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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Tang forced to swallow during his imprisonment in Chapter 10, damaging his digestive system?

2. What happened to Diem and Nhu during the coup in Chapter 6?

3. Why did the guards forget to feed Tang and the other prisoners in the police headquarters for a couple of days in Chapter 11?

4. What school subject did Tang enjoy more so than chemistry?

5. What did Tang do in regards to his pharmaceutical studies in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kind of secrecy was involved in the first meeting of the NLF?

2. Why did Tang's father decide each of his sons' careers for them?

3. Why did the South Vietnamese secret police want to get prisoners to admit to being members of the Communist Party?

4. What compromise was reached for Vietnam in May of 1954?

5. How did Tang first experience racial discrimination?

6. Why was it that Diem did not have the loyalty of his subjects, the South Vietnamese people?

7. How did Tang come to be made chief of his neighborhood contingent of the Vanguard Youth?

8. What were defined as the broad objectives of the mobilization committee for the peace movement?

9. What were Tang's feelings toward America when he returned to Saigon in 1955?

10. How did Tang's friend, Albert Thao, come to be closely involved with Ngo Dinh Diem?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Chapter 17 is titled "1972: The Watershed." Explain why, in Tang's study of that year, he terms it a watershed year. What progress has been made in the right direction that provides a turning point for Tang and the North? Use examples that describe both political, internal and military reasons for the "watershed."

Essay Topic 2

Describe Albert Thao's personality. What was his ultimate mission politically, and why?

Essay Topic 3

When Tang was abducted by the secret police, he was put into a prison to be tortured. Why was Tang reluctant to admit to the police that he was a communist if it would avoid further torture? What brought Tang to finally admit on paper that he was a communist, when he truly was not? How might this false admission effect Tang's political life in the future?

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