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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. Why were Tang and a fellow pharmacy student, Miss Ly, chosen to have tea with Ho Chi Minh?

2. What term does Truong Nhu Tang use to describe his childhood?

3. Who was Ngo Dinh Nhu?

4. What was the meaning of "Danh va dam, dam va dahn"'?

5. In Chapter 3, what did Tang become more and more involved with in Paris?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was it about Ba Tra, one of Tang's support personnel in the Young People's Association, that disturbed Tang?

2. What physical and mental condition was Tang in while a prisoner at the headquarters prison?

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

4. Why was Tang needed back home in 1955 more than ever in Chapter 4?

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

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

7. Why was Tang confused when he received a letter from his father in Chapter 3?

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

9. Why did Tang and his associates want to keep the American military from becoming involved in the Vietnamese conflict?

10. How did the NLF become dominated by the Communist Party and the Northern government?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What instigated Tang's decision to stay in France after completing his academic studies and resigning from the navy? Describe his thought processes on the matter. What interfered with that decision?

Essay Topic 2

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 3

Express an opinion as to whether Tang's and his fellow nationalists' struggles had been in vain. Support your opinion with facts and feelings expressed within the book.

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