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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to Tang in Chapter 16, how did America regard the country of Vietnam?
(a) As a pawn of strategy.
(b) As a country of people to be saved.
(c) As an independent nation.
(d) With a view toward economic progress.

2. How did Tang meet his second wife?
(a) His father set them up together.
(b) They had both joined the resistance.
(c) A colleague introduced them.
(d) They met in the Cai Lay region.

3. What did Tang do at the International Association of Democratic Jurists in Algeria to insult the Soviets?
(a) Made a rude comment to a Soviet delegate and tried to retract it.
(b) Walked away from a statement made by the Soviet delegate.
(c) Refused to shake hands with the Soviet delegate to the conference.
(d) Denounced the Soviets stance in a speech.

4. What did Tang's pregnant wife do when both fathers demanded the couple return home?
(a) She returned home alone.
(b) She stayed with her husband in France.
(c) She persuaded Tang to return home with her.
(d) She aborted her baby and stayed in France.

5. What form of torture did Tang endure in Chapter 10, causing great pain to his eyes?
(a) Needles near his eyes.
(b) Bright lights directed into his face.
(c) Constant head bashing.
(d) Electric shock.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way did the Saigon forces utilize the PRG's relative passivity to their advantage in Chapter 18?

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

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

4. What job did Tang take at the end of Chapter 5?

5. The taking of Saigon by Northern forces hinged upon the fall of which centrally located city?

(see the answer key)

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