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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 5, "Antecedents to the Man".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What food is NOT a staple in the Vann family diet when John Paul Vann was growing up?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Biscuits.
(c) Steak.
(d) Onions with coffee and tomato "gravy".

2. In what year does John Paul Vann and his wife sell their home in El Paso, Texas, and move to Washington, DC?
(a) 1966.
(b) 1960.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1968.

3. Following their slow but steady stream of military successes, the South Vietnamese President, Ngo Dinh Diem, awards the 7th Infantry Division for their __________________.
(a) Well-ordered retreats.
(b) Combat expertise.
(c) Gallantry.
(d) Total victory over the Vietcong.

4. How does John Paul Vann die?
(a) Friendly fire exercise.
(b) Helicopter crash.
(c) Heart attack.
(d) In combat at Ap Bac.

5. One of the early propaganda efforts on the part of Diem's South Vietnamese government is to try to identify all Viet Minh as __________________.
(a) Colonialists.
(b) Imperialists.
(c) Communists.
(d) Fascists.

Short Answer Questions

1. What word best describes John Paul Vann's physical size?

2. General Edward Lansdale is a clandestine operative for which U.S. government agency?

3. How much preparation time do the Vietcong have before the ARVN attacked them at Ap Bac?

4. Which religious group does President Ngo Dinh Diem persecute most severely?

5. French occupation of Vietnam officially ends shortly after this decisive battle during the First Indochina War:

(see the answer key)

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