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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters Nineteen through Twenty-One.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened when the city of Hue was taken by the NLF and Northern troops in January, 1968?
(a) Many people were murdered due to inadequate discipline.
(b) The NLF gave the directive to carry out massacres there.
(c) The city was taken peacefully.
(d) Citizens ran away and the city was nearly empty.

2. 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 be close to the Gulf of Thailand.
(b) It was what President Phat deeemed best.
(c) To stifle communication with COSVN.
(d) As good proection from B-52 and helicopter asssaults.

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) They were the brightest students.
(c) He chose them at random.
(d) They were from the south.

4. How did Tang find his time in jail to be?
(a) Quite bearable.
(b) Intolerable.
(c) Lonely.
(d) Disgustingly dirty.

5. When the Ho Chi Minh trail was originally blazed in 1959, how many kilometers were the fighters expected to be able to advance every day?
(a) Only 1.
(b) About 10.
(c) Nearly 20.
(d) 15 or more.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Tang know Albert Pham Ngoc Thao?

2. When Tang revisited Hanoi in 1974, what did he note about the Ho Chi Minh Trail?

3. What were Agrovilles?

4. Who was responsible for Tang's daughter, Loan, being able to do to college in America?

5. What did Nguyen Van Thieu do upon his foreign minister's signing of a peace accord?

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