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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6, "A Second Time Around".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This person is an influential figure in stabilizing the national government of the Philippines during the 1950s and was sent to South Vietnam to see if he could do the same there.
(a) General Edward Lansdale.
(b) Secretary of State Robert McNamara.
(c) General Douglas MacArthur.
(d) John Paul Vann.

2. President John F. Kennedy proposes _______________ as a way to deal with possible peasant uprisings spurred on by the Vietcong.
(a) Counter-insurgency
(b) Intense negotiations
(c) Carpet bombing
(d) Attrition and depletion

3. What word best describes John Paul Vann's physical size?
(a) Small.
(b) Dangerously thin.
(c) Towering.
(d) Portly.

4. The army of the Vietcong has doubled in size by what year?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1964.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1966.

5. Which city in North Vietnam is the base for Ho Chi Minh's government?
(a) Khe Sanh.
(b) Hanoi.
(c) Phnom Penh.
(d) My Tho.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Battle of Ap Bac is seen as a huge ________________ for the Viet Cong.

2. John Paul Vann requests the following equipment to help the M-113s navigate across the various canals in the battlefield:

3. What food is NOT a staple in the Vann family diet when John Paul Vann was growing up?

4. Which war is John Paul Vann sent to first, where he is promoted to the rank of Captain in 1950?

5. Which of the following Vietnam War-era journalists is awarded the Pulitzer Prize in December, 1963, for reporting John Paul Vann's assessment of the situation in Vietnam?

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