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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Sixteen through Eighteen.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What set the PRG leaders apart from the rest of the organization?
(a) The absence of fear.
(b) Their extra food rations.
(c) Their access to information.
(d) The extra pairs of pajamas they received.

2. What was the official name of the Vietnamese Communist Party?
(a) National Liberation Front.
(b) To Cong.
(c) Lao Dong.
(d) Tran Buu.

3. What was Diem's To Cong campaign?
(a) Jailing and execution of communist sympathizers.
(b) Nhu's revolutionary movement.
(c) A well-organized center of Diem's opposition.
(d) Diem's long run for political office.

4. Why was the Northern Vietnamese government fearful of American involvement in the fighting in Vietnam in the early 1960s?
(a) They had no firearms for a counterattack.
(b) Chances for a peaceful, negotiated settlement would vanish.
(c) The Chinese would then become involved.
(d) A nuclear bomb attack was anticipated.

5. Why was the main goal of the Northern forces in 1972 to get the U.S. out of Vietnam?
(a) To stimulate Vietnam's economy.
(b) To isolate the Thieu regime, bringing domestic opposition to them.
(c) To stop the heavy hits of the B-52 bombs.
(d) To show the world that America was oppressive.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was one of the main tenets of Tang's manifesto for the self-determination movement?

2. What did Tang suspect about the historical documents used in the infancy of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam?

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

4. What were all of the attendants aware of at the PRG meeting in January of 1972?

5. What were most of the Southern guerrillas pressing hard for in Chapter 18?

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