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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 the most popular weaponry used in the Front?

2. What was Ba Cap's personality like?

3. What does elephant taste like according to Tang?

4. What did Tang ask PRG President Phat concerning the directives established at the COSVN/PRG meeting in Chapter 22?

5. What did Tang do at the International Association of Democratic Jurists in Algeria to insult the Soviets?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How did Tang come to the difficult conclusion that he had to leave Vietnam after all he had been through?

3. Why was the organizing congress for the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG) held on June 6, 7 and 8, 1969?

4. At the celebration for the victory of the North in Saigon, Tang asked Van Tien Dung where his Vietcong divisions one, three, five, seven, and nine are. What was his answer?

5. Why did the imminent signing of a negotiation agreement in Paris fill Tang and the nationalist forces with hope and excitement?

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

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

8. Why does Tang come out of retirement and return to Saigon?

9. What was the theme of the seminars given to the Alliance/NLF/PRG leaders in Kratie?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why Tang found Diem's government policies intolerable. What was most distressing about Diem from Tang's point of view?

Essay Topic 2

Describe Tang's life in the Maquis after his exchange. Why is Tang sentimental about his and the other PRG members' time there?

Essay Topic 3

Saigon's regime, led by Thieu, refuses to abide by an agreement of the Paris Accord signed by his own foreign minister. Explain Thieu's actions following the signing of the Accord. Discuss the PRG's reaction to Thieu's tactics at this time.

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