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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. Why were the various sites for the PRG ministries chosen to be deep within the "Iron Triangle" of sanctuaries and bases, near the Cambodian border?
(a) To stifle communication with COSVN.
(b) It was what President Phat deeemed best.
(c) As good proection from B-52 and helicopter asssaults.
(d) To be close to the Gulf of Thailand.

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

3. What were "elephant's intestines?"
(a) Moneys cooked in a pot.
(b) The belts on the guerrillas' pajamas.
(c) Long tubes of rolled cotton.
(d) Poisonous snakes.

4. Who did the U.S. government signal its willingness to support upon abandoning its support of Diem in the early 1960s?
(a) Ho Chi Minh.
(b) The NLF.
(c) The army rebellion led by Van Don.
(d) General Khanh's rebellion.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What role did the leading figure of the Committee to Defend the Peace, Dr. Pham Van Huyen, play in Diem's government in 1954?

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

3. Why was Tang's wife allowed to visit Tang when he was imprisoned by the secret police and tortured?

4. Why were the Montagnards' village populations forced by Diem's troops out of the mountains and into the valleys, separating them from their ancestral lands and graves?

5. What did Tang do upon receiving his second draft notice?

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