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

2. 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?
(a) To gain control of the guerrilla troops.
(b) To relocate populations into more modern, better housing for their own good.
(c) Diem wanted the villagers to recognize his power.
(d) To make the tribespeople more accessible to government control.

3. Who did Tang's father allow his sons to interact with outside of the home?
(a) Neighborhood boys and teachers.
(b) Merchants in the town and people in school.
(c) Teachers.
(d) No one.

4. Why did Tang's early mobilization committee in Chapter 7 send Nguyen Van Hieu to Hanoi?
(a) To plan a mass emigration to America.
(b) To discuss assassination plans for Diem.
(c) To gain support from their Northern compatriots.
(d) To rid themselves of Hieu.

5. Who did Bao Dai name as Prime Minister?
(a) Zhou En-Lai.
(b) Ngo Dinh Diem.
(c) Vo Nguyen Giap.
(d) Chau Van Tiep.

Short Answer Questions

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 What did Tang suspect about the historical documents used in the infancy of the National Liberation Front of South Vietnam?

2. What was Thanh Nghi famous for writing?

3. What career did Tang's father decide Tang should pursue?

4. Who did Albert Thao's family get to protect him from harm?

5. The moment Tang or any of his brothers displayed a weakness in any school subject, what did Tang's father do?

(see the answer key)

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