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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 met Ho Chi Minh, what was his first impression of the president?
(a) He blended in with the other dignitaries.
(b) He was dignified and strong.
(c) He was inappropriately dressed for the occasion.
(d) He was weak and sickly.

2. Why was Tang's wife allowed to visit Tang when he was imprisoned by the secret police and tortured?
(a) The rules called for family visitors.
(b) She would be arrested also.
(c) The police wished to torture her also, in front of Tang.
(d) She agreed to encourage him to sign an admission of guilt.

3. Why were Tang and a fellow pharmacy student, Miss Ly, chosen to have tea with Ho Chi Minh?
(a) He saw them as future leaders.
(b) He chose them at random.
(c) They were from the south.
(d) They were the brightest students.

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

5. When a revolution in Saigon took place in 1945, which group did Tang join?
(a) The Alliance.
(b) The Vanguard Youth.
(c) The Neighborhood Contingent.
(d) Ho Chi Minh's Men.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does "tin," a basic ethical principle in Confucianism, refer to?

3. Why did Tang's early mobilization committee in Chapter 7 send Nguyen Van Hieu to Hanoi?

4. When Ho Chi Minh explained Vietnamese history to Tang, what did he say about the French?

5. Who was Ngo Dinh Nhu?

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