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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Sixteen through Eighteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the underground resistance Tang was involved with eventually evolve into?
(a) The Demilitarized Zone.
(b) The National Liberation Front.
(c) The North Vietnamese Army.
(d) The Provisional Revolutionary Government.

2. Why were both Nixon and Kissinger unable to formulate policies that would frustrate the strategies of the North?
(a) They did not possess enough weaponry to overcome the North.
(b) They could not think about the war in the same way as their enemy could.
(c) The American press was against them.
(d) The policies involved only air raids.

3. Where did President Thao lead the alliance delegation in the spring of 1969?
(a) A visit to Hanoi.
(b) To the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(c) A skirmish with the secret police in Saigon.
(d) A meeting with President Johnson.

4. How did Nixon and Kissinger justify the Tet offensive bombings and invasion of Cambodia?
(a) It brought an end to the American anti-war protests.
(b) It gained an essential year of time.
(c) A propaganda war of words was won.
(d) It increased American unity.

5. How could the significance of the Alliance and the PRG be substantially reenhanced?
(a) If the Alliance and the PRG overtake the COSVN.
(b) If a decisive military outcome is reached.
(c) In the event of a political compromise.
(d) If the ARVN wins the war.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Albert Thao and Tang finally speak to each other about in Chapter 6?

2. Who was Tao Thao?

3. What job did Tang take at the end of Chapter 5?

4. Why did Tang and his compatriots refuse the radio being offered to them by the Americans readying them for a prisoner exchange?

5. What was Diem preoccupied with throughout his regime?

(see the answer key)

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