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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Seven through Nine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Tang ten days before Albert Thao attempted a coup on Khan's regime?
(a) He was sent to America as a diplomat.
(b) He refused to let Thao take refuge with him.
(c) He left the NLF for good.
(d) He was arrested.

2. What prevented Tang from attending the First National Congress in 1962?
(a) He had an ulcer crisis.
(b) There were no black pajamas available for him.
(c) His connections were gone and he could not get there.
(d) He was arrested.

3. Who did Albert Thao's family get to protect him from harm?
(a) Bishop Thuc.
(b) Vinh Long.
(c) Diem.
(d) Tang's family.

4. How did Tang know Albert Pham Ngoc Thao?
(a) From Ben Tre Province.
(b) From his days in Paris.
(c) As a good friend at the lycee.
(d) From his meeting with Ho Chi Minh.

5. Who did Tang's father allow his sons to interact with outside of the home?
(a) No one.
(b) Teachers.
(c) Neighborhood boys and teachers.
(d) Merchants in the town and people in school.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who was Ngo Dinh Nhu?

3. What role did the leading figure of the Committee to Defend the Peace, Dr. Pham Van Huyen, play in Diem's government in 1954?

4. Which of the following was NOT an objective of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam?

5. What did Tang's father decide to do when violence began to erupt in Saigon in 1945?

(see the answer key)

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