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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 was the meaning of "Danh va dam, dam va dahn"'?
(a) Fighting and talking, talking and fighting.
(b) Freedom and slavery, slavery and freedom.
(c) Warfare and peace, peace and warfare.
(d) Invasion and power, power and invasion.

2. Where was Tang first subjected to racial prejudice?
(a) During the war.
(b) In America.
(c) In Europe.
(d) In school.

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

4. What happened to Diem and Nhu during the coup in Chapter 6?
(a) They were able to subdue the coup and retake control.
(b) They were imprisoned in Saigon.
(c) They begged for their lives inside the Palace.
(d) They were killed outside a church.

5. What did Tang's grandfather teach his clan each Sunday?
(a) The precepts of Confucian ethics.
(b) How to achieve artistic development.
(c) A proper Vietnamese diet.
(d) The elements of political regimes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tang's father threaten to do in Chapter 3?

2. Why did Tang's father send Tang's fiance and her father to Paris?

3. What did Tang's father ask him in a letter towards the end of 1951?

4. What did Tang's pregnant wife do when both fathers demanded the couple return home?

5. How did Albert Thao become a trusted member of Diem's administration?

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