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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. Who is President of the United States when America expands the war into Cambodia in 1970?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Lyndon Johnson.
(c) Gerald Ford.
(d) Richard M. Nixon.

2. During the late 1960s, who is the station chief in Vietnam for the pacification-worker project?
(a) Gordon Brown.
(b) Albert Hall.
(c) Gordon Jorgenson.
(d) Victor Krulak.

3. Which of the following American media figures befriends John Paul Vann during 1965?
(a) Daniel Ellsberg.
(b) Tom Brokaw.
(c) Bob Woodward.
(d) Walter Cronkite.

4. In what year does the Vann family move to Atlantic City?
(a) 1944.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1953.
(d) 1937.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the nickname of John Paul Vann's maternal grandmother?

2. During 1967, John Paul Vann is working to set up the which organization?

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

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

5. University students in which city start riots to protest Diem's government?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did General Harkins feel the way he did about John Paul Vann's report?

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

3. What were the findings of General Krulak and the other military leaders with regard to the Battle of Ap Bac? How did John Paul Vann react?

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

5. Which parent did the majority of the household chores in the Vann home? Why?

6. By this time, what was the political situation in Saigon?

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

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

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

10. What prominent CIA figure eventually adopted and promoted John Paul Vann's assessment of the Vietnam War? Why was this person important?

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