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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. By the end of 1958, who were basically the only people who supported Diem's regime?
(a) The tribespeople from the mountains.
(b) The French.
(c) Northern Catholic refugees and those who profited from Diem's schemes.
(d) Nationalist-minded Vietnamese.

2. What was the PRG opposed to?
(a) Being linked to Hanoi.
(b) Revolutionary justice as performed in Hue.
(c) Troop withdrawals by Nixon.
(d) Including people from Central Vietnam in their group.

3. What did Tang's father decide to do when violence began to erupt in Saigon in 1945?
(a) Join the armed forces.
(b) Move the family to Thailand.
(c) Evacuate the family to the provinces.
(d) Ship his sons off to Paris.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. How did Tang know Albert Pham Ngoc Thao?

5. Where was Nguyen Huu Tho when Phat's men attempted to liberate him from prison?

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