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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 did Tang and the nationalists feel the Paris agreement would give them an opportunity to do as described in Chapter 18?

2. In Chapter 21, what did Tang discover when he arrived in Saigon and telephoned his parents at his older brother's home?

3. Why did Tang accept an appointment as director of the National Rubber Industry in Chapter 24?

4. Who was the only professional sailor on board the boat Tang and his wife escaped on?

5. What was the NLF's response to Nixon's "Vietnamization"?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why were Nixon and Kissinger unable to comprehend the issues in Vietnam that prevented an American success there?

3. 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?

4. How did the COSVN/PRG decide to deal with their recent enemies of the South at the end of the war?

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

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

7. Five years after the Communist Party's seminars given to the Alliance/NLF/PRG forces in Kratie, what did Tang come to realize about the cadre's assaults and the party leaders' consequent respect for the nationalist's views?

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

9. What did the NLF fighters do when they were not fighting or sick?

10. How did the members of the PRG survive and live in their rough circumstances?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why would an open opposition by Vietnam to either China or to the Soviets be hurtful to the emerging nation as far as Tang and the nationalists were concerned? In what ways were the Soviets and the Chinese helpful to Tang's cause?

Essay Topic 2

Albert Thao was a childhood friend of Tang's who became a spy within Diem's government. What induced Albert to become a spy, a dangerous mission for a young man? How did Tang view his friend's involvement in Diem's government, without being told that his friend was a double agent?

Essay Topic 3

What prevented Nguyen Huu Tho from attending the first meeting of the NLF as its newly-elected president? What were the events leading up to the inability to ensure Tho's presence at that meeting?

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