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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does elephant taste like according to Tang?
(a) A tasty morsel if eaten quickly.
(b) Like a rare delicacy.
(c) Tasteless and tough as old shoes.
(d) Like chicken.

2. Why did Tang accept an appointment as director of the National Rubber Industry in Chapter 24?
(a) He needed to work for money.
(b) His wife insisted he take the job.
(c) He was bored and wanted prestige.
(d) Because it made an excellent cover for him.

3. Why was an advisory Council of Elders formed during the Provisional Revolutionary Government's (PRG) congress?
(a) To appease the older members.
(b) As an antidote to propaganda.
(c) As an afterthought with little meaning.
(d) To reconcile tradition with revolution.

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

5. Who was responsible for Tang's daughter, Loan, being able to do to college in America?
(a) President Thieu's wife.
(b) His brother, Quynh.
(c) Ho Chi Minh.
(d) President Tho.

6. Who was the American Ambassador trying to arrange the appearance of a real election in Saigon in Chapter 17?
(a) Henry Kissinger.
(b) Ellsworth Bunker.
(c) George McGovern.
(d) Richard Nixon.

7. What did the Party ideologues decide the NLF troops should do for three months in Kratie?
(a) Make plans for future attacks on the ARVN.
(b) Study the peace talks ongoing in Paris.
(c) Study the fine points of Marxism-Leninism.
(d) Exhibit Buddhist and Confucian spirituality.

8. What was the most popular weaponry used in the Front?
(a) Grenades and mines.
(b) M-16 rifles.
(c) B-52s.
(d) Chinese AK-47 rifles.

9. Why did the PRG believe that having Tang's brothers working for the South Vietnamese government might help their cause?
(a) Family ties in the government gave the public reassurance about Tang.
(b) One of the brothers could become a spy.
(c) Tang could be viewed as a double agent.
(d) A brother's family could be held hostage in the future.

10. What American events attracted the attention of the nationalists in 1973?
(a) Anti-Vietnam war demonstrations.
(b) A book written by Henry Kissinger.
(c) The re-election of Nixon.
(d) The Watergate scandal.

11. What was Nixon's "Vietnamization" as the NLF saw it?
(a) A way to strike at a peace settlement for North and South.
(b) A step-up of American ground troops.
(c) An attempt to portray Vietnam as a civil conflict.
(d) A political maneuver to stop opposition to the war.

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

13. When Tang revisited Hanoi in 1974, what did he note about the Ho Chi Minh Trail?
(a) The route had become a system of two-lane roads.
(b) Transportation was non-existant.
(c) The dirt paths were unchanged from years past.
(d) The original paths had grown dense with jungle foilage.

14. 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.

15. What were all of the attendants aware of at the PRG meeting in January of 1972?
(a) Their struggle was reaching a turning point.
(b) Cambodia would take over Vietnam.
(c) That the Soviets and China were pulling away.
(d) They were losing the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Tang in Chapter 16, how did America regard the country of Vietnam?

2. What break came to Tang and his wife via his wife's brother-in-law?

3. What did Tang bring to the attention of DRV Prime Minister Dong in Chapter 22?

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

5. What was the motto for Dung's opportune moment of a campaign on the assault of Saigon in April, 1974?

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