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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 food is NOT a staple in the Vann family diet when John Paul Vann was growing up?
(a) Steak.
(b) Potatoes.
(c) Biscuits.
(d) Onions with coffee and tomato "gravy".

2. What food doe the Vanns NOT usually have at Thanksgiving?
(a) Ham.
(b) Goose.
(c) Steak.
(d) Turkey.

3. In what year is General Harkins replaced?
(a) 1964.
(b) 1968.
(c) 1962.
(d) 1966.

4. What is the name of John Paul Vann's mother?
(a) Florence Henderson.
(b) Roberta Marie Vann.
(c) Janice Miller.
(d) Myrtle Lee Tripp.

5. Which religious group does President Ngo Dinh Diem persecute most severely?
(a) Taoists.
(b) Buddhists.
(c) Christians.
(d) Moslems.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the provincial chief of this Vietnamese province, targeted for liberation?

3. Which ARVN commander launches a "dummy assault" on the Ap Bac site to save face and put a positive PR spin on the confrontation?

4. How many brothers does John Paul Vann have?

5. When John Paul Vann is eventually recruited into the Army, what is his job intended to be?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. How did John Paul Vann react to the ARVN "victory" at Ap Bac? How did General Harkins accept John Paul Vann's assessment?

4. What did General Westmoreland feel was the key to victory?

5. 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?

6. Was John Paul Vann content to fulfill his new duties? Why or why not?

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

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

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

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