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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Tang bring to the attention of DRV Prime Minister Dong in Chapter 22?
(a) Prime Minister Dong's need for a new set of laws.
(b) The development of a code of law.
(c) How the end of arrests has taken place.
(d) The lawless rampage that was taking place.

2. Who was the only professional sailor on board the boat Tang and his wife escaped on?
(a) Kiet.
(b) Ton's cousin.
(c) Ton.
(d) There was none.

3. What effect did America's invasion into Cambodia have on the NLF?
(a) A renewed spirit to fight the enemy.
(b) Acute physical and emotional hardship.
(c) It had no effect.
(d) They gained the support of Cambodians.

4. Where does Tang and his wife live after he decides to go into seclusion??
(a) Go Vap.
(b) Kratie.
(c) Upstate New York.
(d) On the Ho Chi Minh Trail.

5. Which unit member was very popular for what he could provide the guerrillas with?
(a) The finance cadre.
(b) The leadership cadre.
(c) The supply cadre.
(d) The cook.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Ba Cap's personality like?

2. Upon Tang's return to Hanoi in Chapter 20, what does he encounter in the city he has not visited for thirty years?

3. Upon Tang's visit to Moscow from Algiers, what did his anticipated "vacation" turn out to be?

4. Why were the dates of June 6th through 8th chosen to organize the congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why had escaping Vietnam by boat become a great topic of conversation in the first days following northern liberation?

2. What did Nguyen Van Thieu make clear immediately upon Tran Van Lam's signing of the Paris accords?

3. What became of Tang's two brothers, both of whom had stayed in Saigon throughout the war?

4. How did the NLF gain the support of the local population near Kratie, along the western banks of the Mekong?

5. What was the goal of Nixon's "Vietnamization," according to the NLF?

6. When Tang visited Budapest in Chapter 20, what might be said to have been the motives of the Budapest government while they treated Tang to a visitor's tour and comforts?

7. What access to information did the leaders of the PRG have in the Maquis?

8. What was the new attitude seen first from the North toward the alliance as exhibited in Chapter 16?

9. What caused Tran Back Dang to lose acceptance and blight his career with the COSVN?

10. When Tang arrived in Hanoi in 1974, after a thirty-year absence, what conditions did he encounter?

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