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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Thirteen through Fifteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the first job Tang got in France after his parents stopped sending him money?
(a) Dishwasher.
(b) Bus Driver.
(c) Political Assistant.
(d) Professor.

2. What event pushed aside Tang's trepidations concerning military action against Diem?
(a) Politcal action would be enough to push Diem aside.
(b) Tang believed a military victory could be possible.
(c) The Americans decided to discontinue their relationship with Diem.
(d) The northern government announced its readiness to act to liberate the south.

3. What military position did Diem assign to Albert Thao?
(a) Private.
(b) Major.
(c) Sergeant.
(d) General.

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

5. How did Tang find his time in jail to be?
(a) Quite bearable.
(b) Intolerable.
(c) Disgustingly dirty.
(d) Lonely.

Short Answer Questions

1. The moment Tang or any of his brothers displayed a weakness in any school subject, what did Tang's father do?

2. Why were Tang and a fellow pharmacy student, Miss Ly, chosen to have tea with Ho Chi Minh?

3. What did the flag devised for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam later become famous as?

4. Where was Tang taken in Chapter 9 when two well-dressed men visited him at his office in the sugar company?

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

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