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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. After the overthrow of Diem, what did Tang become director-general of?
(a) The national sugar company.
(b) The NLF.
(c) The self-determination movement.
(d) The Saigon government.

2. What was the first job Tang got in France after his parents stopped sending him money?
(a) Bus Driver.
(b) Political Assistant.
(c) Professor.
(d) Dishwasher.

3. Which of the following was NOT an objective of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam?
(a) Build an independent economy.
(b) Bring in American advisers to help with the movement's actions.
(c) Overthrow the Diem regime.
(d) Bring unity to the different classes of people in the South.

4. What religion was Ngo Dinh Diem connected with?
(a) Buddhism.
(b) Catholicism.
(c) Confucianism.
(d) Judaism.

5. What did the flag devised for the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam later become famous as?
(a) The flag of the Vietcong.
(b) A sign of peace for the South.
(c) A flag used on Diem's coffin.
(d) The flag that anti-Vietnam War demonstrators in America displayed.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the first choice for a leader of the South Vietnamese nationalist movement, though he did not accept the role?

2. Who did Bao Dai name as Prime Minister?

3. What was Diem preoccupied with throughout his regime?

4. Who did the U.S. government signal its willingness to support upon abandoning its support of Diem in the early 1960s?

5. What did Tang do in regards to his pharmaceutical studies in Chapter 3?

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