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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Nineteen through Twenty-One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the reason behind the National Council of National Reconciliation and Concord as described in Article 9 of the Paris Accords?
(a) To have Thieu retreat from dismantling his government.
(b) To engage Vietnam's military operatives.
(c) To resolve Vietnam's domestic problems through political means.
(d) To isolate Thieu.

2. What was the main goal of the Provisional Revolutionary Government, organized in 1969?
(a) To influence public opinion on different fronts.
(b) To represent the Northern Vietnamese.
(c) To look better in the eyes of the Communist Party.
(d) To win the war by force and oust American forces.

3. Why did Tang undertake a long trip to Dresden, East Germany in Chapter 20?
(a) To gather with the Communist Party leaders for a meeting.
(b) To have a long-awaiting vacation.
(c) To be trained in new techniques of warfare.
(d) To recuperate from illnesses.

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

5. What did Article 9 of the Paris Accords call for the creation of?
(a) A National Council of Reconciliation.
(b) A greater role of the Saigon government in negotiations.
(c) A Korean-style equilibrium vision.
(d) A humanitarian ideal of a Socialist nature.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does elephant taste like according to Tang?

2. According to Tang in Chapter 16, how did America regard the country of Vietnam?

3. What group was Tang named as president of at the age of forty-three?

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

5. What did Tang's wife do to help lessen his prison sentence in Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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