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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 was Thanh Nghi famous for writing?
(a) A communist manifesto.
(b) A French-Vietnamese dictionary.
(c) A history of South Vietnam.
(d) A novel based on Vietnamese struggles.

2. Why was Tang's wife allowed to visit Tang when he was imprisoned by the secret police and tortured?
(a) She would be arrested also.
(b) The police wished to torture her also, in front of Tang.
(c) The rules called for family visitors.
(d) She agreed to encourage him to sign an admission of guilt.

3. What did Nguyen Van Thieu expect of Nixon and Kissinger as indicated in Chapter 12?
(a) They would step up the war to involve more countries.
(b) They would not abandon him.
(c) They would become bitter enemies.
(d) They would accept Communist victory.

4. What did Tang and his colleagues find to be the necessary connection between Marxism and independence?
(a) The war against imperialism.
(b) The interdependence of class struggle.
(c) The role of the intelligentsia in the national revolution.
(d) There was no necessary connection.

5. What did some local Mytho guerillas do to Albert Thao?
(a) Shot him on the spot.
(b) Threatened his family with death.
(c) Threw him into the river to drown.
(d) Recruited him as a spy.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tang and the nationalists feel the Paris agreement would give them an opportunity to do as described in Chapter 18?

2. What group was Tang named as president of at the age of forty-three?

3. What was Tang forced to swallow during his imprisonment in Chapter 10, damaging his digestive system?

4. What did Nguyen Van Thieu do when he discovered a prisoner exchange being negotiated between the Americans and the North?

5. How did Tang meet his second wife?

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