later become famous as?
(a) A sign of peace for the South.
(b) The flag of the Vietcong.
(c) A flag used on Diem's coffin.
(d) The flag that anti-Vietnam War demonstrators in America displayed.

Short Answer Questions

1. By the end of 1958, who were basically the only people who supported Diem's regime?

2. What is meant by the "Three Kingdoms"?

3. When the Ho Chi Minh trail was originally blazed in 1959, how many kilometers were the fighters expected to be able to advance every day?

4. What role did the leading figure of the Committee to Defend the Peace, Dr. Pham Van Huyen, play in Diem's government in 1954?

5. What did Nguyen Van Thieu do upon his foreign minister's signing of a peace accord?

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