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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 Thieu force university and high school students to do in 1970?
(a) Stay in school at all costs.
(b) Refuse visits with family and friends.
(c) Take jobs within the military.
(d) Attend military and training exercises.

2. What did Tang do upon receiving his second draft notice?
(a) He escaped to England.
(b) He showed up for active duty.
(c) He joined the national navy.
(d) He reacquainted himself with Ho Chi Minh.

3. Where did the leadership of the North place its focus in the 1966 resolution?
(a) On mobilizing the masses.
(b) On Tang, himself.
(c) Upon young people.
(d) On getting better weaponry.

4. What were most of the Southern guerrillas pressing hard for in Chapter 18?
(a) Internal propaganda.
(b) A commitment to reconciliation.
(c) A fundamental split in the revolution.
(d) Le Duan's expertise in manipulation during Paris talks.

5. Who was Thuy Ba?
(a) The woman who would become Tang's third wife.
(b) Ho Chi Minh's wife.
(c) A Communist Party leader.
(d) The doctor who oversaw Tang's care after he was exchanged as a prisoner.

Short Answer Questions

1. What military position did Diem assign to Albert Thao?

2. Who did Tang's small group meet by chance when they were dropped off near a jungle path on a prisoner exchange mission in Chapter 11?

3. In what way did the Saigon forces utilize the PRG's relative passivity to their advantage in Chapter 18?

4. According to Tang in Chapter 16, how did America regard the country of Vietnam?

5. What American events attracted the attention of the nationalists in 1973?

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