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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 did Tang and his colleagues find to be the necessary connection between Marxism and independence?
(a) There was no necessary connection.
(b) The interdependence of class struggle.
(c) The role of the intelligentsia in the national revolution.
(d) The war against imperialism.

2. What job did Tang take at the end of Chapter 5?
(a) Chief Comptroller for the Industry and Commerce Bank of Vietnam.
(b) Law Professor at Saigon University.
(c) Commissioner of Naval Supplies in Toulon.
(d) Head of the Revolutionary Committee.

3. What was Thanh Nghi famous for writing?
(a) A novel based on Vietnamese struggles.
(b) A French-Vietnamese dictionary.
(c) A communist manifesto.
(d) A history of South Vietnam.

4. What does "tin," a basic ethical principle in Confucianism, refer to?
(a) Humanity.
(b) Love.
(c) Faithfulness.
(d) Loss of face.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the PRG opposed to?

2. Who was the American Ambassador trying to arrange the appearance of a real election in Saigon in Chapter 17?

3. What did Nguyen Van Thieu do when he discovered a prisoner exchange being negotiated between the Americans and the North?

4. What school subject did Tang enjoy more so than chemistry?

5. What did Tang and the nationalists feel the Paris agreement would give them an opportunity to do as described in Chapter 18?

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