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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. The moment Tang or any of his brothers displayed a weakness in any school subject, what did Tang's father do?
(a) Employ a tutor.
(b) Restrict their activities.
(c) Teach them himself.
(d) Punish them.

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

3. What was the motto for Dung's opportune moment of a campaign on the assault of Saigon in April, 1974?
(a) "Public Enthusiasm and Western Humiliation At All Costs."
(b) "Fighting and Talking."
(c) "Human Liberation for the People."
(d) "Marvelous Speed, Boldness, Surprise, and Certain Victory."

4. What did Ho Chi Minh give Tang at the end of their afternoon tea together at Montmorency?
(a) An autographed photograph.
(b) A book of Vietnamese history.
(c) A teacup momento.
(d) A recital of Confucianist sayings.

5. 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 city was taken peacefully.
(c) The NLF gave the directive to carry out massacres there.
(d) Citizens ran away and the city was nearly empty.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Nixon and Kissinger justify the Tet offensive bombings and invasion of Cambodia?

2. Why was the Northern Vietnamese government fearful of American involvement in the fighting in Vietnam in the early 1960s?

3. What was Nixon's "Vietnamization" as the NLF saw it?

4. How did Tang meet his second wife?

5. What did the underground resistance Tang was involved with eventually evolve into?

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