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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Medical treatment centers are established by USOM to help what group of people?
(a) Allies of the United States only.
(b) Those with common colds.
(c) Deformed children.
(d) Americans wounded in battle.

2. What is the original name for the Agency for International Development (AID)?
(a) Peace Corps.
(b) United States Operations Mission (USOM).
(c) Blackwater Combat Support.
(d) Big Red One.

3. During 1967, John Paul Vann is working to set up the which organization?
(a) United Nations International Children's Education Fund (UNICEF).
(b) Mobile command center for the American forces.
(c) Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS).
(d) The Peace Corps.

4. After the failure of this person's second mission to Vietnam in 1966, this person begins to side with John Paul Vann's view of the war effort.
(a) Daniel Boone Porter.
(b) William Westmoreland.
(c) Edward Lansdale.
(d) Robert E. Lee.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following American media figures befriends John Paul Vann during 1965?

2. How many children do John Paul Vann and his wife have?

3. For how many years during his childhood was John Paul Vann bounced between his two aunts and other friends and relatives?

4. Which province does John Paul Vann and his friend conspire to re-take?

5. What is the name of John Paul Vann's sweetheart and (eventual) wife?

Short Essay Questions

1. Following the inconclusive, but embarrassing, result of Ap Bac, General Huynh Van Cao launched a dummy attack on the same location. Why did he do this? What was the result?

2. What word best describes John Paul Vann's mother, Myrtle Lee Tripp? Provide a justification for your answer.

3. Following the conflicting stories regarding the success of the Battle of Ap Bac, how did Washington, DC, respond?

4. What vital information did John Paul Vann include in a three-page report to General Harkins and Colonel Porter regarding General Huynh Van Cao's approach to the war?

5. What do we know about John Paul Vann's lineage?

6. One of the unique features of the Vietnam War was the war correspondent (a special type of journalist) that went to the war zone and reported on what was happening there. How did this affect how the U.S. military commanders conducted the war?

7. Where did the Vann family live during John Paul Vann's childhood?

8. In what year did John Paul Vann retire from the Army? When and how did he return to Vietnam?

9. Who offers John Paul Vann a position as part of a national "brain trust" on Vietnam? What was John Paul Vann's reaction?

10. What were some of John Paul Vann's assigned duties upon his return to Vietnam?

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