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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 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 accept Communist victory.
(c) They would not abandon him.
(d) They would become bitter enemies.

2. What was the turning point for those who finally decided to take political action and join the Alliance of National, Democratic and Peace Forces?
(a) The violence of Tet.
(b) The coup in Saigon.
(c) The threat of nuclear warfare.
(d) The American's involvement in Vietnam.

3. 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.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the province of Ben Tre become peaceful as opposed to its violent reputation?

2. What became the chief news item on the prison grapevine after an ethnic Chinese labor leader was shot by prison guards and survived her wounds?

3. What did Tang do when he was drafted by the Bao Dai government?

4. What did the Party ideologues decide the NLF troops should do for three months in Kratie?

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

(see the answer key)

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