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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Ten through Twelve.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Tang was arrested in Chapter 10, what was he accused of?
(a) Being too wealthly.
(b) Being a Communist Party member.
(c) Conspiring to assassinate the president.
(d) Being head of the NLF.

2. Where did President Thao lead the alliance delegation in the spring of 1969?
(a) A skirmish with the secret police in Saigon.
(b) A meeting with President Johnson.
(c) To the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
(d) A visit to Hanoi.

3. What did Tang's wife do to help lessen his prison sentence in Chapter 9?
(a) She informed the foreign press of Tang's prediciment.
(b) She wrote a letter to the president.
(c) She bribed the tribunal president.
(d) She divorced him in hopes he would fight to be released.

4. What did some local Mytho guerillas do to Albert Thao?
(a) Recruited him as a spy.
(b) Threatened his family with death.
(c) Shot him on the spot.
(d) Threw him into the river to drown.

5. What became the chief news item on the prison grapevine after an ethnic Chinese labor leader was shot by prison guards and survived her wounds?
(a) Everyone was destined for execution.
(b) Madame Dang's disappearance and two prisoner executions.
(c) The northern army was close to winning the war.
(d) The Americans were trading prisoners of Chinese ethnicity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What term does Truong Nhu Tang use to describe his childhood?

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

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

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

5. Who did Tang's wife end up bribing in order to get Tang transferred to the national police headquarters?

(see the answer key)

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