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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. What name does John Paul Vann have inscribed on his mother's headstone?
(a) Myrtle Lee LeGay.
(b) Myrtle Lee Vann.
(c) Myrtle Lee Tripp.
(d) Myrtle Lee Greene.

2. John Paul Vann and Daniel Ellsberg drive to which location and become the first Americans to do so in over a year?
(a) Hue.
(b) Da Nang.
(c) Hanoi.
(d) Ham Tan.

3. With whom does John Paul Vann plot to re-take an entire province?
(a) Jack Wells.
(b) General Cao.
(c) Douglas Ramsey.
(d) Eddie Fisher.

4. 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) 1968.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1963.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which distinguished general from World War II is dispatched to Vietnam to assess the situation?

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

3. Which general replaces General Harkins as the supreme commander of the U.S. forces in Vietnam?

4. Medical treatment centers are established by USOM to help what group of people?

5. Starting in April, 1967, these event begin as a result of the growing VC numbers:

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In 1963, President Diem set off what was known as the "Buddhist Crisis". What was this and what was the eventual result of it?

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

4. 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?

5. What kind of a person was Frank Vann?

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

7. What did this situation make John Paul Vann realize?

8. What media figure befriends John Paul Vann and is responsible for stealing and leaking the "Pentagon Papers" to the U.S. media? What strategy of John Paul Vann's did this person find most appealing?

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

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

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