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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. How many students (estimated) are arrested and sent to jail during the riots?
(a) 500.
(b) 1,000.
(c) 750.
(d) 250.

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

3. In what year does John Paul Vann, Ramsey, and a few others send a new strategic proposal to Washington, DC?
(a) 1963.
(b) 1966.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1964.

4. How many children do John Paul Vann and his wife have?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

5. In what month are Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother assassinated?
(a) January.
(b) November.
(c) August.
(d) April.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is Robert Komer's nickname, given to him by Cabot Lodge, Jr.?

3. What is the name of John Paul Vann's first REAL friend?

4. In what year does Myrtle actually allow Frank Vann to adopt John Paul Vann?

5. What is the name of John Paul Vann's biological father?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

5. What kind of a person was Frank Vann?

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

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

8. When did Myrtle Lee Tripp's second husband, Frank Vann, finally adopt John Paul Vann as his son? Why did it take so long?

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

10. 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?

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