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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. President Ngo Dinh Diem is made president of South Vietnam by the _______________.
(a) Viet Minh.
(b) American government.
(c) People of South Vietnam.
(d) United Nations.

2. What is General Harkins' response to John Paul Vann's report of the battle?
(a) He re-assigns John Paul Vann to Germany.
(b) He takes it all in stride.
(c) He promotes John Paul Vann to Major General.
(d) He wants to fire John Paul Vann.

3. In what year are John Paul Vann and Mary married?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1951.

4. Which intelligence officer, assigned to work with Vann, lives by the motto "know your foe", setting up an elaborate system of informants and launching an exhaustive data file on the Vietcong?
(a) J. Edgar Hoover.
(b) Jim Drummond.
(c) Edward Lansdale.
(d) William Westmoreland.

5. Which event during the Vietnam War is used to discredit General Westmoreland's overall strategy and cause many Americans to demand an end to U.S. involvement there?
(a) The death of Ho Chi Minh.
(b) Tet Offensives of 1968.
(c) The Fall of Saigon.
(d) Burning of the Reichstag.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does John Paul Vann's mother spend her money on (primarily)?

2. With whom does John Paul Vann plot to re-take an entire province?

3. What food doe the Vanns NOT usually have at Thanksgiving?

4. What organization is established by President Kennedy to act as an advisory body to the government in South Vietnam?

5. In a three-page report, John Paul Vann indicates which of the following about General Huynh Van Cao?

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